Lingo
By
Gaston Dorren
Gaston Dorren,
Alison Edwards
Alison Edwards(Translator)
2014 • 304 pages

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73 books

Nonfiction

enterenchanted
Lory
Empty Mansions
How to be a Victorian
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

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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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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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7 books

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Micah
How Economics Can Save the World
Babel Around the World in 20 Languages
Lingo
Moral Tribes
Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Plantation Theory

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2 books

Linguistics

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Micah
Babel Around the World in 20 Languages
Lingo

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6 books

Social

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Kerman
Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World
Modern Manners
Lingo
Popular
The Art of Profiling

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68 books

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Harvey
An Independent Man: The Autobiography
As You Do: Adventures with Evel, Oliver, and the Vice-President of Botswana
For Crying Out Loud!
The Martyr's Curse
Ambitious but rubbish
Fear Is the Key
The Forgotten Holocaust

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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