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Charm
- Written by: Stephen Bayley
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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An informative, fun and rather charming essay on the nature and history of one of life’s most desirable assets, Charm, by renowned culture and design critic, Stephen Bayley. Aiming to wound, a schoolmaster wrote on future design-guru Stephen Bayley’s last ever school report “Charm alone...
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Charm
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 13-03-14
- Language: English
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Taco
- Object Lessons
- Written by: Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
- Narrated by: Michel Issa Rubio
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In a narrative that moves from Mexico to the United States and back, Sánchez Prado discusses the definition of the taco, the question of the tortilla and the taco shell, and the existence of the taco as a modern social touchstone that has been shaped by history and geography. Challenging the idea of centrality and authenticity, Sánchez Prado shows instead that the taco is a contemporary, transcultural food that has always been subject to transformation.
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Taco
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Michel Issa Rubio
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release Date: 09-10-25
- Language: English
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Pub
- Object Lessons
- Written by: Professor Philip Howell
- Narrated by: Tim Frances
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The pub is an English institution. But its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In this unique book, Philip Howell takes the public house as an object, or rather as a series of objects: he takes the pub apart and examines its constituent elements, from pub signs to the bar staff to the calling of "time." But Pub also explores the hidden features of the pub, such as corporate control, cultural acceptance and exclusion, and the role of the pub in communities.
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Pub
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Tim Frances
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 02-10-25
- Language: English
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Restaurant
- Object Lessons
- Written by: Brian Duff
- Narrated by: Chris Gaines
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In the last few decades, restaurants and food culture have achieved extraordinary cultural presence. Chefs are heroes and thought leaders, well-executed entrées go viral, dining out has become theater, plating has become art and ubiquitous Instagram content. It explores the meaning we find in good food and warm hospitality. It shows why the restaurant offers unique opportunities to change the quality of our engagement with others and to create shared meaning across the table.
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Restaurant
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Chris Gaines
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release Date: 02-10-25
- Language: English
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Videotape
- Object Lessons
- Written by: Dr Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy
- Narrated by: Noe Nishizawa
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind the Iron Curtain, and then sank back into oblivion. In the West, its advent deepened the trends of the age: individualism, consumerism, the fragmentation of society, and the consolidation of corporate power in the entertainment industry and its victory over the regulatory powers of the state.
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Videotape
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Noe Nishizawa
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 02-10-25
- Language: English
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Burger
- Object Lessons
- Written by: Carol J. Adams
- Narrated by: Noe Nishizawa
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such as Bill Gates to create the non-animal burger that can feed the world, the burger’s identity has become as malleable as that patty of protein itself, before it is thrown on a grill. Carol Adams’s Burger is a fast-paced and eclectic exploration of the history, business, cultural dynamics, and gender politics of the ordinary hamburger.
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Burger
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Noe Nishizawa
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 02-10-25
- Language: English
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The Performer
- Art, Life, Politics
- Written by: Richard Sennett
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The book draws on history and sociology, and more personally on the author's early career as a professional cellist, as well as on his later work as a city planner and social thinker. It traces the evolution of performing spaces in the city; the emergence of actors, musicians, and dancers as independent artists; the inequality between performer and spectator; the uneasy relations between artistic creation and social and religious ritual; the uses and abuses of acting by politicians. The Janus-faced art of performing is both destructive and civilizing.
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The Performer
- Art, Life, Politics
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 30-04-24
- Language: English
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Written in Water
- The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
- Written by: Rochelle Gurstein
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore and establish a solid foundation for the classic in the history of taste. To her surprise, that history instead revealed repeated episodes of soaring and falling reputations, rediscoveries of long-forgotten artists, and radical shifts in the canon, all of which went so completely against common knowledge that it was hard to believe it was true.
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Written in Water
- The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 20 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 30-07-24
- Language: English
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Authenticity
- Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture
- Written by: Alice Sherwood
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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‘Wide-ranging, witty and fresh … a stimulating read. Authentic fun’ Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 ‘Brilliantly witty, profoundly illuminating, Alice Sherwood is a master storyteller’ Simon Schama ‘Thought-provoking and beautifully written’ Adrian Wooldridge...
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Authenticity
- Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 12-05-22
- Language: English
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「ふつうの暮らし」を美学する~家から考える「日常美学」入門~
- Narrated by: 品田 美穂
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 15-11-24
- Language: japanese
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Magazine
- Object Lessons
- Written by: Professor Jeff Jarvis
- Narrated by: Professor Jeff Jarvis
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
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For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy — until they were overthrown by the voices of the public themselves online. Here is a tribute to all that magazines were, from their origins in London and on Ben Franklin’s press; through their boom — enabled by new technologies — as creators of a new media aesthetic and a new mass culture; into their opulent days in advertising-supported conglomerates; and finally to their fall at the hands of the internet.
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Magazine
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Professor Jeff Jarvis
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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Hood
- Object Lessons
- Written by: Alison Kinney
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and anyone who’s ever grabbed a hoodie on a chilly day. Alison Kinney’s Hood explores the material and symbolic vibrancy of this everyday garment and political semaphore, which often protects the powerful at the expense of the powerless—with deadly results.
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Hood
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release Date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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Earth
- Object Lessons
- Written by: Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Profsesor Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
- Narrated by: Mack Gordon, Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, as Chaucer described it, “this litel spot of erthe,” the solitary orb is a challenge to scale and to human self-importance. Beautiful and self-contained, the Earth turns out to be far less knowable than it at first appears: its vast interior an inferno of incandescent and yet solid rock and a reservoir of water vaster than the ocean, a world within the world.
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Earth
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Mack Gordon, Rachel Handshaw
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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Bookshelf
- Object Lessons
- Written by: Lydia Pyne
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Writer and historian Lydia Pyne finds bookshelves to be holders not just of books but of so many other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms of contemporary human existence.
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Bookshelf
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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Blackface
- Object Lessons
- Written by: Professor Ayanna Thompson
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren’t there as many examples of people of color in whiteface? This book explains what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century. There is a filthy and vile thread—sometimes it’s tied into a noose—that connects the first performances of Blackness on English stages, the birth of blackface minstrelsy, contemporary performances of Blackness, and anti-Black racism.
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Blackface
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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Stroller
- Object Lessons
- Written by: Amanda Parrish Morgan
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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Among the many things expectant parents are told to buy, none is a more visible symbol of status and parenting philosophy than a stroller. Although its association with wealth dates back to the invention of the first pram in the 1700s, in recent decades, four-figure strollers have become not just status symbols but cultural identifiers.
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Stroller
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Rachel Handshaw
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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Souvenir
- Object Lessons
- Written by: Rolf Potts, Cedar Van Tassel - illustrator
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia of examples—from the relic-driven quests of early Christians, to the mass-produced tchotchkes that line the shelves of a Disney gift shop—travel writer Rolf Potts delves into a complicated history that explores issues of authenticity, cultural obligation, market forces, human suffering, and self-presentation.
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Souvenir
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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Shopping Mall
- Object Lessons
- Written by: Matthew Newton
- Narrated by: Mack Gordon
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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The mall near Mat thew Newton’s childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state’s first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls in their heyday, this one was a climate-controlled pleasuredome where strangers converged. It boasted waterfalls, fish ponds, an indoor ice skating rink larger than Rockefeller Center’s, and a monolithic clock tower illuminated year-round beneath a canopy of interconnected skylights. It also became the backdrop for filmmaker George A. Romero’s zombie opus Dawn of the Dead.
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Shopping Mall
- Object Lessons
- Narrated by: Mack Gordon
- Series: Object Lessons
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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Friedrich Nietzsche - Götzendämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert
- Ein Grundlagenwerk der Philosophie
- Written by: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
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"Es geht zu Ende mit der alten Wahrheit." Die alte Wahrheit, das sind laut Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) die Götzen ihrer Zeit, die es quasi mit dem Hammer zu zerschlagen gilt. Im letzten Jahr seines Schaffens (1888) beschritt Nietzsche damit den Weg der "Umwertung aller Werte" weiter - bevor ihn die Geisteskrankheit ereilte. Sein ungeduldiger Tonfall lässt vermuten, dass Nietzsche ahnte, was ihm bevorstand...
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Friedrich Nietzsche - Götzendämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert
- Ein Grundlagenwerk der Philosophie
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 23-05-25
- Language: german
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Disobedient Bodies
- Written by: Emma Dabiri
- Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are often reductive, tyrannical and commercially entangled, imposed upon us by oppressive systems and further strengthened by our conditioned self-loathing. This book encourages unruliness, exploring the ways in which we can rebel against and subvert the current system.
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Disobedient Bodies
- Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Release Date: 05-10-23
- Language: English
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