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Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett by Terry Pratchett
RRP: $14.18$10.76'I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.'The most quotable writer of our time, Terry Pratchett's unique brand of wit made him both a bestseller and an enduring,... -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780198861379
RRP: $11.60$8.32'what can be said at all can be said clearly; and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent' Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in English translation in 1922, is one of the most... -
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
RRP: $12.89$9.17'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language' Washington PostThe language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak. It is a language... -
Language, Truth and Logic by A. J. Ayer
RRP: $16.76$11.73If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct experience. Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about... -
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations'- Independent'A marvellously readable book..... -
Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo 9780008498696
RRP: $14.18$9.35'Electrifying ... A user manual for our polarized world' Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think Again 'Important, compelling and wise' Johann Hari, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Stolen Focus How do you win... -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: The New Translation by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780241681954
RRP: $19.34$14.13One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century'We could capture the whole sense of the book as follows: what can be said at all can be said clearly; and whatever cannot be said must be left to... -
Speaking and Being: How Language Shapes Our Lives by Kubra Gumusay
RRP: $19.34$14.13A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I can't stop talking about this book' Jamie Klingler, co-founder #ReclaimTheseStreets 'What a gem. ... Makes you look at the world, and yourself, afresh.' Minna Salami, author of Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist... -
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world by Morten H. Christiansen
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel EverettWhat is language?Why do we have it?Why does that... -
Enough Said: What's gone wrong with the language of politics? by Mark Thompson
RRP: $14.18$10.02LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017How do we discuss serious ideas in the age of 24-hour news? What was rhetoric in the past and what should it be now? And what does Islamic State have in common with Donald Trump?We've never had more information or more... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy by Thomas Mautner
RRP: $21.92$15.84'A definitive work...explains clearly and succinctly concepts and theories at the heart of European and American philosophy.' - Brenda AlmondWhat do philosophers mean by 'absolute' and 'akrasia'? What are 'Polish notation' and 'prime matter'? What... -
You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak by Rob Drummond 9781914484285
RRP: $21.92$14.94'Telling and compelling' Susie Dent, author of Word Perfect 'Rob Drummond has achieved something very special in this book' David Crystal, author of How Language Works 'Intriguing and engaging' Gyles Brandreth, author of Word Play Why do we have... -
Conjoining Meanings: Semantics Without Truth Values by Paul M. Pietroski 9780198812722
$86.48Humans naturally acquire languages that connect meanings with pronunciations. Paul M. Pietroski presents an account of these distinctive languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. Children acquire meaningful lexical items... -
Seduced by Story by Peter Brooks
RRP: $21.92$13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376639Author Peter BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
The Evolution of Imagination by Stephen T. Asma
RRP: $33.54$29.82Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases all on the fly. Or think of a comedy troupe riffing on a couple of cues from the audience until the whole... -
Wittgenstein's Remarks on Colour: A Commentary and Interpretation by Andrew Lugg 9781839985324
RRP: $32.25$30.06The book is a first detailed discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Remarks on Colour, a compilation of writings on the subject from the last fifteen months of his life. The origin and significance of the remarks are explained along with a remark-by-remark... -
The Secrets of Words by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $21.92$13.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046718Author Noam ChomskyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Of the Abuse of Words by John Locke
RRP: $10.31$7.47John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and language are some of the most influential in the... -
Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored by Jeffrey Boakye
RRP: $16.76$10.55AFRO-CARIBBEAN. COLOURED. ETHNIC MINORITY. IMMIGRANT. BAME. URBAN. WOKE. FAM. BLACK.These are just some of the terms being wrestled with in Black, Listed, an exploration of twenty-first century Black identity told through a list of insults, insights and... -
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas R. Hofstadter
RRP: $38.70$25.04Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of... -
The Politics of Language by David Beaver 9780691181981
RRP: $45.15$35.10A provocative case for the inherently political nature of languageIn The Politics of Language, David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical new approach to the theory of meaning, offering an account of communication in which political and social... -
Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and a New Possibility of Being Human by Bruce Hyde 9781119549901
RRP: $45.14$31.59Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and a New Possibility of Being Human is an unprecedented study of the ideas and methods developed by the thinker Werner Erhard. In this book, those ideas and methods are revealed by presenting in full an... -
For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun by Rebecca Roache 9780190665067
RRP: $21.92$15.84Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to these and other puzzling questions about bad language. When someone swears at you, it can sting. Likewise,... -
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity by Charles Taylor 9780674660205
RRP: $38.64$30.43In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at... -
A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's <i>Phenomenology</i> by Robert B. Brandom
RRP: $54.12$44.61Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philosophy by one of the world's best-known and most influential philosophers.In this much-anticipated work, Robert Brandom... -
One and Everything by Sam Winston
RRP: $19.34$12.26From Sam Winston, the co-creator of the Bologna Ragazzi award-winning A Child of Books, comes a thought-provoking celebration of the power of stories and written languages, and the imperative to preserve them.Once there were many stories in the world... -
Lexical Acquisition: Exploiting On-line Resources To Build A Lexicon by Uri Zernik
$96.50On-line information -- and free text in particular -- has emerged as a major, yet unexploited, resource available in raw form. Available, but not accessible. The lexicon provides the major key for enabling accessibility to on-line text. The expert... -
Choosing Normative Concepts by Matti Eklund
RRP: $33.53$30.16Theorists working on metaethics and the nature of normativity typically study goodness, rightness, what ought to be done, and so on. In their investigations they employ and consider our actual normative concepts. But the actual concepts of goodness,... -
Archeology of Personalities: a linguistic approach to erotic rope bondage by Osada Steve 9781546378341
RRP: $32.25$25.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546378341Author Addie TahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Bakhtin and his Others: (Inter)subjectivity, Chronotope, Dialogism by Liisa Steinby 9781783083312
RRP: $32.25$30.06'Bakhtin and his Others' aims to develop an understanding of Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas through a contextual approach, particularly with a focus on Bakhtin studies from the 1990s onward. The volume offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin's ideas on... -
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language by Umberto Eco
RRP: $27.08$23.19"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature...this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." -Times Literary SupplementReviews"Eco... -
The Construction of Social Reality by John R. Searle
RRP: $16.76$11.73This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch... -
Zarbul Masalha: 151 Afghan Dari Proverbs (Third Edition) by David H Petraeus
RRP: $25.74$20.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986238604Author David H PetraeusFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Cultures Direct PressPublisher Cultures Direct PressWeight(grams)... -
Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values by Bianca Cepollaro 9781793610522
RRP: $104.49$91.67What is the relation between language, communication, and values? In Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values, Bianca Cepollaro explores the ways in which certain pieces of evaluative language not only reflect speakers' moral perspectives, but... -
Dogwhistles and Figleaves: How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood by Jennifer Mather Saul 9780192871756
RRP: $32.25$27.34Pinpoints how "dogwhistles" and "figleaves," two kinds of linguistic trick, distort political discourse and normalize racism It is widely accepted that political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist and more accepting of wildly... -
The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us by Nello Cristianini
RRP: $29.66$27.23- The author is one of the most influential AI reseachers of recent decades.- Written in an accessible language, the book provides a probing account of AI today and proposes a new narrative to connect and make sense of events that happened in the recent... -
Origin of the German Trauerspiel by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $24.45$19.39Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the subject is something else-the play of mourning. Howard... -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Centenary Edition by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781839982095
RRP: $32.25$30.06This new edition of Wittgenstein's book, strictly following the author's recommendations, allows a more immediate comprehension of the text and dissolves several false problems that had deceived readers and scholars for a century. The faithful... -
Here and There: Sites of Philosophy by Stanley Cavell
RRP: $32.19$25.65The first posthumous collection from the writings of Stanley Cavell, shedding new light on the distinctive vision and intellectual trajectory of an influential American philosopher.For Stanley Cavell, philosophy was a matter of responding to the voices... -
An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns by Bruno Latour
RRP: $33.48$26.60Over the past twenty-five years, Bruno Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associated-a research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific truth...