Language History

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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
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    • 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 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
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    • 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 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 449 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 468 ratings
    • David Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything, except our actual perceptions themselves....

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    • How the Mind Creates Language
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-11
    • Language: English
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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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    • Set in Modern Language with Introduction and Suggestions for Group Use
    • By: David Wentz
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • “An excellent small group study.” – Rev. Travis Knoll In a time of upheaval in the largest denomination of the Methodist movement, this ...

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    • How the English Language Became the World’s Language
    • By: Robert McCrum
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the 19th century...

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    • Bill W.'s Grapevine Writings
    • By: Bill W.
    • Narrated by: AA Grapevine
    • Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-24-23
    • 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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    • The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power
    • By: David Adger
    • Narrated by: David Adger
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit....

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    • By: Aristotle
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-99
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • Aristotle's contribution to the sum of wisdom dominates all our philosophy and even provides direction...

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    • Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
    • By: Leigh Bardugo
    • Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
    • Series: Grisha
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,785 ratings
    • The Language of Thorns will transport you to lands both familiar and strange - to a fully realized world of dangerous magic that millions have visited through the novels of the Grishaverse....

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    • From Victory to Collapse
    • By: Joseph T. Glatthaar
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army, the Army of Northern Virginia commanded by Robert E. Lee....

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    • The Unruly History of New York English
    • By: E.J. White
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
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    • In You Talkin' to Me?, E. J. White explores the hidden history of English in New York City - a history that encompasses social class, immigration, culture, economics, and, of course, real estate....

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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 439 ratings
    • Rene Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life....

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, naked sensibility. Feeling triumphs over intellectual argument in his works, which are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent....

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    • Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
    • By: Nathan Thrall
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Scattered over the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea lie the remnants of failed peace proposals, international summits, secret negotiations, UN resolutions....

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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 273 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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