Alex Bellos
The Language Lover's Puzzle Book : Lexical perplexities and...
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From the bestselling author of Alexs Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and languagelovers of all stripes. The only puzzle book Ive seen that manages to befuddle both sides of the brain at the same time.DARA BRIAINSuch fun, full of unexpected ideas and charmingly written.TIM HARFORDThe Language Lovers Puzzle Book is a book of more than 100 surprising and entertaining puzzles that celebrate the amazing diversity of the world of words and language.Featuring a huge variety of ancient, modern and even invented languages, this collection of problems will introduce you to unusual alphabets and scripts, curious vocabularies and phonologies, and global variations in simple behaviours like counting, telling the time, and naming children.Whether you are a crossword solver, a codebreaker or a Scrabble addict, these puzzles are guaranteed to twist your tongue and sharpen your mind.Alex Bellos is a dazzling polymath whose cleverness and ingenuity are on full display in this utterly brilliant and original collection of linguistic puzzles. This book is destined to be a classic for puzzle lovers.JOSHUA FOER, cofounder of Atlas Obscura and author Moonwalking with EinsteinAn irresistible linguistic workout challenging and deeply satisfying.GASTON DORREN, author of Lingo and BabelFor all the language and puzzle fans in your life! GRETCHEN McCULLOCHA cornucopia of ingenious and...
Binding: Paperback;416 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: CBX; Weight: 454 g; Dimensions: 129 x 200 x 29
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From the bestselling author of Alexs Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and languagelovers of all stripes. The only puzzle book Ive seen that manages to befuddle both sides of the brain at the same time.DARA BRIAINSuch fun, full of unexpected ideas and charmingly written.TIM HARFORDThe Language Lovers Puzzle Book is a book of more than 100 surprising and entertaining puzzles that celebrate the amazing diversity of the world of words and language.Featuring a huge variety of ancient, modern and even invented languages, this collection of problems will introduce you to unusual alphabets and scripts, curious vocabularies and phonologies, and global variations in simple behaviours like counting, telling the time, and naming children.Whether you are a crossword solver, a codebreaker or a Scrabble addict, these puzzles are guaranteed to twist your tongue and sharpen your mind.Alex Bellos is a dazzling polymath whose cleverness and ingenuity are on full display in this utterly brilliant and original collection of linguistic puzzles. This book is destined to be a classic for puzzle lovers.JOSHUA FOER, cofounder of Atlas Obscura and author Moonwalking with EinsteinAn irresistible linguistic workout challenging and deeply satisfying.GASTON DORREN, author of Lingo and BabelFor all the language and puzzle fans in your life! GRETCHEN McCULLOCHA cornucopia of ingenious and...
Binding: Paperback;416 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: CBX; Weight: 454 g; Dimensions: 129 x 200 x 29
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