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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
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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!). An idiosyncratic blend of history, word play, anecdote, and hyperbole, all in 60-second instalments, this is Gyles Brandreth at his word-perfect, Just-a-Minute best. You’ll never mix your metaphors again...
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Prose & Cons
- The English Language in Just a Minute
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-10-24
- Language: English
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Powsels and Thrums
- By: Alan Garner
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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A standalone work of nonfiction by the bestselling author of Treacle Walker, Powsels and Thrums is a distillation of a lifetime of work. It blends family history, folklore, stories and poetry, bringing to life the language and landscape of Garner’s beloved Cheshire. Full of charm and insight, this book is a celebration of the writer’s life, values and language.
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Powsels and Thrums
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-10-24
- Language: English
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わかったつもり~読解力がつかない本当の原因~
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 21-02-25
- Language: Japanese
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Information Science
- The Basics
- By: Judith Pintar, David Hopping
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Inviting listeners to explore a modern field of study with deep historical foundations, the book begins by considering the complexities of the term "information" and the information life cycle from classification to preservation. Each chapter examines a different area within IS, surveying its history, technologies, and practices with a critical eye.
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Information Science
- The Basics
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 15-10-24
- Language: English
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This Is Dyslexia
- The definitive guide to the untapped power of dyslexic thinking and its vital role in our future
- By: Kate Griggs
- Narrated by: Kate Griggs
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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British social entrepreneur, founder and CEO of charity Made By Dyslexia, Kate Griggs has been shifting the narrative on dyslexia and educating people on its strengths since 2004. Having been surrounded by an extraordinary 'smorgasbord of Dyslexic Thinking' her whole life, Griggs knows the superpower of dyslexia all too well. This is Dyslexia redefines and reshapes what it means to be dyslexic. It explores how it has shaped our past and how harnessing its powers and strengths is vital to our future.
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This Is Dyslexia
- The definitive guide to the untapped power of dyslexic thinking and its vital role in our future
- Narrated by: Kate Griggs
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Le Guin’s sharp and witty voice is on full display in this collection of twenty-four essays, revised by the author a decade after its initial publication in 1979. The collection covers a wide range of topics and Le Guin’s origins as a writer, her advocacy for science fiction and fantasy as mediums for true literary exploration, the writing of her own major works such as A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, and her role as a public intellectual and educator.
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The Language of the Night
- Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Michael Crouch
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 26-11-24
- Language: English
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Going to the Wars
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 15 hrs
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Max Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors. But after his failure as a parachute soldier in Cyprus in 1963, he became a journalist instead. Before he was thirty he had reported conflicts in Northern Ireland, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Middle East, Cyprus, Rhodesia, India and a string of other trouble spots. His final effort was as a war correspondent during the Falklands War. Going to the Wars is a story of his experiences reporting from these battlefields. It is also the story of a self-confessed coward: a writer with heroic ambitions.
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Going to the Wars
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 31-10-24
- Language: English
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Resistance
- By: Steve McQueen, Turner Contemporary
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Here for the first time, is the story of how protest shaped Britain – and how photography shaped protest – throughout the twentieth century. Featuring a compelling introduction by Sir Steve McQueen, an in-depth contextual essay from Gary Younge, Resistance contains firsthand accounts from individuals and photographers who witnessed these major historical moments, as well as expert analysis of where these stories lead us.
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Resistance
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 30-01-25
- Language: English
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100-Word Stories
- A Short Form for Expansive Writing
- By: Kim Culbertson
- Narrated by: Kim Culbertson
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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This flash-fiction form has become a popular structure for efficiently teaching a wide variety of literary devices, terms, and processes in a targeted way. Part teaching guide, part anthology, 100-Word Stories is a dynamic guide complete with lessons and prompts to help young writers learn and practice literary elements, narrative skill, and personal voice.
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100-Word Stories
- A Short Form for Expansive Writing
- Narrated by: Kim Culbertson
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-10-24
- Language: English
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Editor
- An Inside Story of Newspapers
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 15 hrs
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In February 2002 Max Hastings retired from his position as a 'Fleet Street' Editor. His is an enormously illustrious career which started in 1985, when he was offered the Editorship of a national institution – the Daily Telegraph – in a surprise move by its owners. This memoir tells the story of what happened to him, and to a great newspaper, over the next decade. It is all here: the rows with prime ministers, the coverage of great events including the end of the Cold War, the fall of Thatcher, the rise of New Labour and Tony Blair, the Gulf War, and the tribulations of the Royal Family.
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Editor
- An Inside Story of Newspapers
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 31-10-24
- Language: English
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Seven Secrets to the Perfect Personal Essay
- Crafting the Story Only You Could Write
- By: Nancy Slonim Aronie
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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A beloved writing teacher and essayist lays out the rules for crafting a remarkable personal essay, the kind that tells a story, moves readers, and reveals insights into the human condition — the kind that AI can’t write.
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Seven Secrets to the Perfect Personal Essay
- Crafting the Story Only You Could Write
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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Ping
- The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication
- By: Andrew Brodsky
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Regardless of whether you work in an office, remotely, or hybrid, we are all virtual communicators. Andrew Brodsky is here to explain that, yes, that meeting could have been an email. And that email? Maybe it should have been a voice memo. Your camera? It’s okay to turn it off, sometimes even better. Many of us give far too little thought to our virtual communication, and end up feeling isolated, overlooked and burnt out. Ping distils Brodsky’s cutting-edge social science research on remote communication tools.
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Ping
- The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: English
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Word Wise
- Say What You Mean, Deepen Your Connections, and Get to the Point
- By: Will Jelbert
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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An eye-opening guide on how we talk and write to one another, Word Wise explores 400+ of the most common cases of word trash (filler words, hyperbole, and abstractions) and word power (verbs of action, ear candy, onomatopoeia). Examining social media, the language of Donald Trump, AI language research, and heard-on-the-street lingo, communication expert Will Jelbert offers simple and concrete recommendations for improving your own vernacular. With wit, practical applications, and a small dose of grammar, Word Wise will help you communicate more effectively at home, at work, and online.
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Word Wise
- Say What You Mean, Deepen Your Connections, and Get to the Point
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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On Air
- The Triumph and Tumult of NPR
- By: Steve Oney
- Length: 20 hrs
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Founded in 1970, NPR is America’s most powerful broadcast news network. Despite being overshadowed by the larger and more glamorous PBS, public radio has long been home to shows such as All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and This American Life that captivate millions of listeners in homes, cars, and workplaces across the nation.
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On Air
- The Triumph and Tumult of NPR
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 11-03-25
- Language: English
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Speak, Memorably
- The Art of Captivating an Audience
- By: Bill McGowan, Juliana Silva
- Length: 12 hrs
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Bill McGowan has devoted more than twenty years to helping people find their distinctive voice. From CEOs to White House staffers to television personalities, he has coached thousands of speakers to make their narrative more memorable and distinctive by breaking free from the challenges preventing them from selling their ideas with conviction, motivating their teams during challenging times, or clearly articulating a company’s mission. Speak, Memorably offers concrete strategies and tools to help anyone, in any stage of their career.
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Speak, Memorably
- The Art of Captivating an Audience
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 10-06-25
- Language: English
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Help! My Kid Hates Writing
- How to Turn Struggling Students into Brave Writers
- By: Julie Bogart
- Length: 9 hrs
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In this book, Julie Bogart shares the secrets to breakthroughs in writing that have made her award-winning Brave Writer program a smash hit among homeschoolers and beyond. From unlocking the joys of freewriting to overcoming fear of the red pen, it blends useful advice and hands-on exercises with in-depth explanations of the underlying philosophy—and throws in more than a few pep talks along the way.
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Help! My Kid Hates Writing
- How to Turn Struggling Students into Brave Writers
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 15-04-25
- Language: English
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Enough Is Enuf
- Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell
- By: Gabe Henry
- Length: 12 hrs
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In the comic annals of linguistic history, legions of rebel wordsmiths have died on the hill of spelling reform, risking their reputations to bring English into the realm of the rational. This book is about them: Mark Twain, Ben Franklin, Eliza Burnz, C. S. Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, Charles Darwin, and the innumerable others on both sides of the Atlantic who, for a time in their life, became fanatically occupied with writing thru instead of through, tho for though, laf for laugh, beleev for believe, and dawter for daughter (and tried futilely to get everyone around them to do it too).
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Enough Is Enuf
- Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 15-04-25
- Language: English
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戦争ミュージアム―― 記憶の回路をつなぐ
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 29-11-24
- Language: Japanese
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The Mesopotamian Riddle
- An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
- By: Joshua Hammer
- Length: 10 hrs
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From the ruins of Persepolis to lawless outposts of the crumbling Ottoman Empire, The Mesopotamian Riddle whisks you on a wild adventure through the golden age of archaeology in an epic quest to understand our past.
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The Mesopotamian Riddle
- An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 18-03-25
- Language: English
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A Nation's Paper
- The Globe and Mail in the Life of Canada
- By: John Ibbitson
- Narrated by: Emily Nixon, Sterling Jarvis
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Since 1844, the Globe and Mail and its predecessor, George Brown’s Globe, have chronicled Canada: as a colony, a dominion, and a nation. To mark the paper’s 180th anniversary, Globe writers explored thirty issues and events in which the national newspaper has influenced the course of the country: Confederation, settler migrations, regional tensions, tussles over language, religion, and race. The essays reveal a tapestry of progress, conflict, and still-incomplete reconciliation.
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A Nation's Paper
- The Globe and Mail in the Life of Canada
- Narrated by: Emily Nixon, Sterling Jarvis
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-10-24
- Language: English
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