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  • Can You Forgive Her? cover art

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    • What the F

    • 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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • 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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    • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings

    • 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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    • Words on the Move

    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day....

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    • In Our Time: The Written World

    • By: Melvyn Bragg
    • Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • Freud

    • 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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    • Proust and the Squid

    • 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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • Prose & Cons

    • 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
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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    • The Pharsalia

    • By: Lucan
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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 All New Don't Think of an Elephant!

    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • 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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    • Time to Talk

    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • When it comes to language acquisition, all parents have questions, and Time to Talk has the answers....

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    • Yiddish

    • A Nation of Words
    • By: Miriam Weinstein
    • Narrated by: J. L. Glick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Here is the remarkable story of how Yiddish took vigorous root in Eastern European shtetls and in the Jewish quarters of cities across Europe....

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    • 20 Ways to Win Any Argument

    • Defend Yourself, Persuade Others and Think More Clearly (Formerly I'm Right, You're Wrong)
    • By: Sia Mohajer
    • Narrated by: Brittany A
    • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 29-07-21
    • Language: English
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    • From childhood we are taught to be right. We are taught to win - to beat others. Regardless of what we experience, we cling to this need. The result is a lifetime of self-deception, bad communication and damaged relationships....

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    • Semiotics: The Basics

    • The Basics
    • By: Daniel Chandler
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 22-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • 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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    • Introduction to Cognitive Science

    • By: Thad A. Polk, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Thad A. Polk
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • Professor Thad A. Polk takes you on a fascinating tour of the latest discoveries in the relatively new field of cognitive science. In 24 exciting lectures, Professor Polk shares dozens of the most challenging questions in cognitive science today.

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    • Louder Than Words

    • The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
    • By: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning....

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    • For F*ck's Sake

    • Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun
    • By: Rebecca Roache
    • Narrated by: Polly Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • In this lively and amusing exploration of the various puzzles that surround swearing, philosopher Rebecca Roache argues that what makes swearing offensive is not really the words at all: the offensiveness lies in what we don't say....

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