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    • How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
    • By: David W. Anthony
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-18
    • Language: English
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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? Learn more in this audiobook....

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    • Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-16
    • Language: English
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    • Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day....

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    • What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
    • By: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-16
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Anthony Storr
    • Narrated by: Neville Jason
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves....

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    • The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
    • By: Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-08
    • Language: English
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    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • By: Melvyn Bragg
    • Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-12
    • Language: English
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    • Melvyn Bragg fronts The Written World, a BBC Radio 4 series following the origins of writing from its first appearance 6,000 years ago and exploring how it has shaped the world's intellectual history....

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    • The English Language in Just a Minute
    • By: Gyles Brandreth
    • Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-24
    • Language: English
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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!).

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    • Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
    • By: George Lakoff
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorenson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-14
    • Language: English
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    • Since it became an international best-seller in 2004, Don't Think of an Elephant! has been the definitive handbook for progressives who want to articulate their goals....

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    • By: Lucan
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-17
    • Language: English
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    • If you had been a court poet during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, irritating the megalomaniac ruler would not have been wise....

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    • The Basics
    • By: Daniel Chandler
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 22-07-22
    • Language: English
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    • This third edition of the bestselling textbook has been fully revised, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language....

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    • Master Spanish Object Pronouns in 30 Days: 30-Day Mastery | Spanish Edition, Book 4
    • By: Olly Richards
    • Narrated by: Olly Richards, Salvador González
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • For high-beginner to low-intermediate learners. Master Spanish object pronouns (such as me, te, lo, la, nos, os, etc.) in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method....

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    • The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
    • By: Ross Perlin
    • Narrated by: Ross Perlin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever.

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    • By: Tom Wolfe
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-16
    • Language: English
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    • The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong....

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    • The Basics
    • By: Michael McCarthy
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • English Vocabulary: The Basics offers a clear, non-jargonistic introduction to English vocabulary, the way linguists classify and explain it, and the place of vocabulary in our overall picture of the language, and in society.

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    • What You Need to Know About Your Child's Speech and Language Development
    • By: Michelle MacRoy-Higgins PhD, Carlyn Kolker
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-17
    • Language: English
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    • When it comes to language acquisition, all parents have questions, and Time to Talk has the answers....

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