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The Story of Human Language
- Written 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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Content is good. But it is not captivating.
- By Shivakumar on 02-06-20
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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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Language and the Mind
- Written by: Spencer D. Kelly, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Spencer D. Kelly
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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What is our species' greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of our past achievements and those we still aspire to is language. Language is the ultimate invention of Homo sapiens - one that has allowed us to change the physical and social world around us in every conceivable way, and an invention that has fundamentally changed us, as well.
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Great listen
- By Dr. Manoj on 20-08-22
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Language and the Mind
- Narrated by: Spencer D. Kelly
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 27-03-20
- Language: English
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Language Families of the World
- Written by: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Professor John McWhorter of Columbia University takes you back through time and around the world, following the linguistic trails left by generations of humans that lead back to the beginnings of language. Utilizing historical theories and cutting-edge research, these 34 astonishing lectures will introduce you to the major language families of the world and their many offspring, including a variety of languages that are no longer spoken but provide vital links between past and present.
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great course for people interested in languages
- By harsha on 17-07-19
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Language Families of the World
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Release Date: 01-02-19
- Language: English
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How Language Began
- The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
- Written by: Daniel L. Everett
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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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? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than 7,000 languages that exist today.
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Good and Logical Point of View
- By deepmoni hazarika on 01-07-19
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How Language Began
- The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 20-03-18
- Language: English
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
- How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
- Written by: David W. Anthony
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.
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Brillant Book
- By Pallav on 06-08-19
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
- How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 11-09-18
- Language: English
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Greek to Us
- The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World
- Written by: John Davie, Harry Mount - foreword
- Narrated by: John Davie
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a learned but always entertaining journey through the world of the Ancient Greeks, their extraordinary language and how it has shaped our own understanding of the world today. After all, what is language but the frame through which we understand the world? Davie aims to bring more than just humour, he seeks to trace the thread of ancient Greek thought that runs through our own civilization, always with the lightness of touch and fascinating etymology.
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Greek to Us
- The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World
- Narrated by: John Davie
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Masters of the Planet
- The Search for Our Human Origins
- Written by: Ian Tattersall
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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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, and ultimately led to its survival while the rest became extinct. Just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become masters of the planet? Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us deep into the fossil record to uncover what made humans so special.
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Masters of the Planet
- The Search for Our Human Origins
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 12-02-19
- Language: English
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The Sign-Language of Astronomical Mythology
- Ancient Egypt the Light of the World, Books 5 and 6
- Written by: Gerald Massey
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The origin of a saviour in the guise of a little child is traceable to Child-Horus, who brought new life to Egypt every year as the Messu of the inundation. This was Horus in his pre-solar and pre-human characters of the fish, the shoot of the papyrus, or the branch of the endless years. In a later stage the image of Horus on his papyrus represented the young god as solar cause in creation.
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The Sign-Language of Astronomical Mythology
- Ancient Egypt the Light of the World, Books 5 and 6
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Series: Ancient Egypt the Light of the World Collection, Book 5
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release Date: 31-03-25
- Language: English
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Totemism, Tattoo, and Fetishism as Forms of Sign Language
- Ancient Egypt the Light of the World, Book 2
- Written by: Gerald Massey
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Here, Cosimo proudly presents Book 2 of Ancient Egypt, in which Massey reads the prehistoric story of human civilization that can be studied in the language of ceremonial rites, ancient customs, and ritual dance, and consequently explores the resultant concept that religion evolved out of expressions of human fertility and sexuality–particularly as embodied in the primeval symbols of blood, sacrifice, and motherhood–and formed the first influences on Judeo-Christianity.
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Totemism, Tattoo, and Fetishism as Forms of Sign Language
- Ancient Egypt the Light of the World, Book 2
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Series: Ancient Egypt the Light of the World Collection, Book 2
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 31-03-25
- Language: English
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The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
- The Making of Alexander the Great
- Written by: Alex Rowson
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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‘Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great – one of the most important figures of the ancient...
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The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
- The Making of Alexander the Great
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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The Maya
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Matthew Restall, Amara Solari
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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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. They mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded extraordinary knowledge in calendrics, mathematics, and astronomy. The Maya achieved all this without area-wide centralized control.
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The Maya
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release Date: 17-11-20
- Language: English
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Sign-Language and Mythology as Primitive Modes of Representation
- Ancient Egypt the Light of the World, Book 1
- Written by: Gerald Massey
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Here, Cosimo proudly presents Book 1 of Ancient Egypt, in which Massey argues that “primitive man” found no human agency in the phenomena of the natural world, which led to a woeful misinterpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics by the Greeks and Romans as well as a misunderstanding of the essence of Egyptian mythology. As a consequence, Massey contends, a deep fount of wisdom of the ancients has been lost, and he goes on to reveal how it can be rediscovered.
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Sign-Language and Mythology as Primitive Modes of Representation
- Ancient Egypt the Light of the World, Book 1
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Series: Ancient Egypt the Light of the World Collection, Book 1
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 31-03-25
- Language: English
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Inscription of Menuas, King of Ararat, in the Vannic Language
- Written by: A.H. Sayce
- Narrated by: Teagan McKenzie
- Length: 4 mins
- Unabridged
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King Menuas of Urartu was a great warrior and builder. Urartu centred on the district of Lake Van in Anatolia, but also extended over the Transcaucasian regions of modern Russia and into northwestern Iran in the ninth-sixth centuries BCE. This inscription deals with cities and territories conquered by Menuas.
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Inscription of Menuas, King of Ararat, in the Vannic Language
- Narrated by: Teagan McKenzie
- Length: 4 mins
- Release Date: 21-05-19
- Language: English
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