The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
6 best books like The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu (Dan Jurafsky): Girl, Woman, Other, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical, Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife, Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
Girl, Woman, Other
| Author | Bernardine Evaristo |
| ISBN | 0241364906 |
Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
| Author | Gretchen McCulloch |
Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are...
Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical
| Author | Brian Rea |
| ISBN | 1452172552 |
Death never takes a day off. Until he gets a letter from the HR department insisting he use up his accrued vacation time, that is. In this humorous and heartfelt book from beloved illustrator Brian Rea, readers take a peek at Death's journal entries...
| Author | Peggy Vincent |
| ISBN | 0743219341 |
Each time she knelt to “catch” another wriggling baby—nearly three thousand times during her remarkable career—California midwife Peggy Vincent paid homage to the moment when pain bows to joy and the world makes way...
| Author | Jennifer Homans |
| ISBN | 1400060605 |
For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching...
The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
| Author | Mark Schatzker |
| ISBN | 1476724210 |
In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number one public health crisis...