Nicholas Ostler: 2 books
Empires of the Word
A Language History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries...
Passwords to Paradise
How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
So opens the Gospel of John, an ancient text translated into almost every language, at once a compelling and beguiling metaphor for the Christian story of the Beginning. To further complicate matters,...