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LANGUAGE BOOKS

Upon the Pun, Paul Hammond and Patrick Hughes
Puns, Walter Redfern
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Langauge, Steven Pinker
How Language Works, David Crystal
A History of Language, Steven Roger Fischer
Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way, Bill Bryson
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English, Henry Hitchings

OTHER BOOKS

Cork Boat: A True Story of the Unlikeliest Boat Ever Built, John Pollack
A World Without Ice, Henry Pollack
Uncertain Science, Uncertain World, Henry Pollack