Kingdom of Characters, Rise of English, Writing of the Gods, Story Paradox, and More in Language | Academic Best Sellers

Best sellers in language, October 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

October 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Kingdom of Characters1. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern.
Tsu, Jing
Riverhead Books
2022. ISBN 9780735214729 $28.00

2. Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language.
Salomone, Rosemary C
Oxford University Press US
2022. ISBN 9780190625610 $35.00

3. Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone.
Dolnick, Edward
Scribner
2021. ISBN 9781501198939 $28.00

4. Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down.
Gottschall, Jonathan
Basic Books
2021. ISBN 9781541645967 $28.00

5. Why Argument Matters.
Siegel, Lee
Yale University Press
2022. ISBN 9780300244267 $26.00

6. From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language.
Planer, Ronald J
MIT Press
2021. ISBN 9780262045971 $35.00

7. Counterstories From the Writing Center
Editor: Wonderfl Faison
Utah State University Press
2022. ISBN 9781646421527 $23.95

8. Rhetoric and Guns
Editor: Lydia Wilkes
Utah State University Press
2022. ISBN 9781646422142 $34.95

9. Native American Rhetoric
Editor: Lawrence W. Gross
University of New Mexico Press
2021. ISBN 9780826363213 $75.00

10. Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of Language; Trans. by Jody Gladding.
Kristeva, Julia
Columbia University Press
2021. ISBN 9780231203326 $20.00

11. New Handbook of Rhetoric: Inverting the Classical Vocabulary
Editor: Michele Kennerly
Penn State University Press
2021. ISBN 9780271091273 $99.95

12. Language and Nationality: Social Inferences, Cultural Differences, and Linguistic Misconceptions.
Bortone, Pietro
Bloomsbury Academic
2022. ISBN 9781350071636 $130.00

13. Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language.
Griffiths, James T.
Zed Books
2021. ISBN 9781786999696 $27.00

14. Research Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
Editor: Sabina Perrino
Bloomsbury Academic
2022. ISBN 9781350117495 $120.00

15. Researching Language Learning Motivation: A Concise Guide
Editor: Ali H. Al-Hoorie
Bloomsbury Academic
2022. ISBN 9781350166882 $100.00

16. Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean.
Mallette, Karla
University of Chicago Press
2021. ISBN 9780226795904 $105.00

17. Self+Culture+Writing: Autoethnography for/as Writing Studies
Editor: Rebecca L. Jackson
Utah State University Press
2021. ISBN 9781646421206 $30.95

18. Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative.
Ghosal, Torsa
Ohio State University Press
2021. ISBN 9780814214824 $89.95

19. Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods.
Lockett, Alexandria
University Press of Colorado
2021. ISBN 9781646421886 $31.95

20. Composition and Big Data
Editor: Amanda Licastro
University of Pittsburgh Press
2021. ISBN 9780822946748 $55.00

21. Rhetorics of the Digital Nonhumanities.
Reid, Alex
Southern Illinois University Press
2022. ISBN 9780809338337 $40.00

22. Historical Morphology of English.
Ringe, Don
Edinburgh University Press
2021. ISBN 9781474459761 $120.00

23. Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire.
Harrison, Henrietta
Princeton University Press
2021. ISBN 9780691225456 $29.95

24. Teaching Writing in the Twenty-First Century.
Hewett, Beth L
Modern Language Assn
2022. ISBN 9781603295451 $105.00

25. Transformations: Change Work Across Writing Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices
Editor: Holly Hassel
Utah State University Press
2021. ISBN 9781646421411 $34.95

26. Ways of the Word: Episodes in Verbal Attention.
Stewart, Garrett
Cornell University Press
2021. ISBN 9781501761393 $125.00

27. Discovering Intercultural Communication: From Language Users to Language Use.
Kim, Hyejeong
Palgrave Macmillan
2021. ISBN 9783030765941 $49.99

28. Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge.
Vedal, Nathan
Columbia University Press
2022. ISBN 9780231200745 $140.00

29. Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theorizing the Third Wave
Editor: Lauren Hall-Lew
Cambridge University Press UK
2021. ISBN 9781108471626 $125.00

30. Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics
Editor: Silvina Montrul
Cambridge University Press UK
2021. ISBN 9781108487269 $165.00

31. Building in Words: The Process of Construction in Latin Literature.
Reitz-Joosse, Bettina
Oxford University Press US
2021. ISBN 9780197610688 $99.00

32. Reading Argumentative Texts: Analytic Tools to Improve Understanding.
Scheuermann, James
Rowman & Littlefield
2022. ISBN 9781475864526 $90.00

33. Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One.
Mugglestone, Lynda
Oxford University Press UK
2021. ISBN 9780198870159 $32.95

34. Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation.
Wilke, Tobias
University of Chicago Press
2022. ISBN 9780226817774 $35.00

35. As Long as the Earth Endures: Annotated Miami-Illinois Texts.
Costa, David J
University of Nebraska Press
2022. ISBN 9781496228567 $85.00

36. Outcomes of University Spanish Heritage Language Instruction in the United States
Editor: Melissa A. Bowles
Georgetown University Press
2022. ISBN 9781647122225 $149.95

37. Pedagogies in English for Academic Purposes: Teaching and Learning in International Contexts
Editor: Carole MacDiarmid
Bloomsbury Academic
2021. ISBN 9781350164802 $120.00

38. In Pursuit of English: Language and Subjectivity in Neoliberal South Korea.
Park, Joseph Sung-Yul
Oxford University Press US
2021. ISBN 9780190855734 $125.00

39. Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese.
Tsujimura, Natsuko
Lexington Books
2022. ISBN 9781498569248 $95.00

40. Invention of Multilingualism.
Gramling, David
Cambridge University Press UK
2021. ISBN 9781108490306 $99.99

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