The Language Instinct
The Language Instinct

Author: Steven Pinker

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-12-14

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 0062032526

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"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.

History of the Persian Empire
History of the Persian Empire

Author: A. T. Olmstead

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2022-08-29

Total Pages: 671

ISBN-13: 0226826333

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Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."—M. Rostovtzeff

Multimedia
Multimedia

Author: Tay Vaughan

Publisher: Osborne Publishing

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 9780078822254

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Thoroughly updated for newnbsp;breakthroughs in multimedia nbsp; The internationally bestselling Multimedia: Making it Work has been fully revised and expanded to cover the latest technological advances in multimedia. You will learn to plan and manage multimedia projects, from dynamic CD-ROMs and DVDs to professional websites. Each chapter includes step-by-step instructions, full-color illustrations and screenshots, self-quizzes, and hands-on projects. nbsp;

Predictably Irrational
Predictably Irrational

Author: Dan Ariely

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2008-02

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 006135323X

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Intelligent, lively, humorous, and thoroughly engaging, "The Predictably Irrational" explains why people often make bad decisions and what can be done about it.

The Annotated Alice
The Annotated Alice

Author: Lewis Carroll

Publisher: Wings

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780517189207

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A fully annotated and illustrated version of both ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS that contains all of the original John Tenniel illustrations. From "down the rabbit hole" to the Jabberwocky, from the Looking-Glass House to the Lion and the Unicorn, discover the secret meanings hidden in Lewis Carroll's classics. (Orig. $29.95)

The Cambridge History of Medicine
The Cambridge History of Medicine

Author: Roy Porter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-06-05

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 0521864267

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Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.

Operational Culture for the Warfighter
Operational Culture for the Warfighter

Author: Barak A. Salmoni

Publisher: Marine Corps

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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"This textbook is designed to help Marines link concepts of culture to the realities of planning and executing military operations around the world." -- p. 2.

Aeneid
Aeneid

Author: Virgil

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0486113973

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Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.