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Books sorted (language and linguistics)

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Languages in a Globalising World by Jacques Maurais Italici: encounter with Piero Bassetti Second Latin Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music by John McWhorter   Globish by Robert McCrum   The Joy of Words by Fritz Spiegl   The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester   Do You Make These Mistakes in English? by Edwin L. Battistella Does Accent Matter? by John Honey The College Latin-English Dictionary Book of Usage and Abusage by Eric Partridge American Slang by Robert Chapman Cambridge Latin Course 1 The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Books sorted (autobiography, memoirs 4)

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Memoirs by Andrei Sakharov Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis The Prime of Life by Simone de Beauvoir One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty My Year Off by Robert McCrum An Italian Education by Tim Parks Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams A Step from Death: A Memoir by Larry Woiwode   Parish the Thought by Bernard Ruane  Along the Way by Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez 

Library Booklist (H:hStb)

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Vita Nuova by Dante Blessings in Disguise by Alec Guinness     Jane Austen by Peter Leithart   My Year Off by Robert McCrum   Beethoven: His Spiritual Development by J. W. Sullivan   Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward by Jeffrey S. Young

Library Booklist (H:dS1f)

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Notes towards the Definition of Culture by T. S. Eliot A Cosmos of My Own edited by Doreen Fowler   The Recalictrant Art: Diotima's Letters to Holderlin and Related Missives by David Farrel Krell   Globish by Robert McCrum   On Art and Literature by Marcel Proust   The Joy of Words by Fritz Spiegl   The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the OED by Edmund  Weiner et al   The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester