ISBN: 9781911214199 - kingdom of speech: tom wolfe (10 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 'A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style Wolfes great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again.' - Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in our Kingdom of Speech. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

Condizione: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, with the full number-string sequence including the no. "1": 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £14.99. The dustwrapper has no discernible faults. No creases, chips or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***185 pages. 222mm x 142mm. ***'Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 - May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centres on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City. Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, achieving national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (an account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays, "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" and "Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers". In 1979, he published the influential book "The Right Stuff" about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman. His first novel, "The Bonfire of the Vanities", published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and also became a commercial success. ***"The Kingdom of Speech" is a critique of Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky. In the book, Wolfe criticises Darwin and his colleagues for taking partial credit from Alfred Wallace for the theory of evolution and ignoring Wallace's later work on the theory. Wolfe then criticises Noam Chomsky for dismissing Daniel Everett, who disputes Chomsky's claim that all languages are based ultimately on a hard-wired mechanism known as the language acquisition device (LAD). Wolfe argues that speech, not evolution, sets humans apart from animals and is responsible for all of humanity's complex achievements.' (Wiki) ***First impression of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper in near fine, bright, collectable condition. An uncommon title. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. Hardcover/dust jacket Octavo. blue cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 185 pp first edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minimal wear to jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.