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The years of talking dangerously /

?There has never been," Nunberg writes,?an age as wary as ours of the tricks words can play, obscuring distinctions and smoothing over the corrugations of the actual world ... Yet as advertisers and marketers know, our mistrust of words doesn't inoculate us against them." These are th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nunberg, Geoffrey, 1945-2020
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : PublicAffairs, ©2009.
Edición:1st ed.
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