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America's liaison to China
Mack burns with an insatiable desire to escape
See how the history of the Christian church unfolded from its first century roots through the medieval period
Inspector C
after a tragic accident separated them
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language Allied Health Services America's liaison to ChinaThere are approximately 6000 languages on earth today, the descendants of the tongue first spoken by homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. How did they all develop? What happened to the first language? In this irreverent romp through territory too often claimed by stodgy grammarians, McWhorter ranges across linguistic theory, geography, history, and pop culture to tell the fascinating story of how thousands of very different languages have evolved from