My First Dictionary by John Grisewood
$18.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
This ideal first dictionary contains over 1500 core words from alligator to zip, carefully selected to complement the books that children of this age are beginning to read. The clear definitions and sample sentences are enhanced with photos and varied artwork that help build the child's comprehension an ...Show more
Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books (HB) by Nina Freudenberger
$55.00 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
'A room without books is like a body without soul.' - Cicero In Bibliostyle, interior designer Nina Freudenberger teams up with New Yorker writer Sadie Stein, and Architectural Digest photographer Shade Degges to celebrate the beauty of books and the personal touch they bring to the homes they live in ...Show more
Collins English Thesaurus Essential Edition: All the Words You Need, Every Day [Second Edition] by Collins Dictionaries
$32.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference | Series: Collins Essential Editions Ser.
All the words you need, every day: the perfect word reference for daily use in a durable format. With practical usage notes, and a fantastic supplement, this is the ideal thesaurus to take your language use and knowledge further. 300,000 synonyms and antonyms. Specially tailored to meet the needs of the ...Show more
Wordy: Sounding off about high art, low appetite and the power of memory by Simon Schama
$26.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall fo ...Show more
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists
$55.00 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin's Cloak gathers together some of the most entertai ...Show more
A Modest Book About How to Make an Adequate Speech by Holan Liang; Jeremy Langmead; Jo Glanville; J. P. Flintoff; Milad Shadrooh; Molly Martin; Peter Conradi; Simone Kuper
$27.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
Many people dread public speaking. And yet we all find ourselves forced to make a speech at some point in our lives, and suffer the same inevitable anxieties: Will my jokes fall flat? What if I freeze up? Is it OK to read notes? What if people walk out?This book will not magically transform you into a f ...Show more
A Dictionary of Naval Slang by Gerald O'Driscoll
$22.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
For centuries the sailors of the Royal Navy have been famous for their colourful language and idiosyncratic turn of phrase.
The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation by David Crystal
$79.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronunication (OP), enabling practitioners to deal with any queries about the pronunciation of individual words. It includes all the words in the First Folio, transcribed using IPA, and the accompanying website hosts sound ...Show more
French in 3 Months with Free Audio App: Your Essential Guide to Understanding and Speaking French by DK
$24.00 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
Classic French language course, now revised and updated with a new audio app Learn to speak French in just three months with this practical and comprehensive self-study language course. Whether you're a complete beginner or wanting to refresh your knowledge, Hugo- French in Three Months will have you sp ...Show more
McCarthy's Field Guide to Grammar: Natural English Usage and Style by Michael McCarthy
$29.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
Remember all those grammar rules from school? No? Most of us don't. Mike McCarthy, renowned corpus linguist and co-author of the 900-page Cambridge Grammar of English answers the awkward questions that regularly bother us about English grammar. In this helpful A-Z field guide, McCarthy tells us what the ...Show more
The Funny Stuff: The Official P. J. O'Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia by P. J. O'Rourke
$24.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
A compendium of quotes and riffs from more than four decades of writing by P.J. O'Rourke to be published on what would have been his 75th birthday.
My First Book of Korean Words: An ABC Rhyming Book of Korean Language and Culture by Henry J. Amen, Kyubyong Park
$16.99 NZD
Category: Dictionaries, Language & Reference
My First Book of Korean Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces young children to Korean language and culture through everyday words. The words profiled in this book are all commonly used in the Korean language and are both informative and fun for English-speaking children to learn. Th ...Show more