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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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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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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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Loved it - Purchased all formats!
- By Claire on 15-04-2023
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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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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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Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum
- By: Peter Samis, Mimi Michaelson
- Narrated by: Russel Bentley
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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The book describes key institutions that have opened the doors to a wider range of visitors, addresses the internal struggles to reorganize and democratize these institutions, and uses case studies, interviews of key personnel....
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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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Chasing Beauty
- The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- By: Natalie Dykstra
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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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Loved it - Purchased all formats!
- By Claire on 15-04-2023
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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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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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Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum
- By: Peter Samis, Mimi Michaelson
- Narrated by: Russel Bentley
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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The book describes key institutions that have opened the doors to a wider range of visitors, addresses the internal struggles to reorganize and democratize these institutions, and uses case studies, interviews of key personnel....
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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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How to Win an Indian Election
- What Political Parties Don’t Want You to Know
- By: Shivam Shankar Singh
- Narrated by: Terry D’Souza
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Written by a former election campaign consultant for a major political party, How to Win an Indian Election takes listeners into the forbidden world of election war-rooms and gives them a glimpse of how strategy is formulated, what works with voters on the ground and what doesn't....
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So You Want to Work in a Museum?
- American Alliance of Museums
- By: Tara Young
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Look at the skills required for different types of positions, and how listeners aspiring to work in those positions can best prepare themselves to land their dream jobs and be successful in them....
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Reading Behind Bars
- A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian
- By: Jill Grunenwald
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master’s degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea....
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The Museum
- A Short History of Crisis and Resilience
- By: Samuel J. Redman
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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The Museum explores the concepts of "crisis" as it relates to museums, and how these historic institutions have dealt with challenges ranging from depression and war to pandemic and philosophical uncertainty....
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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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The Object at Hand
- Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections
- By: Beth Py-Lieberman
- Narrated by: Leanne Woodward
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Py-Lieberman reflects on the profound connections between even outwardly dissimilar objects and offers insight and stories from Smithsonian experts.
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The Art of the Deal
- Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market
- By: Noah Horowitz
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before.....
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
- Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
- By: Annie Spence
- Narrated by: Stephanie Spicer
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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Librarians spend their lives weeding - not weeds, but books - books that have reached the end of their shelf life both literally and figuratively. Annie Spence addresses those books directly....
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The Secret Story of the Musée d'Orsay
- By: Emmanuelle Iger
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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Sitting on the banks of the river Seine, in the very heart of Paris, the Musée d'Orsay is known worldwide for its...
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Packing My Library
- An Elegy and Ten Digressions
- By: Alberto Manguel
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side....
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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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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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Cataloging the World
- Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
- By: Alex Wright
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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In Cataloging the World, Alex Wright introduces us to a figure who stands out in the long line of thinkers and idealists who devoted themselves to the task....
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Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries for Today's Complex World
- By: R. David Lankes
- Narrated by: R. David Lankes
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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Libraries have existed for millennia, but today many question their necessity....
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Dwell Time
- A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair
- By: Rosa Lowinger
- Narrated by: Rosa Lowinger
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Renowned art conservator Rosa Lowinger spent a difficult childhood in Miami among people whose losses in the Cuban revolution, and earlier by the decimation of family in the Holocaust, clouded all family life....
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Blunt Instruments
- Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
- By: Kristin Ann Hass
- Narrated by: Nadia Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future....
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The Problem with Books and eBooks
- I Have No Time to Read! Now What?
- By: Audiobook Power
- Narrated by: Kenneth Toles
- Length: 14 mins
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This audiobook is meant to help people not acquainted with listening to audiobooks. One day, I got really fed up with having little time to read during the day and with making little progress on my ever growing reading list....
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50 Things to Know About Becoming a Librarian: Becoming a Community Asset While Doing What You Love
- 50 Things to Know About Becoming a Teacher Series, Book 11
- By: Tekedra Lofton
- Narrated by: Joanne Turner
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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Do you love working with books? Of course you do! Do you also love working with people? Do you want to better your community? Interested in planning big events for people in your community? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you....
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The Dancer, the Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania: How an Unlikely Quartet Created America's Most Improbable Art Museum
- By: Steve Wiegand
- Narrated by: Sarah Snow
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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The Maryhill Museum of Art is located on 5,300 acres in the Columbia River Gorge. Miles from any sizeable town and surrounded by the gorge's spectacular scenery, Maryhill is an internationally recognized - and undeniably eclectic - repository of art....
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The Case for Books
- Past, Present, and Future
- By: Robert Darnton
- Narrated by: David Henry
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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The digital age is revolutionizing the information landscape. Already, more books have been scanned and digitized than were housed in the great library in Alexandria....
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Great Expectations: Reflections on Museums and Canada
- By: Jack Lohman
- Narrated by: Jack Lohman
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
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A provocative, progressive rejoinder to the status quo, from the perspective of a disrupter and global leader in the museum world....
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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits
- Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture
- By: Chip Colwell
- Narrated by: Chip Colwell
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Today, hundreds of tribes use the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to recover heritage from museums across the country. Chip Colwell navigated firsthand questions of how to weigh the religious freedom of Native Americans against the academic freedom of scientists....
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Long Road to Hard Truth
- The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture
- By: Robert Leon Wilkins
- Narrated by: Michael Canaan
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession....