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Language of War, Language of Peace
- Palestine, Israel, and the Search for Justice
- Written by: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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When conflicts become entrenched over generations, the language of war infiltrates everyday life, concealing destruction and hardening positions. Nowhere is this truer than in the Middle East. Award-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language and the language of politics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reflecting on the walls that they create - legal and cultural - that confine today's Palestinians just like the borders, checkpoints and so-called "Separation Barrier".
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Language of War, Language of Peace
- Palestine, Israel, and the Search for Justice
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release Date: 18-12-15
- 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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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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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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The Interpretation Of Cultures
- Written by: Clifford Geertz
- Narrated by: Tim Dixon
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the twentieth century's most influential books, this classic work of anthropology offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture is With The Interpretation of Cultures, the distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz developed the concept of thick description, and in so doing, he...
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The Interpretation Of Cultures
- Narrated by: Tim Dixon
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 09-09-25
- Language: English
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The Adventure of English
- The Biography of a Language
- Written by: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. The Adventure of English is not only an enthralling story of power, religion, and trade, but also the story of people, and how their lives continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.
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The Adventure of English
- The Biography of a Language
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release Date: 25-08-05
- 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
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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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Prose & Cons
- The English Language in Just a Minute
- Written by: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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In this wildly entertaining A to Z of verbal acrobatics, Gyles takes you on a whirlwind tour of our mother tongue – from the origins of words and correct grammar and punctuation, to similes, euphemisms and record breaking tongue twisters (try getting your mouth around floccinaucinihilipification!). An idiosyncratic blend of history, word play, anecdote, and hyperbole, all in 60-second instalments, this is Gyles Brandreth at his word-perfect, Just-a-Minute best. You’ll never mix your metaphors again...
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Prose & Cons
- The English Language in Just a Minute
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release Date: 10-10-24
- Language: English
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البندقية والسفينة والقلم
- Written by: ليندا كولي
- Narrated by: Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
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يرسم هذا الكتابُ النابضُ بالحيويَّة، والرائعُ في سردياته وتحليلاته المُتقَنة والموثَّقة، المراحلَ التي جرى عبر تواليها المُثير تشكيلُ صُعود العالَم الحديث. ويروي كيف تزامَنَ ذلك وترابطَ بِنيويّاً مع ظهور الدَّساتير المكتوبة وانتشارها، وتوالي الحروب الموسَّعة والهجينة، وصراع القوى الكبرى على امتداد قارَّات العالَم الحديث، عبر القرون الثلاثة الماضية الحافلة بالأحداث. ويلمس القارئُ بين فقراته كيف يتضافر الأسلوبُ البياني للمؤلِّفة بسردياته المُحكمة، مع الرُّسوم الرائعة المُضافة إليه، ليجعل منه عملاً تاريخيّاً ممتعاً، تتفاعل فيه نُخبة مُبهرة من الحروب التأسيسيَّة الفاصلة والقادة الأقوياء والمُشرِّعين ذوي البصيرة والثُّوار المُخلِصين لقضايا أوطانهم وشعوبهم؛ فيعيد سردَ قصَّةِ نشوءِ الحُكم الدُّستوري، وتطوُّر الأفكار حول معنى الحداثة وما تحمِله من جَوهر
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البندقية والسفينة والقلم
- Narrated by: Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
- Release Date: 18-12-25
- Language: Arabic
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العيش بطريقة مختلفة
- Written by: آنيته كيهنل
- Narrated by: Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
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حقَّقَت البشريةُ خلالَ السنوات المائتَين الماضية إنجازاتٍ مُبهِرةً، ولكنَّ مَفاهيمَنا عن النموِّ الاقتصادي والتقدُّم والازدهار وصَلَت الآن إلى طريقٍ مَسدود؛ فالبحارُ امتلأَت بالمُخلَّفات البلاستيكية المُتناهِية الصِّغَر، وطعامُنا امتلأ بالمبيدات الكيميائية؛ إنه طريقٌ لا رَجْعةَ منه وتَترتَّب عليه عواقبُ وَخِيمةٌ. لكن، إلى أيِّ مَدى؟ هل يُمكِننا تخيُّلُ العيشِ في عالَمٍ يَتجاوز الاستهلاكَ ويتحكم فيه رأسِ المال والمصلحةَ الذاتية وتحقيقَ أكبرِ قدْرٍ من الأرباح؟ في كتاب «العيش بطريقةٍ مختلفة» يُصبِح التاريخُ حياً، ويَدْعونا إلى اكتشافِ ماضينا من جديد، وأن نفكِّرَ بشكلٍ مختلِفٍ في المستقبَل.
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العيش بطريقة مختلفة
- Narrated by: Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 18-12-25
- Language: Arabic
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- Written by: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Abridged
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Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 08-04-08
- Language: English
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Whose Language Is English?
- Written by: Jieun Kiaer
- Narrated by: Hannah Choi
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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In this ambitious book, Jieun Kiaer explores the lives of English words in the twenty-first century, when the creation and use of language has become an increasingly dynamic, interactive, and diverse process in which ordinary people have taken leading roles—offering such coinages as "flexitarian," "MeToo," "glow up," and "s--tizen" to "No sabo kids" and beyond. As English language grows ever more diverse, Kiaer believes, we need a paradigm shift.
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Whose Language Is English?
- Narrated by: Hannah Choi
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release Date: 17-09-24
- Language: English
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The Language Warrior's Manifesto
- How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds
- Written by: Anton Treuer
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Anton Treuer has been at the forefront of the battle to revitalize Ojibwe for many years. In this impassioned argument, he discusses the interrelationship between language and culture, the problems of language loss, strategies and tactics for resisting, and the inspiring stories of successful language warriors. He recounts his own sometimes hilarious struggle to learn Ojibwe as an adult, and he depicts the astonishing success of the language program at Lac Courte Oreilles, where a hundred children now speak Ojibwe as their first language.
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The Language Warrior's Manifesto
- How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 25-11-20
- Language: English
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The N Word
- Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
- Written by: Jabari Asim
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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In 2003, the book Nigger started an intense conversation about the uses and implications of that epithet. The N Word moves beyond that short, provocative book by revealing how the word has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America.
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The N Word
- Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release Date: 26-04-07
- Language: English
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The Lost Language of Symbolism Volume 1
- Written by: Harold Bayley
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Mining information from mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world, a foremost expert on symbols explains word origins and their meanings. The ultimate symbols are the letters and words in language as Bayley moves beyond mere pictures to understand the vital messages that have been ignored or lost across the centuries.
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The Lost Language of Symbolism Volume 1
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 20-07-24
- Language: English
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Speaking My Soul
- Race, Life and Language
- Written by: John Russell Rickford
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford's life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers. In this engaging memoir, Rickford recalls landmark events for his racial identity.
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Speaking My Soul
- Race, Life and Language
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 18-10-22
- Language: English
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Rhetoric, Poetics and Logic
- Written by: Aristotle
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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All effective debaters, whether they know it or not, employ Aristotle's 3 basic principles of effective argument that form the spine of Rhetoric. In Poetics, Aristotle draws a dramatic distinction between poetry and history. This collection also includes Aristotle's body of work that has come to be identified as Logic.
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Rhetoric, Poetics and Logic
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 05-10-99
- Language: English
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The History of English: The Biography of a Language
- Written by: Christopher R. Fee
- Narrated by: Christopher R. Fee
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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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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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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Babel No More
- The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
- Written by: Michael Erard
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages...or seventy? In Babel No More, Michael Erard, "a monolingual with benefits," sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like Italian cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages; Emil Krebs, a pugnacious German diplomat, who spoke sixty-eight languages; and Lomb Kat, a Hungarian who taught herself Russian by reading Russian romance novels.
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Babel No More
- The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 03-06-13
- Language: English
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