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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
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- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
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- ISBN
- 9780060935726
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060935723
ISBN-13
9780060935726
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50351827
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
640 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Empires of the Word : a Language History of the World
Publication Year
2006
Subject
Asia / Far East, Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics, Linguistics / General, Linguistics / Etymology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Travel, Language Arts & Disciplines, Education
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
A story of dramatic reversals and puzzling paradoxes. A rich... text with many piercing observations and startling comparisons., Enlightening . . . Always challenging, always instructive--at times, even startling or revolutionary., Revolutionary... Executed with a giddying depth of scholarship, yet the detail is never too thick to swamp the general reader., [A] monumental new book... Ostler furnishes many fresh insights, useful historical anecdotes and charming linguistic oddities., Delicious! Ostler's book shows how certain lucky languages joined humankind in its spread across the world., [A] wide-ranging history of the world's languages... [Ostler] brilliantly raises questions and supplies answers or theories., Covers more rambunctious territory than any other single volume I'm aware of...A wonderful ear for the project's poetry., "[A] wide-ranging history of the world's languages... [Ostler] brilliantly raises questions and supplies answers or theories." -- Washington Post "Enlightening . . . Always challenging, always instructive--at times, even startling or revolutionary." -- Kirkus Reviews "Delicious! Ostler's book shows how certain lucky languages joined humankind in its spread across the world." -- John McWhorter "What an extraordinary odyssey the author of this superb work embarked upon." -- Literary Review "Covers more rambunctious territory than any other single volume I'm aware of...A wonderful ear for the project's poetry." -- John Leonard, Harper's Magazine "Revolutionary... Executed with a giddying depth of scholarship, yet the detail is never too thick to swamp the general reader." -- Boston magazine "True scholarship. A marvelous book, learned and instructive." -- National Review "[A] monumental new book... Ostler furnishes many fresh insights, useful historical anecdotes and charming linguistic oddities." -- Chicago Tribune "A work of immense erudition." -- Christian Science Monitor "A story of dramatic reversals and puzzling paradoxes. A rich... text with many piercing observations and startling comparisons." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
409
Synopsis
"Monumental . . . [Ostler's] massive overview of major languages in world history puts the current global spread of English in perspective."-- Chicago Tribune In this linguistic Thousand and One Nights , Nicholas Ostler creates the first history of the world's great languages, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the engaging self-regard of Greek and to the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe, these epic achievements and more are brilliantly explored, as are the fascinating failures of once "universal" languages. A splendid, authoritative, and remarkable work, it demonstrates how the language history of the world eloquently reveals the real character of our planet's diverse peoples and prepares us for a linguistic future full of surprises., "Monumental . . . [Ostler's] massive overview of major languages in world history puts the current global spread of English in perspective."--Chicago Tribune In this linguistic Thousand and One Nights, Nicholas Ostler creates the first history of the world's great languages,, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the engaging self-regard of Greek and to the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe, these epic achievements and more are brilliantly explored, as are the fascinating failures of once "universal" languages. A splendid, authoritative, and remarkable work, it demonstrates how the language history of the world eloquently reveals the real character of our planet's diverse peoples and prepares us for a linguistic future full of surprises., Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the engaging self-regard of Greek and to the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe, these epic achievements and more are brilliantly explored, as are the fascinating failures of once "universal" languages. A splendid, authoritative, and remarkable work, it demonstrates how the language history of the world eloquently reveals the real character of our planet's diverse peoples and prepares us for a linguistic future full of surprises., Noted linguist Nicholas Ostler brings together the tales of the world's languages in all their glorious variety in this unusual and authoritative "natural history of languages," offering a unique perspective on civilization through the ages. Maps. Charts.
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