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: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 311 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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    • A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
    • By: Francis S. Collins
    • Narrated by: Francis S. Collins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,965 ratings
    • Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God and scripture....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • 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 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 462 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
    • By: Ross Perlin
    • Narrated by: Ross Perlin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever.

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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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,049 ratings
    • In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language....

    Regular price: $25.00

    • Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
    • By: Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, her thoughts on writing, and her commentary on literary science fiction and fantasy and their future.

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    • A Novel
    • By: Vanessa Diffenbaugh
    • Narrated by: Tara Sands
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,608 ratings
    • The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions... but for Victoria Jones, it's been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • 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 710 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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    • 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 277 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....

    Regular price: $18.88

    • 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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,048 ratings
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 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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    • Set in Modern Language with Introduction and Suggestions for Group Use
    • By: David Wentz
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • “An excellent small group study.” – Rev. Travis Knoll In a time of upheaval in the largest denomination of the Methodist movement, this ...

    Regular price: $5.99

    • By: Andrew Kee
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-25
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the fascinating stories behind the words you use every day. Have you ever wondered where words like "serendipity," "quarantine," or "...

    Regular price: $6.99

    • The Story of How We Came to Talk
    • By: Sverker Johansson, Frank Perry - translator
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $27.82

    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

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