Language History

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    • The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
    • Auteur(s): Kevin Boylan, Luc Olivier
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
    • Durée: 11 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Struggling to reassert control over their Indochinese colonies after WW II, the French established a huge air-land base in Dien Bien Phu. But when the opposing VPA began massing its forces against the base in 1953, French commanders seized the chance to draw their enemy into a battle....

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    • How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
    • Auteur(s): Gaia Vince
    • Narrateur(s): Gaia Vince
    • Durée: 11 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? Listeners of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues that we are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture....

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    • Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
    • Auteur(s): David Robert Grimes
    • Narrateur(s): David Robert Grimes
    • Durée: 15 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Good Thinking is our best defense against anti-vaccine paranoia, climate denial, and other dire threats of today....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Complete Novel Retold with Limited Vocabulary
    • Auteur(s): Jeff Pepper
    • Narrateur(s): Chen Junyou, Jeff Pepper
    • Durée: 36 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-06
    • Langue: Chinois simplifié
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • “Journey to the West” is probably the most famous and best-loved novel in China and is considered one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature.

    Prix courant: 25,24$ 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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    • Bill W.'s Grapevine Writings
    • Auteur(s): Bill W.
    • Narrateur(s): AA Grapevine
    • Durée: 17 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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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....

    Prix courant: 10,52$ 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 25 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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    • 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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    • The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
    • Auteur(s): Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
    • Durée: 13 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-03-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • 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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    • Auteur(s): Arrian
    • Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
    • Durée: 11 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-01-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • This is the incredible story of the world's greatest conqueror, a man who single handedly changed the course of history....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold History of English
    • Auteur(s): John McWhorter
    • Narrateur(s): John McWhorter
    • Durée: 5 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-11-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 évaluations
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
    • Auteur(s): Christopher Summerfield
    • Durée: 11 h
    • Date de publication: 2025-03-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • 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: 25,67$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Journey Through the English Language
    • Auteur(s): Paul Anthony Jones
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Durée: 7 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Surprising, entertaining, and illuminating, this is a must-listen for armchair travelers and word nerds. Our dictionaries are full of hidden histories, tales, and adventures from all over the world - if you know where to look....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ 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: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The True Adventures of Henry Opukahaia, the Hawaiian Boy Who Changed History
    • Auteur(s): Susan C. Riford
    • Narrateur(s): Suzanne Ford
    • Durée: 7 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • High on a cliff in Hawaii in 1807, an irrepressibly curious native boy dives into the sea and swims to an American merchant ship anchored offshore, embarking on an extraordinary adventure that will change history....

    Prix courant: 17,41$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Real Words for How You Feel, from Angst to Zwodder
    • Auteur(s): Susie Dent
    • Narrateur(s): Susie Dent
    • Durée: 10 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-10-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • There are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner and lexicographer extraordinaire, is going to help you find them....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ 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: 20,15$ 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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    • The Story of How We Came to Talk
    • Auteur(s): Sverker Johansson, Frank Perry - translator
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Burnip
    • Durée: 14 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 31,42$ ou 1 crédit

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