Product Description: It first surfaced in the gripes of GIs during World War II and was captured early on by the typewriter of a young Norman Mailer. Within a generation it had become a basic notion of our everyday moral life, replacing older reproaches like lout and heel with a single inclusive category––a staple of country outlaw songs, Neil Simon plays, and Woody Allen movies...read more

Product Description: "Going Nucular," the title piece, is more than a bit of fun at the President's expense. Nunberg's analysis is as succinct a summary of the questions that hover over the administration's strategy as any political insider's. It exemplifies the message of the book: that in the smallest ticks and cues of language the most important issue and thoughts of our times can be heard and understood...read more

Product Description: Geoffrey Nunberg breaks new ground with this fierce and funny narrative of how the political right has ushered in a new world order, aided unwittingly by the liberal media. Democrats are well known for their "lousy bumper stickers," as Joe Klein puts it...read more

Presents a collection of essays that describe the values and attitudes of Americans that are reflected through the use of language.

An entertaining assortment of NPR broadcasts and articles by a noted linguist explores the mysteries of modern-day culture as revealed by the words, phrases, metaphors, and grammar used. Simultaneous. (view table of contents)

Product Description: ¿Tiene futuro el libro? Gran parte de los debates actuales sobre esta cuestión predicen que los libros impresos, las bibliotecas de ladrillo y cemento, las librerías y las editoriales tradicionales pronto se verán sustituidos por instituciones y documentos electrónicos...read more

Product Description: The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence of a more equitable discursive order...read more