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On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History
- By: Thomas Carlyle
- Narrated by: Michael Anthony
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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On Heroes, Hero Worship, and The Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle, is a collection of six lectures given in May 1840 about prominent historical figures. It sets out Carlyle's belief in the importance of heroic leadership, his view of how the world would be if powerful and inspired men were to have the power he thought they deserved. The collection includes figures ranging from religion to literature and politics, and the figures chosen were presented by Carlyle as archetypal examples of individuals who had dramatically impacted history for good or ill.
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Marmite author. Unique style.
- By phil on 18-02-21
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On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History
- Narrated by: Michael Anthony
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 30-01-20
- Language: English
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Immigrant Tongues
- Exploring How Languages Moved, Evolved, and Defined Us
- By: Patrick Foote
- Narrated by: RJ Bayley
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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From the history of the English language's arrival in the United States to the spread of Arabic across North Africa and the enduring legacy of the Latin language, Immigrant Tongues explores the journeys of tongues across continents. With a style that balances entertainment and depth, this...
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Immigrant Tongues
- Exploring How Languages Moved, Evolved, and Defined Us
- Narrated by: RJ Bayley
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 14-04-26
- Language: English
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More Than Words
- How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World
- By: Maryellen MacDonald PhD
- Narrated by: Maryellen MacDonald PhD
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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The groundbreaking science of how and why we talk, and how this ability impacts every area of our lives Humans are the only species that can transform internal ideas into talk, whether through speech, writing, or sign language. But why do we have this almost magical, special talent? It turns out...
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More Than Words
- How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World
- Narrated by: Maryellen MacDonald PhD
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-06-25
- Language: English
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The Stories of Your Life
- The Eight Stories That Explain the World Around Us
- By: Ben Ambridge
- Narrated by: Ben Ambridge
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Every aspect of human behaviour is part of a story – by understanding the stories, you can understand life itself. Read by the author, Ben Ambridge. 'Fascinating, entertaining and deeply smart' – Will Storr, bestselling author of The Status Game Wars, pandemics, Brexit, Elon Musk, the...
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The Stories of Your Life
- The Eight Stories That Explain the World Around Us
- Narrated by: Ben Ambridge
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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Written in Stone
- A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language
- By: Christopher Stevens
- Narrated by: Michael Healy
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Half the world's population speaks a language that has evolved from a single prehistoric mother tongue. First spoken in Stone Age times on the steppes of central Eurasia 6,500 years ago, this mother tongue spread from the shores of the Black Sea across almost all of Europe and much of Asia. It is the genetic basis of everything we speak and write today - the DNA of language.
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Disappointing
- By Clare on 09-03-17
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Written in Stone
- A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language
- Narrated by: Michael Healy
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 15-11-15
- Language: English
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Language City
- The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
- By: Ross Perlin
- Narrated by: Ross Perlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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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. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York.
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Language City
- The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
- Narrated by: Ross Perlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-04-24
- Language: English
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The Winter's Tale
- BBC Radio Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Danny Sapani, Eve Best, full cast, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Eve Best, Danny Sapani and Shaun Dooley star in this modern, riveting and magical production of The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare. The Winter's Tale treads new dramatic ground embracing tragedy, poetry, folklore, magic realism, music, comedy and the infamous stage direction 'exit pursued by a bear'. One of Shakespeare's mesmerising later productions, it is often considered a 'problem play' as it starts with a tragedy and ends in a romance.
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The Winter's Tale
- BBC Radio Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Danny Sapani, Eve Best, full cast, Karl Johnson, Paul Copley, Shaun Dooley, Susan Jameson
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 18-02-21
- Language: English
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Verbal Judo, Second Edition
- The Gentle Art of Persuasion
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 17-11-26
- Language: English
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Deutsch – Eine Liebeserklärung
- Die zehn großen Vorzüge unserer erstaunlichen Sprache
- By: Prof. Dr. Roland Kaehlbrandt
- Narrated by: Alexander Gamnitzer
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Was die deutsche Sprache kann! Ein geflügeltes Wort sagt, das Leben sei zu kurz, um Deutsch zu lernen. Ganz falsch! In diesem Hörbuch zeigt Roland Kaehlbrandt anhand von zehn sympathischen und handfesten Vorzügen, wie gut die deutsche Sprache tatsächlich gebaut und wie zugänglich sie deshalb ist. Praktische Beispiele und viel Humor begleiten uns auf diesem kenntnisreichen Streifzug durch die liebenswerten und nützlichen Eigenschaften einer alten und zugleich hochlebendigen, wunderschönen Sprache. Ein Hörbuch, das uns ganz und gar verzaubern wird!
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Deutsch – Eine Liebeserklärung
- Die zehn großen Vorzüge unserer erstaunlichen Sprache
- Narrated by: Alexander Gamnitzer
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 19-02-24
- Language: German
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Babel No More
- The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
- 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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Our Mutual Friend
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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Charles Dickens' classic novel of mystery, read by Alex Jennings. A body is found in the River Thames and is identified as John Harmon. He was due to inherit a great fortune on the condition that he marry a young woman called Bella Wilfer. And so the story begins and unravels and we are...
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Our Mutual Friend
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 03-08-06
- Language: English
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Says Who?
- A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
- By: Anne Curzan
- Narrated by: Anne Curzan
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Curzan “I was bowled over, page after page, by the author’s fine ear for our language and...
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Says Who?
- A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
- Narrated by: Anne Curzan
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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The Creating Brain
- The Neuroscience of Genius
- By: Nancy C. Andreasen M.D.
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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In a fascinating tour of creativity and the brain, Nancy Andreasen, professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa and the winner of the National Medal of Science, explores how the human brain achieves creative breakthroughs--in art, literature, music, and science--the role of genes and environment, extraordinary creativity vs. ordinary creativity, and the question of genius and insanity.
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Fantastic book
- By Alpha on 01-03-15
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The Creating Brain
- The Neuroscience of Genius
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-10-08
- Language: English
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Get Talking Mandarin Chinese in Ten Days
- By: Elizabeth Scurfield, Song Lianyi
- Narrated by: Teach Yourself Languages
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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When travelling, do you want to journey off the English-speaking path, meet people and communicate easily? If so then you need to Get Talking. Through 10 common scenarios plus culture and travel advice, you'll learn the skills for understanding and the confidence to speak Mandarin Chinese in just 10 days. Practise the most frequent words and expressions for: Getting to know people. Meeting people. Exchanging information. Asking for a telephone number. Having a drink. Having a meal. Booking a room. Booking a table. Asking for directions.
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Great starting point
- By Anonymous on 30-03-18
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Get Talking Mandarin Chinese in Ten Days
- Narrated by: Teach Yourself Languages
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 23-07-12
- Language: English
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Exit Betty
- By: Grace Livingston Hill
- Narrated by: Anne Hancock
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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Soon-to-be heiress Betty Stanhope is a runaway bride, but not for the usual reasons - she didn't flee because of a change of heart. Reluctant about the wedding at the outset, the dutiful Betty reaches the altar to find that her groom is a different man altogether and someone she's dreaded most of her life! Before the wedding can proceed, she is taken to a room to recover from her fainting spell.
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Exit Betty
- Narrated by: Anne Hancock
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 31-05-17
- Language: English
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Tarzan the Terrible
- Tarzan: Authorized Editions, Book 8
- By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrated by: Ben Dooley
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Tarzan the Terrible, written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is the eighth book in the Tarzan series. Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author best known for his science fiction and fantasy novels. Burroughs created the characters of Tarzan and John Carter, as well as the fictional landmass in the Earth known as Pellucidar.
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Tarzan the Terrible
- Tarzan: Authorized Editions, Book 8
- Narrated by: Ben Dooley
- Series: Tarzan, Book 8
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 03-11-20
- Language: English
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The Aspern Papers
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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An American editor arrives in Venice on a quest to acquire some unpublished letters written by his favorite Romantic poet, Jeffrey Aspern. He tracks down the mistress to whom the letters were addressed, a now elderly Miss Bordereau, and presents himself as a prospective lodger. In hopes of gaining access to the secret papers, he begins courting Miss Bordereau's plain spinster niece, Miss Tina.
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Highly recommended
- By Al on 24-02-17
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The Aspern Papers
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-05-09
- Language: English
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Volpone
- The Fox
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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Articulate While Black
- Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S
- By: H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman, Michael Eric Dyson - foreword
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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In Articulate While Black, two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama's language use--and America's response to it. In this eloquently written and powerfully argued book, H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman provide new insights about President Obama and the relationship between language and race in contemporary society.
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Articulate While Black
- Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 17-12-13
- Language: English
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Yeah, Nah!
- A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are
- By: William McInnes
- Narrated by: William McInnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Have you ever bunged it on? Behaved like a drongo? Added mayo to a story? Lost your Reg Grundies? Join bestselling storyteller William McInnes as he offers his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words. From the simpler times of childhood to today's testing (and unprecedented!)...
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Yeah, Nah!
- A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are
- Narrated by: William McInnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-11-23
- Language: English
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