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Chasing Beauty
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- De: Natalie Dykstra
- Narrado por: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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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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Interesting up to a point — too many trips to Europe
- De Anonymous User en 05-19-24
De: Natalie Dykstra
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All the Beauty in the World
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
- De: Patrick Bringley
- Narrado por: Patrick Bringley
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures, All the Beauty in the World is by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard....
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Gallery 771
- De Jonathan Hurst en 06-10-23
De: Patrick Bringley
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The Library Book
- De: Susan Orlean
- Narrado por: Susan Orlean
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm....
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Had To Turn It Off
- De Meg en 01-17-19
De: Susan Orlean
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- De: James Gleick
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
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James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....
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Brilliant book, heroic reader, better in print?
- De A reader en 03-12-11
De: James Gleick
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The Monuments Men
- Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- De: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
- Narrado por: Jeremy Davidson
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....
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Interesting listen
- De Laurie en 12-22-09
De: Robert M. Edsel, y otros
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Assembling the Dinosaur
- De: Lukas Rieppel
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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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....
De: Lukas Rieppel
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Chasing Beauty
- The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
- De: Natalie Dykstra
- Narrado por: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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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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Interesting up to a point — too many trips to Europe
- De Anonymous User en 05-19-24
De: Natalie Dykstra
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All the Beauty in the World
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
- De: Patrick Bringley
- Narrado por: Patrick Bringley
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures, All the Beauty in the World is by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard....
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Gallery 771
- De Jonathan Hurst en 06-10-23
De: Patrick Bringley
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The Library Book
- De: Susan Orlean
- Narrado por: Susan Orlean
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
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On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm....
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Had To Turn It Off
- De Meg en 01-17-19
De: Susan Orlean
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- De: James Gleick
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
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James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....
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Brilliant book, heroic reader, better in print?
- De A reader en 03-12-11
De: James Gleick
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The Monuments Men
- Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- De: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
- Narrado por: Jeremy Davidson
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....
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Interesting listen
- De Laurie en 12-22-09
De: Robert M. Edsel, y otros
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Assembling the Dinosaur
- De: Lukas Rieppel
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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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 Art of Relevance
- De: Nina Simon
- Narrado por: Nina Simon
- Duración: 4 h y 49 m
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The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people....
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Best assigned reading I have ever read.
- De Jessica Sleanbeck en 02-23-21
De: Nina Simon
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Dewey the Library Cat
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- De: Vicki Myron, Bret Witter
- Narrado por: Laura Hamilton
- Duración: 4 h y 13 m
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Abandoned in a library book-drop slot in the dead of winter, the small kitten who came to be known as Dewey Readmore Books miraculously endured the coldest night of the year....
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Dewey the Library Cat
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Dwell Time
- A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair
- De: Rosa Lowinger
- Narrado por: Rosa Lowinger
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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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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Depth, honesty, fascination
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The Library
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- Duración: 15 h y 24 m
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Perfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age....
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Stays on point
- De Alex en 04-29-23
De: Andrew Pettegree, y otros
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
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- Narrado por: Christopher de Hamel
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
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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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I've been waiting a long time for a book like this
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- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- De: Jeffrey Pomerantz
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 5 h y 8 m
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In this audiobook, Jeffrey Pomerantz offers an accessible and concise introduction to metadata....
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This Rocks!
- De Phil F. en 07-31-20
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So You Want to Work in a Museum?
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- De: Tara Young
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- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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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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The Object at Hand
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- De: Beth Py-Lieberman
- Narrado por: Leanne Woodward
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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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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A Place for Everything
- The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
- De: Judith Flanders
- Narrado por: Julia Winwood
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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From a New York Times best-selling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia....
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You have to love library science
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The Brutish Museums
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The book that changed the conversation on the contemporary museum....
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Captivating and crucial
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
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- De: Annie Spence
- Narrado por: Stephanie Spicer
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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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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Totally captivating
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De: Annie Spence
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Dewey's Nine Lives
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- De: Vicki Myron
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- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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The cat that captured America's hearts returns, with two new tales and seven more tails....
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Better Than Expected
- De MovieGuy en 03-08-16
De: Vicki Myron
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Patch Work
- A Life Amongst Clothes
- De: Claire Wilcox
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 4 h y 8 m
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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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No, the life is not told by a series of objects
- De alan en 07-03-21
De: Claire Wilcox
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The Library
- A Catalogue of Wonders
- De: Stuart Kells
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve....
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wonderful!
- De Birding_Bubba en 04-16-23
De: Stuart Kells
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The 73 Rules of Influencing the Interview
- Using Psychology, NLP and Hypnotic Persuasion Techniques
- De: Chris Delaney
- Narrado por: Pete Ferrand
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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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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I really liked this book!
- De Dave Weber en 04-24-20
De: Chris Delaney
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The Book on the Bookshelf
- De: Henry Petroski
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage....
De: Henry Petroski
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Cataloging the World
- Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
- De: Alex Wright
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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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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What a fascinating book
- De Daniel en 04-08-15
De: Alex Wright
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The Monuments Men
- Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- De: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
- Narrado por: Jeremy Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
- Versión resumida
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At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the Western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.....
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Fabulous telling of an often overlooked aspect of World War II
- De Dr. Scott K. Moffat en 06-18-19
De: Robert M. Edsel, y otros
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Syria's Secret Library
- Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
- De: Mike Thomson
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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The remarkable, improbable story of a small, makeshift library in the Syrian town of Darayya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during the four-year siege they endured....
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Librarian approved
- De Little Willow en 10-07-21
De: Mike Thomson
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Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum
- De: Peter Samis, Mimi Michaelson
- Narrado por: Russel Bentley
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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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....
De: Peter Samis, y otros
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The Art of the Deal
- Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market
- De: Noah Horowitz
- Narrado por: Ken Kliban
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before.....
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unbearable
- De David en 03-06-11
De: Noah Horowitz
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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
- De: Tekedra Lofton
- Narrado por: Joanne Turner
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
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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....
De: Tekedra Lofton
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The Case for Books
- Past, Present, and Future
- De: Robert Darnton
- Narrado por: David Henry
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
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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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The book is wonderful, but it is abridged.
- De Rachel en 12-19-11
De: Robert Darnton
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The Glossy Years
- Magazines, Museums and Selective Memoirs
- De: Nicholas Coleridge
- Narrado por: Nicholas Coleridge
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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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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A superfun inside look @ world of magazine editors
- De AminaRuhle en 10-05-20