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The Sense of Style
- The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 12 時間 26 分
- カテゴリー: 教育・学習, 単語・言語・文法
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 11 時間 41 分
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues.
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Very intellectual
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/01/19
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 36 時間 39 分
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.
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NHK 実践ビジネス英語 2021年2月号 上
- 著者: 杉田 敏
- ナレーター: 杉田 敏, Heather Howard
- 再生時間: 1 時間 15 分
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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英語独習法
- 著者: 今井 むつみ
- ナレーター: 手島 里華
- 再生時間: 8 時間
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英語の達人をめざすなら、類義語との違い、構文や文脈、共起語などの知識に支えられた高い語彙力が不可欠だ。記憶や学習のしくみを考えれば、多読や多聴は語彙力向上には向かない。
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- 著者: Jared Diamond
- ナレーター: Doug Ordunio
- 再生時間: 16 時間 20 分
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 11 時間 41 分
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues.
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- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/01/19
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 36 時間 39 分
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.
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NHK 実践ビジネス英語 2021年2月号 上
- 著者: 杉田 敏
- ナレーター: 杉田 敏, Heather Howard
- 再生時間: 1 時間 15 分
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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英語独習法
- 著者: 今井 むつみ
- ナレーター: 手島 里華
- 再生時間: 8 時間
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英語の達人をめざすなら、類義語との違い、構文や文脈、共起語などの知識に支えられた高い語彙力が不可欠だ。記憶や学習のしくみを考えれば、多読や多聴は語彙力向上には向かない。
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- 著者: Jared Diamond
- ナレーター: Doug Ordunio
- 再生時間: 16 時間 20 分
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 14 時間 54 分
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
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This book does get you thinking
- 投稿者: Vera Pereira 日付: 2019/05/01
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The Order of Time
- Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch
- 著者: Carlo Rovelli
- ナレーター: Benedict Cumberbatch
- 再生時間: 4 時間 18 分
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Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe.
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How the Mind Works
- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Mel Foster
- 再生時間: 26 時間 5 分
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In this delightful, acclaimed bestseller, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational—and why are we so often irrational? How do we see in three dimensions? What makes us happy, afraid, angry, disgusted, or sexually aroused? Why do we fall in love? And how do we grapple with the imponderables of morality, religion, and consciousness?
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Blueprint
- The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
- 著者: Nicholas A. Christakis
- ナレーター: Nicholas A. Christakis
- 再生時間: 14 時間 55 分
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For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all our inventions - our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations - we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society.
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 15 時間 17 分
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Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
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History and future of human
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2019/03/29
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The Culture Map
- Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
- 著者: Erin Meyer
- ナレーター: Lisa Larsen
- 再生時間: 7 時間 42 分
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Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together.
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Eye opening!!
- 投稿者: Rie 日付: 2021/01/23
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民主主義とは何か
- 著者: 宇野 重規
- ナレーター: 岡井 カツノリ
- 再生時間: 8 時間
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トランプ大統領をはじめとする「ポピュリスト」の跋扈、旧社会主義諸国および中国など権威主義国家の台頭など、近年の世界の政治状況は、民主主義という制度の根幹を揺るがすかのような観を呈しています。
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The World Beyond Your Head
- On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
- 著者: Matthew B. Crawford
- ナレーター: Robert Fass
- 再生時間: 9 時間 27 分
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In his best-selling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant follow-up, The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind.
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Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
- 著者: Benjamin Dreyer
- ナレーター: Benjamin Dreyer, Alison Fraser
- 再生時間: 9 時間 39 分
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We all write, all the time: books, blogs, tweets, emails, emails, emails - and we all want to write better. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help. As Random House’s copy chief, Dreyer has upheld the standards of the legendary publisher for more than two decades. He is beloved by authors and editors alike - not to mention his followers on social media - for playfully, brilliantly deconstructing the English language.
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Word by Word
- The Secret Life of Dictionaries
- 著者: Kory Stamper
- ナレーター: Kory Stamper
- 再生時間: 9 時間 48 分
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While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence, Kory Stamper cracks open the complex, obsessive world of lexicography - from the agonizing decisions about what and how to define to the knotty questions of usage in an ever-changing language.
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Originals
- How Non-Conformists Change the World
- 著者: Adam Grant, Sheryl Sandberg - foreword
- ナレーター: Fred Sanders
- 再生時間: 10 時間 1 分
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The New York Times best-selling author examines how people can drive creative, moral and organisational progress - and how leaders can encourage originality in their organisations. How can we originate new ideas, policies and practices without risking it all? Adam Grant shows how to improve the world by championing novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battling conformity and bucking outdated traditions.
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- 著者: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- ナレーター: Dennis Boutsikaris
- 再生時間: 19 時間 22 分
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The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.
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A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times best-selling author Steven Pinker.
Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care?
In The Sense of Style, the best-selling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the 21st century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose.
In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish.
Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Neuron
- 2016/08/24
Great even if a bit jargony
As a scientist I spend much of my time writing scholarly articles. When Pinker, who I admire for his scientific contribution and perhaps even more for his writing skills, wrote this book about writing I was naturally interested. The book’s focus is on the classical writing style which is probably best characterized as a sort of writing philosophy. According to this philosophy your job as an author is to convey something you know to the reader. To do so you must put yourself in the boots of your reader. If you try to explain something in a language (or technical jargon) that your reader does not understand then you will fail. Indeed a good chunk of the book is devoted to the curse of knowledge; you erroneously assume that your reader knows what you know. Pinker gives concrete advice on how to avoid this.
Pinker, I think, is a relatively liberal writer. The focus is, and should be, on what makes your reader understand; not on obsessively following every rule in the rule books. In other words, if you are a language purist who thinks that starting a sentence with “And” is a capital crime, then this book will cause you much suffering.
Having said that, Pinker do devote the last chapter to rules that ought not to be violated unless you really know what you are doing. For instance I learned that I was wrong to use commas when there is just a pause in the spoken sentence. I also learned that: serial commas are a good thing; how to use semicolons; as well as the proper use of many improperly used.
It is a bit ironic that my one problem with the book was that there was too much jargon in it which sometimes made it difficult for me to understand. To me, as a native Swede, it seemed as if Pinker sometimes feel into the knowledge trap that he instructs us to avoid. Maybe it is just me who did not listen carefully on my English lessons, but I would occasionally have liked more information about basic grammar concepts.
Still, all in all this was a worthwhile read which I am sure will help me develop my writing
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- Martin Fierro
- 2015/01/19
Excellent Author on Writer's Craft
Steven Pinker brings delight to an amazing breadth of intellectual disciplines. So when I saw he had focused on writing, I had high expectations. They were met.
It isn't your father's writing handbook. (My mother was an English Professor so I have seen quite a few.} Nor is it a how-to technical manual like the Hargrave Handbook.
Instead (like other Pinker books) this works from deep principles, to solve the daunting problems of written communication.
I also bought the book, so I could easily refer back to areas that I want to apply better in my own writing.
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- M. Kunze
- 2014/10/17
A great book, done a great injustice by the audio
What made the experience of listening to The Sense of Style the most enjoyable?
Steven Pinker's wit and explanations, as usual, are astounding. His expansive knowledge and explanations for how to have a sense of style are very helpful, no matter what your profession might be. Even if you "never" write, the book is still an eye opener and even a motivation to pick up writing, whether it be blog posts, letters, articles or books.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Arthur Morey?
Anybody, really
Any additional comments?
The biggest mistake in the book is how it's read. I am sorry if I am doing Mr. Morey an injustice here, but his reading was absolutely horrifying. Ironically, he reads a book about how to write (and which several times mocks things like officialese and legalese), exactly as if he were reading a legal document.
The book is read in a flat monotone that makes it seem as if Arthur Morey was absolutely bored to death. But this is not a book to be bored about, and certainly doesn't deserve this treatment. I will have to re-read the book on my own, simply because I fell asleep far too often during the reading.
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- A. Hawley
- 2015/06/16
Pinker + Morey = Win!
Disclaimer: I'm a huge fan of both Steven Pinker and Arthur Morey, and the combination of excellent writing and perfect narration they represent for me made this an automatic purchase and an easy 5-star rating.
What's more, I'm a language geek. I love grammar. I love writing. A whole book about the way English (note: American English) works, complete with abstruse technical terms and PDF charts, is a delight to me.
I mention all this because The Sense of Style is clearly not everybody's cup of tea, no matter how brilliantly read.
And it is brilliantly read, but still, I had to consult the charts several times, and listen to the whole book twice before some of its more abstract ideas sank in. (Yes, sank. Not sunk.) I thought I was well-versed in English, but Pinker covers a bunch of advanced concepts of language structure and the mind that simply weren't understood way back when I was in "grammar" school. I learned a lot. I'll probably end up buying a visual version for reference.
It's fair to say that Pinker's work is all biased to the political left, and to a liberal and progressive view of the world in general, and language in particular. His cultural references place his origins so squarely in time that I knew he was born in 1954 without checking Wikipedia, and I knew that he tended to the hippie side of the spectrum without looking at a picture of him. He is absolutely not a prescriptive grammarian, and readers interested in a conservative view of language and culture might find this book hard to swallow.
Not me, though. This book immediately changed the way I read, and is having a growing impact on how I write. It confirmed me in some of my language biases, showed me the error of my ways in others, and gave me tools for understanding more clearly than ever what makes bad writing bad and good writing beautiful.
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- D Willis
- 2014/10/10
Defence against Grammar Nazis
The content of this book is indispensable, and the narration of the audiobook suits the writing style. If you are looking for help and formulating your writing, and are confused by some of the ambiguous usage advice, you may find resolution and an ally.
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- Sebastian Paaske Torholm
- 2020/05/04
More suitable as a regular book
I listened to this book as an audio book, but I would imagine it to be better suited for reading. There are lots of examples of good and bad structuring of sentences, the subtleties and differences of which can be hard to pick up in audio form.
That isn't to say that the narration is bad, in fact, it is quite good. Merely that you'll probably get more out of it in writing.
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- Terri
- 2016/03/25
A stylish read
As an editor, avid reader and occasional writer, I appreciate and agree with most of what Stephen Pinker has to say about the language, the rules that govern it and the myths and misconceptions that surround it. But in the few areas where we disagree, I find his arguments often unconvincing and occasionally hypocritical and even ironic. Even so, I did learn and thing or two, so it was a worthwhile investment of my time. He is a brilliant man.
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- Jeremy W. Adams
- 2015/01/23
Great audio book! Will be listening to it again.
This is the first audio book that I have listed to by Pinker. Usually i read his books.
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- Mantas
- 2020/06/01
Great book, but a bit too complex for listening
Overall, the book is great. However, some chapters are meant to be read and not listened, as they present complex rules about syntax and grammar.
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- S.C. James
- 2019/11/25
Lots of useful tips
I would have rated this with 4 overall stars, but it was a bit challenging to listen to this book. Reading it hard copy works have been better. The author is clearly a gifted writer and does an excellent job of writing a style guide so that it is more of a story.