Language instinct

Reducere. In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how ch...

Paperback edition of Ball's comprehensive and accessible guide to how music works and why it's indispensible to humanity. Will appeal to fans of Th...

How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Do we think in our mother tongue? Who decides what's correct English? How did langua...

Clear and simple language on the subject of operating how many powerful CEOs have done at a level of instinct and persistently, revised and updated...

Reducere. Imagine a village where everyone "speaks" sign language. Just such a village -- an isolated Bedouin community in Israel with an unusually high rate...

Already hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative lingui...

Reducere. How does language work? How do children learn their mother tongue? Why do languages change over time, making Shakespearean English difficult for us...

There are simple and funny Spanish texts for easy reading. The book consists of Beginner and Elementary courses with parallel Spanish-English texts...

How can humans keep thousands of words in mind and have no difficulty understanding trillions of sentences? The answer to this question might lie i...

Steven Pinker, the bestselling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining w...

Reducere. "The Language of Trees, like Whitman's Leaves of Grass though in a magic realist vernacular, refreshingly asserts that deeply American conviction: ...

The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art ...

When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary ...

Reducere. In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities a...

Reducere. Have you ever wished you could peer into someone's mind to find out what he or she is really thinking? Now you can . . . really. This book is not a...

Reducere. DescriptionDugin against Duginis the most detailed critique yet published of the theories of Russian political leader and philosopher Aleksandr Dug...

DescriptionCopy, paste: Basquiat's collaged Xerox paintings presage today's sampling aestheticsJean-Michel Basquiat: Xerox provides the first conce...

David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding is the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language. His arguments ...

Reducere. After a robust career in the Netherlands as the country's most successful director, Paul Verhoeven (b. 1938) built an impressive career in the Unit...

This is the first official monograph dedicated to MSGM, one of Italy's most internationally acclaimed fashion brands and greatest success stories f...

Reducere. Professor Michael Edgeworth McIntyre is an eminent scientist who has also had a part-time career as a musician. From a lifetime's thinking, he offe...

Reducere. Learn to recognise what's on your dog's mind. What does it really mean when they roll over and show you their tummy? And why do they sometimes chas...

DescriptionSet all over the globe from London to L. A., Brazil to the Caribbean, this extraordinary debut collection of stories reveals how the wor...

One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disor...

Reducere. DescriptionMargaret Gatty's parables celebrate the natural world and provision life guidance: wise and attentive, their moral lessons are valuable ...

Reducere. Finding Fire is a book about cooking with fire. Now with a new cover, it tells the story of how the UK-trained chef Lennox Hastie learnt the langua...

Reducere. Professor Michael Edgeworth McIntyre is an eminent scientist who has also had a part-time career as a musician. From a lifetime's thinking, he offe...

Reducere. During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winne...

Reducere. Beyond Divination Looking for deeper meaning in the cards? Learn how to combine the little-known Lenormand deck with the tarot for richer, more per...

Reducere. DescriptionThis collector's edition comprises the first five episodes of the popular "Baumgartner & Momsen" crime and mystery series for intermedia...