Language History

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    • The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Find out more....

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    • How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
    • By: David W. Anthony
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Learn more in this audiobook....

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    • The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
    • By: Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • How the Mind Creates Language
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • 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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    • The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
    • By: Kevin Boylan, Luc Olivier
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Struggling to reassert control over their Indochinese colonies after WW II, the French established a huge air-land base in Dien Bien Phu. But when the opposing VPA began massing its forces against the base in 1953, French commanders seized the chance to draw their enemy into a battle....

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    • By: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Neil Gardner
    • Length: 28 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity....

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    • The Search for Our Human Origins
    • By: Ian Tattersall
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack....

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    • By: Scotty Morrison
    • Narrated by: Scotty Morrison
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This audiobook is your guide to using te reo Māori in everyday situations, from introductions to conversations, online and in person.

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: William Roberts
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
    • By: David Edmonds
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
    • By: Eckart Frahm
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 20-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history....

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    • By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
    • Narrated by: Greg Baglia
    • Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks where the self comes from - and how our selves can exist in the minds of others....

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    • By: Arrian
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 29-01-2004
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • This is the incredible story of the world's greatest conqueror, a man who single handedly changed the course of history....

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    • Palestine, Israel, and the Search for Justice
    • By: Raja Shehadeh
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 18-12-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • When conflicts become entrenched over generations, the language of war infiltrates everyday life, concealing destruction and hardening positions. Nowhere is this truer than in the Middle East....

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    • The Untold Story of English
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • The Complete Novel Retold with Limited Vocabulary
    • By: Jeff Pepper
    • Narrated by: Chen Junyou, Jeff Pepper
    • Length: 36 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-2023
    • Language: Simplified Chinese
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    • “Journey to the West” is probably the most famous and best-loved novel in China and is considered one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature.

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    • Bill W.'s Grapevine Writings
    • By: Bill W.
    • Narrated by: AA Grapevine
    • Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 24-06-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Listeners will find Bill’s initial inspirations for what became the Twelve Traditions, his battles with chronic depression and spiritual pride, memories of an all-night drinking spree, and a vivid description of how he came to organize the Twelve Steps....

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    • What We Know About Science, History and the Mind - And How We Know It
    • By: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Richard Goulding
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn....

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