Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes

Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

By
Daniel L. Everett
Daniel L. Everett(Author/Narrator)
2008

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62 books

Mostly Plants

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Emma
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Botany of Desire
The Orchid Thief
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest

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10 books

Sociology

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Far from the Tree
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
White Trash
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Coming of Age in Samoa

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5 books

Anthropology

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The People in the Trees
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Coming of Age in Samoa
The Architecture of Power: Great Palaces of the Ancient World
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

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8 books

Nature

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The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death
The Outrun
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
The Home Place
Wolf Willow

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6 books

South America

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In Patagonia
The Last Days of the Incas
Caribbean
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
The Sound of Things Falling
The Neruda case

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4 books

Travel Memoir

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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus: Life on a Mediterranean Island
Desert Places
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1 book

Linguistics

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38 books

Language

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The Study of Language
Word Power Made Easy
The Best Punctuation Book, Period
Morphology of the Folktale
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
The Power of Babel

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58 books

Anthropology Civilization Societies

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Before the Dawn
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Lucy
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures
Masters of the planet seeking the origins of human singularity
Cro-Magnon : how the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans

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160 books

Memoir Biography

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The World of Edward Gorey
Burton on Burton
The Only Pirate at the Party
You're Never Weird on the Internet
I Suck at Girls
Lizz free or die
The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

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Lets Listen

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Aristotle and an Aardvark Go To Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes
Chivalry
Speaking in Tongues
Telling Tales
Click-Clack the Rattlebag
Hearts, Keys, and Puppetry
Who Killed Amanda Palmer

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Favorites

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass: Lavishly Illustrated with Interactive Elements
Tao Te Ching
Coraline
The Hobbit
The Two Princesses of Bamarre
Backwater
The Little Prince

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224 books

Non Fiction

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The Personality Puzzle
Health Psychology
The Social Psychology of Gender: How Power and Intimacy Shape Gender Relations
The Thinking Eye, the Seeing Brain: Explorations in Visual Cognition
Psychology and Life
Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture
Revolution in the Head

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320 Pages Or Less

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The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems
American Wolf
H is for Hawk
Thirteen Days
The Hollywood Economist 2.0: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies
Treasure Island
A Cruising Voyage Around the World: First to the South-Seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708 and Finish'd in 1711

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16 books

Whats It Like There

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Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
Desert Solitaire
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
The World of Yesterday
Forty Years: A Gambler on the Mississippi
The Taste of Country Cooking
Trout Fishing in America

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166 books

Non Fiction To Read

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The hero with a thousand faces
Adrift
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
In Cold Blood
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

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153 books

Non Fiction

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The Architecture of Happiness
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Mindsight
Latter-day Pamphlets
How to Read and Why
Mr. Jefferson
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1

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44 books

American

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The Sound and the Fury
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Men Without Women
The Crying of Lot 49
The Sun Also Rises
Blood Meridian
Player piano

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Anthropology

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Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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20 books

Non Fiction

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The Passion of David Lynch : Wild at Heart in Hollywood
The Ten-Cent Plague
The Purity Myth
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
After the Prophet
When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood

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Linguistcs

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Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle