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How to Win an Indian Election
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- 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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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 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 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
By: Chris Delaney
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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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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....
By: Jill Grunenwald
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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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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....
By: Natalie Dykstra
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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....
By: Dan Hicks
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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
By: Chris Delaney
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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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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....
By: Jill Grunenwald
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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....
By: Chip Colwell
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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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Velazquez
- Reflections in a Golden Eye
- By: Nicholas James
- Narrated by: Hayley Kelley
- Length: 24 mins
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This book considers the work of the celebrated 17th century court painter Diego Velázquez ....
By: Nicholas James
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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
By: Claire Wilcox
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Photography
- Digital SLR Crash Course! Master Digital Photography & Take Amazing Photographs for Beginners
- By: Brendon Ward
- Narrated by: Jason Lovett
- Length: 41 mins
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Looking to learn how to take amazing photographs? You've come to the right place....
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Useful Information
- By Anonymous User on 04-02-19
By: Brendon Ward
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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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Good Book but would benefit from new narrator
- By Rebecca on 30-10-12
By: Noah Horowitz
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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
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By: Nina Simon
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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....
By: Alex Wright
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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....
By: Peter Samis, and others
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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....
By: Noah Charney
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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
By: Lukas Rieppel
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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....
By: Annie Spence
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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....
By: Samuel J. Redman
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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...
By: Emmanuelle Iger
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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....
By: Robert Darnton
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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....
By: Rosa Lowinger
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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....
By: R. David Lankes
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Duccio
- The Maesta - Early Italian Painting at the National Gallery
- By: Nicholas James
- Narrated by: Denise Kahn
- Length: 16 mins
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This book contains an interview by Sarah Batiste recorded in 1989 with Jill Dunkerton, senior conservator of Italian Painting at the National Gallery London....
By: Nicholas James
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Maggie meets The Bodleian Library
- By: Maggie Lee
- Narrated by: Naomi Hillman, Joanna Trollope, Chris Fletcher, and others
- Length: 42 mins
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At the heart of Oxford University life, the Bodleian Library is one of the oldest working libraries in Europe with some of its reading...
By: Maggie Lee
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Cryptocurrency: The Essential Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain, and More!
- Cryptocurrency and Blockchain, Book 1
- By: Devan Hansel
- Narrated by: Glynn Amburgey
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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In this audiobook, Devan Hansel, a tech-investor who has made six figures in profit from trading cryptocurrencies, reveals all the fundamentals you need to understand the current market landscape and how it is being revolutionized....
By: Devan Hansel
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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....
By: Audiobook Power
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Collecting Contemporary Art
- Studies in World Art, Book 22
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 11 mins
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A good art collection is always much more than the sum of its parts. This applies with especial force to collections of contemporary work. A collection of this kind, whether the collector intends it to be so or not, is always a portrait....
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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....
By: Nicholas James
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The Emperors
- Studies in World Art, Book 85
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Richard M. Pshock
- Length: 7 mins
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Here can be no doubt that the Chinese exhibition at the Royal Academy in London is more than a merely artistic event. It represents a new stage in the burgeoning relationship between contemporary China and the West....