A Loss of Heart

McCrum, Robert

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Fabulous Englishman

Robert McCrum's novel of European life in the late 1960s.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Tells the anecdotal history of the English language from its obscure Anglo-Saxon origins to its present status as the world's most prominent, expressive, and fast-growing international language

The Story of English: Revised Edition

History

MACNEIL, Robert

Cran,william

Americas

Penguin??Books

Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English—from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to the present day, when English is the dominant language of commerce and culture with more than one billion English speakers around the world. From Cockney, Scouse, and Scots to Gulla, Singlish, Franglais, and the latest African American slang, this sweeping history of the English language is the essential introduction for anyone who wants to know more about our common tongue.

The Story of English: Third Revised Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Penguin Publishing Group

A Loss of Heart: A Novel

Penguin Putnam~trade

A Lovely Illustrated book about a Brontosaurus Dinosaur.

The Brontosaurus Birthday Cake

Children's Books

Hamish Hamilton Childrens Books

Faboulous Englishman

Suspicion

PAN BOOKS LTD (ENGLAND)

My Year Off, Rediscovering Life After a Stroke

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Picador, London

A small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbours, becomes the dominant world power in the 19th century. As its power spreads, its language follows. Then, across the Atlantic, a colony of that tiny island grows into the military and cultural colossus of the 20th century. These centuries of empire-building and war, international trade and industrial ingenuity will bring to the world great works of literature and extraordinary movies, cricket pitches and episodes of Dallas, the printing press and the internet. But what happens next is quite unprecedented. While the global dominance of Anglo-American power appears to be on the wane, the English language has acquired an astonishing new life of its own. With a supra-national momentum, it is now able to zoom across time and space at previously unimaginable speeds. In Robert McCrum's analysis, the cultural revolution of our times is the emergence of English, a global phenomenon as never before, to become the world's language. In the 21st century English + Microsoft = Globish. Globish takes us on a riveting and enlightening journey of the spread of a global English, from the icy swamps of pre-Roman Saxony to the shopping malls of Seoul, from the study of 'Crazy English' TM in China to crowds of juvenile wizards mobbing bookshop tills across the world. Along the way it gives new meaning to a faded old brown parchment (the Magna Carta), a 272 word presidential speech (the Gettysburg address) and a scratchy black and white film of a couple of men in space suits.

Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language

World

Doubleday, Canada

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