What is the largest continent? Who built the Taj Mahal? What city is holy to three major religions? Where is the Great Barrier Reef? In Views of Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, you’ll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you’ll learn about the people, traditions, landscapes, and history that make up many of the countries and cities of Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
Where is the Emerald Isle? Why was the Berlin Wall built and torn down? What is a fjord? What city in Eastern Europe was called “Little Paris”? In Views of Europe, you’ll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you’ll learn about the people, traditions, landscapes, and history that make up many of the countries and cities of Europe.
How can you draw with light? What was Gutenberg’s gift? Where does medicine come from? Can eyes ever hear? In Technology and Inventions, you’ll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you’ll learn about the great inventors and inventions that have changed our lives.
Who built Machu Picchu? Why is the United States called a melting pot? What’s an isthmus? How does the Panama Canal work? In Views of the Americas, you’ll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you’ll learn about many of the countries and cities of North, Central, and South America.
The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Is there a "language faculty?" These questions are crucial to our developing understanding of ourselves; Michael Devitt offers refreshingly original answers.
