Language Mcwhorter
BookTV: James McWhorter, “What Language Is (And What it Could Be)”
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language $5.86 There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular perception, language is not immutable and hidebound, but a… |
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Successful College Writing with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates $39.97 Successful College Writing with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates [Paperback]… |
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Reading Across the Disciplines (5th Edition) $49.00 Reading Across the Disciplines provides concise reading skill instruction complemented by discipline-specific reading strategies. These discipline-specific reading skills offer tips for reading and thinking within the popular disciplines, so students learn content as well as strategy…. |