Language History

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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 3,580 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....

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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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    • 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 9 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 445 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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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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    • How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
    • By: Richard Roberts, Roger Kreuz
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 606 ratings
    • Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can master a foreign language....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,040 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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    • 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 459 ratings
    • David Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything, except our actual perceptions themselves....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • “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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    • 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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    • 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 1,771 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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 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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    • 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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