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English Grammar: The Instant Guide

Jelena Kaćibo — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:00:05 +0000

A compact, 8-page fold-out booklet designed to provide straightforward information and colorful diagrams. It serves as a quick-reference cheat sheet for core English grammar rules, punctuation, and language structures.

This, Please: The Tourist Picture Dictionary

Jelena Kaćibo — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:54:27 +0000

This is a compact, 64-page visual communication tool designed for travelers. It contains carefully selected pictures and icons that allow tourists to simply point at what they need. This helps overcome language barriers, allowing you to easily explain your needs Read More ...

Talk on the Wild Side

Jelena Kaćibo — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:21:15 +0000

The book explores the spontaneous, unruly, and anarchic nature of human language. It details how language constantly evolves through mutation, idiosyncrasy, and common mistakes, resisting every historical attempt by prescriptivists to regulate, tame, or discipline its usage.

In Other Words: An Illustrated Miscellany of the World’s Most Intriguing Words and Phrases

Jelena Kaćibo — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:06:30 +0000

This illustrated book serves as a mini-compendium of unique, untranslatable words and phrases from over 25 different languages. It explores how different cultures capture precise thoughts, experiences, and humor through language—such as the Japanese concept of yoko meshi or the Read More ...

Ecstasy of Influence

Jelena Kaćibo — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:24:10 +0000

A career-spanning collection of occasional pieces, essays, memoir, liner notes, and criticism that doubles as a novelist’s manifesto and self-portrait. Lethem tackles the role of the writer as a public intellectual, exploring eclectic topics like cyberculture, 9/11, graffiti, sex in cinema, and iconic cultural figures like Bob Dylan and Marlon Brando.
Funny and unfettered, The Ecstasy of Influence simmers with direct challenges to conventional wisdom and deep insights into the kaleidoscopic nature of artistic vision, the primacy of the writer in the cultural marketplace, and the way the author’s own experiences have fuelled his creative passions.

Collins German Dictionary

Jelena Kaćibo — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:25:15 +0000

Comprehensive and authoritative, and ideal for advanced learners of German, Collins German Dictionary is now available in colour and with all the new German spellings. Now in colour, and with all the new German spellings, the Collins German Dictionary is designed for advanced learners and professionals using German. It draws on Collinsâe(tm) unique multi-million word databases of contemporary language to ensure the user has the most complete and accurate picture of real language today. âe¢ The dictionary includes all the latest vocabulary from a wide range of fields, including the Internet, computing and business.The dictionary also includes special entries on life and culture in German-speaking countries. âe¢ To help you find the correct translation, long and complex entries are treated in depth and key phrases and set grammatical patterns are highlighted. âe¢ The accessible colour layout ensures that you find exactly what you need quickly and easily. Some of the other titles in the Collins German Dictionary range are Collins Concise German Dictionary and Collins German Dictionary and Grammar.

In Other Words

Jelena Kaćibo — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:43:27 +0000

Ever racked your brain for a word you’re convinced should exist, yet is inexplicably absent from the dictionary? All languages have their limitations – should Englis h fall short, the expression may lie elsewhere. That’s where this book comes in: a quirky, international lexicon of linguistic gems that capture certain moments or things with satisfying precision. The mots justes are grouped according to language and pref aced with insightful overviews of the relevant cultures. Embellished with entertaining and characterful colour illustrations, The Untranslatable s is the perfect gift book to entertain even the most well -versed polyglot.

Common and Uncommon Scents

Jelena Kaćibo — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:16:14 +0000

A sensory journey though time, interpreting social (and political) history through the scents used by people from the Ancient Egyptians to Coco Chanel.

Humble Pie and Cold Turkey

Jelena Kaćibo — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:52:32 +0000

An entertaining and informative look at thousands of years of history to shed light on the words and phrases we use most often – and where they came from. In this highly entertaining book, language enthusiast and Sunday Times best-selling author Caroline Taggart browses through thousands of years of history to shed light on why we use the words and phrases we do. Arranged by themes including food, the household, childhood, romance and more, this intriguing book looks at the origins of our language from their historical context. For example, did you know that: If you rest on your laurels, you’re imitating a complacent Roman general? If you eavesdrop, you’re likely to get wet? If you’re taken aback, you should, strictly speaking, be a sailing ship? If you’re galvanized into action, you’re behaving like Frankenstein’s monster? From blue-blooded (an invention of aristocratic Spaniards) to limelight (a way of lighting Victorian theaters), passing an exam with flying colors (another image from sailing ships) to winning hands down (from horse racing), Humble Pie and Cold Turkey will answer questions you may never have thought to ask. Including why turkeys need to be cold and how pies came to be humble.

Help a Thief!

Jelena Kaćibo — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:47:11 +0000

The trouble with punctuation – well, ones of the troubles, anyway – is that too many of the experts suggest leaving it to the writer’s judgement. What use is that if you’ve simply never been taught the difference between a colon and a semicolon, or where those wretched apostrophes go? Caroline Taggart, who has made a name for herself expounding on the subjects of grammar, usage and words generally (and who for decades made her living putting in the commas in other people’s work), takes her usual gently humorous approach to punctuation. She points out what matters and what doesn’t; why using six exclamation marks where one will do is perfectly OK in a text but will lose you marks at school; why hang glider pilots in training really need a hyphen; and how throwing in the odd semicolon will impress your friends. Sometimes opinionated but never dogmatic, she is an ideal guide to the (perceived) minefield that is punctuation.