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The Power of Language
How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin USA, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-593-18707-4
EAN 9780593187074
As Dr. Marian explains, while you may well think you speak only one language, in fact there is no such thing as a monolingual person. Some people speak Spanish, some Mandarin. Some speak poetry, some seem to speak only math. The human brain is built to use multiple languages, and using more languages opens doors ...
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A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the processWhat does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language?China today is one of the world's most powerful nations, yet just a century ago it was a crumbling empire ...
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The Wordhord
Daily Life in Old English
- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-611-9
EAN 9781788166119
An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English, which illuminates the lives, beliefs and habits of our linguistic ancestors. 'A marvelous book' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful' - Tom Holland'A lovely, lovely read' - Lucy Mangan'Splendid' - David Crystal'Thorough, entertaining, and absolutely fascinating.' Paul Anthony Jones, Haggard HawksIn this beautiful little ...
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- MIT Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04671-8
EAN 9780262046718
Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries.In The Secrets of Words, influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between language and the brain. ...
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- Soho Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-64129-341-9
EAN 9781641293419
They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first pages to the last tips for making your final draft even tighter and stronger.
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- Sönke Ahrens, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 188 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-3-9824388-0-1
EAN 9783982438801
This is the second, revised and expanded edition.The first edition was published under the slightly longer title "How to Take Smart Notes.One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers".The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organisation of ideas and notes.This book helps ...
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- Bantam, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78763-349-0
EAN 9781787633490
What is language? Why do we have it? Where does it come from? Why does that matter?Language is perhaps humanity's most astonishing capacity - and one that remains poorly understood. Upending centuries of scholarship (including, most recently, Chomsky and Pinker) The Language Game shows how people learn to talk not by acquiring fixed meanings and ...
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Libro · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-350-13796-7
EAN 9781350137967
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-29585-4
EAN 9780241295854
A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the processWhat does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language?China today is one of the world's most powerful nations, yet just a century ago it was a crumbling empire ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-610-2
EAN 9781788166102
Old English is the language we think we know until we actually see it. Used in England over a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven't changed (word), others that are unrecognisable (neorxnawang - paradise) and some that are curiously mystifying (gafol-fisc - tax-fish). In this beautiful little book, Hana Videen has ...
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- Faber, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-1-78335-219-7
EAN 9781783352197
From 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 of all stripes. 'The only puzzle book I've seen that manages to befuddle both sides of the brain at the same time.'DARA O BRIAIN'Such fun, full of ...
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Bespoke
A Guide to Cycle-Speak and Saddle Slang
- The British Library, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5365-6
EAN 9780712353656
Some sports lend themselves to language: cycling is one of them. With its rich history and culture, and its professional roots across the continent and beyond, cycling has developed a terminology that goes well beyond borders, producing a lexicon all of its own. This book guides the reader through a land where the road to ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-771-5
EAN 9781781257715
Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world that isn't split into un and une, male and female, ...
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The Bilingual Brain
And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
- Penguin UK, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199038-5
EAN 9780141990385
Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet few of us understand how this extraordinary, complex ability really works. How do two languages co-exist in the same brain? What are the advantages and challenges of being bilingual? How do we learn - and forget - a language?In the first study of its kind, ...
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- Faber, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78335-218-0
EAN 9781783352180
From 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 of all stripes. 'Alex Bellos is a wizard.' - Tim Harford, author of The Undercover EconomistThe Language Lover's Puzzle Book is a book of more than 100 ...
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- John Murray, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-1151-8
EAN 9781529311518
From 1 January to 31 December the reader will discover a curious coinage or a fascinating etymological fact linked that particular day -- from the dramatic true story behind stealing someone's thunder to the original Jack the Lad. Word Perfect. gathers all her very best discoveries from the true origin of freelancer which comes from ...
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- Random House, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-593-18956-6
EAN 9780593189566
Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are.Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source ...
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Bird by Bird
Instructions on Writing and Life
- Canongate, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78689-855-5
EAN 9781786898555
Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she's learned over years of trial and error. Beautifully written, wise and immensely helpful, this ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97851-1
EAN 9780241978511
'What a lovely thing this is: a book that delights in the sheer textural joy of good sentences ... Any writer should read it' Bee Wilson 'Thoughtful, engaging, and lively ... when you've read it, you realise you've changed your attitude to writing (and reading)' John Simpson, formerly Chief Editor of the OED and author ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 18,35 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-2673-4
EAN 9781529326734
'Punctuation is not only an important part of our language code; an advanced system of punctuation has been a driving force in our entire Western Civilisation. Nothing less.'With the invention of printing, reading books moved from being an act only performed by priests and aristocrats into an individual, even private, activity. This change helped spark ...
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