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Don Kulick went to Papua New Guinea to understand why a language was dying. But that was just the beginning of what he learned. Renowned linguistic anthropologi
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Twenty-five languages die each year; at this pace, half the world’s five thousand languages will disappear within the next century. In this timely book, Claud
The Law of Life and Death
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Are you alive? What makes you so sure? Most people believe this question has a clear answer—that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purpos
The Language of God
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Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of