English Language History

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    • The Untold History of English
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
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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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    • The Biography of a Language
    • By: Melvyn Bragg
    • Narrated by: Robert Powell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,924 ratings
    • This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....

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    • By: Stephanie Kallos
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Charles Marlow is a Seattle English teacher who instructs his students to expand their worlds through language....

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    • A History of Ancient Rome
    • By: Mary Beard
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,857 ratings
    • Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even 2,000 years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power....

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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: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 701 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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    • A Day in the Life of the English Language
    • By: Simon Horobin
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Simon Horobin takes the listener on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have surprisingly fascinating histories....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Simon Horobin
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt....

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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: 08-26-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 445 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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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: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 304 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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    • The Search for Our Human Origins
    • By: Ian Tattersall
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 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: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 987 ratings
    • With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone....

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    • Set in Modern Language with Introduction and Suggestions for Group Use
    • By: David Wentz
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • "This book thrilled my soul and reinvigorated my hope." — Amazon reviewer “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven.” John Wesley doesn’t...

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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: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 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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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 574 ratings
    • Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Kvnigsberg....

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    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: David Crystal
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure, and the downright surprising....

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    • Reading Scripture Like the Book of Mormon's Visionary Men
    • By: D. John Butler
    • Narrated by: David Butler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Nephi puts us on notice in his very first sentence that The Book of Mormon was written by temple worshippers and for temple worshippers.

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 435 ratings
    • Rene Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life....

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