Автор: Beard Название: Dick Cheney Code ISBN: 0743270029 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780743270021 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 1723.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Vice president Dick Cheney is at the receiving end of Beard`s barbs in this hilarious send-up of Dan Brown`s bestseller.
Автор: Seyfarth Robert M., Cheney Dorothy L. Название: The Social Origins of Language ISBN: 0691177236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691177236 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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How human language evolved from the need for social communication
The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language--in its modern form--remains as elusive as ever. The Social Origins of Language provides a novel perspective on this question and charts a new path toward its resolution.
In the lead essay, Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney draw on their decades-long pioneering research on monkeys and baboons in the wild to show how primates use vocalizations to modulate social dynamics. They argue that key elements of human language emerged from the need to decipher and encode complex social interactions. In other words, social communication is the biological foundation upon which evolution built more complex language.
Seyfarth and Cheney's argument serves as a jumping-off point for responses by John McWhorter, Ljiljana Progovac, Jennifer E. Arnold, Christopher I. Petkov and Benjamin Wilson, and Peter Godfrey-Smith, each of whom draw on their respective expertise in linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Michael Platt provides an introduction, Seyfarth and Cheney a concluding essay. Ultimately, The Social Origins of Language offers thought-provoking viewpoints on how human language evolved.
Автор: Cheney, Lynne Название: The Virginia Dynasty ISBN: 1101980052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781101980057 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1839.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: "The narrative offers informed, exacting characterizations of the uncertain political alliances, strained interactions and ideological growing pains that elites of the post-revolutionary decades put the country through."--Andrew Burstein, The Washington Post A vivid account of leadership focusing on the first four Virginia presidents--George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe--from the bestselling historian and author of James Madison. From a small expanse of land on the North American continent came four of the nation's first five presidents--a geographic dynasty whose members led a revolution, created a nation, and ultimately changed the world. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe were born, grew to manhood, and made their homes within a sixty-mile circle east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Friends and rivals, they led in securing independence, hammering out the United States Constitution, and building a working republic. Acting together, they doubled the territory of the United States. From their disputes came American political parties and the weaponizing of newspapers, the media of the day. In this elegantly conceived and insightful new book from bestselling author Lynne Cheney, the four Virginians are not marble icons but vital figures deeply intent on building a nation where citizens could be free. Focusing on the intersecting roles these men played as warriors, intellectuals, and statesmen, Cheney takes us back to an exhilarating time when the Enlightenment opened new vistas for humankind. But even as the Virginians advanced liberty, equality, and human possibility, they held people in slavery and were slaveholders when they died. Lives built on slavery were incompatible with a free and just society; their actions contradicted the very ideals they espoused. They managed nonetheless to pass down those ideals, and they became powerful weapons for ending slavery. They inspired Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass and today undergird the freest nation on earth. Taking full measure of strengths and failures in the personal as well as the political lives of the men at the center of this book, Cheney offers a concise and original exploration of how the United States came to be.
Автор: Cheney Glenn Alan Название: Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims` First Year in America ISBN: 0979803918 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780979803918 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2750.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Cheney Jim Название: Waterfalls of Pennsylvania ISBN: 1591939119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781591939115 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2338.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This comprehensive guidebook profiles more than 180 waterfalls in Pennsylvania, all scouted by award-winning photographer Jim Cheney.
Автор: LaChapelle Cheney Название: The Heartbroken Warrior the Survivor ISBN: 0228818877 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780228818878 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3276.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A young girl who manages to make it through a severely troubled childhood to adulthood even though there were times it seemed hopeless, the hurt, struggles, pain, and heartbreak, along with some good times.
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