Tag: Audiobook

  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 A Canticle for Leibowitz

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/23/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    A Canticle for LeibowitzA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

    Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, A Canticle for Leibowitz is a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.

    In a nightmarish, ruined world, slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infantile rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From there, the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes.

    Seriously funny, stunning, tragic, eternally fresh, imaginative, and altogether remarkable, A Canticle for Leibowitz retains its ability to enthrall and amaze. It is now, as it always has been, a masterpiece.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Louder Than Words

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/22/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes MeaningLouder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning by Benjamin K. Bergen

    Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning – a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else’s mind. You can use it to talk about all sorts of things – from your new labradoodle puppy to the expansive gardens at Versailles, from Roger Federer’s backhand to things that don’t exist at all, like flying pigs.

    And when you talk, your listener fills in lots of details you didn’t mention – the curliness of the dog’s fur or the vast statuary on the grounds of the French palace. What’s the trick behind this magic? How does meaning work? In Louder than Words, cognitive scientist Benjamin Bergen draws together a decade’s worth of research in psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience to offer a new theory of how our minds make meaning.

    Through whimsical examples and ingenious experiments, Bergen leads us on a virtual tour of the new science of embodied cognition. A brilliant account of our human capacity to understand language, Louder than Words will profoundly change how you read, speak, and listen.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Some Danger Involved

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/21/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Some Danger InvolvedSome Danger Involved by Will Thomas

    An atmospheric novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar in London’s Jewish ghetto. When the eccentric and enigmatic Barker takes the case, he must hire an assistant, and out of all who answer an ad for a position with "some danger involved", he chooses downtrodden Llewelyn, a gutsy young man with a murky past.

    As they inch ever closer to the shocking truth behind the murder, Llewelyn is drawn deeper and deeper into Barker’s peculiar world of vigilante detective work, as well as the heart of London’s teeming underworld.

    Brimming with wit and unforgettable characters and steeped in authentic period detail, Some Danger Involved is a captivating novel that introduces an equally captivating duo.

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