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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Harpercollins
Publication date
September 28, 2010
Pages
800
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780062047359
ISBN-10
0062047353
Original list price
$16.99
Summaries and Reviews
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Hardcover
from Harpercollins (July 1, 2005)
9780066210865 | details & prices | 615 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 2.15 lbs | List price $29.95
About: An offbeat natural history of language takes readers from the educational and cultural innovators of Sumeria, to the resilience of Chinese, to the global spread of English, in a volume that offers linguistic perspectives on numerous past and present civilizations.
About: An offbeat natural history of language takes readers from the educational and cultural innovators of Sumeria, to the resilience of Chinese, to the global spread of English, in a volume that offers linguistic perspectives on numerous past and present civilizations.
from Harpercollins Pub Ltd (February 21, 2005)
9780007118700 | details & prices | 624 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.50 in. | 1.85 lbs | List price $64.25
About: An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another in the past, and what it is about -- say -- Greek, Sanskrit, Mandarin Chinese and English that has led to their supremacy at different times.
About: An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another in the past, and what it is about -- say -- Greek, Sanskrit, Mandarin Chinese and English that has led to their supremacy at different times.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Perennial (July 1, 2006)
9780060935726 | details & prices | 615 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $17.99
About: An offbeat natural history of language takes readers from the educational and cultural innovators of Sumeria, to the resilience of Chinese, to the global spread of English, in a volume that offers linguistic perspectives on numerous past and present civilizations.
About: An offbeat natural history of language takes readers from the educational and cultural innovators of Sumeria, to the resilience of Chinese, to the global spread of English, in a volume that offers linguistic perspectives on numerous past and present civilizations.
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from Harpercollins (September 28, 2010)
9780062047359 | details & prices | 800 pages | List price $16.99
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