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Market Leader: Business English with The FT Intermediate Test File

By Christine Johnson

Objective Proficiency Student's Book with Answers with Downloadable Software

By Annette Capel, Wendy Sharp

Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience

By Ali A. Mazrui (Author), Alamin Mazrui (Royalty Account)

The French Language Today

By Adrian Battye, Marie-Anne Hintze

Balderdash & Piffle: One Sandwich Short of a Dog's Dinner

By Alex Games

Teaching Other Subjects Through English (CLIL)

By Sheelagh Deller, Christine Price

From Old English to Standard English: A Course Book in Language Variation across Time

By Dennis Freeborn

Exploring Theological English - Stu

By Dickerson

The Story of English

By Robert McCrum

That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us

By Erin Moore, Lynne Truss

DLP: USING PHRASAL VERBS

By Elizabeth Walter

A History of the English Language

By Richard Hogg (University of Manchester), David Denison (Professor of English Linguistics, University of Manchester)

Words and Their Meaning

By Howard Jackson

Languages in Competition: Dominance, Diversity and Decline

By ronald wardhaugh

Dialectology: An Introduction

By W.N. Francis

A Word in Time

By Philip Howard, Ged

The Chronology Of Words And Phrases - A Thousand Years In The History Of England

By Flavell, Linda and Roger

The Dialects of England

By Peter Trudgill

Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading

By Naomi S. Baron

Historical Linguistics: Problems and Perspectives

By Charles Jones (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Historical Linguistics

By Larry Trask

Bad Language

By Lars-Gunnar Andersson, Peter Trudgill, Lars-Gunnar Anderson

English Words: Structure, History, Usage

By Francis Katamba (University of Lancaster, UK)

Language Change

By Larry Trask (University of Sussex, UK)

Objective Advanced Student's Book without Answers with CD-ROM

By Felicity O'Dell, Annie Broadhead

The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change, and Evolution

By David Lightfoot (National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA)

Lost English: Words and Phrases That Have Vanished from Our Language

By Chris Roberts

Slang Down the Ages

By Jonathon Green

Linguistic Variation and Change: On the Historical Sociolinguistics of English

By James Milroy

Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs: The Secret Life Of The English Language

By Martin H. Manser