Language History

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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 $

    • A History of Linguistic Aggravation
    • Auteur(s): Ammon Shea
    • Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
    • Durée: 7 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-08-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Bad English is sure to enlighten, enrage, and perhaps even inspire. Filled with historic and contemporary examples, the audiobook chronicles the long and entertaining history of language mistakes....

    Prix courant: 35,18 $

    • Learn Spanish the Fun Way with Topics That Matter
    • Auteur(s): Olly Richards
    • Narrateur(s): David McNeill, Violeta Moran
    • Durée: 5 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-15
    • Langue: Espagnol
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Improve your Spanish, and expand your vocabulary with topics that matter. When it comes to mastering a foreign language, listening around your interests makes all the difference. But finding books designed for language learners can be hard! This book fixes that....

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
    • Auteur(s): David Edmonds
    • Narrateur(s): Rick Adamson
    • Durée: 12 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • 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
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    • 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 $

    • Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness
    • Auteur(s): Katie Booth
    • Narrateur(s): Samantha Desz
    • Durée: 12 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Invention of Miracles tells the true—and troubling—story of Alexander Graham Bell’s quest to end deafness....

    Prix courant: 27,66 $

    • 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 $

    • A Life Amongst Clothes
    • Auteur(s): Claire Wilcox
    • Narrateur(s): Antonia Beamish
    • Durée: 4 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes....

    Prix courant: 12,29 $

  • Prix courant: 19,18 $

    • Learn Spanish the Fun Way with the History & Theory of Rock'n'Roll
    • Auteur(s): Olly Richards
    • Narrateur(s): Baz Jones, Francisco Jimenez
    • Durée: 5 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-12-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • When it comes to mastering a foreign language, learning around your interests makes all the difference. But finding books designed for language learners can be hard! This book fixes that....

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
    • Auteur(s): Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Narrateur(s): Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Durée: 8 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-09-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Smart as hell and funny as f--k, What the F is mandatory listening for anyone who wants to know how and why we swear....

    Prix courant: 31,16 $

    • Auteur(s): Tim Vicary
    • Narrateur(s): Gordon Griffen
    • Durée: 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-12-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him "The Elephant Man"....

    Prix courant: 6,20 $

    • Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
    • Narrateur(s): Colin Fluxman
    • Durée: 1 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Along with Egypt, the cultural and geographic region known as Mesopotamia was home to some of the world’s earliest civilizations and also the first known form of writing, cuneiform. Many different ethnic groups vied for power in ancient Mesopotamia over the course of antiquity...

    Prix courant: 7,02 $

    • 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 $

    • The History and Future of Reading
    • Auteur(s): Leah Price
    • Narrateur(s): Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Durée: 5 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-20
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us....

    Prix courant: 19,18 $

  • Prix courant: 17,99 $

    • The Surprising Truth About Language
    • Auteur(s): David Shariatmadari
    • Narrateur(s): Damian Lynch
    • Durée: 8 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • An entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function: In Don't Believe a Word, linguist David Shariatmadari explodes nine common myths about language and introduces us to some of the fundamental insights of modern linguistics....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Auteur(s): Edward W. Said
    • Durée: 11 h
    • Date de publication: 2025-09-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A sweeping and intellectually rigorous work of literary criticism that moves the field forward, from one of the preeminent public scholars

    Prix courant: 26,81 $

    • Why You Should Question Everything
    • Auteur(s): Guy P. Harrison
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 6 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • This fresh and exciting approach to science, skepticism, and critical thinking will enlighten and inspire listeners of all ages....

    Prix courant: 20,04 $

  • Prix courant: 5,31 $