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  • Don't Sleep, There are Snakes

    Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

    door Daniel Everett ...
    Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahãs, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world.Everett describes how he began to realise that his discoveries about the Pirahã language ... Meer lezen

    10,38 €

  • How Language Began

    The Story of Humanity’s Greatest Invention

    door Daniel Everett ...
    In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? what is it? and what is it for?Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that language originated with Homo sapiens 150,000 years ago and that we have a 'language instinct'. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of fields, including ... Meer lezen

    11,44 €

  • Awakened

    Finding Clarity in a Noisy World

    door Sam Daniel Everett ...
    Discover True Clarity Amidst the ChaosIn a world brimming with constant noise and distractions, finding clarity can feel like chasing a fleeting dream. "Awakened: Finding Clarity in a Noisy World" offers you a transformative path towards rediscovering peace and purpose amidst the chaos of modern life.Immerse yourself in a journey that begins with understanding the true essence of clarity and the ... Meer lezen

    7,13 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Language

    The Cultural Tool

    door Daniel Everett ...
    Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or lost, and shows significant variation across cultures. It's as essential to survival as fire - and, like fire, is found in all human societies.Language presents the bold and controversial idea that language is not an innate component of the brain, as has been famously argued by Chomsky and Pinker. Rather, it's a cultural tool which ... Meer lezen

    11,44 €

  • Das glücklichste Volk

    Sieben Jahre bei den Pirahã-Indianern am Amazonas

    door Daniel Everett ...
    Vertaald door Sebastian Vogel ...
    Vom Missionar zum BekehrtenAls Daniel Everett 1977 mit Frau und Kindern in den brasilianischen Urwald reiste, wollte er als Missionar den Stamm der Pirahã, der ohne Errungenschaften der modernen Zivilisation an einem Nebenfluss des Amazonas lebt, zum christlichen Glauben bekehren. Er begann die Sprache zu lernen und stellte schnell fest, dass sie allen Erwartungen zuwiderläuft. Die Pirahã kennen ... Meer lezen

    15,25 €

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    Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

    Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

    door Daniel L. Everett ...
    Verteld door Daniel Everett ...

    Niet ingekort

    10 uur 45 min

    Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977—with his wife and three young children—intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding: The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for color. They have no concept of war or of personal ... Meer lezen

    17,83 €

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    The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames

    A Memoir

    door Justine Cowan ...
    Verteld door Lisa Flanagan ...

    Niet ingekort

    8 uur 12 min

    A riveting family drama evocative of Angela’s Ashes and The Glass Castle**, about a woman who discovers the shocking secret at the center of her mother’s life.**Justine had always been told that her mother came from royal blood. The proof could be found in her mother’s elegance, her uppercrust London accent—and in a cryptic letter hinting at her claim to a country estate. But beneath the polished ... Meer lezen

    24,37 €

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    My Hijacking

    A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering

    door Martha Hodes ...
    Verteld door Laurel Lefkow ...

    Niet ingekort

    12 uur 54 min

    In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970.On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their ... Meer lezen

    28,61 €

  • The Things They Carried

    door Tim O'Brien ...
    A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking work of Vietnam War fiction and a meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.In this landmark collection of stories, The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry ... Meer lezen

    Was 9,99 € Nu 6,99 €

  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    door Junot Diaz ...
    #11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukú - the curse that has haunted his family for ... Meer lezen

    11,65 €

  • The Sixth Extinction

    An Unnatural History

    door Elizabeth Kolbert ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTThe 10th-anniversary edition of the instant classic, The Sixth Extinction, now with a new epilogue. Kolbert blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our ... Meer lezen

    9,64 €

  • Bad Feminist

    Essays

    door Roxane Gay ...
    “Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.” — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?A New York Times BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe • Newsweek • Time Out New York • Oprah.com • <... ... Meer lezen

    3,89 €