The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book
Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe
$35.67
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
17 January 2022
Summary
‘Alex Bellos is a wizard.’ - Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist
The Language Lover’s 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783352197 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1783352191 |
| Author: | Alex Bellos |
| Publisher: | Guardian Faber Publishing |
| Imprint: | Guardian Faber Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 17 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 343g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Alex Bellos
Alex Bellos is a grandmaster of the puzzling world, brilliant on all things cryptic. His bestselling, award-winning books include Alex’s Adventures in Numberland, Alex Through the Looking-Glass, and Can You Solve My Problems?, and have been translated into more than twenty languages. He is also the coauthor of two mathematical colouring books and the children’s series Football School. His YouTube videos have been seen by more than twenty million people, and he writes a popular maths and puzzle blog for the Guardian.
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