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Bestsellers
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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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A chronology
- By John on 05-11-24
By: Natalie Dykstra
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All the Beauty in the World
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
- By: Patrick Bringley
- Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Jonathan Hurst on 06-10-23
By: Patrick Bringley
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The Library Book
- By: Susan Orlean
- Narrated by: Susan Orlean
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Meg on 01-17-19
By: Susan Orlean
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- By: James Gleick
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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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?
- By A reader on 03-12-11
By: James Gleick
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The Monuments Men
- Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- By: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
- Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Laurie on 12-22-09
By: Robert M. Edsel, and others
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Dewey the Library Cat
- A True Story
- By: Vicki Myron, Bret Witter
- Narrated by: Laura Hamilton
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Lucille Sullivan on 11-02-10
By: Vicki Myron, and others
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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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Overall
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Performance
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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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A chronology
- By John on 05-11-24
By: Natalie Dykstra
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All the Beauty in the World
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
- By: Patrick Bringley
- Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Jonathan Hurst on 06-10-23
By: Patrick Bringley
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The Library Book
- By: Susan Orlean
- Narrated by: Susan Orlean
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Meg on 01-17-19
By: Susan Orlean
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- By: James Gleick
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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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?
- By A reader on 03-12-11
By: James Gleick
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The Monuments Men
- Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- By: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
- Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Laurie on 12-22-09
By: Robert M. Edsel, and others
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Dewey the Library Cat
- A True Story
- By: Vicki Myron, Bret Witter
- Narrated by: Laura Hamilton
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Lucille Sullivan on 11-02-10
By: Vicki Myron, and others
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The Library
- A Fragile History
- By: Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Alex on 04-29-23
By: Andrew Pettegree, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Tara Young
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Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum
- By: Peter Samis, Mimi Michaelson
- Narrated by: Russel Bentley
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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
- By Daniel on 04-08-15
By: Alex Wright
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
- By: Christopher de Hamel
- Narrated by: Christopher de Hamel
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Robert on 04-15-18
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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
- Unabridged
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The book that changed the conversation on the contemporary museum....
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Captivating and crucial
- By Anonymous User on 06-10-23
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
- Unabridged
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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!
- By Dave Weber on 04-24-20
By: Chris Delaney
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The Art of Relevance
- By: Nina Simon
- Narrated by: Nina Simon
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
- By Jessica Sleanbeck on 02-23-21
By: Nina Simon
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Great book, monotone Reader
- By Marilyn A. Bell on 07-06-21
By: Alberto Manguel
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The Book on the Bookshelf
- By: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Henry Petroski
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The Library
- A Catalogue of Wonders
- By: Stuart Kells
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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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!
- By Birding_Bubba on 04-16-23
By: Stuart Kells
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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
- Unabridged
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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
- By ekrodg on 01-13-24
By: Rosa Lowinger
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Dewey's Nine Lives
- The Magic of a Small-town Library Cat Who Touched Millions
- By: Vicki Myron
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By MovieGuy on 03-08-16
By: Vicki Myron
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A Place for Everything
- The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
- By: Judith Flanders
- Narrated by: Julia Winwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By A. Yoshida on 10-23-21
By: Judith Flanders
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Metadata
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- By: Jeffrey Pomerantz
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In this audiobook, Jeffrey Pomerantz offers an accessible and concise introduction to metadata....
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This Rocks!
- By Phil F. on 07-31-20
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The Monuments Men
- Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- By: Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
- Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Abridged
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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
- By Dr. Scott K. Moffat on 06-18-19
By: Robert M. Edsel, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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
- By AminaRuhle on 10-05-20
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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
- Unabridged
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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Assembling the Dinosaur
- By: Lukas Rieppel
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Lukas Rieppel
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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
- Unabridged
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Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before.....
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unbearable
- By David on 03-06-11
By: Noah Horowitz
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Dear Fahrenheit 451
- Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
- By: Annie Spence
- Narrated by: Stephanie Spicer
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Grace Smith on 03-24-18
By: Annie Spence
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Syria's Secret Library
- Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
- By: Mike Thomson
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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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
- By Little Willow on 10-07-21
By: Mike Thomson