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The Kingdom of Speech by Wolfe, Tom
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- Book Title
- The Kingdom of Speech
- ISBN
- 9780316404624
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316404624
ISBN-13
9780316404624
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219322905
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Kingdom of Speech
Publication Year
2016
Subject
Life Sciences / Evolution, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Anthropology / General, Expeditions & Discoveries, Linguistics / General, Sociology / Social Theory
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
11.1 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-942707
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"In this mettlesome, slyly funny takedown, Wolfe spotlights two key scientific rivalries, each pitting a scrappy outsider against the academy....Wolfe's pithy and stirring play-by-play coverage of compelling lives and demanding science transforms our perception of speech....As always, white-suited Wolfe will be all over the media...stirring things up and sending readers to the shelves."-- Donna Seaman, Booklist
Dewey Decimal
401.9
Synopsis
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. "A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution." (Dwight Garner, New York Times ) Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech., The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech -- not evolution -- is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.
LC Classification Number
P35.W65 2016
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