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A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.

This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sen

Explores the symbiosis of philosophy and literature in understanding negativity.

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