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Product Description: These poems are, as the title suggests, all about either death or love, except for those that are about both death and love. Written over several decades, they record shifting attitudes to both, as well as a deepening concern with what will happen when death parts those who love...read more

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9781503274365 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 30, 2014, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: These poems are, as the title suggests, all about either death or love, except for those that are about both death and love.

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Hardcover:

9780809022816 | 1 edition (Hill & Wang Pub, March 17, 2009), cover price $27.50

Paperback:

9780809016471 | Hill & Wang Pub, March 2, 2010, cover price $16.00

Miscellaneous:

9781429930291 | 1 edition (Hill & Wang Pub, March 17, 2009), cover price $9.99

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Product Description: This lavishly illustrated career survey of the work of Ashley Bickerton provides unprecedented insight into the artist's life and art. As one of the loose collection of New York artists, including Haim Steinbach and Jeff Koons, whose work inspired the appellation "Neo-Geo," Bickerton first rose to prominence in New York in the mid-1980s with vibrant abstract works infused with a sardonic critique of consumer culture...read more

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9781906967383 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, May 1, 2011, cover price $375.00 | About this edition: This lavishly illustrated career survey of the work of Ashley Bickerton provides unprecedented insight into the artist's life and art.

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Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures? Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human--what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to generation, even where historical accidents have made normal transmission almost impossible. The story focuses on languages so low in the pecking order that many people don't regard them as languages at all--Creole languages spoken by descendants of slaves and indentured laborers in plantation colonies all over the world. The story is told by Derek Bickerton, who has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another. A published novelist, Bickerton (once described as "part scholar, part swashbuckling man of action") does not present his findings in the usual dry academic manner. Instead, you become a companion on his journey of discovery. You learn things as he learned them, share his disappointments and triumphs, explore the exotic locales where he worked, and meet the colorful characters he encountered along the way. The result is a unique blend of memoir, travelogue, history, and linguistics primer, appealing to anyone who has ever wondered how languages grow or what it's like to search the world for new knowledge.

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9780809028177 | Hill & Wang Pub, March 4, 2008, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures?

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9780809028160 | 1 edition (Hill & Wang Pub, March 17, 2009), cover price $16.00

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Product Description: In this volume the author describes and systematically accounts for language variation in a Creole-speaking community and assesses the implications the study has on generally accepted notions of the nature of language. Based on an extensive study of Guyana, South America, the volume analyses the bewildering diversity found in the syntax and underlying semantics of tense and aspect of the language of that country and shows that data which at first sight appear merely chaotic in fact represent different developmental stages of the language existing side by side in the contemporary community...read more

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9780521205146 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1975, cover price $39.50 | also contains How to Draw Action Manga | About this edition: In this volume the author describes and systematically accounts for language variation in a Creole-speaking community and assesses the implications the study has on generally accepted notions of the nature of language.

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9780521110150 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2009), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: In this volume the author describes and systematically accounts for language variation in a Creole-speaking community and assesses the implications the study has on generally accepted notions of the nature of language.

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Product Description: Somewhere and somehow, in the 5 to 7 million years since the last common ancestors of humans and the great apes, our ancestors “got” language. The authors of this volume all agree that there was no single mutation or cultural innovation that took our ancestors directly from a limited system of a few vocalizations (primarily innate) and gestures (some learned) to language...read more
By Michael A. Arbib (editor) and Derek Bickerton (editor)

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9789027222541 | John Benjamins Pub Co, September 3, 2010, cover price $128.00 | About this edition: Somewhere and somehow, in the 5 to 7 million years since the last common ancestors of humans and the great apes, our ancestors “got” language.

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Product Description: With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out among Creole languages. Yet despite its obvious interest Saramaccan received little in the way of scholarly study...read more
By Derek Bickerton (foreword by)

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9789027252234 | John Benjamins Pub Co, January 1, 1987, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out among Creole languages.

Product Description: Exceptionally clear and accessible, Pat McKeague's best-selling texts offer all the review, drill, and practice students need to develop solid mathematical proficiency and confidence. McKeague's attention to detail, exceptional writing style, and organization of mathematical concepts make teaching enjoyable and learning accessible...read more

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9780030168383, titled "Intermediate Algebra" | 5th edition (Harcourt College Pub, September 1, 1999), cover price $112.95 | also contains Intermediate Algebra | About this edition: Exceptionally clear and accessible, Pat McKeague's best-selling texts offer all the review, drill, and practice students need to develop solid mathematical proficiency and confidence.
9780295974576 | Univ of Washington Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $35.00

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9780295974583 | Reprint edition (Univ of Washington Pr, July 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: “What this book proposes to do,” writes Derek Bickerton, “is to stand the conventional wisdom of the behavioral sciences on its head: instead of the human species growing clever enough to invent language, it will view that species as blundering into language and, as a direct result of that, becoming clever.

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9780226046105 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $36.00

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9780226046112, titled "Language & Species" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 1992), cover price $30.00

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Product Description: A machine for language? Certainly, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the language specializations of the human brain and trying to identify their evolutionary antecedents. Linguists such as Noam Chomsky talk about machinelike "modules" in the brain for syntax, arguing that language is more an instinct (a complex behavior triggered by simple environmental stimuli) than an acquired skill like riding a bicycle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780262032735 | Bradford Books, February 4, 2000, cover price $12.75

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9780262531986 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, October 1, 2001), cover price $5.75 | About this edition: A machine for language?

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Product Description: Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor).It was the first work to systematically develop a theory first suggested by Coelho in the late nineteenth century: that the creation of creole languages somehow reflected universal properties of language...read more

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9781523647156 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 2, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor).
9780897200738 | Karoma Pub, April 1, 1985, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor).

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