Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

Through the Language Glass

Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

By
Guy Deutscher
Guy Deutscher
2010 • 308 pages

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The World Turned Upside Down
The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy
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Language

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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
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Language

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Word Power Made Easy
The Best Punctuation Book, Period
Morphology of the Folktale
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
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Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
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Qatar Books

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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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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
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