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Across Antiquities & Archaeology, Etymology, Historical & Comparative, and Folklore & Mythology — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as By Jove by Michael Macrone.

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Themes: Historical & Comparative • Folklore & Mythology • Linguistics

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Words to Live by The Origins of Conventional Wisdom and Commonsense Advice

Themes: Etymology • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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It’s Greek to Me

Michael Macrone

Themes: Etymology • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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Themes: Etymology • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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Prosody in Medieval English and Norse

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I Never Knew There Was a Word For It

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Themes: Etymology • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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Themes: Etymology • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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Themes: Etymology • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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Grammar for Grownups

Themes: Etymology • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Words from Hell Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology — Jess Zafarris

Words from Hell Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology

Themes: Etymology • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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The Blakeneys: An Etymological, Ethnological, and Genealogical Study

Lochlainn Seabrook

Themes: Etymology • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

The Story of English in 100 Words — David Crystal

The Story of English in 100 Words

Themes: Etymology • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots — Calvert Watkins

The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Calvert Watkins

Themes: Etymology • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush? — David Hilliam

Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?

Themes: Etymology • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

On the Sacred in African Literature Old Gods and New Worlds — M. Mathuray

On the Sacred in African Literature Old Gods and New Worlds

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Literary Criticism

The Parameter of Aspect

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Success in Referential Communication — M. Paul

Success in Referential Communication

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Literary Criticism

Green Men and White Swans The Folklore of British Pub Names — Jacqueline Simpson

Green Men and White Swans The Folklore of British Pub Names

Jacqueline Simpson

Themes: Etymology • Folklore & Mythology • Linguistics

The Book of Nonexistent Words — Stefano Massini

The Book of Nonexistent Words

Stefano Massini

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Literary Criticism

Postmodernism, Literature and the Future of Theology — D. Jasper

Postmodernism, Literature and the Future of Theology

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Literary Criticism

Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives — Frederick S. Roden

Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives

Frederick S. Roden

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Literary Criticism

The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths Why We Would be Better Off with Homer’s Gods — John Heath

The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths Why We Would be Better Off with Homer’s Gods

Themes: Antiquities & Archaeology • Folklore & Mythology • Literary Criticism

Bewitched and Bedeviled A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Early English Possession — K. Uszkalo

Bewitched and Bedeviled A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Early English Possession

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Literary Criticism

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Britain Through Muslim Eyes Literary Representations, 1780-1988

Claire Chambers

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Literary Criticism

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