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  • Why Q Needs U

    A history of our letters and how we use them

    de Danny Bate ...
    'A breathtaking adventure through the alphabet... An absolutely delightful read, filled with jewels of lightly worn scholarship and dazzling insight. I just couldn't recommend it more highly.' Stephen Fry'An excellent read.' Susie Dent'You'll never look at a keyboard the same way after reading Danny Bate's fascinating linguistic history.' Sunday TimesWhy does 'W' sounds like 'doubl... ... Leer más

    $137 MXN

  • No If And Or But

    de Danny Bate ...
    How much do we really know about the little words we use every day?In No If And Or But, Danny Bate - writer, linguist and author of Why Q Needs U - reveals the astonishing etymologies of the most common words in the English language. From AND to OR, WHY to WILL, Danny turns the spotlight on our language's hardest-working words to uncover where they came from - and what they can tell us about who ... Leer más

    $312 MXN

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    Why Q Needs U

    A history of our letters and how we use them

    de Danny Bate ...
    Narrado por Danny Bate ...

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    10 hora 14 minutos

    'A breathtaking adventure through the alphabet... An absolutely delightful read, filled with jewels of lightly worn scholarship and dazzling insight. I just couldn't recommend it more highly.' Stephen Fry'An excellent read.' Susie Dent'You'll never look at a keyboard the same way after reading Danny Bate's fascinating linguistic history.' Sunday TimesWhy does 'W' sounds like 'doubl... ... Leer más

    $1,208 MXN

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    Why We Talk Funny

    The Real Story Behind Our Accents

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    7 hora 31 minutos

    A fun, smart and surprising dive into the past, present and future of accents – and the enduring power of sounding differentAccents have long held our fascination. As far back as the 7th century BCE, Egyptian pharaohs experimented with babies to test out theories about the “original” accent and the Old Testament relays how a small difference in the pronunciation of “s” became a fatal litmus test ... Leer más

    $346 MXN

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    Those Who Are About to Die

    A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator

    Narrado por Justin Avoth ...

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    10 hora 58 minutos

    **ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • See ancient Rome through the eyes of a gladiator—from the evening before the games at the Colosseum to the evening after"A grippingly original way of making the alien world of the Roman Amphitheatre both accessible and comprehensible." —Tom Holland, co-host of The Rest is History**What did a gladiator feel when he stepped out onto the sand of the ... Leer más

    $398 MXN

  • The Unfolding Of Language

    de Guy Deutscher ...
    'Language is mankind's greatest invention - except of course, that it was never invented.' So begins Guy Deutscher's fascinating investigation into the evolution of language. No one believes that the Roman Senate sat down one day to design the complex system that is Latin grammar, and few believe, these days, in the literal truth of the story of the Tower of Babel. But then how did there come to ... Leer más

    $217 MXN

  • Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

    The Untold History of English

    A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammarWhy do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Language distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one ... Leer más

    $164 MXN

  • Spell It Out

    The singular story of English spelling

    de David Crystal ...
    Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their foreign ears, and it stuck. Seventy-five per cent of English spelling is regular but twenty-five per cent is complicated, and in Spell It Out our ... Leer más

    $184 MXN

  • Enlightening Symbols

    A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers

    de Joseph Mazur ...
    "[A] fascinating narrative. . . . This is a nuanced, intelligently framed chronicle . . . In a word: enlightening." —George Szpiro, NatureWhile all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how did ... Leer más

    $226 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Hume: Philosophy in an Hour

    Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Hume in just one hour.Hume reduced philosophy to ruins, denying the existence of everything except our actual perceptions themselves. The world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the status of our knowledge about the world – a world in ... Leer más

    $43 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The History of Mathematics

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Mathematics is a fundamental human activity that can be practised and understood in a multitude of ways; indeed, mathematical ideas themselves are far from being fixed, but are adapted and changed by their passage across periods and cultures. In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to ... Leer más

    $138 MXN

  • Alphabetical

    How Every Letter Tells a Story

    de Michael Rosen ...
    From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters for ever.How on Earth did we fix upon our twenty-six letters, what do they really mean, and how did we come to write ... Leer más

    $255 MXN