I disagree ENTIRELY with the opening statement that this book has 'the spirit of “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves”. The latter is just another in an endless stream of prescriptivist rants about “proper” language, what's “right” and what's “wrong”, and how stupid one is if one doesn't cling to the “rules” that author treats as sacrosanct.
THIS book, in contrast, is written by a linguist, and celebrates the reality that language is alive, ever-changing and never carved in stone.
If you think that “to boldly go” is some sort of heinous grammatical sin, if you turn puce when someone says “who” when you think they should say “whom”, or apoplectic when you come across a sentence that ends with a preposition, then avoid this book. If you love the organic, complex and fluid nature of language, and want to understand it better, do not fail to read this book.