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一枚の小さな肖像画がいかにして美術史の枠を超え、メディアと大衆を巻き込む世界的アイコンへと変貌を遂げたのか、その数奇な運命と歴史の偶然を紐解きます。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや日々の通勤電車の中で、...

Suivez la métamorphose épique d'une forteresse défensive devenue le temple mondial de l'art et de l'histoire. Plongez au cœur d'un récit architectural fascinant, idéal pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien d'une dose de culture vibrante. Les pierres de ce majestueux palais murmurent encore...

Diese packende Kulturgeschichte ergründet den ewigen Konflikt zwischen dem Bewahren und Rauben unserer Vergangenheit. Perfekt für den nachdenklichen Spaziergang oder die tägliche Fahrt zur Arbeit, entführt dich dieses fesselnde Hörerlebnis in antike Tempel, prunkvolle Fürstenkammern und...

Comprenez comment un modeste portrait de la Renaissance est devenu l'icône absolue de l'histoire de l'art mondiale. Que ce soit pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien ou nourrir votre curiosité, cette enquête immersive retrace le destin inouï d'une toile fascinante. Laissez-vous transporter...

Diese fesselnde historische Erzählung verwandelt eine mittelalterliche Festung in ein Monument der europäischen Kultur. Tauche beim morgendlichen Pendeln oder abendlichen Entspannen in die majestätische Atmosphäre von Paris ein. Spüre hautnah, wie Mauern, die einst zur Abwehr von Feinden...

Plongez dans l'histoire antique pour élucider le mystère du savoir perdu le plus fascinant de la civilisation humaine. Idéal pour enrichir vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit épique retrace l'ascension spectaculaire d'une institution politique et savante sans précédent. Laissez-vous...

Résolvez le plus grand mystère linguistique de l'Égypte antique avec ce récit historique fascinant et immersif. Parfait pour stimuler votre esprit pendant vos trajets quotidiens, ce voyage sonore vous transporte des luttes de pouvoir ptolémaïques jusqu'aux laboratoires des savants...

The dream of capturing and organizing knowledge is as old as history. From the archives of ancient Sumeria and the Library of Alexandria to the Library of Congress and Wikipedia, humanity has wrestled with the problem of harnessing its intellectual output. The timeless quest for wisdom has been as much about information storage and retrieval as creative genius. 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.

The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-year siege. Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged by...

Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, Michael Buckland explores the influence of information on what we know, the role of communication and recorded information in our daily lives, and the difficulty (or ease) of finding information. He shows that all this involves human perception, social behavior, changing technologies, and issues of trust.  

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. Packing up his enormous, 35,000 volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between books and readers, books and collectors, order and disorder, memory and reading.  

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. In A Fool's Errand, founding director Lonnie Bunch tells his story of bringing his clear vision and leadership to realize this shared dream of many generations of Americans.

Flora Miller Biddle was born a blue-blood. The granddaughter of the Whitney museum founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, her childhood played out in a sort of Wharton landscape as she was shielded from the woes of the world. But money itself is not the source of happiness. In this wonderfully evocative memoir, Flora Miller Biddle examines, critiques, and pays homage to the people and places of her childhood that shaped her life.

An utterly charming and heart-warming love story and the perfect tonic for difficult times. Daisy is the night security guard at the Manchester Museum of Social History. She takes her job very seriously, protecting the museum from teenage troublemakers. Nate works the day shift, though he'd be...

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. After moving away to escape the “cloying exile’s nostalgia,” Lowinger discovered the unique field of art conservation, which led her to work in Tel Aviv, Philadelphia, Rome, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Charleston, Marfa, South Dakota, and Port-Au-Prince.

People who love art, are fascinated by archaeology, or are history buffs may have considered the idea of working in a museum. But experience as a museum visitor reveals only the public-facing side of the museum, and not its complex, dynamic internal structure. So You Want to Work in A Museum? helps to demystify museums as institutions and to prepare prospective museum staff to explore the field further.

Each of us has an ever-growing collection of personal digital data: documents, photographs, PowerPoint presentations, videos, music, emails, and texts sent and received. To access any of this, we have to find it. The ease (or difficulty) of finding something depends on how we organize our digital stuff.

Today, nearly one million books are published each year. But is the era of the book as we know it - a codex of bound pages - coming to an end? And if it is, should we celebrate its demise and the creation of a democratic digital future, or mourn an irreplaceable loss?

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. Some still exist today; some are lost, like those of Herculaneum and Alexandria; some have been sold or dispersed; and some never existed, such as those libraries imagined by J. R. R. Tolkien, Umberto Eco and Jorge Luis Borges, among others.

It's Friday afternoon. A deployment is delayed. Security has concerns. Engineering has deadlines. Finance wants answers. And everyone is convinced someone else is the problem. If you've worked in cloud, you've been in this meeting. In SOLVING the CLOUD thinking game, Lori Higham takes listeners inside the conversations, rivalries, assumptions, and organizational dynamics that shape modern enterprises through the alternating perspectives of a CTO and CISO.