Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind Nature_Gift_Guide or to make sure it

or to make sure it never got solved

Through the Portable Feminist Reader

is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic

Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology

and uncertainty with a fierce trust that joy is possible—and worth seeking

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind Nature_Gift_Guide or to make sure itThe groundbreaking work that Language journal said no linguist could afford to neglect In Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, George M. Lakoff takes on the classical theory of categorization, which argues that the classes into which our minds and language group things and people are clearly defined and have strict boundaries. Lakoff argues instead that the mind and language build categories around protoypical examples, and that categories then radiate