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The Unfolding Of Language by Guy Deutscher
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02'A persuasive and beautifully written take on how languages are constantly evolving... an enthralling read about human psychology and anthropology as well as linguistics.' ALEX... -
Entropy Crisis, The by Guy Deutscher 9789812779687
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €48.50This book aims to prove that the so-called "energy crisis" is really an entropy crisis. Since energy is conserved, it is clear that a different concept is necessary to discuss meaningfully the... -
Entropy And Sustainable Growth by Guy Deutscher 9789813237766
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €48.50While the possible depletion of energy sources has been emphasized in most literatures, this book aims to show that the increase of entropy in the biosphere, resulting since the dawn of industrial... -
Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation by Guy Deutscher 9780199532223
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €59.68In this book Guy Deutscher examines the historical development of Akkadian, the oldest recorded Semitic language and one of the earliest attested languages. Two thousand years of texts from 2500BC to... -
Entropy Crisis, The Guy Deutscher (Tel-aviv Univ, Israel) 9789812779694
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €30.06This book aims to prove that the so-called "energy crisis" is really an entropy crisis. Since energy is conserved, it is clear that a different concept is necessary to discuss meaningfully the... -
Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation by Guy Deutscher 9780198299882
Booksplease Price: €70.90Akkadian is one of the earliest attested languages and the oldest recorded Semitic language. It exists in written record between 2500BC and 500BC, much of it in letters and reports concerned with... -
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention by Guy Deutscher
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €17.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805080124Author Guy DeutscherFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St... -
Climate Debt, The: Combining The Science, Politics And Economics Of Climate Change by Guy Deutscher 9789811274008
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €48.50Climate warming and disorder are the consequence of a free trade economic growth model that has failed to anticipate its physical impact on the environment. This failure reveals a lack of interaction... -
Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02"Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics... he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother tongue does indeed affect how we think and, just... -
Climate Debt, The: Combining The Science, Politics And Economics Of Climate Change by Guy Deutscher 9789811275913
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.01Climate warming and disorder are the consequence of a free trade economic growth model that has failed to anticipate its physical impact on the environment. This failure reveals a lack of interaction... -
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher 9780312610494
RRP: €24.99Booksplease Price: €16.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312610494Author Guy DeutscherFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St... -
Deutscher Wachtelhund Guide Deutscher Wachtelhund Guide Includes: Deutscher Wachtelhund Training, Diet, Socializing, Care, Grooming, and More by Richard Burgess 9781395862749
RRP: €11.86Booksplease Price: €11.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781395862749Author Richard BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Desert Thrust LtdPublisher... -
You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak by Rob Drummond 9781914484285
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.27'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'... -
You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak Rob Drummond 9781917189125
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Why do we have different accents and where do they come from? Why do you say 'tomayto' and I say 'tomahto'? And is one way of speaking better than another? In You're All Talk, linguist Rob Drummond... -
How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel Everett
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.64In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? What is it? And what is it for? Daniel... -
The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age by Steven Mithen 9781800811584
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.00'A tour de force' Alice Roberts 'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin Dunbar The relationship between language,... -
The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age Steven Mithen 9781800811607
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26'A tour de force' Alice Roberts 'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin Dunbar The relationship between language,... -
Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes by Albert Jack
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64In Pop Goes the Weasel, Albert Jack explores the strange and fascinating histories behind the nursery rhymes we thought we knew, showing that their real meanings are far from innocent.Who were Mary... -
Don't Believe A Word: From Myths to Misunderstandings - How Language Really Works David Shariatmadari 9781474608459
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81'Wonderful. You finish the book more alive than ever to the enduring mystery and miracle of that thing that makes us most human' STEPHEN FRY'Most popular books on language dumb down; Shariatmadari's... -
The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe by Alex Bellos
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers... -
Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask by Paul Anthony Jones 9781783967025
Booksplease Price: €9.64'As entertaining as it is engrossing' John Banville 'Enlightening, delightful' Arthur der Weduwen, author of The Library Why don't eleven and twelve end in -teen? The rest of our counting... -
Psy-Q: A Mind-Bending Miscellany Of Everyday Psychology Ben Ambridge 9781781252116
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Psychology is everywhere. Our emotions and desires, the decisions we make on a daily basis - absolutely every aspect of the way we think and feel has been studied by psychologists. Through dozens of... -
The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who are Happy, Healthy, and Whole by Joan Koenig
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.62'Wonderful ... we need music in our lives now more than ever' HERBIE HANCOCK 'Joan Koenig is on a wonderful mission to enrich children's lives through music' DR... -
The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who are Happy, Healthy and Whole by Joan Koenig
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.19'Wonderful ... we need music in our lives now more than ever' HERBIE HANCOCK 'Joan Koenig is on a wonderful mission to enrich children's lives through music' DR...