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    Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 298min
    In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named “Nim Chimpsky” in a nod to the linguist whose theories Terrace challenged, was raised by a family in New York and instructed in American Sign Language. Initially, Terrace thought that Nim could create sentences but later discovered that Nim’s teachers inadvertently cued his signing. Terrace concluded that Project Nim failed - not because Nim couldn’t create sentences but because he couldn’t even learn words. Language is a uniquely human quality, and attempting to find it in animals is wishful thinking at best. The failure of Project Nim meant we were no closer to understanding where language comes from. In this book, Terrace revisits Project Nim to offer a novel view of the origins of human language. In contrast to both Noam Chomsky and his critics, Terrace contends that words, as much as grammar, are the cornerstones of language. Retracing human evolution and developmental psychology, he shows that nonverbal interaction is the foundation of infant language acquisition, leading up to a child’s first words. By placing words and conversation before grammar, we can, for the first time, account for the evolutionary basis of language. Terrace argues that this theory explains Nim’s inability to acquire words and, more broadly, the differences between human and animal communication. Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can is a masterful statement of the nature of language and what it means to be human. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/053476/bk_adbl_053476_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 637min
    From award-winning memoirist and critic, and best-selling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading - and reliving - Homer's epic masterpiece. When 81-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth - and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist. But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that the two men explore Homer's great work together - first in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his son's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus's famous voyages - it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too: Jay's responses to both the text and the travels gradually uncover long-buried secrets that allow the son to understand his difficult father at last. As this intricately woven memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn's narrative comes to echo the Odyssey itself, with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home. Rich with literary and emotional insight, An Odyssey is a renowned author-scholar's most triumphant entwining yet of personal narrative and literary exploration. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bronson Pinchot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005300/bk_rand_005300_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 636min
    From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading - and reliving - Homer's epic masterpiece. When 81-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enrol in the undergraduate seminar on The Odyssey that his son Daniel teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his 'one last chance' to learn about the great literature he'd neglected in his youth - and, even more, a final opportunity to understand his son. But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that follow, as the two men explore Homer's great work together - first in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his son's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus' legendary voyages - it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too, for Jay's responses to both the text and the travels gradually uncover long-buried secrets that allow the son to understand his difficult father at last. As this intricately woven memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn's narrative comes to echo The Odyssey itself, with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home. Rich with literary and emotional insight, An Odyssey is a renowned author-scholar's most revelatory entwining yet of personal narrative and literary exploration. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bronson Pinchot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003143/bk_hcuk_003143_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Harbour Street: A Vera Stanhope Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 610min
    Harbour Street is the next spellbinding installment in Ann Cleeves' series of crime novels about Vera Stanhope, played in the TV detective drama VERA by Brenda Blethyn.As the snow falls thickly on Newcastle, the shouts and laughter of Christmas revelers break the muffled silence. Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are swept along in the jostling crowd onto the Metro.But when the train is stopped due to the bad weather, and the other passengers fade into the swirling snow, Jessie notices that one lady hasn't left the train: Margaret Krukowski has been fatally stabbed. Arriving at the scene, DI Vera Stanhope is relieved to have an excuse to escape the holiday festivities. As she stands on the silent, snow-covered station platform, Vera feels a familiar buzz of anticipation, sensing that this will be a complex and unusual case. Then, just days later, a second woman is murdered. Vera knows that to find the key to this new killing she needs to understand what had been troubling Margaret so deeply before she died - before another life is lost. She can feel in her bones that there's a link. Retracing Margaret's final steps, Vera finds herself searching deep into the hidden past of this seemingly innocent neighborhood, led by clues that keep revolving around one street....Why are the residents of Harbour Street so reluctant to speak?Told with piercing prose and a forensic eye, Ann Cleeves' gripping new audiobook explores what happens when a community closes ranks to protect their own - and at what point silent witnesses become complicit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Janine Birkett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002126/bk_aren_002126_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Albert Einstein: Physicist, Philosopher, Humanitarian, Hörbuch, Digital, 734min
    These 24 lectures present a wide-ranging intellectual exploration of this iconic scientist, genius, and champion of social justice. More than just a biography of Einstein's life, Albert Einstein provides you with an inside look at how this brilliant thinker arrived at his various revolutionary breakthroughs. According to Professor Howard, retracing the thought processes that led to Einstein's ideas is the key to understanding them. Guided by him, you'll reason your way to historic insights such as these: Light has both wave- and particle-like properties; absolute space and absolute time are meaningless concepts; and gravity is caused by the curvature of space-time. Each of these ideas sparked a scientific revolution. The first led to quantum physics; the second and third are conclusions from the special and general theories of relativity, which this lecture series explains in nontechnical detail. In addition to the groundbreaking scientific concepts, you'll learn how Einstein's dynamic life reflected a range of interests and passions that extended into fields like religion, international relations, and social justice. Indeed, as you'll discover, Einstein frequently engaged with many of the leading social and political issues of his day. These lectures are the perfect introduction to Einstein, putting his scientific discoveries into the context of his personal life, his philosophical views, and his outlook on the world. By the final lecture, you'll have become better acquainted with the whole Einstein: his ideas, his thought processes, and his impact on both his own time and ours. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Don Howard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000016/bk_tcco_000016_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Winter's War: Guy Winter Mysteries, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 703min
    Winter's War is the first full length Guy Winter mystery. It is set in England in the Second World War at the time of the Battle of Britain and the start of the London Blitz. August 1940 - Chief Inspector Guy Winter has been Fleet Street's favorite detective for over a decade. Dubbed the "Mystery Man" by his friends and enemies alike, for all his fame he cuts a lonely figure at Scotland Yard, where every newspaper story is fresh grist to an already tired mill. Laid low by personal tragedy, there are many who suspect that the great detective's career is over. Guy Winter, still in mourning the death of his wife in a tragic traffic accident the year before is summoned back to Scotland Yard to hunt for a psychopathic killer who is retracing Jack the Ripper's 52-year-old bloody trail of terror through London's East End. Evil stalks the London blackout at the height of the Battle of Britain as a madman sets out to sow panic in the streets. But nothing is quite what it seems. As the threat of invasion looms ever larger and great aerial dogfights rage in the skies over southern England, as air raid sirens wail in the night, searchlights play across the face of the heavens and the first bombs fall, old scores are being settled and we discover that Guy Winter has been living a double life more mysterious than anybody ever suspected. Now that double life has returned to haunt him. Now he no longer knows whom to call friend or foe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Melanie Fraser. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/066916/bk_acx0_066916_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Poe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 676min
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American original - a luminous literary theorist, an erratic genius, and an analyst par excellence of human obsession and compulsion. The scope of his literary achievements and the dramatic character of Poe's life have drawn readers and critics to him in droves. And yet, upon his death, one obituary penned by a literary enemy in the New York Daily Tribune cascaded into a lasting stain on Poe's character, leaving a historic misunderstanding. Many remember Poe as a difficult, self-pitying, troubled drunkard, often incapable of caring for himself. Poe reclaims the Baltimore and Virginia writer's reputation and power, retracing Poe's life and career. Biographer and critic James M. Hutchisson captures the boisterous worlds of literary New York and Philadelphia in the 1800s to understand why Poe wrote the way he did and why his achievement was so important to American literature. The biography presents a critical overview of Poe's major works and his main themes, techniques, and imaginative preoccupations. This portrait of the writer emphasizes Poe's southern identity; his existence as a workaday journalist in the burgeoning magazine era; his authority as a literary critic and cultural arbiter; his courtly demeanor and sense of social propriety; his advocacy of women writers; his adaptation of art forms as diverse as the so-called "gutter press" and the haunting rhythms of African American spirituals; his borrowing of imagery from such popular social movements as temperance and freemasonry; and his far-reaching, posthumous influence. James M. Hutchisson, Charleston, South Carolina, is a professor of American literature and southern studies at The Citadel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aaron Henkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001185/bk_acx0_001185_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Protecting Paige , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 513min
    IPPY Bronze Award Winner"Compelling...engaging...a moving family saga" (Kirkus Reviews)From the author of the Book Club favorite Pictures of the Past comes another compelling, multilayered novel, ripe with the twists and turns of the best historical fiction.It is the still innocent year of 1962, and 12-year-old Paige Noble awakens in a hospital room in Chicago. She has no memory of the random act of violence that has left her injured and orphaned. As she waits for her famous uncle to come for her, she develops a bond with Gladys, a comforting black nurse's aide, unaware that her son was involved in the crime. Soon, the charismatic Maxwell Noble, a celebrated photographer, is located in Europe and rushes to her side. Although he has led a globetrotting bachelor life, he surprises Paige by embracing his new responsibility. But Maxwell struggles to hide his longtime obsession with Paige's mother, his enchanting French sister-in-law. When Paige discovers her mother's hidden diary, the secrets of the past begin to surface. Paige and her uncle embark on a journey to France, retracing events of WWII and the Holocaust, in an effort to find the one remaining family member they could claim. Her parents were always intent on protecting Paige, but Maxwell allows her to embrace the Jewish and Holocaust heritage that she was denied.A beautiful and moving story about a young girl's coming of age and a man's quest for a lost love, Protecting Paige combines family drama and fascinating historical detail to create a rich, thought-provoking world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Geoffri C. Nelvon, Chloe Adele. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129856/bk_acx0_129856_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Celtic Mythology: A Compelling Path Retracing Celtic Mythology: From Celtic Gods and Goddesses to Heroes and Legendary Creatures. Tales of Myths and Legends, Sagas, and Beliefs. , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 226min
    Explore the legendary mythos and fantastical stories of one of the world’s oldest mythologies - Celtic! The ancient, mysterious Celtic people left behind little evidence of their way of life, but their vibrant folklore and stories resonate throughout the ages to inspire and intrigue people to this very day. Inside this gripping audiobook, you’ll be taken on a journey through time to the legends of the Celtic people, discovering their tales of monsters and heroes in a new light.From the giants and fairies who inhabit the dark and threatening Bronze Age forests to the impossible feats committed by legendary heroes, these classic stories delve into the secrets of the Druids, shed light on the gods and goddesses of early Europe, and explore the colorful and entertaining tales that were told through song and dance around the fire over 2,000 years ago.With fantastical monsters, mysterious Celtic entities, and enchanting Druidic magic, you’ll discover:The tragic tale of the children of LirThe Welsh story of nobles, royal courts, and fairy folk in Pwyll Pendefig DyfedThe legendary chariot warrior, Cú ChulainnThe forbidden romance between Tristan and IseultThe Arthurian story of Culhwch and Olwen, and the impossible tasks which rival even HeraclesThe epic voyage of Bran and his daring quest to the OtherworldAnd much moreFrom tales of secrecy and betrayal to love and passion, these spiritual and mythological retellings are a testament to the rich culture and far-reaching influence of the ancient Celtic people. Told with gripping detail and reflecting life in early Ireland, Wales, Briton, and France, this epic collection seeks to unveil this incredible mythos like never before.Buy now to discover the legendary myths of the Celts today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Perdens Studio. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/225765/bk_acx0_225765_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Financial Freedom Formula
    The Financial Freedom Formula ab 19.49 € als Taschenbuch: A step by step guide to the formula of financial freedom retracing mindsets strategies and resources used by multi-millionaire Elphie Coyle to become and remain financially free for over a decade.. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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