The Language Hoax

The Language Hoax

By
John McWhorter
John McWhorter
2014 • 203 pages

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654 books

Nonfiction

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Sylvia Chi
On Human Nature
Breaking Open the Head
Pathologies of Power
Supercapitalism
The Nine
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press
The Climate War : True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth

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3 books

Language/Linguistics (Why is language so cool?)

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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
The Language Hoax

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113 books

Non Fiction

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Vitor
Melhor do Que Antes: O Que Aprendi Sobre Criar e Abandonar Hábitos
O Andar do Bêbado: Como o Acaso Determina Nossas Vidas
The Happiness Project
Cosmos
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Origins

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50 books

History

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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
In Search of the Dark Ages
Ancient Egypt
In Search of the Trojan War
Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History

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130 books

Non Fiction

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Ali Ismail
Incognito
Guns, Germs and Steel
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Blink
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

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41 books

Social Science

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Ali Ismail
Paranormality: Why We Believe The Impossible
What Technology Wants
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Who Moved My Cheese?
Blink
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

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58 books

Anthropology Civilization Societies

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Ali Ismail
Before the Dawn
Collapse
Lucy
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures
Masters of the planet seeking the origins of human singularity
Cro-Magnon : how the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans

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7 books

Qatar Books

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Ali Ismail
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Suicide: A Study in Sociology
The Language Hoax
The hero with a thousand faces
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The Savage Mind

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13 books

Linguistics

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The Architecture of Language
Empires of the Word
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
The Power of Babel

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7 books

Linguistics

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Language A to Z
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
The Study of Language
An introduction to language
The Language Hoax
Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage

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17,843 books

My Library

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Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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161 books

Linguistics

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How Dead Languages Work
Forbidden Words
Grammar and Gender
Language Myths
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States