Caleb Everett

'Numbers and the Making of Us'

Bog | Engelsk

A fascinating book. James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review A Smithsonian Best Science Book of the Year Winner of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Language & Linguistics Carved into our past and woven into our present, numbers shape our perceptions of t

'A Myriad of Tongues'

Bog | Engelsk

"An assured guide" (New Scientist) to the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells. We tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects simil