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Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

By: David Shariatmadari

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Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

By: David Shariatmadari

A linguist’s entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function. Think you know language? Think again. There are languages that change when your mother-in-law is present. The language you speak could make you more prone to accidents. Swear words are produced in a special part of your brain. Over the past few decades, we have reached new frontiers of linguistic knowledge. Linguists can now explain how and why language changes, describe its structures, and map its activity in the brain. But despite these advances, much of what people believe about language is based on folklore, instinct, or hearsay. We imagine a word’s origin is it’s “true” meaning, that foreign languages are full of “untranslatable” words, or that grammatical mistakes undermine English. In Don’t Believe A Word, linguist David Shariatmadari takes us on a mind-boggling journey through the science of language, urging us to abandon our prejudices in a bid to uncover the (far more interesting) truth about what we do with words. Exploding nine widely held myths about language while introducing us to some of the fundamental insights of modern linguistics, Shariatmadari is an energetic guide to the beauty and quirkiness of humanity’s greatest achievement.

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Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

By: David Shariatmadari

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Global Century Series One World Divisible

A Global History Since 1945

By: David Reynolds

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Global Century Series One World Divisible

A Global History Since 1945

By: David Reynolds

A magisterial account of our time by a distinguished historian".--Walter LaFeber, author of "The Clash". This brilliant history vividly captures the great political events of the past 50 years while carefully avoiding an encyclopedia approach. of illustrations.

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0393321088

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One World Divisible

A Global History Since 1945

By: David Reynolds

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One World Divisible

A Global History Since 1945

By: David Reynolds

A new volume in the Global Century series, this masterful history of the world in our time captures the ground-level drama of events and the larger contours of change during a period of global transformation.

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932

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0393048217

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9780393048216

Confront and Conceal

Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power

By: David E. Sanger

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Confront and Conceal

Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power

By: David E. Sanger

This astonishingly revealing insider's account of the Obama administration's foreign policy process is a triumph." —Foreign Affairs President Obama's administration came to office with the world on fire. Confront and Conceal is the story of how, in his first term, Obama secretly used the most innovative weapons and tools of American power, including our most sophisticated—and still unacknowledged—arsenal of cyberweapons, aimed at Iran's nuclear program. Washington and the world were rocked by Confront and Conceal, which goes deep into the Situation Room as Obama questions whether this new weapon can slow Iran and avoid a war—or whether it will create blowback, as the Iranians and others retaliate with cyberattacks on the United States. It describes how the bin Laden raid worsened the dysfunctional relationship with Pakistan, and how Obama's early idealism about fighting a "war of necessity" in Afghanistan quickly turned to fatigue, frustration, and now withdrawal. As the world seeks to understand how Obama will cope with nationalistic leaders in Beijing, a North Korea bent on developing a nuclear weapon that can reach American shores, and an Arab world where promising revolutions turned to chaos, Confront and Conceal—with an updated epilogue for this paperback edition—provides an unflinching account of these complex years of presidential struggle, in which America's ability to exert control grows ever more elusive.

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Crown

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0307718034

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9780307718037

Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads

An Exploration of Iranian Leadership Dynamics

By: David E. Thaler,Alireza Nader,Shahram Chubin,Jerrold D. Green,Charlotte Lynch

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Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads

An Exploration of Iranian Leadership Dynamics

By: David E. Thaler,Alireza Nader,Shahram Chubin,Jerrold D. Green,Charlotte Lynch

The U.S. ability to "read" the Iranian regime and formulate appropriate policies has been weakened by lack of access to the country and by the opacity of decisionmaking in Tehran. To improve understanding of Iran's political system, the authors describe Iranian strategic culture; investigate Iran's informal networks, formal government institutions, and personalities; assess the impact of elite behavior on Iranian policy; and summarize key trends.

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Rand Corporation

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0833049305

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Democracy and the Nature of American Influence in Iran, 1941-1979

By: David R. Collier

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Democracy and the Nature of American Influence in Iran, 1941-1979

By: David R. Collier

Collier presents a timely and fresh reexamination of one of the most important bilateral relationships of the last century. He delves deeply into the American desire to promote democracy in Iran from the 1940s through the early 1960s and examines the myriad factors that contributed to their success in exerting a powerful influence on Iranian politics. By creating a framework to understand the efficacy of external pressure, Collier explains how the United States later relinquished this control during the 1960s and 1970s. During this time, the shah emerged as a dominant and effective political operator who took advantage of waning American influence to assert his authority. Collier reveals how this shifting power dynamic transformed the former client-patron relationship into one approaching equality.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815653972

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9780815653974

Carbon Sequestration for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

By: David A. N. Ussiri,Rattan Lal

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Carbon Sequestration for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

By: David A. N. Ussiri,Rattan Lal

This book provides an understanding of the role of human activities in accelerating change in global carbon cycling summarizes current knowledge of the contemporary carbon budget. Starting from the geological history, this volume follows a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the role of human activities in perturbing carbon cycling by quantifying changes in different reservoirs and fluxes of carbon with emphasis on the anthropogenic activities, especially after the industrial revolution. It covers the role of different mitigation options – natural ecological, engineered, and geoengineered processes as well as the emerging field of climate engineering in avoiding dangerous abrupt climate change. Although the targeted audience is the educators, students, researchers and scientific community, the simplified analysis and synthesis of current and up to date scientific literature makes the volume easier to understand and a tool policy makers can use to make an informed policy decisions.

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Springer

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3319538454

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The Nature of Nutrition

A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity

By: Stephen J. Simpson,David Raubenheimer

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The Nature of Nutrition

A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity

By: Stephen J. Simpson,David Raubenheimer

Nutrition has long been considered more the domain of medicine and agriculture than of the biological sciences, yet it touches and shapes all aspects of the natural world. The need for nutrients determines whether wild animals thrive, how populations evolve and decline, and how ecological communities are structured. 'The Nature of Nutrition' addresses nutrition's enormously complex role in biology, both at the level of individual organisms and in their broader ecological interactions.

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Princeton University Press

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0691145652

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A History of the World's Religions

By: David S. Noss,Blake R. Grangaard

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A History of the World's Religions

By: David S. Noss,Blake R. Grangaard

A History of the World's Religions bridges the interval between the founding of religions and their present state, and gives students an accurate look at the religions of the world by including descriptive and interpretive details from original source materials. Refined by over forty years of dialogue and correspondence with religious experts and practitioners around the world, A History of the World's Religions is widely regarded as the hallmark of scholarship, fairness, and accuracy in its field. It is also the most thorough yet manageable history of world religion available in a single volume. A History of the World’s Religions examines the following topics: Some Primal and Bygone Religions The Religions of South Asia The Religions of East Asia The Religions of the Middle East This fourteenth edition is fully updated throughout with new images and inset text boxes to help guide students and instructors. Complete with figures, timelines and maps, this is an ideal resource for anyone wanting an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the world’s religions.

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Routledge

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1351578421

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9781351578424

The Laws of Connection

The Scientific Secrets of Building a Strong Social Network

By: David Robson

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The Laws of Connection

The Scientific Secrets of Building a Strong Social Network

By: David Robson

This groundbreaking study reveals how social connections are far more important than we thought, showing us the steps we can take to build better relationships and improve our lives. Social connection is as essential for our health and happiness as a balanced diet and regular exercise. It reduces our risk of stroke, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s. It enhances our creativity and adds years to our life span. Yet many of us struggle to form strong and meaningful bonds—and the problem lies not with our personalities but with a series of cognitive biases that stop us from fulfilling our social potential. In The Laws of Connection, award-winning science writer David Robson describes the psychological barriers that lead us to keep others at a distance and offers evidence-based strategies to overcome them. Drawing on philosophy, neuroscience, and cutting-edge psychology, Robson introduces readers to new concepts such as the liking gap, the novelty penalty, the fast-friendship procedure, the beautiful mess effect, and the Japanese art of amae. Whether we are shy or confident, introvert or extrovert, we can all build deeper relationships. The Laws of Connection shows us how.

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Simon and Schuster

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1639366490

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Mighty Mahonri

By: David W. Read

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Mighty Mahonri

By: David W. Read

Faith: Like unto the Brother of Jared is necessary and timely to be exercised now. Prophets testified of our time. Our gracious Savior said: “For behold, this is the last time that I shall nourish my vineyard; for the end is nigh at hand, and the season speedily cometh; And there began to be the natural fruit again in the vineyard” Jacob 5:71,73. Read the words of life

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Book's by David Shariatmadari

Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

Global Century Series One World Divisible

Global Century Series One World Divisible

One World Divisible

One World Divisible

Confront and Conceal

Confront and Conceal

Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads

Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads

Democracy and the Nature of American Influence in Iran, 1941-1979

Democracy and the Nature of American Influence in Iran, 1941-1979

Carbon Sequestration for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

Carbon Sequestration for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

The Nature of Nutrition

The Nature of Nutrition

A History of the World's Religions

A History of the World's Religions

The Laws of Connection

The Laws of Connection

Mighty Mahonri

Mighty Mahonri

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