Human Speech

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    • Written by: Tom Rob Smith
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Series: The Child 44 Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2009-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 6 ratings
    • Tom Rob Smith-the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called "brilliant" (Chicago Tribune), "remarkable" (Newsweek) and "sensational" (Entertainment Weekly)-returns with an intense, suspenseful new novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families must...

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    • Why It Matters
    • Written by: Andrew Doyle
    • Narrated by: Andrew Doyle
    • Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2021-02-25
    • Language: English
    • 27 ratings
    • Free speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years, it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as potentially violent, has prompted a national debate on where the limitations of acceptable speech should be drawn...

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    • Written by: Tom Wolfe
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2016-08-30
    • Language: English
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    • The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating...

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    • A History from Socrates to Social Media
    • Written by: Jacob Mchangama
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2022-02-08
    • Language: English
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    • “The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made.”—P. J. O’Rourke Hailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and...

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    • Written by: Thane Rosenbaum
    • Narrated by: Thane Rosenbaum
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-17
    • Language: English
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    • Saving Free Speech…from Itself sets the tone for the fractious discussion of how the First Amendment should be interpreted in today’s society and how the free speech aspect of it should not be weaponized by individuals and groups whose agenda includes harming innocent people....

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    • How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists Have Convinced Us That We're to Blame for Society's Deepest Problems
    • Written by: Nick Chater, George Loewenstein
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2026-01-27
    • Language: English
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    • Two leading behavioral scientists argue we should reject “nudge” policies and stop blaming personal failure for society’s failures "Excellent. A master class on how to blend individual psychology with institutions, so that people are encouraged to get involved and develop solutions to our...

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    • Written by: Simon Prentis
    • Narrated by: Mike Fraser
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2021-12-13
    • Language: English
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    • What makes us human? Why are we the only animals who wear clothes, drive cars, trawl the internet, and fly helicopters on Mars? It’s all because we’ve learnt to talk, yet remarkably, we still don’t know how we did it....

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    • Written by: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 37 mins
    • Release date: 2005-07-01
    • Language: English
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    • Forty years after his first book, David McCullough wrote and presented his speech, The Course of Human Events, in the 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, in which he divulges his philosophy on writing, speaking, and history in his masterful storytelling style. In this Jefferson Lecture in...

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    • The Case for the Defence
    • Written by: Shami Chakrabarti
    • Narrated by: Shami Chakrabarti
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2024-05-02
    • Language: English
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    • Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedoms After the devastation of World War Two, the international community came together to enshrine fundamental rights to refuge, health, education and living standards, for privacy, fair...

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    • Why Free Speech Is Everything
    • Written by: Eric Heinze
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-03
    • Language: English
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    • A bold, groundbreaking argument by a world-renowned expert that unless we treat free speech as the fundamental human right, there can be no others. What are human rights? Are they laid out definitively in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the US Bill of Rights? Are they items...

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    • Written by: Adam Tomkins
    • Narrated by: Adam Tomkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2025-07-10
    • Language: English
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    • Bloomsbury presents On the Law of Speaking Freely written and read by Adam Tomkins. This book tackles the most pressing problems of contemporary free speech law by examining where the idea of free expression came from in the first place, applying the lessons of the past to address the challenges...

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    • Written by: Andrew Bushard
    • Narrated by: Brian T Shirley
    • Length: 16 mins
    • Release date: 2021-09-16
    • Language: English
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    • South Dakota reigns with Brookings as its jewel. Brookings, SD residents, whether former or current, know Brookings, SD enchants and delights. Andrew Bushard lived the first decade of his life in Brookings, SD, so Brookings, SD has a place in his heart....

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