丹尼尔•L. 埃弗里特（Daniel L. Everett） 传奇式的语言学家和人类学家。埃弗里特出生于美国和墨西哥边境多语言混杂的环境中，早年就学于神学院，毕业后被派往巴西研究当地部落民的语言以便向其传教。埃弗里特在这里展现出了强大的语言天赋，很快学会了当地人的语言并痴迷于此，他在亚马孙丛林中的皮拉罕人部落中生活二十余年，取得了一系列重要的研究成果，在皮拉罕人思维方式的影响下，他逐渐放弃信仰成为一个无神论者。 埃弗里特曾在坎皮纳斯大学、匹兹堡大学、曼彻斯特大学和伊利诺伊州立大学担任语言学和人类学方面的职务，现为本特利大学认知科学受托教授（Trustee Professor），著有《语言：文化工具》《别睡，这里有蛇》《语言学的野外考察》《心灵的暗物质》《语言的诞生》等。

A revolutionary account of the origins of language from one of the world's best known and most influential linguists In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? What is it? And what is it for? Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that language originated...(展开全部)

A revolutionary account of the origins of language from one of the world's best known and most influential linguists In his groundbreaking new book Daniel Everett seeks answers to questions that have perplexed thinkers from Plato to Chomsky: when and how did language begin? What is it? And what is it for? Daniel Everett confounds the conventional wisdom that language originated...(展开全部)

Language is mankind's greatest invention-except, of course, that it was never invented." So begins linguist Guy Deutscher's enthralling investigation into the genesis and evolution of language. If we started off with rudimentary utterances on the level of "man throw spear," how did we end up with sophisticated grammars, enormous vocabularies, and intricately nuanced degrees of ...(展开全部)

Language is mankind's greatest invention-except, of course, that it was never invented." So begins linguist Guy Deutscher's enthralling investigation into the genesis and evolution of language. If we started off with rudimentary utterances on the level of "man throw spear," how did we end up with sophisticated grammars, enormous vocabularies, and intricately nuanced degrees of ...(展开全部)

The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculture alism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is also a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has shaped the study of religion and infiltrated ordinary language. In this ambitious study, Tomoko Masuzawa examines the emergence of "worl...(展开全部)

The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculture alism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is also a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has shaped the study of religion and infiltrated ordinary language. In this ambitious study, Tomoko Masuzawa examines the emergence of "worl...(展开全部)

A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world—from the democratic revolution that mark...(展开全部)

A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world—from the democratic revolution that mark...(展开全部)

'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplici...(展开全部)