The kingdom of speech / (Record no. 56004)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 19107106 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240619150840.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 170926t2016 nyu g b 000 0 eng c |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2016942707 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780316404624 (hardback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0316404624 (hardback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | BTCTA |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | BTCTA |
| Modifying agency | YDXCP BDX AZZPT ON8 WIM ZHB BUR OU9 IMD VP@ UAB COO NKM OCLCF TXI LMR NAM VP@ IGA DLC UIAM |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | P35 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wolfe, Tom, |
| Relator term | author |
| 9 (RLIN) | 495115 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The kingdom of speech / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Tom Wolfe |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Little, Brown and Company, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2016 |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 185 pages ; |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Source | rdacontent |
| Content type term | text |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Source | rdamedia |
| Media type term | unmediated |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| Carrier type term | volume |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-185). |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The beast who talked -- Gentlemen and old pals -- The dark ages -- Noam Charisma -- What the flycatcher caught -- The firewall. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Taking readers on a rollicking ride through history, a master storyteller and reporter, whose legend began in journalism, presents a paradigm-shifting argument that speech, not evolution, is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements"--NoveList. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Before Tom Wolfe was a bestselling novelist, he was a groundbreaking journalist. Now the maestro storyteller turns his attention to the mystery behind the creation of his own most important tool: language. In The Kingdom of Speech, Wolfe makes the captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the self-taught Englishman who beat Charles Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it for its inability to explain human speech, to the neo-Darwinists, who for years argued that there is a language 'organ' in the human brain, Wolfe examines how science has repeatedly tried and failed to account for man's gift of gab. Flash forward to the present day and the controversial work of another outsider, anthropologist Daniel Everett. After thirty years of studying a tribe isolated deep in the jungles of the Amazon, Everett revealed a people whose prehistoric level of speech had led to a society without religion, ceremonies, hierarchies, marriage, or ornaments, and without the ability to plan ahead or to consider a past beyond personal lifetimes, thus defying the current wisdom that language is hardwired in humans. With trenchant wit and uproarious humor, Wolfe cracks open the secretive, solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zigzags of Darwinism, both old and neo-, and he shows the endless importance of the courageous outsider in overturning our most cherished ideas about ourselves. Provocative and fast-paced, Wolfe's latest tour de force will have everyone talking."--Dust jacket. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Language and culture |
| 9 (RLIN) | 3509 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Speech |
| 9 (RLIN) | 6010 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Human evolution |
| 9 (RLIN) | 37769 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Oral communication |
| 9 (RLIN) | 214216 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Social history |
| 9 (RLIN) | 62754 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Language and languages |
| General subdivision | Origin |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Historical linguistics |
| 907 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT G, LDG (RLIN) | |
| a | .b10647016 |
| b | 13-08-23 |
| c | 01-12-22 |
| 998 ## - LOCAL CONTROL INFORMATION (RLIN) | |
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| Operator's initials, OID (RLIN) | 13-08-23 |
| Cataloger's initials, CIN (RLIN) | - |
| First date, FD (RLIN) | - |
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| -- | eng |
| -- | nyu |
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