Christopher Stevens (1)
Auteur van Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language
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Christopher Stevens is a journalist who has written for numerous publications from Hello! to the Sunday Telegraph. He has worked for the Observer for twelve years and lives in Bristol with his wife and two sons.
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Written in Stone: A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language (2014) 58 exemplaren
A girl called Barney 3 exemplaren
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Written in stone : a journey through the Stone Age… door Chris Stevens
This book is really about Indo-European origins, but using the title of Stone Age tribes as a stand-in. I assume this is the reason for low ratings. The 80+ "stone age" words all seem to be a valid transcription of many of the Indo-European roots which can be gotten from other sources. So, I think the research and interesting descriptions are valid but not the nomenclature.
½Interesting topic but the book is mostly a relentless instant gratification list of random facts explaining little and annoyingly peppered with awkward jokes and pop-culture references. I'm also surprised how the etymologies are presented as fact and without any caveats of being guesswork or there being any controversy around them.
Parental account of bringing up a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) including the heartbreak and unexpected joy of ASD.
The complex life of Kenneth Williams is well told here by Christopher Stevens. Williams was a truly marvellous wit and raconteur as well as a popular comic actor. He was also a repressed homosexual and suffered from acute depression. He seemed to make so many wrong decisions during the course of his career,and on the way he fell out with most of his friends. He died by taking a mixture of pills which may have been a successful suicide attempt or as this book would have it, an unfortunate accident. The verdict is still out on that one I think.… (meer)
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- 6
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- 141
- Populariteit
- #145,671
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 6
- ISBNs
- 34