Bestsellers
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The Inkblots
- Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
- By: Damion Searls
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of 10 carefully designed inkblots....
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Memorable
- By Jason Comely on 03-04-17
By: Damion Searls
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NeuroTribes
- The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
- By: Steve Silberman
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth it is both of these things and more....
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The long hard road to proper identity on the Autistic spectrum.
- By Lorijorn on 10-29-15
By: Steve Silberman
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The Personality Brokers
- The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
- By: Merve Emre
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter - fiction writers with no formal training in psychology - and how it insinuated itself into our boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond....
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A biography that reads like a novel.
- By Sabrina on 09-14-18
By: Merve Emre
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Madness
- Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
- By: Antonia Hylton
- Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a compelling 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in America’s mental healthcare system....
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Thank you!
- By Amazon Customer on 03-13-24
By: Antonia Hylton
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Bedlam
- An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
- By: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-healthcare crisis in the United States....
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An intimate novel for the mentally insane
- By Daniel Stein on 03-16-23
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Being Wrong
- Adventures in the Margin of Error
- By: Kathryn Schulz
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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To err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from the origins of the universe to how to load the dishwasher....
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A good read
- By Mike Kircher on 10-06-10
By: Kathryn Schulz
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The Inkblots
- Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
- By: Damion Searls
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of 10 carefully designed inkblots....
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Memorable
- By Jason Comely on 03-04-17
By: Damion Searls
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NeuroTribes
- The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
- By: Steve Silberman
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth it is both of these things and more....
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The long hard road to proper identity on the Autistic spectrum.
- By Lorijorn on 10-29-15
By: Steve Silberman
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The Personality Brokers
- The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
- By: Merve Emre
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter - fiction writers with no formal training in psychology - and how it insinuated itself into our boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond....
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A biography that reads like a novel.
- By Sabrina on 09-14-18
By: Merve Emre
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Madness
- Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
- By: Antonia Hylton
- Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a compelling 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in America’s mental healthcare system....
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Thank you!
- By Amazon Customer on 03-13-24
By: Antonia Hylton
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Bedlam
- An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
- By: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-healthcare crisis in the United States....
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An intimate novel for the mentally insane
- By Daniel Stein on 03-16-23
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Being Wrong
- Adventures in the Margin of Error
- By: Kathryn Schulz
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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To err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from the origins of the universe to how to load the dishwasher....
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A good read
- By Mike Kircher on 10-06-10
By: Kathryn Schulz
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A Degree in a Book: Psychology
- Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject—in One Book!
- By: Alan Porter
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Psychology provides you with all the concepts you need to understand the fundamental issues. It covers the whole range of psychological research....
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Very informative,
- By Kindle Customer on 08-09-23
By: Alan Porter
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Mad in America
- Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
- By: Robert Whitaker
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world’s poorest countries....
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Essential Reading to Understand Modern Psychiatry
- By James H. Walter on 10-15-16
By: Robert Whitaker
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
- By: Gustave Le Bon
- Narrated by: Joseph Gomez
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is a seminal work on crowd psychology by Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931), a French social psychologist. He observes that a crowd forms when an influential idea unites a number of individuals and prompts them to act towards a common goal....
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A must read in terms of group psychology....
- By Alednam A Uonopk on 08-19-20
By: Gustave Le Bon
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The Great Pretender
- The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
- By: Susannah Cahalan
- Narrated by: Christie Moreau, Susannah Cahalan
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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From "one of America's most courageous young journalists" (NPR) comes a propulsive narrative history investigating the 50-year-old mystery behind a dramatic experiment that changed the course of modern medicine....
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Important story of fraud really well told
- By ReallyNelie on 12-27-19
By: Susannah Cahalan
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La interpretación de los sueños [The Interpretation of Dreams]
- By: Sigmund Freud
- Narrated by: Salvador Bosch
- Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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La interpretación de los sueños de Sigmund Freud es uno de los libros más importantes del siglo XX....
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Enjoy it a lot
- By Elsa Maria Gutierrez on 03-04-24
By: Sigmund Freud
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In a Different Key
- The Story of Autism
- By: John Donvan, Caren Zucker
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1938, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition....
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The New Book on Autism
- By Gadget on 02-26-16
By: John Donvan, and others
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Mental
- Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind
- By: Jaime Lowe
- Narrated by: Jaime Lowe
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A riveting memoir and a fascinating investigation of the history, uses, and controversies behind lithium, an essential medication for millions of people struggling with bipolar disorder....
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Recommend for Healthcare Providers, and anyone else
- By M.E. on 04-03-18
By: Jaime Lowe
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The Neurotic Character
- Fundamentals of a Comparative Individual Psychology and Psychotherapy
- By: Alfred Adler
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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As the 20th century drew to a close, the Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler (1870-1937) was perhaps the least known of the prominent figures of his time - in particular Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung - and yet he continues to be a figure of influence in the 21st century....
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Difficult to listen to.....
- By LM Lydia on 10-20-23
By: Alfred Adler
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Jung
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Anthony Stevens
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Abridged
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Anthony Stevens argues that Jung's visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing Western society....
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Very nice - will not be disappointed
- By Edgar on 12-15-05
By: Anthony Stevens
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Mortal Secrets
- Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
- By: Frank Tallis
- Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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A chronicle of Vienna's Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS's Vienna Blood series.
By: Frank Tallis
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Shrinks
- The Untold Story of Psychiatry
- By: Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Ogi Ogas
- Narrated by: Graham Corrigan
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public....
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Misleading
- By runner on 04-19-15
By: Jeffrey A. Lieberman, and others
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The Psychology Book
- Big Ideas Simply Explained
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 16 hrs
- Unabridged
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Explore the history, theories, and concepts of psychology through more than 100 groundbreaking ideas presented in an approachable style that demystifies an often daunting subject matter....
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Puts history and a real relatabity to Psychology
- By Conrad Jensen on 01-13-19
By: DK
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Mind Fixers
- Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
- By: Anne Harrington
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the unfulfilled quest to find the biological basis of mental illness, and its profound effects on patients, families, and American society....
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A summary relevant to each of us
- By R3 on 04-28-19
By: Anne Harrington
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The Lives They Left Behind
- Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
- By: Peter Stastny, Darby Penney
- Narrated by: Alex Paul
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients’ belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation....
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Not really the book I expected
- By B. Shaff on 11-09-17
By: Peter Stastny, and others
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The Origins of Psychoanalysis in Israel
- The Freudian Movement in Mandatory Palestine 1918-1948
- By: Guido Liebermann
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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This book presents readers with the fascinating story of the history of psychoanalysis during the time of the British Mandate in Palestine and the ...
By: Guido Liebermann
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Personality Disorders
- A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types
- By: Allan V. Horwitz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Allan V. Horwitz traces the evolution of defining personality disorders and the historical dilemmas of attempting to mold them into traditional medical conceptions of disorder....
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Not What I Thought It Would Be
- By D.H. on 02-14-24
By: Allan V. Horwitz
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One Simple Idea
- How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life
- By: Mitch Horowitz
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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From the millions-strong audiences of Oprah and The Secret to the mass-media ministries of evangelical figures like Joel Osteen and T. D. Jakes....
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Outstanding Popular History of New Thought!
- By Robert Ready on 01-11-14
By: Mitch Horowitz
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A Secret History of Consciousness
- By: Gary Lachman
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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For the last four centuries, science has tried to account for everything in terms of atoms and molecules and the physical laws they adhere to. Recently, this effort was extended to try to include the inner world of human beings....
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The worst audio and narration on Audible
- By NoirGuitarSuperstar on 03-25-21
By: Gary Lachman
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Scienceblind
- Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
- By: Andrew Shtulman
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Humans are born to create theories about the world - unfortunately, they're usually wrong, and keep us from understanding the world as it really is....
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A bit too simple
- By Edwin Garcia-Rios on 08-18-17
By: Andrew Shtulman
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Psychonauts
- Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
- By: Mike Jay
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism....
By: Mike Jay
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We've Been Too Patient
- Voices from Radical Mental Health—Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model
- By: L. D. Green - editor, Kelechi Ubozoh - editor, Robert Whitaker - foreword
- Narrated by: Dara Brown
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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25 unflinching stories and essays from the front lines of the radical mental health movement....
By: L. D. Green - editor, and others
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Mental Models
- Secrets of the World’s Most Famous Polymath (Learning How to Learn, Book 26)
- By: Peter Hollins
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Leonardo da Vinci was searching for a way out of poverty when he started designing, tinkering, thinking, and training himself. He still sets the example hundreds of years later for how to be a genius.
By: Peter Hollins
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The Sullivanians
- Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
- By: Alexander Stille
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
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In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill became available and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, opened its doors in New York City....
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As a former member…
- By Lisa Cohen on 07-10-23
By: Alexander Stille
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The Dawn of Language
- The Story of How We Came to Talk
- By: Sverker Johansson, Frank Perry - translator
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users....
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Pan Narrans
- By Helen on 09-15-21
By: Sverker Johansson, and others