Empires of the Word

Empires of the Word

By
Nicholas Ostler
Nicholas Ostler
2005 ‱ 615 pages

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153 books

History

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Aurelin
Creating country music : fabricating authenticity
Selling sounds : the commercial revolution in American music
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Savage Summit
The Creators
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Escaping the Delta

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18 books

Language

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Aurelin
Studies in Words
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
The Language Construction Kit
Language Death
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind
The World's Writing Systems
Linguistics

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10 books

Limbo

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Sylvia Chi
Paradise Lost
Empires of the Word
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
The Ambassadors
A Storm of Swords
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The 4-Hour Body

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85 books

On Kindle

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Jasmine
Empires of the Word
The Stepford Wives
All the Lies They Did Not Tell
Blood in the Garden
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
Lizzy & Jane

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822 books

Nonfiction

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Christina
Under the Banner of Heaven
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
An American Requiem
A Fair Country
The Happiness Project
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
In Search of Grace

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126 books

History

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Christina
The three-year swim club
Neurotribes
Champlain's Dream
A Fair Country
Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Empires of the Word
The King's Speech

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40 books

Language Criticism

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Christina
Why We Read What We Read
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Story of Spanish
Tolstoy and the purple chair my year of magical reading
The Reading Promise
The Story of French
Reading "Lolita" In Tehran

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17 books

Favourite History

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Christina
The Sleepwalkers
The Girls of Atomic City
To End All Wars
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Story of French
The French Intifada

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38 books

Language

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Mohika
The Study of Language
Word Power Made Easy
The Best Punctuation Book, Period
Morphology of the Folktale
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
The Power of Babel

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99 books

Non Fiction

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Nox
Storyteller
Synaptic Self
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Human
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

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72 books

Anthropology

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Nox
Storyteller
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman

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47 books

5 Star Prediction

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Renee
There There
The Morningside
The Black Veins
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
The House at the End of Hope Street
Ghost Talkers
North and South

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13 books

Linguistics

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Ali Ismail
The Architecture of Language
Empires of the Word
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
The Power of Babel

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63 books

History

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Fool
The Histories
The Dawn of Modern Korea: the transformation in life and cityscape
History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth
Postwar
Reappraisals
Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44

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9 books

Language

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Fool
Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change
Language Death
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Empires of the Word
The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe
Limits of language
Nihonjin Wa Eigo O Dƍ Manande Kita Ka: Eigo KyƍIku No Shakai Bunkashi

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216 books

Nonfiction

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Hilm
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
In A Sunburned Country
Growing Up Queer in Australia

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34 books

English

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Rou
Mrs Dalloway
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Grammar in Gobbets
A Companion to Victorian Literature & Culture
Selected Short Stories
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
A Taste of Honey

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15 books

Bua

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Rou
Breve introducciĂłn a la teorĂ­a literaria
The Cambridge Companion to Horace
Patterns of Spoken English: An Introduction to English Phonetics
Phonological Theory: The Essential Readings
English Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises with Answers
Language, Music, and the Brain: A Mysterious Relationship
All About Language: A Guide

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53 books

Universidad

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Rou
Artes Poéticas
The War of the Worlds
News from Nowhere
Rudyard Kipling
Mrs Warren's Profession
Mrs Dalloway

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16 books

Linguistics

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Rou
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Language, Music, and the Brain: A Mysterious Relationship
All About Language: A Guide
Historia de la lingĂŒĂ­stica
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
How to Study Linguistics: A Guide to Study Linguistics

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791 books

History

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Spiritomb
The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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161 books

Linguistics

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Spiritomb
How Dead Languages Work
Forbidden Words
Grammar and Gender
Language Myths
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

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156 books

Political History

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Spiritomb
Equality under the Constitution: Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment
Separating Church and State: A History
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
The Half Has Never Been Told
Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
The World the Plague Made
Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq

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51 books

History World

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Spiritomb
Historicizing Fear
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Salt: A World History
Empires of the Word
Libraries in the Ancient World
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World