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Island at the End of the World
Reaktion Books 2006; US$ 24.95On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World, a fascinating... more...
History of Language
Reaktion Books 2004; US$ 29.95As he charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus, Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed, Steven Roger Fischer offers a radical reinterpretation of what language is. more...
History of Reading
Reaktion Books 2004; US$ 29.95Steven Roger Fischer?s fascinating book traces the complete story of reading from the time when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day. more...
History of Writing
Reaktion Books 2004; US$ 29.95From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers a fascinating investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. more...
Islands
Reaktion Books 2013; US$ 35.00When Lost ’s Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe’s novel, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, while in the movie Castaway Tom Hanks survives over four years on a South Pacific island. And Jurassic Park kept its... more...
A History of the Pacific Islands
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 30.00Steven Fischer traces the human history of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day. The second edition has been revised throughout in the light of recent scholarship and brings the story right up-to-date in terms of events and developments. Additional maps also enhance this established text. more...
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