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The Dawn of Language
- The Story of How We Came to Talk
- By: Sverker Johansson, Frank Perry - translator
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users....
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Amazing book
- By Ivan Dimitrov on 15-01-22
By: Sverker Johansson, and others
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Cultish
- The Language of Fanaticism
- By: Amanda Montell
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power....
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Grain of salt needed!
- By Anonymous User on 07-07-21
By: Amanda Montell
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The Mabinogion
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The Mabinogion is a mesmerizing panorama of fantasy, romance, tragedy and humor. Blending Arthurian romance, Welsh legend and mythology, it tells tales of heroic knights, fair maidens, dramatic battles and magical beasts across 12 fantastical stories....
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Excellent in all ways
- By Seeker on 24-10-19
By: Anonymous
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Robinson Crusoe
- By: Daniel Defoe
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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When his ship is wrecked in a storm, Robinson Crusoe finds himself stranded on a desert island with no one to help him and no chance of rescue....
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Brilliant.
- By Paul R on 10-07-23
By: Daniel Defoe
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You Say Potato: A Book About Accents
- By: Ben Crystal, David Crystal
- Narrated by: David Crystal, Ben Crystal, Jane Savage, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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An authoritative, entertaining book about our accents and what they say about us....
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Half this book is fascinating...
- By Matt on 05-07-15
By: Ben Crystal, and others
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
- The Untold Story of English
- By: John McWhorter
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....
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Absolute Americanised nonsense
- By Suzibm on 19-11-23
By: John McWhorter
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The Dawn of Language
- The Story of How We Came to Talk
- By: Sverker Johansson, Frank Perry - translator
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users....
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Amazing book
- By Ivan Dimitrov on 15-01-22
By: Sverker Johansson, and others
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Cultish
- The Language of Fanaticism
- By: Amanda Montell
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power....
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Grain of salt needed!
- By Anonymous User on 07-07-21
By: Amanda Montell
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The Mabinogion
- By: Anonymous
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The Mabinogion is a mesmerizing panorama of fantasy, romance, tragedy and humor. Blending Arthurian romance, Welsh legend and mythology, it tells tales of heroic knights, fair maidens, dramatic battles and magical beasts across 12 fantastical stories....
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Excellent in all ways
- By Seeker on 24-10-19
By: Anonymous
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Robinson Crusoe
- By: Daniel Defoe
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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When his ship is wrecked in a storm, Robinson Crusoe finds himself stranded on a desert island with no one to help him and no chance of rescue....
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Brilliant.
- By Paul R on 10-07-23
By: Daniel Defoe
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You Say Potato: A Book About Accents
- By: Ben Crystal, David Crystal
- Narrated by: David Crystal, Ben Crystal, Jane Savage, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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An authoritative, entertaining book about our accents and what they say about us....
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Half this book is fascinating...
- By Matt on 05-07-15
By: Ben Crystal, and others
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
- The Untold Story of English
- By: John McWhorter
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....
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Absolute Americanised nonsense
- By Suzibm on 19-11-23
By: John McWhorter
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Don’t Lie to Me
- An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Reading People Like a Book, and to Detect, Analyze, Decode, and Predict the Truth in People’s Body Language, Emotions, Thoughts, Intentions and Behaviors
- By: John S. Bauman
- Narrated by: Daniel Winski
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In spite of the fact that nonverbal communication (NVC) accounts for more than 60 percent of our overall communication and, according to some estimates, as much as 93 percent of it, we are never really taught the significance of body language....
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How to analyze people
- By APhillips on 08-05-24
By: John S. Bauman
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The Essential Chomsky
- By: Noam Chomsky, Anthony Arnove - editor
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 22 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist, and critic, published to coincide with his 80th birthday....
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Illuminating and exceptional
- By Sab London on 10-02-16
By: Noam Chomsky, and others
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The Language Instinct
- How the Mind Creates Language
- By: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language....
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So much science i don't even
- By Epic Taters on 27-08-15
By: Steven Pinker
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Wordslut
- A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
- By: Amanda Montell
- Narrated by: Amanda Montell
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them....
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This brought joy to my little linguist heart
- By Jessica Whitby on 01-01-23
By: Amanda Montell
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Moll Flanders
- By: Daniel Defoe
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is Daniel Defoe's honest portrayal of one woman's struggle for economic survival in an unsympathetic world....
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Moll Flanders
- By Tanya I am very upset to tell you that I have not received these items as yet...Therefore I can not comment on them... I have friends waiting for their Christmas gifts still... Dissatisfied is all I can say!!!! on 15-11-17
By: Daniel Defoe
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The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
- By: Sax Rohmer
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspector Nayland Smith has unearthed a plot that could mean the end of civilization as we know it....
By: Sax Rohmer
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The History of the English Language, 2nd Edition
- By: Seth Lerer, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Seth Lerer
- Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
- Original Recording
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This course offers an overview of the English language that is literary, historical, cultural, political, and scientific in its scope....
By: Seth Lerer, and others
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Get By in Portuguese
- By: BBC Active
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Get By in Portuguese is devised specifically for travellers. The 70-minute download will help you to get to grips with the basics of spoken Portuguese, and introduces the most relevant language....
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basic start
- By steven Buckley on 20-02-13
By: BBC Active
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Reader, Come Home
- The Reading Brain in a Digital World
- By: Maryanne Wolf
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies....
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easy to listen to and we'll researched
- By Micah E. Bennett on 27-02-24
By: Maryanne Wolf
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Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage
- By: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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Many features of English sound normal to a native speaker, but linguists find them puzzling as well as revealing....
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An unputdownably fun series of lectures
- By Kira Adams on 06-11-18
By: John McWhorter, and others
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A Little Book of Language
- By: David Crystal
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant....
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Basic but interesting, better in print form
- By Scifisam on 23-05-15
By: David Crystal
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La dame aux camélias
- By: Alexandre Dumas fils
- Narrated by: Élodie Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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"La Dame aux camélias" raconte l'histoire des amants maudits, Marguerite et Armand, que les jugements moraux et la maladie vont détruire...
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Magnifique interpretation d'une belle histoire
- By Ad on 26-01-24
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The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
- By: Robert Tressell
- Narrated by: George Galloway
- Length: 26 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists chronicles the tale of Frank Owen, a traveling socialist visionary making his way from town to town in the name of the socialist revolution. When spring arrives, Frank Owen decides to settle in the quiet town of Mugsborough....
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A prescient reminder of what was and may be again
- By Brass Neck on 30-04-19
By: Robert Tressell
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The Language Hoax
- Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
- By: John H. McWhorter
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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This short, opinionated audiobook addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world....
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Fantastic Work
- By Azura S on 24-11-20
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The Great Turning
- From Empire to Earth Community
- By: David C. Korten
- Narrated by: Sandra Swafford
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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David Korten argues that corporate consolidation of power is but one manifestation of "Empire", the organization of society by hierarchies of dominance, which threatens the future of humanity....
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Very Very interesting
- By Vaughan on 06-04-07
By: David C. Korten
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Semiotics: The Basics
- The Basics
- By: Daniel Chandler
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This third edition of the bestselling textbook has been fully revised, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language....
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All Quiet on the Semiotics Front
- By Viktorija Kulesova on 28-10-23
By: Daniel Chandler
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The Voyage Out
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naïve young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast....
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Seemingly random detail paints vivid pictures
- By ROSALIND BUCK on 18-08-16
By: Virginia Woolf
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Scots: The Mither Tongue
- By: Billy Kay
- Narrated by: Billy Kay
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Scots: The Mither Tongue is a classic of contemporary Scottish culture and essential listening for those who care about their country's identity in the 21st century. It is a passionately written history of how the Scots have come to speak the way they do....
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Breathing life into a living tongue
- By Mr C J Dalzell on 23-01-22
By: Billy Kay
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Freud
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Anthony Storr
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Abridged
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Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves....
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Informative and good to listen to
- By Sissi on 12-11-15
By: Anthony Storr
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She
- By: H. Rider Haggard
- Narrated by: Alan Munro
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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Follow the journey of Horace Holly and his ward, Leo Vincey, to a lost kingdom in the African interior....
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Just wrong!
- By struggling on 23-02-19
By: H. Rider Haggard
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Deathworld
- By: Harry Harrison
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his somewhat erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor....
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One of my favourite Harry Harrison books
- By P. M. Mitchell on 19-11-16
By: Harry Harrison
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Words on the Move
- Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
- By: John McWhorter
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day....
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Good but not as good as the Great Courses
- By Kira Adams on 30-08-19
By: John McWhorter
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The Art of Language Invention
- From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building
- By: David J. Peterson
- Narrated by: David J. Peterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Peterson offers a captivating overview of language creation, covering its history from Tolkien's creations and Klingon to today's thriving global community of conlangers....
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Con languages
- By heidi fairgrieve on 11-09-18
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Short Stories in Russian for Beginners
- By: Olly Richards, Alex Rawlings
- Narrated by: Alexander Mercury
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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Short Stories in Russian for Beginners has been written especially for students from beginner to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment....
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Great Companion to the book
- By Joshwright10 on 29-12-19
By: Olly Richards, and others