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9781462895458 | Xlibris Corp, August 23, 2011, cover price $29.99
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9781462895441 | Xlibris Corp, August 23, 2011, cover price $19.99
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9780520066786 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $85.00
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9780803224377 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, July 1, 2010, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the rural Midwest during the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, two fourteen-year-old boys join an archaeological dig and unearth the story of the Great Plains peoples, from the Ice Age hunters through the final days of the Indian Wars.
Product Description: Born near the beginning of World War II, Li Na was the youngest son of a wealthy Chinese government official. He saw his father jailed for treason and his family's fortunes dashed when Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists came to power in 1945...read more
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9780061346644 | Harpercollins, February 1, 2008, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The author documents his childhood in post-World War II China as the son of a wealthy government official, the crippling dissolution of his family's wealth when the Nationalists came to power, and his efforts to become an independent Chinese American.
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9780061709548 | Reprint edition (Perennial, March 1, 2009), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Born near the beginning of World War II, Li Na was the youngest son of a wealthy Chinese government official.
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9788478844050 | Poular Editorial, June 30, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: LINGÃISTICA-TRADUCCION-INTERPRETACION
9781861892690 | Reaktion Books, June 1, 2006, cover price $16.95
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9781570036286 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, November 30, 2007, cover price $49.95
Product Description: Edward Sapir (1884â1939) was one of the foremost linguists and anthropologists of his time. He is most widely known for his contributions to the study of North American Indian languages. A founder of ethnology, which considers the relationship of culture to language, he was also principal developer of the American (descriptive) school of structural linguistics...read more
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9780415255073 | Routledge, October 16, 2007, cover price $970.00 | About this edition: Edward Sapir (1884â1939) was one of the foremost linguists and anthropologists of his time.
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9780786404988 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 1, 1999, cover price $29.95
Product Description: This sequel to the First Person Singular volumes published in 1980 and 1991, respectively (SiHoLS 21 and 61) presents autobiographical accounts by major North American linguists. This material provides an important primary source for the history and development of the discipline during the 20th century...read more
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9789027245762 | John Benjamins Pub Co, December 15, 1998, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: This sequel to the First Person Singular volumes published in 1980 and 1991, respectively (SiHoLS 21 and 61) presents autobiographical accounts by major North American linguists.
9781556196324 | John Benjamins Pub Co, December 1, 1998, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: This sequel to the First Person Singular volumes published in 1980 and 1991, respectively (SiHoLS 21 and 61) presents autobiographical accounts by major North American linguists.
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9780262024181 | Mit Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: Traces the intellectual and political milieus that shaped the famous thinker's views and examines the foundations of Chomsky's ideas on liguistics, politics, and philosophy
9781550222821 | E C W Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: This biography tells the story of how the great intellect of Noam Chomsky was shaped.
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9780262522557 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, July 10, 1998), cover price $22.95
This biography tells the story of how one person completely reversed the reigning critical assessment of sign by providing that it was a true language with a full complement of linguistic components, thereby, revolutionizing the governing theories of all language research. William C. Stokoe's achievement was not easy, however, and he did not succeed overnight. Without a specific linguistics background, his observations were met with amusement in some quarters and outright scorn in others by hearing and deaf authorities alike. Stokoe's total commitment without self-agrandizement, however enabled him to persevere through the years. The book describes his efforts, and shows how he launched new thought on linguistics in general, and also instilled pride in deaf people in the USA in their newly recognized native American Sign Language.
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9781563680533 | Gallaudet Univ Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $34.50 | About this edition: This biography tells the story of how one person completely reversed the reigning critical assessment of sign by providing that it was a true language with a full complement of linguistic components, thereby, revolutionizing the governing theories of all language research.
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9781563684708 | Reprint edition (Gallaudet Univ Pr, April 6, 2010), cover price $34.50
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9780944190111 | Balch Inst for Ethnic Studies, June 1, 1993, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: This work depicts the life and times of nineteenth-century Czech-America's most important political and cultural leader -- Charles Jonas.
Product Description: This sequel to First Person Singular (1980) presents autobiographical sketches of 15 eminent scholars in the language sciences. These personal reminiscences on their careers in linguistics reflect developments in the field over the past decades and shed light on the role each of them played and the influences they underwent...read more
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9781556193569 | John Benjamins Pub Co, June 1, 1991, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: This sequel to First Person Singular (1980) presents autobiographical sketches of 15 eminent scholars in the language sciences.
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9781556193507 | John Benjamins Pub Co, January 1, 1990, cover price $158.00
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9789027245304 | John Benjamins Pub Co, July 1, 1987, cover price $158.00
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884â1939), this volume brings together a number of papers by distinguished North American scholars appraising the life and work of the world-renowned anthropologist and linguist. It includes an introduction by the editor, a full bibliography of Sapir's scientific writings, a detailed index of names, and many photographs and fac similes. Among the contributors are: Ruth Benedict, Leonard Bloomfield, Franz Boas, Joseph Greenberg, Mary Haas, Zellig Harris, A.L. Kroeber, Robert H. Lowie, David Mandelbaum, Morris Swadesh, and C.F. Voegelin.
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9789027245182 | John Benjamins Pub Co, February 1, 1985, cover price $165.00
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9789027245199, titled "Edward Sapir: Appraisals of His Life and Work" | John Benjamins Pub Co, December 1, 1984, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Sapir (1884â1939), this volume brings together a number of papers by distinguished North American scholars appraising the life and work of the world-renowned anthropologist and linguist.
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9780140043709 | Revised edition (Penguin USA, July 1, 1978), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Presents a critical digest of Chomsky's linguistic theories and interprets their impact on other related fields
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