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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $16.00
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became... Read more >
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $16.00
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became... Read more >
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In the Land of Invented Languages
Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language
Written by Arika Okrent
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $26.00
Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon, which was nothing more than a television show’s attempt to create a tough-sounding language befitting a warrior race... Read more >
Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language
Written by Arika Okrent
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $26.00
Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon, which was nothing more than a television show’s attempt to create a tough-sounding language befitting a warrior race... Read more >
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In the Land of Invented Languages
Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language
Written by Arika Okrent
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $26.00
Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon, which was nothing more than a television show’s attempt to create a tough-sounding language befitting a warrior race... Read more >
Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language
Written by Arika Okrent
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $26.00
Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon, which was nothing more than a television show’s attempt to create a tough-sounding language befitting a warrior race... Read more >
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Language Visible
Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z
Written by David Sacks
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $24.95
Read more >
Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z
Written by David Sacks
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $24.95
Read more >
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Biting the Wax Tadpole
Confessions of a Language Fanatic
Written by Elizabeth Little
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
Confessions of a Language Fanatic
Written by Elizabeth Little
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95
When Chinese shopkeepers tried to find a written equivalent of Coca-Cola, one set of characters they chose was pronounced “ke-kou ke-la.” It sounded right, but it literally translated as “bite the wax tadpole.”
Language, like travel, is always stranger than we expect and often more beautiful than we imagine. In Biting...
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $26.95
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977–with his wife and three young children–intending to convert them. What he... Read more >
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $26.95
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977–with his wife and three young children–intending to convert them. What he... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $16.00
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977–with his wife and three young children–intending to convert them. What he... Read more >
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $16.00
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977–with his wife and three young children–intending to convert them. What he... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Discovering English Dialects
Written by Martyn Wakelin
Illustrated by J.D.A. Widdowson
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $11.95
As long ago as the 1720s, Daniel Defoe wrote about the eccentricities of English dialects. To historians the dialects used in the Yorkshire Dales and rural East Anglia are as important in understanding the living heritage of Britain as the study of ancient buildings. This book describes the most significant features... Read more >
Written by Martyn Wakelin
Illustrated by J.D.A. Widdowson
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $11.95
As long ago as the 1720s, Daniel Defoe wrote about the eccentricities of English dialects. To historians the dialects used in the Yorkshire Dales and rural East Anglia are as important in understanding the living heritage of Britain as the study of ancient buildings. This book describes the most significant features... Read more >
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Resurrecting Hebrew
Written by Ilan Stavans
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $21.00
Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend... Read more >
Written by Ilan Stavans
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $21.00
Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend... Read more >
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Resurrecting Hebrew
Written by Ilan Stavans
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $21.00
Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend... Read more >
Written by Ilan Stavans
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $21.00
Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Linguistics For Beginners
Written by W. Terrence Gordon
Illustrated by Susan Willmarth
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $14.95
Linguistics For Beginners is the first book to ever make the arcane labors of linguistics accessible to general readers. It begins with a lucid definition of language and proceeds to examine how it becomes the subject matter of linguistics. Key topics include the contrast between writing and speech to elementary lessons... Read more >
Written by W. Terrence Gordon
Illustrated by Susan Willmarth
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $14.95
Linguistics For Beginners is the first book to ever make the arcane labors of linguistics accessible to general readers. It begins with a lucid definition of language and proceeds to examine how it becomes the subject matter of linguistics. Key topics include the contrast between writing and speech to elementary lessons... Read more >
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Letter Perfect
The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z
Written by David Sacks
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95
David Sacks has embarked on a fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet–and into cultural history–in Letter Perfect. Clearly explaining the letters as symbols of precise sounds of speech, the book begins with the earliest known alphabetic inscriptions (circa 1800 b.c.), recently discovered by archaeologists in Egypt, and traces the... Read more >
The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z
Written by David Sacks
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95
David Sacks has embarked on a fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet–and into cultural history–in Letter Perfect. Clearly explaining the letters as symbols of precise sounds of speech, the book begins with the earliest known alphabetic inscriptions (circa 1800 b.c.), recently discovered by archaeologists in Egypt, and traces the... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Slam Dunks and No-Brainers
Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like . . . Whatever
Written by Leslie Savan
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.00
In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!—and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars... Read more >
Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like . . . Whatever
Written by Leslie Savan
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.00
In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!—and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure slang to pop stardom, selling everything from cars... Read more >
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Wordplay
The Philosophy, Art, and Science of Ambigrams
Written by John Langdon
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
Take a second look at the cover of this book—this time, turn it upside down. The title, Wordplay, is an ambigram, which means you will be able to read it both right side up and upside down.
You may be familiar with the John Langdon’s ambigrams from Dan Brown’s bestseller Angels &... Read more >
The Philosophy, Art, and Science of Ambigrams
Written by John Langdon
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
Take a second look at the cover of this book—this time, turn it upside down. The title, Wordplay, is an ambigram, which means you will be able to read it both right side up and upside down.
You may be familiar with the John Langdon’s ambigrams from Dan Brown’s bestseller Angels &... Read more >
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Letter Perfect
The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z
Written by David Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $15.95
David Sacks has embarked on a fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet–and into cultural history–in Letter Perfect. Clearly explaining the letters as symbols of precise sounds of speech, the book begins with the earliest known alphabetic inscriptions (circa 1800 b.c.), recently discovered by archaeologists in Egypt, and traces the... Read more >
The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z
Written by David Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2004
Price: $15.95
David Sacks has embarked on a fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet–and into cultural history–in Letter Perfect. Clearly explaining the letters as symbols of precise sounds of speech, the book begins with the earliest known alphabetic inscriptions (circa 1800 b.c.), recently discovered by archaeologists in Egypt, and traces the... Read more >
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eBook.
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Symbols and Rebuses in Chinese Art
Figures, Bugs, Beasts, and Flowers
Written by Fang Jing Pei and Jing Pei Fang
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2004
Price: $27.95
Almost every early culture once had a system of symbols that was eventually replaced with a spoken and then written language. In Chinese culture, the evolution of symbols and their meanings took a slightly different and unique path. Rather than the visual symbols being replaced by the written language, in China... Read more >
Figures, Bugs, Beasts, and Flowers
Written by Fang Jing Pei and Jing Pei Fang
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2004
Price: $27.95
Almost every early culture once had a system of symbols that was eventually replaced with a spoken and then written language. In Chinese culture, the evolution of symbols and their meanings took a slightly different and unique path. Rather than the visual symbols being replaced by the written language, in China... Read more >
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Language Visible
Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z
Written by David Sacks
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2003
Price: $24.95
Letters are tangible language. Joining together in endless combinations to actually show speech, letters convey our messages and tell our stories. While we encounter these tiny shapes hundreds of times a day, we take for granted the long, fascinating history behind one of the most fundamental of human inventions -- the... Read more >
Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z
Written by David Sacks
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2003
Price: $24.95
Letters are tangible language. Joining together in endless combinations to actually show speech, letters convey our messages and tell our stories. While we encounter these tiny shapes hundreds of times a day, we take for granted the long, fascinating history behind one of the most fundamental of human inventions -- the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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