{"product_id":"kingdom-of-speech","title":"Kingdom of Speech","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eKingdom of Speech\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtist or Composer: \u003c\/b\u003eTom Wolfe\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e9780316404631\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eLittle, Brown Paperbacks\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReleased: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e192\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eVery light wear to disc. Case and artwork included but clearly used. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution.\" (Dwight Garner, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Kingdom of Speech | Tom Wolfe | Paperback | 9780316404631 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks H 1749101","offer_id":48858690486424,"sku":"1749101","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81VLzE-mVbL.jpg?v=1775657331","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/kingdom-of-speech","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}