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  • Happier as a fool

    by Thomas Hofmann ...
    Modern man is often intent on taking himself incredibly seriously, and even more so on appearing as such to others. However, those who dare to renounce this self-importance will be prepared to listen to their conscience and live in truth. This not only makes people more self-confident and independent, but also happier and more content. Thomas Hofmann shows various ways of overcoming one's own ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Realms of Meaning

    An Introduction to Semantics

    by Thomas Hofmann ...
    Series series Learning about Language
    Realms of Meaning presents an accessible introduction to semantics. It provides an understanding of the way meaning works in natural languages, against a background of how we communicate with language. Avoiding theoretical terminology and linguistic theories it concentrates instead on the analysis of meaning, and looks in depth at such subjects as opposites and negatives, modal verbs, prepositions ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It

    Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live

    by Daniel Klein ...
    A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times–bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .Daniel Klein’s fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy resonates in everyday life. Readers of his popular books Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . and Travels with Epicurus come for enlightenment and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Understanding English Grammar

    A Linguistic Introduction

    by Thomas E. Payne ...
    Language is primarily a tool for communication, yet many textbooks still treat English grammar as simply a set of rules and facts to be memorised by rote. This new textbook is made for students who are frustrated with this approach and would like instead to understand grammar and how it works. Why are there two future tenses in English? What are auxiliaries and why are they so confusing? Why are ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Enneagram

    A Christian Perspective

    by Richard Rohr, Andrreas Ebert ...
    Richard Rohr and Andrea Ebert's runaway best-seller shows both the basic logic of the Enneagram and its harmony with the core truths of Christian thought from the time of the early Church forward. ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

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  • All About Language

    A Guide

    by Barry J. Blake ...
    In clear, congenial style Barry Blake explains how language works. He describes the make-up of words and how they're built from sounds and signs and put together in phrases and sentences. He examines the dynamics of conversation and the relations between the sound and meaning. He shows how languages help their users connect to each other and to the world, how they vary around the world, why they ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Saving Beauty

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty.In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han reinvigorates aesthetic ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

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  • Syntax

    A Generative Introduction

    by Andrew Carnie ...
    Series series Introducing Linguistics
    The extensively updated fourth edition of the leading introductory textbook on theoretical syntax, including an all-new chapter and additional problem setsNow in its fourth edition, Andrew Carnie's Syntax: A Generative Introduction remains the leading introduction to the rules, principles, and processes that determine the structure of sentences in language. Comprehensive yet accessible, the text ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • You Must Change Your Life

    by Peter Sloterdijk ...
    In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present: the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itself through exercises and thereby transcends itself. ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar 4th edition

    by M.A.K. Halliday, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen ...
    Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and apply them in any context. Halliday's innovative approach of engaging with grammar through discourse has become a worldwide phenomenon in linguistics.Updates to the new edition include:Recent uses of systemic ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Life Is Short

    An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful

    by Dean Rickles ...
    Why life’s shortness—more than anything else—is what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn’t meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death would be like playing tennis without a net. Only constraints—and death is the ultimate constraint—make ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • What is Morphology?

    by Mark Aronoff, Kirsten Fudeman ...
    Series Book 8 - Fundamentals of Linguistics
    What is Morphology? is a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas of morphology, which has been revised and expanded to include additional material on morphological productivity and the mental lexicon, experimental and computational methods, and new teaching material.Introduces the fundamental aspects of morphology to students with minimal background in linguisticsIncludes additional ... Read more

    $38.00 USD