Collected
Featured Books of the Week
2005
Featured Book of the Week (December 26-January 1):
Words and Rules: The
Ingredients of Language
by
Steven
Pinker
How the principle of 奇正相生 ("The irregular and regular beget
each other")
operates
in language
Featured
Book of the Week (January 2-8):
Phonetic Data Analysis: An Introduction to
Fieldwork and Instrumental Techniques
by
Peter
Ladefoged Review
Bring your knowledge
of phonetics to the next level
and have fun doing it
Featured Book of the Week (January 9-15):
The English Infinitive
by
Patrick
J. Duffley
Why and when is it "to be" and not just
"be"?
That
is the question.
Featured Book of the Week (January 16-22):
Searching for Aboriginal Languages:
Memoirs
of a Field Worker
by
R.
M. W. Dixon
The human side of documenting
Australia's indigenous
languages
Featured Books of the Week (January 23-29):
Lonely
Planet
Quechua phrasebook
Accessible,
up-to-date information
on less-studied languages; see also: Central Asia,
African, Australian, USA phrasebooks, many more
Featured Book of the Week (January
30-February 5):
The
decipherment of Linear B
by
John
Chadwick
Play detective with a linguistic mystery
Featured
Book of the Week (February 6-12):
The
world's major languages
Bernard
Comrie, ed.
Learn about
the workings of 40 languages
Featured Book of the Week (February 13-19):
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
by
Keith
Johnstone
Coax out your creativity with improvisation exercises
Featured Books of the Week (February
20-26):
Amo,
Amas, Amat and More and
Veni,
Vidi, Vici
by
Eugene
Ehrlich
Get
a taste of Latin through expressions used in English
Featured Book of the Week (February 27-March 5):
Describing Morphosyntax:
A Guide for Field
Linguists
by
Thomas
E. Payne
An
evenhanded overview of morphosyntactic processes
in
a wide range of languages
Featured Book of the Week (March 6-12):
Hip-hop rhyming dictionary:
For rappers, DJs
and MCs
comp.
by Kevin
M. Mitchell
Interesting
rhymes, not just for rap
Featured Book of the Week (March 13-19):
Principles of Phonetics
by
John
Laver
Solidify your knowledge of phonetics
Featured Recording of the Week (March
20-26):
On Journey to the West
西遊記小說大說 (3
tapes)
by
Ma Shuli
馬叔禮
Delve
into the deeper meaning of Journey to the West (in Chinese)
Featured Book of the Week (March 27-April
2):
Meaning and the English Verb
by
Geoffrey
N. Leech
Essential reading for all English teachers and
linguists
Featured Book of the Week (April 3-9):
Tools for Analyzing the World's Languages:
Articulatory Phonetics
by
Anita
C. Bickford, Rick
Floyd
Good
review and transcription practice
Featured Book of the Week (April 10-16):
實用漢語分類辭典
(A
Classified Dictionary of Chinese)
董大年主編
Dong Danian, ed.
Comparable
to the English:
Illustrated
Reverse Dictionary
Distinguish
near-synonyms, find just the right word
Featured Recording of the Week (April
17-23):
Creating Character Voices for
Fun & Profit:
A Professional Guide
by
Patrick
Fraley
You
can do a lot more with your voice than you thought!
Featured Book of the Week (April 24-30):
Patterns of Spoken English:
An Introduction to English Phonetics
by
Gerald
Knowles
Another
approach to phonetics, learn about phonaesthemes
Featured Book of the Week (May 1-7):
A Glossary of Morphology
by
Laurie
Bauer
Learn
the vocabulary of and different approaches to morphology
Featured Book of the Week (May 8-14):
Savage Beauty:
The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by
Nancy
Milford
Tenderness
and promiscuity
Featured Book of the Week (May 15-21):
Read-Aloud Poems for Young People:
An
Introduction to the Magic and Excitement of Poetry
Glorya
Hale,
ed.
Some
typos, but great for oral reading practice
Featured Book of the Week (May 22-28):
Broadcast Voice Handbook
How to Polish Your On-Air Delivery
by
Ann
S. Utterback
Improve
your oral presentation skills
Featured Book of the Week (May 29-June
4):
Leaving
Mother Lake:
A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
by
Yang
Erche Namu &
Christine
Mathieu
Spellbinding
story of a girl's coming of age
in
matrilineal Moso society, and how she left it
Featured Book of the Week (June 5-11):
The Moon and Sixpence
by
William
Somerset Maugham
Insight into human passion and selfishness
Featured Book of the Week (June 12-18):
Stories I Stole
by
Wendell
Steavenson
Take
a vicarious trip to the Republic of Georgia
depicted
in this book as a modern-day Wild West
Featured Books of the Week (June 19-25):
The Emigrants, Unto a New Land,
The Settlers,
The Last Letter Home
by
Vilhelm
Moberg
A story of immigration from
Småland,
Sweden to Minnesota
Featured Book of the Week (June 26-July
2):
The Way of the Sufi
by
Idries
Shah
The Sufi approach to learning
Featured Book of the Week (July 3-9):
Isaac Newton
by
James
Gleick
A personal, close-up view
of the scientist and the man
Featured Book of the Week (July 10-16):
Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox
by
Victoria
Finlay
Colors
with a past
Featured Book of the Week (July 17-23):
Mapping the Mind
by
Rita
Carter
A primer on brain
function
Featured Book of the Month (July 24-August
20):
Phantoms
in the Brain
by
V. S. Ramachandran
Good lateral thinking
Featured Book of the Week (August 21-27):
Wildflowers of Yosemite
by
Jim
and Lynn Wilson
If you like plants,
get this one after you get there
Featured
Book of the Week (August 28-September 3):
The
Fitness Factor: Every Woman’s Key
to a Lifetime of Health and Well-being
by
Lisa
Callahan, M.D.
Get and stay fit
Featured Book of the Week (September 4-10):
Stories and Poems for Extremely
Intelligent
Children of All Ages
Edited
by Harold
Bloom
If
you've forgotten what it's like to read for pure pleasure,
this
book will remind you
Featured Book of the Week (September 11-17):
The English Verb:
An exploration of Structure
and Meaning
by
Michael
Lewis
Verb
category rules without exceptions
Featured Book of the Week (September
18-24):
Keeping The Love You Find
by
Harville
Hendrix
How
do we choose our partners?
Featured Book of the Week (September
25-October 1):
The Meditations
of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
translated
by A.
S. L. Farquharson
Wisdom
distilled into great aphorisms
Featured Book of the Week (October 2-8):
La Regenta
by
Leopoldo
Alas, translated by John Rutherford
"Spain’s
answer to Madame Bovary"
Featured Book of the Week (October 9-15):
A Hero of Our Time
by
Mikhail
Lermontov, translated by Paul Foote
"Portrait
of a man caught in and expressing the sickness of his times"
Featured Book of the Week (October 16-22):
Welcome to My Planet
**where English is sometimes
spoken
by
Shannon
Olson
Funny and set in Minnesota
Featured Book of the Week (October 23-30):
In the Lake of the Woods
by
Tim
O'Brien
Another good –
and haunting – Minnesota
book
Featured Book of the Week (October 31-November
5):
Fathers and Sons
by
Ivan
Turgenev
An
angry young man tries to sort out life in this world
Featured Book of the Week (November 6-12):
Histoire de la merde: Prologue
by
Dominique
Laporte
Thought provoking
Featured Book of the Week (November 13-19):
An Introduction to the Languages of the World
by
Anatole
V. Lyovin
A handy overview of languages and some of their
key features
Featured Book of the Week (November 20-26):
History of Linguistics, vol. 1:
The Eastern
Traditions of Linguistics
Giulio
Lepschy, ed. review
A
broader view of the history of the study of language
Featured Book of the Week (November 27-December
3):
The Art Book
Phaidon
Press
Sample
works from the world's major artists in your pocket
Featured Books of the Week (December
4-10):
Taipei Day Trips: 1 and 2
by
Richard
Saunders
Discover
the beauty of the Taipei area close up
Featured Book of the Week (December 11-17):
The DaVinci Code
by
Dan
Brown
Something kwik and
lite for a change
It's
not too late to jump on the bandwagon
Featured Book of the Week (December 18-24):
Travels with a Tangerine
From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler
by
Tim
Mackintosh-Smith
An
engaging and erudite travelogue
Featured Book of the Week (December 25-31):
Cambridge
English Pronouncing Dictionary,
16th ed.
Daniel
Jones, Peter Roach et al
Settle
arguments on standard US and RP pronunciations
2006
Featured
Book of the Week (January 1-7):
Pronouncing
English:
A Stress-Based Approach with CD-ROM
by
Richard
V. Teschner & M. Stanley Whitley
review
Useful
English pronounciation rules
Featured Book of the Week (January 8-14):
The Sounds of the World's Languages
by Peter
Ladefoged & Ian Maddieson
Required
reading for anybody who does phonetics
Featured
Book of the Week (January 15-21):
Pain
Free: A Revolutionary Method
for Stopping Chronic Pain
by Peter
Egoscue
Fix and avoid repetitive
stress injuries without drugs or surgery
Featured Book of the Week (January 22-28):
West with the Night
by
Beryl
Markham
Discoveries, rescues,
narrow escapes
Featured
Book Set of the Week (January 29-February 4):
中國童話（一套十二冊）
Chinese
Children's Stories (12
volumes)
漢聲文化
Hansheng Publishers
A delightful story for each day of the lunar year
in beautifully
written Chinese
Featured
Book of the Week (February 5-11):
On
Women Turning 50: Celebrating Mid-Life Discoveries
Interviews
and photography by Cathleen
Rountree
Thoughts
on a golden, mellow time of life
Featured
Book of the Week (February 12-18):
The
World's Best Short Short Stories 極短篇名作選
edited
by Roger B. Goodman
For the attention
span-challenged!
Out
of print but some of the stories are available
online
Featured
Book of the Week (February 19-25):
阿鳳姨ê五度ê空間
A-hōng-î
ê Gȱ Tȱ ê Khong-kan (with
CD)
A-hōng 講古 張裕宏
註解 Sherry Thompson 插圖
Charming
stories read aloud in Taiwanese
Featured
Book of the Week (February 26-March 4):
台灣的常見野花
（一、二兩冊）
Common
wildflowers of Taiwan
(in 2 volumes)
鄭元春
著 online
index
Covers
lots of the species you'll see in Taiwan
Featured Book of the Week (March 5-11):
In defense of elitism
by
William
A. Henry III
Provocative
and un-politically correct
Featured Book of the Week (March 12-18):
Birthday Letters
by
Ted
Hughes
Ted's
side of the story
Featured
Book of the Week (March 19-25):
A
Short History of Chinese Philosophy
by
Fung Yu-lan
A good place to start
Featured Book of the Week (March 26-April 1):
Smilla's
sense of snow
Peter
Høeg
Beyond the great Eskimo snow hoax
Featured Book of the Week (April 2-8):
Two
old women: an Alaska legend
of betrayal, courage and survival
Velma
Wallis
Another story from cold North America
Featured Book of the Week (April 9-15):
Feeling
Strong:
How Power Issues Affect Our Ability to Direct Our Own Lives
by Ethel S. Person
How power
issues permeate everything we do
Featured Book of the Week (April 16-22):
I,
Rigoberta Menchú:
An Indian Woman in Guatemala
by Rigoberta Menchú et al
Firsthand life story of a native woman of Central America
Featured Book of the Week (April 23-29):
Waiting
by Ha Jin
Amazing
novel written in English by a Chinese writer
Featured
Book of the Week (April 30-May 6):
Northanger
Abbey
by Jane Austen
Short and fun
Featured Book of the Week (May 7-13):
The
Gambler
by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Full of autobiographical insight
Featured
Book of the Week (May 14-20):
The
Death of the Author
by Gilbert
Adair
"Crafty
and subversive"
Featured
Book of the Week (May 21-27):
Cold
Comfort Farm
by
Stella Gibbons
Entertaining satire
of stereotyped gothic novel
Featured
Book of the Week (May 28-June 3):
Scoop
by
Evelyn Waugh
A journalistic farce
set in Africa
Featured
Book of the Week (June 4-10):
The
Trial
by
Franz Kafka
Be led through the
horror of inevitability
Featured
Book of the Week (June 11-17):
The
Woman in White
by
Wilkie Collins
Spellbinding mystery and drama
Featured
Book of the Week (June 18-24):
Help
Your Kids Get It Done Right at Home and School
Building
Responsibility & Self-Esteem in Children
by
Donna M. Genett
Time management
and task delegation hints that apply to anybody
Featured
Book of the Week (August 13-19):
Ali
and Nino
by Kurban Said
A
tender love story rich with cultural detail
recognized as Azerbaijan's "national
novel"
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