The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins
By: Anne Curzan
4.37
Format: 36 pages, Audible Audio
18 hrs and 22 minsFrom new words such as "bling" and "email" to the role of text messaging and oth…
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1. Language A to Z
By: None , John McWhorter
4.28
Format: 7 pages, Audio CD
With more than 6,000 languages spoken around the world, it’s no wonder that linguistics, the study … read more
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2. The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.32
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Many of us know the Black Death as a catastrophic event of the medieval world. But the Black Death … read more
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- history
- audiobook
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4. Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed
By: Edwin Barnhart
3.80
Format: 152 pages, Audible Audio
Centuries ago, Spanish conquistadors searching for gold and new lands encountered a group of indepe… read more
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5. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
By: Don Yaeger , Brian Kilmeade
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
From the authors of the New York Timesbestseller George Washington's Secret Six, the little-known s… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Jeeves, #11)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Bertie is in it up to his neck when a perfectly harmless visit to … read more
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7. Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.33
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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8. Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies (Great Courses, #8510)
By: Robert J. Allison
4.27
Format: 67 pages, Audiobook
List of the 36 Lecture Titles 1 The World before Colonial America 2 Spain's New World Empire 3 John… read more
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9. King Arthur: History and Legend
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.31
Format: 517 pages, Audible Audio
The saga of King Arthur and his court is the most enduringly popular mythic tradition of Western ci… read more
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10. The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses #350)
By: Bob Brier
0.00
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
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11. English in America: A Linguistic History
By: None
5.00
Format: None pages, MP3 CD
Think about this: How would you address a group of two or more people? Would your default terminolo… read more
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12. Great Minds of the Medieval World
By: Dorsey Armstrong
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Audible Audio
The Middle Ages was a time of major advances in many fields of knowledge, from theology and philoso… read more
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13. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
By: Eric Hoffer
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more
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14. The Story of Human Language
By: None
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Audiobook
"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more
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15. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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16. Founding Mothers
By: Cokie Roberts
3.64
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes New York Times bestseller Founding Mo… read more
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17. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
By: John McWhorter
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
People of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question… read more
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- audiobook
"To tar America as insufficiently aware of slavery is more about smugness and noble victimhood than forging something new and needed."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"Antiracism should focus strongly on ending the war on drugs, and there is no need for legions of whites to be instructed in how privileged they are for this to happen."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"[P]rofound social change can happen without the entire populace being junior scholars about racist injustice. Such change has been happening world-wide for several centuries."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"They are unreachable for the simple reason that they are arguing from religion rather than reason, trying to foist their dogma into the public square out of a misguided sense that they are the world'…"-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
18. History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
4.23
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
12 hours and 59 minutes Mutiny. Disease. Starvation. Cannibals. From the ancient wayfarers to mo… read more
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19. The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.08
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
2 hours and 43 minutes The world has been fundamentally changed by the shock and devastation of … read more
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20. Medieval Myths & Mysteries (The Great Courses)
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.14
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 5 hours and 6 minutes Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is… read more
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21. The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
By: Anand Giridharadas
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change mi… read more
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"We were being explicitly taught: Don’t think that you are first to anything, pay attention to what preceded you, trust that you are standing on someone else’s ground until proven otherwise."-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
"All this is new to white people, because white people generally think they can just do what they want. There’s no consulting, there’s no talking to people of color about what they think. So we were p…"-Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
22. Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
By: Aubrey Clayton
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is … read more
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23. 36 Books That Changed the World
By: Andrew R. Wilson
3.66
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Certain works of literature, history, science, philosophy, political theory and religion offer powe… read more
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24. The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh
By: Claudia Gray
4.10
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
The third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facin… read more
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25. The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins
By: Anne Curzan
4.37
Format: 36 pages, Audible Audio
18 hrs and 22 minsFrom new words such as "bling" and "email" to the role of text messaging and oth… read more
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26. The Celtic World
By: Jennifer Paxton
4.09
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Following the surge of interest and pride in Celtic identity since the 19th century, much of what w… read more
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27. A Day's Read
By: Arnold Weinstein
3.89
Format: 19 pages, Audible Audio
Join three literary scholars and award-winning professors as they introduce you to dozens of short … read more
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28. We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels
By: Gary Janetti
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this hilarious and often touching collection, the New York Times bestselling author, television … read more
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29. The History of the English Language (The Great Courses, 2250)
By: Seth Lerer
4.13
Format: 9 pages, Audio CD
18 audio CDs and Course Guide Books in 3 hard shell cases. Course is divided into 36 lectures. read more
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30. Dream: The Art and Science of Slumber
By: Scott Carney
3.40
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Why do so many of us have trouble falling asleep? Why do our thoughts spin in wild directions after… read more
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31. The Life & Times of Beethoven: The First Angry Man
By: Robert Greenberg
4.15
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 5 hours and 19 minutes In The Life & Times of Beethoven, celebrated composer a… read more
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