Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “fascinating” (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is “part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation...
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Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at long last makes sense in this intriguing book about ...
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When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within ou...
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Words Unspoken: The Science, Experience, and Treatment of Stuttering
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Stuttering is a mystery. The 99% of people who speak fluently are often shocked when they meet someone whose speech stutters and halts. What's far ...
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the ...
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Oxygen: The molecule that made the world
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Oxygen has had extraordinary effects on life. Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with ...
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Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A practical, heartfelt manual for anyone who needs to change minds and actions. Lisa Cron shares the art of practical empathy with leaders who c...
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Why Only Us: Language and Evolution
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species...
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