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Face of North America the Natural History of a Continent

Science & Math

Farb, Peter

Nature & Ecology

Harpercollins Childrens Books

The publication of this book in 1968 marked the first comprehensive examination of the history and culture of native Americans. Today this work continues to stand as one of the major summaries of the indigenous societies of North America with its explication of such universal subjects as monotheism, war, capitalism, and sex.

Man's Rise to Civilization: The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of North America

History

Americas

Penguin??Books

Humankind

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Houghton/Mifflin

Man's Rise to Civilization, As Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

Avon/Books

The author views language as complex systems of grammar and human behavior and demonstrates the ways in which they interact through extensive examples

Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Random House, Inc.

Synthesizes the latest findings in the social sciences to provide a portrait of the evolution, biology, behavior, needs, adaptations, myths, and societies of man

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Surveys the prehistory, history, biology, languages, and cultures of the North American Indians, explaining the varying social, political, economic, and cultural behaviors of bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states

E.P.Dutton

E. F. Dutton

Anthropology

Bantam]

Why do certain words make us blush or wince? Why do men and women really speak different languages? Why do nursery rhymes in vastly different societies possess similar rhyme and rhythm patterns? What do slang, riddles and puns secretly have in common? This erudite yet irresistibly readable book examines the game of language: its players, strategies, and hidden rules. Drawing on the most fascinating linguistic studies—and touching on everything from the Marx Brothers to linguistic sexism, from the phenomenon of glossolalia to Apache names for automobile parts—Word Play shows what really happens when people talk, no matter what language they happen to be using.

Word play: What happens when people talk

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