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  • You Just Don't Understand

    Women and Men in Conversation

    From the author of New York Times bestseller You're Wearing That? this bestselling classic on interpersonal relations draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words.Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words.Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Argument Culture

    Stopping America's War of Words

    In her number one bestseller, You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen showed why talking to someone of the other sex can be like talking to someone from another world. Her bestseller Talking from 9 to 5 did for workplace communication what You Just Don't Understand did for personal relationships. Now Tannen is back with another groundbreaking book, this time widening her lens to examine the way ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • I'm Sorry, I'm Not Apologizing

    Why We Do It, Why We Don't, and Why It Matters

    From the bestselling author of the classic You Just Don't Understand, an exploration of how apologies can make or break our relationships with othersWhy do some apologies heal while others make things worse? Why do some people resist saying “I’m sorry,” and others can’t stop?Drawing on decades of research and countless in-depth conversations, in I'm Sorry, I'm Not Apologizing, #1 New York Times ... Read more

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  • You're Wearing That?

    Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation

    Deborah Tannen's #1 New York Timesbestseller You Just Don’t Understand revolutionized communication between women and men. Now, in her most provocative and engaging book to date, she takes on what is potentially the most fraught and passionate connection of women’s lives: the mother-daughter relationship.It was Tannen who first showed us that men and women speak different languages. Mothers and ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Talking from 9 to 5

    Women and Men at Work

    "Required reading…sharp and insightful…lively and straightforward…a novel and sometimes startling analysis of workplace dynamics."—New York Times Book ReviewIn her extraordinary international bestseller, You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen transformed forever the way we look at intimate relationships between women and men. Now she turns her keen ear and observant eye toward the workplace ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Only Say This Because I Love You

    How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives

    Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic even when we're all adults.Searching for signs of acceptance and belonging, we find signs of disapproval and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • That's Not What I Meant!

    How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships

    The bestselling linguistics professor examines how we communicate with each other and how you can maintain an effective conversation.At home, on the job, in a personal relationship, it's often not what you say but how you say it that counts.Deborah Tannen revolutionized our thinking about relationships between women and men in her #1 bestseller You Just Don't Understand. In That's Not What I Meant ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Were Always Mom's Favorite!

    Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives

    Conversations between sisters reveal a deep and constant tug between two dynamics—an impulse toward closeness and an impulse toward competition. It takes just a word from your sister to start you laughing, or to summon up a past you both share. But it also takes just a word to send you into an emotional tailspin. For many women, a sister is both a devoted friend and a fierce rival.Wise and witty, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Finding My Father

    His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow

    **A #1 New York Times bestselling author traces her father’s life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell.“An accomplished, clear-eyed, and affecting memoir about a man who is at once ordinary and extraordinary.”—Forward**Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, praised by ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Gender and Discourse

    Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand spent nearly four years (in cloth and paper) on The New York Times Best Seller list and has sold over a million and a half copies. Clearly, Tannen's insights into how and why women and men so often misunderstand each other when they talk has touched a nerve. For years a highly respected scholar in the field of linguistics, she has now become widely known ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • You're the Only One I Can Tell

    Inside the Language of Women's Friendships

    This warm, wise exploration of female friendship from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Just Don’t Understand will help women lean into these powerful relationships.A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK • “Celebrates friendship in its frustrations and its rewards and, above all, its wonderful complexity.”—The AtlanticBest friend, old friend, good friend, bff, college roommate, neighbor, ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Discourse 2.0

    Language and New Media

    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    Our everyday lives are increasingly being lived through electronic media, which are changing our interactions and our communications in ways that we are only beginning to understand. In Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media, editors Deborah Tannen and Anna Marie Trester team up with top scholars in the field to shed light on the ways language is being used in, and shaped by, these new media ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus