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Watch Your Tongue: What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean
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Watch Your Tongue: What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively MeanWatch Your Tongue: What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean

Phrases, idioms, and clichés—why do we say the things we say? Watch Your Tongue explores weird and wonderful everyday sayings and what they reveal about us.
In Watch Your Tongue, award-winning author Mark Abley explores the phrases, idioms, and clichés of our everyday language. With wit and subtle wisdom, he unravels the mysteries of these expressions, illuminating the history, tradition and stories behind everything we say. Pulling examples from Shakespeare’s plays to sports team names, ancient Rome to Twitter, Abley shares samples and anecdotes of the eccentric ways that we play with, parse, and pattern language...

 
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens.

How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? What will our world be like in the millennia to come?

Dr Yuval Noah Harari  gives us an insights from biology, anthropology, and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities.

 
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The Ecology Book (Big ideas simply explained)
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The Ecology Book (Big ideas simply explained)The Ecology Book (Big ideas simply explained)

Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change.
Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains over 85 of the key ideas, movements, and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thought... 
 
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Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain
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Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval BritainFrom the author of The Norman Conquest and A Great and Terrible King comes a sweeping and stunning history of the most magnificent castles in Britain.
Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country's most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples.

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Infinitives and Gerunds in Recent English : Studies on Non-Finite Complements with Data from Large Corpora
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Infinitives and Gerunds in Recent English : Studies on Non-Finite Complements with Data from Large CorporaThis book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing clauses, which is a central area at the interface of syntax and semantics, against the background of what has been called the Great Complement Shift. Over the course of six chapters, the author explores the semantic properties of constructions where the general spread of gerundial -ing clauses occurs at the expense of to infinitives.
 
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