Language and the mind.
What is the species' greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of the past achievements and those still aspire to is language. Learn why language is the ultimate invention, one that has allowed changing the physical and social worl...
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| Format: | DVD |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
The Teaching Company,
[2020]
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| Series: | Great courses (DVD)
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| Summary: | What is the species' greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of the past achievements and those still aspire to is language. Learn why language is the ultimate invention, one that has allowed changing the physical and social world around people in every conceivable way, and one that has fundamentally changed them, as well. |
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| Item Description: | Title from disc surface. Wide screen. "Course No. 1623"--Container. 24 lectures (30 min. each). |
| Physical Description: | 4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (181 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) |
| Format: | DVD. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook. |
| ISBN: | 9781629978673 (set) : 1629978671 (set) : |