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Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing
- Encounters with the Mysteries & Meanings of Language
- By: Daniel Tammet
- Narrated by: Daniel Tammet
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language(s) - and those who speak, study and invent them - by the best-selling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers. Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks 'talk' to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will AI researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other questions about the intricacy and profound power of language.
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I had to read it twice.
- By Mr. James Emmans on 18-08-18
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Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing
- Encounters with the Mysteries & Meanings of Language
- Narrated by: Daniel Tammet
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 24-08-17
- Language: English
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Critical Thinking
- Understand Your Brain and Improve Your Logic
- By: Alex Houston
- Narrated by: Rae Lang
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Critical thinking can be defined as "finding out how to think better by enhancing one's thinking skills". People who are critical thinkers use the thinking procedure to evaluate, consider, reflect on, and piece together what they have learned or are currently learning. Unfortunately, much of everybody's thinking tends to be prejudiced, imprecise, uncertain, uninformed, or even sexist or racist. Since this ends up being significantly limiting, critical thinking is needed to improve its quality and value.
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Critical Thinking
- Understand Your Brain and Improve Your Logic
- Narrated by: Rae Lang
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 08-10-20
- Language: English
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The Concept of Mind
- By: Gilbert Ryle
- Narrated by: Barry Gladden
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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This book offers what may with reservations be described as a theory of the mind. But it does not give new information about minds. We possess already a wealth of information about minds, information which is neither derived from, nor upset by, the arguments of philosophers. The philosophical arguments which constitute this book are intended not to increase what we know about minds, but to rectify the logical geography of the knowledge which we already possess.
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The Concept of Mind
- Narrated by: Barry Gladden
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 17-03-23
- Language: English
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The Interpretation Of Cultures
- 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 Gift of the Gab
- How Eloquence Works
- By: David Crystal
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent audiobook illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insights into the way we use words. David Crystal, a world-renowned expert on the history and usage of the English language, probes the intricate workings of eloquence in this lively analysis. Crystal focuses on the here and now of eloquent speaking - from pitch, pace, and prosody to jokes, appropriateness, and how to wield a microphone.
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Absolutely marvelous
- By Justine on 15-04-23
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The Gift of the Gab
- How Eloquence Works
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 27-03-18
- Language: English
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How We Think by John Dewey
- By: John Dewey
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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This volume also includes a collection of essays entitled The Educational Frontier, Dewey's articles on logic, the outlawry of war, and philosophy for the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, and his reviews of Alfred North Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas, Martin Schutze's Academic Illusions in the Field of Letters and the Arts, and Rexford G. Tugwell's Industrial Discipline and the Governmental Arts.
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How We Think by John Dewey
- Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 18-07-13
- Language: English
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Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge
- By: Karl Popper
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie–The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge–as ‘…a child of crises, above all of …the crisis of physics.' The two fundamental problems of knowledge that lie at the center of the book are the problem of induction, that although we are able to observe only a limited number of particular events, science nevertheless advances unrestricted universal statements; and the problem of demarcation, which asks for a separating line between empirical science and non-science.
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Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 18-04-24
- Language: English
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Quantum Entanglement
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- By: Jed Brody
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schrödinger's Cat, famously both dead and alive.) An especially rigorous form of quantum contradiction occurs in experiments with entangled particles. Our common assumption is that objects have properties whether or not anyone is observing them, and the measurement of one can't affect the other. Quantum entanglement rejects this assumption, offering impeccable reasoning and irrefutable evidence of the opposite. Is quantum entanglement mystical, or just mystifying?
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Inappropriate for audio book
- By Crowsbow on 16-07-20
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Quantum Entanglement
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 25-02-20
- Language: English
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The Stoic Guide to a Happy Life
- 53 Brief Lessons for Living
- By: Massimo Pigliucci
- Narrated by: Peter Coleman
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Learn how to survive life's hardships and enjoy its pleasures with the modern stoic mindset. In this enlightening book, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers a thoughtful and modern reinterpretation of Epictetus' 53 lessons for living a good life. Drawing on the ancient...
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An interesting approach to living
- By Paul Harvey on 15-11-21
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The Stoic Guide to a Happy Life
- 53 Brief Lessons for Living
- Narrated by: Peter Coleman
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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The Animate and the Inanimate
- By: William James Sidis
- Narrated by: John Marino
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This work sets forth a theory which is speculative in nature, there being no verifying experiments. It is based on the idea of the reversibility of everything in time; that is, that every type of process has its time image, a corresponding process which is its exact reverse with respect to time.
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The Animate and the Inanimate
- Narrated by: John Marino
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 29-04-21
- Language: English
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A Biography of Loneliness
- The History of an Emotion
- By: Fay Bound Alberti
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite 21st-century fears of an "epidemic" of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the 18th century to the present, historian of the emotions Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not a historical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist.
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Not as interesting as it might seem
- By Anonymous on 10-12-20
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A Biography of Loneliness
- The History of an Emotion
- Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 05-05-20
- Language: English
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Do You Think You're Clever?
- The Oxbridge Questions
- By: John Farndon
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Why can’t you light a candle in a spaceship? What books are bad for you? Is nature natural? Every year Oxford and Cambridge’s learned professors pose such curious conundrums to potential students to separate the wheat from the chaff, and the clever from the both of them. Do You Think You’re Clever? provides dazzling answers to 60 of these infamously perplexing problems... How would you measure up against Oxbridge’s sharpest minds?
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Slow and not particularly thought evoking.
- By katecaresse on 14-11-25
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Do You Think You're Clever?
- The Oxbridge Questions
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-09-10
- Language: English
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Narrated by: Greg V. Gill
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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"Philosophy is not a theory," asserted Austro-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), "but an activity." In this 1921 opus, his only philosophical work published during his lifetime, Wittgenstein defined the object of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts and proposed the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis.
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Great book, infuriating reading…
- By Automatic Slim on 02-02-23
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Narrated by: Greg V. Gill
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 17-03-21
- Language: English
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Investigating Wittgenstein
- By: Giles Fraser
- Narrated by: Philip Rose
- Length: 34 mins
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Curious, confounding and brilliant, Wittgenstein is a philosopher whom people find it easy to get obsessed with. In Investigating Wittgenstein, Giles Fraser explores the secrets of his attraction. The How to Believe series explores the teachings, philosophies and beliefs of major thinkers and religious texts. In a short, easy-to-access format, leading writers present new understandings of these perennially important ideas.
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Using Wittgenstein
- By Andreas on 07-05-23
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Investigating Wittgenstein
- Narrated by: Philip Rose
- Length: 34 mins
- Release date: 19-08-14
- Language: English
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Dogwhistles and Figleaves
- How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood
- By: Jennifer Mather Saul
- Narrated by: Clare Staniforth
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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It is widely accepted that political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist and more accepting of wildly implausible conspiracy theories. Dogwhistles and Figleaves explores ways in which such changes—both of which defied previously settled norms of political speech—have been brought about. Jennifer Saul shows that two linguistic devices, dogwhistles and figleaves, have played a crucial role.
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Dogwhistles and Figleaves
- How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood
- Narrated by: Clare Staniforth
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 08-02-24
- Language: English
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Woke: The Journey of a Word
- A BBC Radio 4 Series
- By: Matthew Syed
- Narrated by: Matthew Syed
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Matthew Syed traces the origins and evolution of the word 'woke’ Once a watchword for African Americans in the early 1900s, 'woke' is now used as an insult across the political spectrum, and it has become synonymous with our era of angry debate. As the word has spread, what people mean by it...
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Woke: The Journey of a Word
- A BBC Radio 4 Series
- Narrated by: Matthew Syed
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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Recognising the Stranger
- On Palestine and Narrative
- By: Isabella Hammad
- Narrated by: Isabella Hammad
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Moving and erudite, Hammad writes from within the moment, shedding light on the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Recognising the Stranger is a brilliant melding of literary and cultural analysis by one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and a foremost writer of fiction in the world today.
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Phenomenal
- By Mitta on 13-10-24
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Recognising the Stranger
- On Palestine and Narrative
- Narrated by: Isabella Hammad
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: English
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Irony and Sarcasm
- By: Roger Kreuz
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psycholinguist Roger Kreuz offers an enlightening and concise overview of the life and times of these two terms, mapping their evolution from Greek philosophy and Roman rhetoric to modern literary criticism to emojis.
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Irony and Sarcasm
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 05-05-20
- Language: English
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Motivational Interviewing Beginner’s Guide
- Learn and Master the Techniques to Cultivate Commitment to Change in Health, Fitness, and Nutrition, Plus Mental Toughness for Teen Athletes
- By: Alec Rowe, Jane Kennedy, Leo Black
- Narrated by: Sally Jarman, Sawyer Varvel
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Coach your clients to sky-high success by using the power of motivational interviewing, plus a bonus offer included.
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Motivational Interviewing Beginner’s Guide
- Learn and Master the Techniques to Cultivate Commitment to Change in Health, Fitness, and Nutrition, Plus Mental Toughness for Teen Athletes
- Narrated by: Sally Jarman, Sawyer Varvel
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 25-04-25
- Language: English
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Rational Ritual
- Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge
- By: Michael Suk-Young Chwe
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.
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Rational Ritual
- Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 07-07-15
- Language: English
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