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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Guy Deutscher
4.22 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Laura Spinney
4.14 average rating, · 4k ratings
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
David W. Anthony
4.00 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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The Story of Human Language
John McWhorter
4.40 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Nicholas Ostler
4.06 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
Arika Okrent
4.10 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
Walter J. Ong
4.15 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
Keith H. Basso
4.19 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
Don Kulick
4.18 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes
Paul Watzlawick
4.21 average rating, · 951 ratings
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Breaking the Maya Code
Michael D. Coe
4.01 average rating, · 792 ratings
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Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
Robin I.M. Dunbar
4.17 average rating, · 694 ratings
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Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
Peggy Mohan
4.20 average rating, · 644 ratings
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