The Great Courses (2 books in series)

The Story of Human Language (2004)
language
English
4.45 of 5 Votes: 1
review 1: (I'm cheating a bit by saying I "read" this. Actually, I listened to the 18.2 hours of audio lectures that accompany this book in a set. This is a product of The Teaching Company.)McWhorter is brilliant, just brilliant. A fantastic communicator. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire se...
The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World (2013)
language
English
4.25 of 5 Votes: 2
review 1: Early in the book, it suddenly dawned me. Nothing revolutionary that perhaps has not crossed minds of thousands over thousands of years. Still worth putting the thought here: it is possible to theorise, discuss, study, fictionalise, typify, imagine, criticise, be wonderstruck, be...