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The Story of Human Language
- By: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.
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Groans from Taiwan
- By Jake Harrison on 18-04-20
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The Story of Human Language
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Series: The Great Courses: Linguistics
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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A Little Book of Language
- By: David Crystal
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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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. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young audience, expert linguist David Crystal proves why the story of language deserves retelling. From the first words of an infant to the peculiar modern dialect of text messaging, A Little Book of Language ranges widely, revealing language's myriad intricacies and quirks.
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Basic but interesting, better in print form
- By Scifisam on 23-05-15
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A Little Book of Language
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Series: Little Histories Series
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 09-08-12
- Language: English
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A Lie Too Big to Fail
- The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
- By: Lisa Pease, James DiEugenio - introduction
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 25 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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A Lie Too Big to Fail asserts the idea that a government can never investigate itself in a crime of this magnitude. Was the convicted Sirhan Sirhan a willing participant? Or was he a mind-controlled assassin? It has fallen to independent researchers like Pease to lay out the evidence in a clear and concise manner, allowing listeners to form their theories about this event. Pease places the history of this event in the context of the era and provides shocking overlaps between other high-profile murders and attempted murders of the time.
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An excellent book correcting history.
- By Chris B on 17-09-20
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A Lie Too Big to Fail
- The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 25 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-12-19
- Language: English
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The Library
- A Fragile History
- By: Andrew Pettegree, Arthur Der Weduwen
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with bean bags and children's drawings - the history of the library is rich, varied and stuffed full of incident. In this, the first major history of its kind, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen explore the contested and dramatic history of the library
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Liked this so much I bought the hardback
- By AWK on 05-11-21
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The Library
- A Fragile History
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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The Library of Ancient Wisdom
- Mesopotamia and the Making of History
- By: Selena Wisnom
- Narrated by: Catherine Bailey
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The story of the ancient world’s most spectacular library, and the civilization that created it When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen: the library of the...
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A window into the beginning of history
- By Rod Duncan on 02-04-25
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The Library of Ancient Wisdom
- Mesopotamia and the Making of History
- Narrated by: Catherine Bailey
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 13-03-25
- Language: English
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Why Q Needs U
- A history of our letters and how we use them
- By: Danny Bate
- Narrated by: Danny Bate
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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'A breathtaking adventure through the alphabet... An absolutely delightful read, filled with jewels of lightly worn scholarship and dazzling insight. I just couldn't recommend it more highly.' Stephen Fry 'An excellent read.' Susie Dent 'You'll never look at a keyboard the same way after reading...
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lots of big concepts explained in a very understandable way.
- By Anonymous on 21-05-26
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Why Q Needs U
- A history of our letters and how we use them
- Narrated by: Danny Bate
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-10-25
- Language: English
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All We Say
- The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches
- By: Ben Rhodes
- Narrated by: Ben Rhodes, Various
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? This sweeping history of the United States told through fifteen speeches relives the battle over American identity, from a New York Times bestselling author and one of President Barack Obama’s former speechwriters. “At a time of moral and...
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All We Say
- The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches
- Narrated by: Ben Rhodes, Various
- Length: 16 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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The Book-Makers
- A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
- By: Adam Smyth
- Narrated by: Adam Smyth
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a...
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Remarkable
- By steven on 04-10-24
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The Book-Makers
- A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
- Narrated by: Adam Smyth
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 18-04-24
- Language: English
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Portable Magic
- A History of Books and their Readers
- By: Emma Smith
- Narrated by: Emma Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The Times Most of what we say about books is really about the words...
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Pure heaven for us book lovers!
- By Gilda on 10-05-22
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Portable Magic
- A History of Books and their Readers
- Narrated by: Emma Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 28-04-22
- Language: English
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Index, A History of the
- By: Dennis Duncan
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided...
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Index, A History of the
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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The History of English: The Biography of a Language
- By: Christopher R. Fee
- Narrated by: Christopher R. Fee
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The history of a language is the history of the people who speak it, those who read and write it, and those who come into contact with it. Now, this series invites you to explore your heritage from an unconventional angle: through the origin and development of the English language. Leading your expedition is Christopher R. Fee, an award-winning professor and medievalist whose expertise spans Old English, Old Norse, and historical linguistics. With flair and gusto, he draws from this well of knowledge to help you trace the evolution of English across a fascinating range of cultures.
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Missed opportunity, waffling and stuttering
- By T. Hawes on 17-08-19
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The History of English: The Biography of a Language
- Narrated by: Christopher R. Fee
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 24-04-19
- Language: English
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Holy Sh*t
- A Brief History of Swearing
- By: Melissa Mohr
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Almost everyone swears, or worries about not swearing, from the two year-old who has just discovered the power of potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why every other word she hears is obscene. Whether they express anger or exhilaration, are meant to insult or to commend, swear words perform a crucial role in language. But swearing is also a uniquely well-suited lens through which to look at history, offering a fascinating record of what people care about on the deepest levels of a culture - what's divine, what's terrifying, and what's taboo.
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I’ve read another really good book on swearing
- By Amazon Customer on 15-02-23
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Holy Sh*t
- A Brief History of Swearing
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 08-07-14
- Language: English
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What's in a Name?
- Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain
- By: Sheela Banerjee
- Narrated by: Sheela Banerjee
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Our names are so mundane that we barely notice them. Yet each contains countless stories of tradition and belonging - be that a legacy of colonialism or persecution, the desire to fit in, or the complex cultural inheritance from one's parents. In What's in a Name?, Sheela Banerjee unravels the personal histories of friends and family through their names. And while tracing their heritage across centuries and continents - from west London to British India, and from 1960s Jamaica to pre-Revolutionary Russia - Sheela also tells the story of twentieth-century immigration to the UK.
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This book is a goldmine of fascinating information
- By Amazon Customer on 12-08-24
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What's in a Name?
- Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain
- Narrated by: Sheela Banerjee
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-08-23
- Language: English
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A Place For Everything
- The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
- By: Judith Flanders
- Narrated by: Julia Winwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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'Marvellous . . . I read it with astonished delight . . . It is equally scholarly and entertaining.' - Jan Morris 'Quirky and compelling.' - The Times Once we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. And yet the order of the alphabet, that...
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A Place For Everything
- The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
- Narrated by: Julia Winwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 15-10-20
- Language: English
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We'll All Be Murdered in Our Beds!
- The Shocking History of Crime Reporting in Britain
- By: Duncan Campbell
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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In this colourful history of the wild world of crime reporting since 1700, Duncan Campbell reveals what it's really like to deal with murderers, gangsters, victims, informers and detectives, looking at the 'hacks in the macs' who would go to any lengths to get a story - and serve it up to an ever-eager reading public. Crime is a prism through which we see society and its phobias.
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We'll All Be Murdered in Our Beds!
- The Shocking History of Crime Reporting in Britain
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-01-17
- Language: English
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Like
- A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word
- By: Megan C. Reynolds
- Narrated by: Megan C. Reynolds
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language. Few words in the English language are as misunderstood as “like.” Indeed, excessive use of this word is a surefire way to make those who pride themselves on propriety, both...
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Like
- A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word
- Narrated by: Megan C. Reynolds
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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The Bookshop
- A History of Bookselling From the Dawn of Print to the 21st Century
- By: Andrew Pettegree
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Bookshops are a comforting sight on our high streets, warm and welcoming spaces in which to browse, meet friends and occasionally buy books. They may feel timeless, yet their history is a restless and turbulent one, filled with as many entrepreneurial street hawkers and illicit trades as with...
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The Bookshop
- A History of Bookselling From the Dawn of Print to the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 17-09-26
- Language: English
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Signs of Civilisation
- How Punctuation Changed History
- By: Bård Borch Michaelsen
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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With the invention of printing, reading books moved from being an act performed only by priests and aristocrats into an individual, even private activity. This change helped spark the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution - in which punctuation played a crucial role. As long as texts were read out loud by only an educated elite there was no need for punctuation to mark pauses, full stops or questions.
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Signs of Civilisation
- How Punctuation Changed History
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-11-19
- Language: English
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Face with Tears of Joy
- A Natural History of Emoji
- By: Keith Houston
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji's impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, Keith Houston follows emoji from its birth in 1990s Japan, traces its Western explosion in the 2000s, and considers emoji's ever-expanding lexicon. Named for the world's most popular pictogram, Face with Tears of Joy tells the whole story of emoji for the first time.
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Face with Tears of Joy
- A Natural History of Emoji
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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My Trade
- A Short History of British Journalism
- By: Andrew Marr
- Narrated by: Andrew Marr
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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How do you decide what is a 'story' and what isn't? What does a newspaper editor actually do all day? How do hacks get their scoops? How do the TV stations choose their news bulletins? How do you persuade people to say those awful, embarrassing things? Who earns what? How do journalists manage...
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Doesn't Pull Any Punches
- By Janet on 02-08-08
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My Trade
- A Short History of British Journalism
- Narrated by: Andrew Marr
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 18-04-07
- Language: English
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