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  • ETF Investment

    A Beginner's Guide to Building Wealth

    by Crystal Evans, Anthony Harvey ...
    ETF Investment: Complete Student Edition is a beginner‑friendly, standards‑aligned curriculum that teaches students how to understand, evaluate, and apply investment concepts using Exchange‑Traded Funds (ETFs). Designed for grades 6-12, this book blends financial math, real‑world money skills, and consumer literacy to help learners build financial clarity and make informed decisions with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • How linguistics can help the historian

    by Anthony Harvey ...
    It is often thought that linguistics has to be very technical and complicated (it doesn't), as well as boring (it needn't be). In fact, linguistics can often finesse hard information out of historical documents in a manner that is just as striking and revealing-and just as scientific and objective-as the way in which archaeology helps us to interpret historical artefacts. The process involves ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Guide to Etymology

    by Philip Durkin ...
    This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change. Philip Durkin, chief etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary, shows how different types of evidence can shed light on the myriad ways in which words change in form and meaning. He considers how such changes can be part of wider linguistic processes, or be influenced by a complex ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Spellbound

    The Surprising Origins and Astonishing Secrets of English Spelling

    by James Essinger ...
    Welcome to the illogical, idiosyncratic, outrageous linguistic phenomenon known as the English language. The story of how this ragtag collection of words evolved is a winding tale replete with intriguing accidents and bizarre twists of fate. In this eye-opening, fabulously entertaining book, James Essinger unlocks the mysteries that have confounded linguists and scholars for millennia.From the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • You Could Look It Up

    The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

    by Jack Lynch ...
    "Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge--reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries.You Could Look It Up chronicles ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The English Language

    by Charles Barber, Joan Beal, Philip Shaw ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    This bestselling text by Charles Barber, with updating contributions from Joan C. Beal and Philip A. Shaw, recounts the history of the English language from its remote ancestry to the present day. Using dozens of familiar texts, including the English of King Alfred, Shakespeare and Chaucer, the English language is explored in terms of where it came from, where it is going and the global impact it ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • What Isn't History?

    Selected Articles and Speeches on Writing History and Historical Fiction

    by Ian Mortimer ...
    An award-winning historian's guide to writing about history, in both fiction and nonfiction.Is history absolute? Is writing about the past an exact science, or is it more of a nebulous discipline open to different interpretations and points of view? These are important questions that noted historian Ian Mortimer says all serious writers of history must reflect on.This new collection explores those ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Investigating Wittgenstein

    How to Believe

    by Giles Fraser ...
    Series series Guardian Shorts
    Curious, confounding and brilliant, Wittgenstein is a philosopher whom people find it easy to get obsessed with. In Investigating Wittgenstein, Giles Fraser explores the secret of his attraction?The How to Believe series of ebooks explores the teachings, philosophies and beliefs of major thinkers and religious texts. In a short, easy-to-access format, leading writers present new understandings of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of English

    by Lynda Mugglestone ...
    The Oxford History of English traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its position as the world's first language. In accounts made vivid with examples from an immense range of documentary evidence, including letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen experts describe the history of English in all its versions, written and spoken. They reveal the language's rich and protean ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Existentialism and Humanism with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre, a text which focuses on the philosopher’s idea of existentialism in a more accessible and simplified manner than ever before. By directly addressing the main criticisms levelled ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Does Spelling Matter?

    by Simon Horobin ...
    This book narrates the history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons to the present-day, charting the various changes that have taken place and the impact these have had on the way we spell today. While good spelling is seen as socially and educationally desirable, many people struggle to spell common words like accommodate, occurrence, dependent. Is it our spelling system that is to blame, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of the English Language

    by Gerry Knowles ...
    Series series The English Language Series
    This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision than before, often pinpointing the beginnings of linguistic innovations in place and time. The author uses the findings from this research to relate major historical events to change in the language, in ... Read more

    $58.99 USD