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Spoken Here by Mark Abley 9780099460220 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $2.86Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction over the next century, as English and the rest of the world's top twenty languages drive all before them. What ways of looking at the world... -
The Organist: Fugues, Fatherhood, and a Fragile Mind by Mark Abley 9780889777613
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Silver Palace Restaurant: Volume 16 by Mark Abley 9780773529984
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49A deeply humane and accessible volumeA deeply humane and accessible volumeAbout the AuthorMark Abley is the author of many books of poetry and non-fiction including Spoken Here: Travels Among... -
Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley 9780618565832
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Strange Bewildering Time: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail by Mark Abley
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.84A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark... -
On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever by Andrew Potter
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a... -
Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century by James Clifford 9780674779617
RRP: $41.22Booksplease Price: $35.41When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James... -
Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self by Julie Sedivy 9780674293939
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $18.31"At once an eloquent memoir, a wide-ranging commentary on cultural diversity, and an expert distillation of the research on language learning, loss, and recovery."-The Economist"Insightful and... -
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
RRP: $29.61Booksplease Price: $23.70Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and...