Language History

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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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    • 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

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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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    • 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

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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: 2025-02-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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: 35,08$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 35,08$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960
    • Auteur(s): Nikhil Krishnan
    • Narrateur(s): Kieran Hodgson
    • Durée: 11 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-07-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century Britain, a period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Succeeding from Anywhere
    • Auteur(s): Tsedal Neeley
    • Narrateur(s): Marisha Tapera
    • Durée: 5 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • A Harvard Business School professor and leading expert in virtual and global work provides remote workers and leaders with the best practices necessary to perform at the highest levels in their organizations....

    Prix courant: 24,46$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 24,46$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

    • Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
    • Auteur(s): Jabari Asim
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 9 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-04-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In 2003, the book Nigger started an intense conversation about the uses and implications of that epithet....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Decoding the Language of Emotion
    • Auteur(s): Mark Changizi, Tim Barber
    • Narrateur(s): Mark Changizi
    • Durée: 6 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-07-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Why did once-stone-faced animals evolve to be so emotionally expressive—to be us? The answer, as evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi and mathematician Tim Barber reveal, is that emotional expressions are our first and most important language....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

    • Learn German the Fun Way with Topics that Matter
    • Auteur(s): Olly Richards
    • Narrateur(s): David McNeill, Norbert Wendell
    • Durée: 6 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-02
    • Langue: Allemand
    • Pas de évaluations
    • For low - to high-intermediate learners. Improve your German and expand your vocabulary with topics that matter. When it comes to mastering a foreign language, listening around your interests makes all the difference....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 27,42$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Search for Our Human Origins
    • Auteur(s): Ian Tattersall
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
    • Durée: 8 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ 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....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • From Victory to Collapse
    • Auteur(s): Joseph T. Glatthaar
    • Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
    • Durée: 25 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-03-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 35,30$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 35,30$ ou 1 crédit

    • Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them
    • Auteur(s): Judy Parkinson
    • Narrateur(s): Kim Hicks
    • Durée: 3 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-10-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • You wouldn’t be ‘barking mad’ if, when asked the definition of certain phrases....

    Prix courant: 12,57$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 12,57$ ou 1 crédit