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The Louvre
- The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
- By: James Gardner
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
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The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum....
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The Louvre
- The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum....
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Patch Work
- A Life Amongst Clothes
- By: Claire Wilcox
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes....
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A gentle honest collection of acutely observed life moments and their intricate interweavings.
- By Howcroft on 16-12-23
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Patch Work
- A Life Amongst Clothes
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 25-02-21
- Language: English
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Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes....
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
- By: Christopher de Hamel
- Narrated by: Christopher de Hamel
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
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Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is rather like meeting a very famous person....
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This book was perfect.
- By Client d'Amazon on 21-01-19
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
- Narrated by: Christopher de Hamel
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 30-10-17
- Language: English
- Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is rather like meeting a very famous person....
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The Glossy Years
- Magazines, Museums and Selective Memoirs
- By: Nicholas Coleridge
- Narrated by: Nicholas Coleridge
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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Over his 30-year career at Condé Nast, Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed it all. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to the blazing fury of Mohamed Al-Fayed, his story is also the story of the people who populate the glamorous world of glossy magazines....
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Not absolutely fabulous
- By Zebra Karma on 09-10-19
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The Glossy Years
- Magazines, Museums and Selective Memoirs
- Narrated by: Nicholas Coleridge
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 26-09-19
- Language: English
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Over his 30-year career at Condé Nast, Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed it all. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to the blazing fury of Mohamed Al-Fayed, his story is also the story of the people who populate the glamorous world of glossy magazines....
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The Brutish Museums
- The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
- By: Dan Hicks
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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The book that changed the conversation on the contemporary museum....
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The Brutish Museums
- The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-12-22
- Language: English
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The book that changed the conversation on the contemporary museum....
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Chasing Beauty
- The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- By: Natalie Dykstra
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
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Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture....
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Chasing Beauty
- The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture....
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Flight
- By: Sherman Alexie
- Narrated by: Adam Beach
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity....
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A new slant on Time Travel
- By SA-M on 20-11-23
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Flight
- Narrated by: Adam Beach
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 03-04-08
- Language: English
- Flight is the hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity....
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Fewer, Better Things
- The Hidden Wisdom of Objects
- By: Glenn Adamson
- Narrated by: Glenn Adamson
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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A thoughtful meditation on the value of care and attention in an age of disappearing things, Fewer, Better Things invites us to reconnect with the physical world and its objects.
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Fewer, Better Things
- The Hidden Wisdom of Objects
- Narrated by: Glenn Adamson
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-11-24
- Language: English
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A thoughtful meditation on the value of care and attention in an age of disappearing things, Fewer, Better Things invites us to reconnect with the physical world and its objects.
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Reading with the Stars
- A Celebration of Books and Libraries
- By: Leonard Kniffel
- Narrated by: Marguerite Vine, Eric Pollins
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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American Libraries editor in chief Leonard Kniffel offers a compelling collection of interviews with prominent figures--all of whom have special connections to libraries....
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Reading with the Stars
- A Celebration of Books and Libraries
- Narrated by: Marguerite Vine, Eric Pollins
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 14-02-14
- Language: English
- American Libraries editor in chief Leonard Kniffel offers a compelling collection of interviews with prominent figures--all of whom have special connections to libraries....
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The Devil in the Gallery
- How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World
- By: Noah Charney
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
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Scandal, shock, and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin....
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A captivating listen
- By Austra on 26-10-24
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The Devil in the Gallery
- How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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Scandal, shock, and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin....
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The Art of Relevance
- By: Nina Simon
- Narrated by: Nina Simon
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people....
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Encouraging and entertaining
- By Anonymous User on 19-07-20
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The Art of Relevance
- Narrated by: Nina Simon
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 20-07-17
- Language: English
- The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people....
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The 73 Rules of Influencing the Interview
- Using Psychology, NLP and Hypnotic Persuasion Techniques
- By: Chris Delaney
- Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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Competition for jobs is at an all-time high, with rivalry for positions coming from across the globe....
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Be at listen
- By Amazon Customer on 22-02-18
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The 73 Rules of Influencing the Interview
- Using Psychology, NLP and Hypnotic Persuasion Techniques
- Narrated by: Pete Ferrand
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 13-04-17
- Language: English
- Competition for jobs is at an all-time high, with rivalry for positions coming from across the globe....
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Assembling the Dinosaur
- By: Lukas Rieppel
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world’s largest industrial economy....
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Paleontology and Corporate money.
- By Wendell Poons on 25-04-22
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Assembling the Dinosaur
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 10-06-19
- Language: English
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Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world’s largest industrial economy....
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A Fool's Errand
- Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
- By: Lonnie G. Bunch III
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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In its first four months of operation, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture surpassed one million visits and quickly became a cherished, vital monument to the African American experience. And yet this accomplishment was never assured....
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A Fool's Errand
- Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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In its first four months of operation, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture surpassed one million visits and quickly became a cherished, vital monument to the African American experience. And yet this accomplishment was never assured....
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Bibliotecas
- By: Katya Adaui, Selva Almada, Jazmina Barrera, and others
- Narrated by: Cecilia Bona
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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¿Qué define una biblioteca? ¿Hay algo que podamos decir que "es" una biblioteca? ¿Un mueble? ¿Una cantidad de libros determinada? Con este libro nos...
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Bibliotecas
- Narrated by: Cecilia Bona
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-08-23
- Language: Spanish
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¿Qué define una biblioteca? ¿Hay algo que podamos decir que "es" una biblioteca? ¿Un mueble? ¿Una cantidad de libros determinada? Con este libro nos...
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Let's Use Free Speech to Praise Libraries
- Narrated by: Trevor Clinger
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 01-06-17
- Language: English
- Every city usually has at least one library, so some people take libraries for granted....
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Trove of Derrynaflan: Celtic Metalwork at the National Museum of Ireland
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 66
- By: Nicholas James
- Narrated by: Mark Isham
- Length: 9 mins
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Cv/VAR 66 interviews Dr. Michael Ryan of the National Museum Dublin recorded at the opening of the exhibition The Work of Angels at the British Museum in 1989. He describes pieces found at Derrynaflan dating from the eighth century....
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Trove of Derrynaflan: Celtic Metalwork at the National Museum of Ireland
- Cv/Visual Arts Research, Book 66
- Narrated by: Mark Isham
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 13-11-17
- Language: English
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Cv/VAR 66 interviews Dr. Michael Ryan of the National Museum Dublin recorded at the opening of the exhibition The Work of Angels at the British Museum in 1989. He describes pieces found at Derrynaflan dating from the eighth century....
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كيف يمكن الاستفادة من المعلومات في الحياة اليومية؟ [How Can Information Be Used in Daily Life?]
- By: ماجد سرور
- Narrated by: رشا كسار
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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المعلومات هي الشّيء الجديد الذي يضاف إلى مخزون الإنسان الفكري أو المعرفي أو العلمي ويمكن للإنسان الحصول على المعلومات من مصادر مختلفة، فبعض النّاس يحصلون على المعلومة من الكتب، وآخرون يحصلون عليها من السّماع والتّعلم، وآخرون من التّجربة والبرهان العلمي.
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كيف يمكن الاستفادة من المعلومات في الحياة اليومية؟ [How Can Information Be Used in Daily Life?]
- Narrated by: رشا كسار
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 14-11-24
- Language: Arabic
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المعلومات هي الشّيء الجديد الذي يضاف إلى مخزون الإنسان الفكري أو المعرفي أو العلمي ويمكن للإنسان الحصول على المعلومات من مصادر مختلفة، فبعض النّاس يحصلون على المعلومة من الكتب، وآخرون يحصلون عليها من السّماع والتّعلم، وآخرون من التّجربة والبرهان العلمي.
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Silver Image: Early British Photography at The Royal Photographic Society
- By: Nicholas James
- Narrated by: Denise Kahn
- Length: 15 mins
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Pamela Roberts, curator of the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, gives an interview to Cv/VAR in 1994, which charts the development of photography....
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Silver Image: Early British Photography at The Royal Photographic Society
- Narrated by: Denise Kahn
- Length: 15 mins
- Release date: 04-09-17
- Language: English
- Pamela Roberts, curator of the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, gives an interview to Cv/VAR in 1994, which charts the development of photography....
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Missed Information
- Better Information for Building a Wealthier, More Sustainable Future
- By: David Sarokin, Jay Schulkin
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health care to high finance. Yet despite the avalanche of data....
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Missed Information
- Better Information for Building a Wealthier, More Sustainable Future
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 17-08-16
- Language: English
- Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health care to high finance. Yet despite the avalanche of data....
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