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Because Internet
- Understanding the New Rules of Language
- Written by: Gretchen McCulloch
- Narrated by: Gretchen McCulloch
- Length: 8 hrs
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Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are.
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Because Internet
- Understanding the New Rules of Language
- Narrated by: Gretchen McCulloch
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release Date: 23-07-19
- Language: English
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On Seeing and Noticing
- Written by: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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Alain de Botton believes that philosophy can help people enjoy happier lives. And in his numerous best sellers, from Status Anxiety to The Art of Travel, his unique blend of erudition and self-help has reached an audience eager to listen. In On Seeing and Noticing, Alain de Botton takes everyday concerns such as expressing sadness or being romantic and dispenses advice and observations based on the works of some of history's greatest writers, artists and thinkers.
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On Seeing and Noticing
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Release Date: 27-02-13
- Language: English
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First You Write a Sentence.
- The Elements of Reading, Writing...and Life.
- Written by: Joe Moran
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A poet writes in sentences, but so does the unsung author who came up with Items trapped in doors cause delays. A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply give it the gift of our time, and it is as close as most of us will get to making something truly beautiful. Enter acclaimed author Professor Joe Moran. Using minimal technical terms, First You Write a Sentence is his unpedantic but authoritative explanation of how the most ordinary words can be turned into verbal constellations of extraordinary grace.
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First You Write a Sentence.
- The Elements of Reading, Writing...and Life.
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 27-09-18
- 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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Freud
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Anthony Storr
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis Freud developed psychoanalysis into a general psychology, which became widely accepted as the predominant mode of discussing personality and interpersonal relationships. Anthony Storr goes one step further and investigates the status of Freud's legacy today and the disputes that surround it.
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Freud
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 26-12-04
- Language: English
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Kingdom of Characters
- The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
- Written by: Jing Tsu
- Narrated by: Jing Tsu
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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China today is one of the world's most powerful nations, yet just a century ago it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, left behind in the wake of Western technology. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu shows that China's most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: to make the formidable Chinese language - a 2,200-year-old writing system that was daunting to natives and foreigners alike - accessible to a globalised digital world.
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Kingdom of Characters
- The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
- Narrated by: Jing Tsu
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release Date: 18-01-22
- Language: English
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The History of English: The Biography of a Language
- Written by: Chris R. Fee
- Narrated by: Chris 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: Chris R. Fee
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 24-04-19
- Language: English
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The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!
- Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
- Written by: George Lakoff
- Narrated by: Chris Sorenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Completely revised and updated to tackle today’s issues, the 10th Anniversary Edition not only explains what framing is and how it works but also reveals why, after a brief stint of winning the framing wars in the 2008 elections, the Democrats have gone back to losing them, and what can be done about it. In this powerful new volume, George Lakoff delves into the issues that will dominate the midterm elections in 2014, the coming presidential elections, and beyond.
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The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!
- Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
- Narrated by: Chris Sorenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 10-10-14
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- Written by: Dennis Yi Tenen
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking listeners on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories, and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides crucial context for recent developments in AI, which holds important lessons for the future of humans living with smart technology.
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 06-02-24
- Language: English
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Le linguiste et les langues
- Written by: Claude Hagège
- Narrated by: Claude Hagège
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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C'est en linguiste de terrain que Claude Hagège a abordé le champ des langues. Son intérêt pour leur réalité vécue, leur chair vive et le terreau d'origine de la parole humaine en font un adepte d'une approche empirico-inductive, aboutissant ainsi à des conclusions d'ordre général à partir d'une matière concrète.
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Le linguiste et les langues
- Narrated by: Claude Hagège
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release Date: 18-12-19
- Language: French
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Wordslut
- A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
- Written by: Amanda Montell
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Amanda Montell, feminist linguist and features editor at online magazine Byrdie, explains why words matter and why it’s imperative that women embrace their unique relationship with language. Drawing on fascinating research, and moving effortlessly between history and pop culture, Montell deconstructs language - from insults and cursing to grammar and pronunciation - to reveal the ways it has been used for centuries to gaslight women and keep them from gaining equality.
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Wordslut
- A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 06-09-19
- Language: English
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The English Language
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Simon Horobin
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary concerns about correctness, Horobin considers whether such changes are improvements or evidence of slipping standards.
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The English Language
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 24-08-18
- Language: English
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Wordwatching
- Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist
- Written by: Julian Burnside
- Narrated by: James Millar
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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A bonzer (p. 288) discussion of the strange but dinkum (p. 289) pedigree (p. 224) of the naughty (p. 202), nice (p. 212), and, sometimes, obscene (p. 217) English language. We live in a torrent of words — from radio and television, books and newspapers, and now from the internet. But, as Julian Burnside reminds us in this new edition of the bestselling Wordwatching, words are a source both of pleasure and power, and can be deployed for good or for ill.
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Wordwatching
- Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist
- Narrated by: James Millar
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release Date: 18-12-14
- Language: English
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The Water-Babies
- Written by: Charles Kingsley
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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A classic since its first publication in 1863, The Water-Babies is the story of a little chimney sweep named Tom and his magical adventures beneath the waves. The ill-treated Tom flees his dangerous toil and his cruel master, Grimes. When he jumps into a cool stream to clean the soot off himself, he becomes a water-baby, cleaner and happier than he has ever been, in a hidden fairy world. There, Tom meets haughty dragonflies, makes friends with a slow-witted lobster, and dodges hungry otters.
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The Water-Babies
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 15-11-11
- Language: English
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The Language of Food
- A Linguist Reads the Menu
- Written by: Dan Jurafsky
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Thirteen chapters evoke the joy and discovery of reading a menu dotted with the sharp-eyed annotations of a linguist. Jurafsky points out the subtle meanings hidden in filler words like "rich" and "crispy," zeroes in on the metaphors and storytelling tropes we rely on in restaurant reviews, and charts a micro-universe of marketing language on the back of a bag of potato chips.
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The Language of Food
- A Linguist Reads the Menu
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 22-10-14
- Language: English
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- Written by: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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This unforgettable children’s classic has been captivating children and adults alike for almost a century. Rebecca’s widowed mother has a failing farm, meager resources, and seven children to raise. When her spinster sisters offer Rebecca a home and an education, Mrs. Randall bundles her second eldest into a stagecoach with a kiss and an admonition to stay out of mischief. Could she be asking too much of the free-spirited imp with sparkling eyes and insatiable curiosity?
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Series: Rebecca of Sunnybrook, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 30-01-13
- Language: English
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Achieving Authentic Australian Accents: A Toolkit for Actors
- Craft an Australian Accent for the Stage or Screen
- Written by: Stephanie Lam
- Narrated by: Debbie Foster
- Length: 30 mins
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This guide enables you to create an authentic Australian accent. The course starts by discussing the oral posture necessary to develop an Australian accent including various exercises to help apply the knowledge areas that are discussed. Then the course includes additional exercises to rehearse and refine your Australian accent as you listen to native speakers and then repeat key words and phrases in a structured setting, giving you quick feedback to improve and refine you accent.
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Achieving Authentic Australian Accents: A Toolkit for Actors
- Craft an Australian Accent for the Stage or Screen
- Narrated by: Debbie Foster
- Length: 30 mins
- Release Date: 10-03-23
- Language: English
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Bagels, Bumf, and Buses
- A Day in the Life of the English Language
- Written by: Simon Horobin
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the listener on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have surprisingly fascinating histories.
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Bagels, Bumf, and Buses
- A Day in the Life of the English Language
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 14-04-20
- Language: English
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Sketches New and Old
- Written by: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Sketches New and Old is a compilation of fictional stories written by Mark Twain. Among them is "A Ghost Story". In each story, one can catch a great sense of Twain's humor and creativity. These classic sketches from Twain are no longer than 10 minutes each, but all show his quick-witted humor in response to the events of the day.
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Sketches New and Old
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 01-04-16
- Language: English
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Thomas Moore on Writing
- Written by: Thomas Moore
- Narrated by: Thomas Moore
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Writing, according to Thomas Moore, is sacred practice. Though we often don't think of it in these terms, everything we write - whether a love letter or a shopping list - connects us to the classic tradition of logos, or word. Once a revered practice, guarded by monks in the sanctity of the scriptorium, writing continues to offer us all direct passage to the soul's innermost corridors.
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Thomas Moore on Writing
- Narrated by: Thomas Moore
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release Date: 17-12-99
- Language: English
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