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Language: The Cultural Tool by Daniel Everett
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or lost, and shows significant variation across cultures. It's as essential to survival as fire - and, like fire, is found in all human... -
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel Everett
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual... -
Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Won't Do As It's Told by Lane Greene
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Language is a wild animal: rough, ambiguous, inconsistent in countless ways. But that just makes it all the more tempting to tame it. Many have tried, from sticklers for supposedly correct grammar to... -
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe 9781784704896
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style... Wolfe's great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately... -
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world by Morten H. Christiansen
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81'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... -
Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics by Chris Knight
Booksplease Price: $23.68A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar...