Book Lists Liked by <a href="/user/show/7208433-brandon-wilde">Brandon Wilde</a> (5 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Brandon Wilde (5 Lists)

Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure

The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

An Introduction to Language by Victoria A. Fromkin

The Study of Language by George Yule

Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff

Best Books about Linguistics

256 books — 224 voters

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Embassytown by China Miéville

1984 by George Orwell

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

Science Fiction using Languages or Linguistics as a Plot Device

68 books — 119 voters

At Home in the Universe by Stuart A. Kauffman

Symbiotic Planet by Lynn Margulis

How the Leopard Changed Its Spots by Brian Goodwin

The Self-Made Tapestry by Philip Ball

The Rainbow and the Worm by Mae-Wan Ho

Living Systems Principles/Chaos & Complexity Theories

27 books — 15 voters

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Chaos by James Gleick

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The Information by James Gleick

163 books — 165 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Single at Heart by Bella DePaulo

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Best of 21st Century Non-fiction

1,307 books — 1,330 voters