Humanities Books
Found 28 books in Humanities
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
Bill Bryson
1990•257 pages•1.3 MB
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
1998•198 pages•1.6 MB
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Lynne Truss
2003•118 pages•816 KB
The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.
1918•53 pages•460 KB
The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
1911•444 pages•19.0 MB
Course in General Linguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure
1916•299 pages•6.4 MB
Frege: Philosophy of Language
Michael Dummett
1973•232 pages•1.3 MB
Naming and Necessity
Saul A. Kripke
1980•180 pages•2.2 MB
Elements of Semiology
Roland Barthes
1964•108 pages•17.2 MB
Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1953•129 pages•2.5 MB
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
Noam Chomsky
1974•184 pages•962 KB
The Art and Science of Learning Languages
Amorey Gethin
1997•351 pages•2.3 MB
The Tyranny of Words
Stuart Chase
1938•287 pages•1.8 MB
The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language
John Maynard Smith
1999•193 pages•943 KB
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
John Rogers Searle
1969•220 pages•11.1 MB
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Steven Pinker
2007•521 pages•3.7 MB
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Lynne Truss
2003•118 pages•816 KB
The Flame Alphabet
Ben Marcus
2012•311 pages•1.8 MB
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Gabriel Wyner
2014•334 pages•9.7 MB
Sleeping With the Dictionary
Harryette Mullen
2002•90 pages•593 KB
On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt
1986•38 pages•5.8 MB
Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
Deborah Fallows
2010•147 pages•3.5 MB
Embassytown
China Mieville
2011•354 pages•2.7 MB
Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
Lynne Truss
2005•115 pages•577 KB