Language History

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    • How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
    • Auteur(s): Christopher Summerfield
    • Narrateur(s): Rufus Wright
    • Durée: 12 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-03-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An insider look at the Large Language Models (LLMs) that are revolutionizing our relationship to technology, These Strange New Minds explores their surprising history, what they can and should do for us today, and where they will go in the future—from an AI pioneer and neuroscientist.

    Prix courant: 26,22 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
    • Auteur(s): John McWhorter
    • Narrateur(s): John McWhorter
    • Durée: 6 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 évaluations
    • Language evolves with time, and so does what we consider profane or unspeakable. Nine Nasty Words is a rollicking examination of profanity, explored from every angle: historical, sociological, political, linguistic....

    Prix courant: 20,40 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
    • Auteur(s): Ross Perlin
    • Narrateur(s): Ross Perlin
    • Durée: 10 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever.

    Prix courant: 26,31 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Language as a Window into Human Nature
    • Auteur(s): Steven Pinker
    • Narrateur(s): Dean Olsher
    • Durée: 9 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-08-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • In The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker marries two of the subjects he knows best: language and human nature. The result is a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): John Carey
    • Narrateur(s): Ralph Lister
    • Série: Little Histories Series
    • Durée: 9 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): David Crystal
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
    • Série: Little Histories Series
    • Durée: 7 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 23,18 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Auteur(s): Matthew Restall, Amara Solari
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Campbell
    • Durée: 3 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations....

    Prix courant: 14,47 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
    • Auteur(s): John Pollack
    • Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
    • Durée: 4 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The Pun Also Rises is an authoritative yet playful exploration of a practice that is common, in one form or another, to virtually every language on earth....

    Prix courant: 27,42 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Delightful History of Food Language
    • Auteur(s): Judith Tschann
    • Narrateur(s): Alejandra Reynoso
    • Durée: 3 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day, linguist Tschann takes us on a journey from the vineyards of Avignon to the shores of Tahiti to the port of Mocha on the Red Sea coast to explore the history of the history of the words we use for the food we eat....

    Prix courant: 19,18 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
    • Auteur(s): Keith Houston
    • Narrateur(s): Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Durée: 7 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-11-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • What We Know About Science, History and the Mind - And How We Know It
    • Auteur(s): A. C. Grayling
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Goulding
    • Durée: 13 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-05-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • 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....

    Prix courant: 32,00 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Aristotle
    • Narrateur(s): Frederick Davidson
    • Durée: 13 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 1999-10-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Aristotle's contribution to the sum of wisdom dominates all our philosophy and even provides direction...

    Prix courant: 20,13 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Daily Life in Old English
    • Auteur(s): Hana Videen
    • Narrateur(s): Sara Powell
    • Durée: 8 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern audiences. Hana Videen gathers a trove of these gems and uses them to illuminate the lives of the earliest English speakers....

    Prix courant: 15,10 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): David Crystal
    • Narrateur(s): David Crystal
    • Durée: 7 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 19,26 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Joseph Bruchac
    • Narrateur(s): Joseph Bruchac
    • Durée: 4 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-23
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Thirteen-year-old Uwohali has not seen his father, Sequoyah, for many years. So when Sequoyah returns to the village, Uwohali is eager to reconnect....

    Prix courant: 18,00 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
    • Auteur(s): Michael Erard
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Blumenfeld
    • Durée: 9 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-06-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages...or seventy....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
    • Auteur(s): Nathan Thrall
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
    • Durée: 9 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • 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....

    Prix courant: 39,82 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
    • Auteur(s): Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Narrateur(s): Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
    • Durée: 10 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-06-03
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • 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.

    Prix courant: 27,83 $ ou 1 crédit

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    • DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
    • Auteur(s): Francis S. Collins
    • Narrateur(s): Greg Itzin
    • Durée: 10 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-01-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A scientific and medical revolution has crept up on us, based on study after study, from hundreds of laboratories around the world....

    Prix courant: 29,13 $ ou 1 crédit

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