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In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding - once a paradigm of economic rationality - came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5 because its diagnosis requires the existence of a material entity: the hoard. Possessed therefore considers the hoard as an aesthetic object produced by clashing perspectives about the meaning or value of objects.
The 2000s have seen a surge of cultural interest in hoarding and those whose possessions overwhelm their living spaces. Analyzing themes and structures of hoarding across a range of literary and visual texts, Falkoff traces the fraught materialities of the present to cluttered spaces of modernity: bibliomaniacs' libraries, flea markets, crime scenes, dust heaps, and digital archives. Possessed shows how the figure of the hoarder has come to personify the economic, epistemological, and ecological conditions of modernity.
The book is published by Cornell University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
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Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Wasn't a fan.
- De My Reviews en 12-27-20
De: Leah Price
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Papyrus
- The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
- De: Irene Vallejo, Charlotte Whittle - translator
- Narrado por: Sophie Roberts
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand-copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Papyrus is the story of the book’s journey from oral tradition to scrolls to codices, and how that transition laid the very foundation of Western culture. Irene Vallejo evokes the great mosaic of literature in the ancient world, all the while illuminating how ancient ideas about education, censorship, authority, and identity still resonate today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Hunter Pechin en 12-15-22
De: Irene Vallejo, y otros
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Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
- De: Andrew S. Curran
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 36
Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopedie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity - for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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lifelong coverage of his life.
- De Michael Daly en 03-22-21
De: Andrew S. Curran
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
- Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
- De: John Tresch
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe's obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. He remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era's most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Know the Real Poe
- De Elliott Wolfe, M.D. en 06-28-21
De: John Tresch
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Tom and Jack
- The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock
- De: Henry Adams
- Narrado por: Wayne Thompson
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton's highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged relationship dating from Pollock's days as a student under Benton. Pollock's first and only formal training came from Benton, and the older man soon became a surrogate father to Pollock.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I suggest you READ, not listen...
- De Grace O'Malley en 07-01-16
De: Henry Adams
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Shakespeare's Library
- Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
- De: Stuart Kells
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare's library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it: in mansions, palaces, and libraries; in riverbeds, sheep pens, and partridge coops; and in the corridors of the mind. Yet no trace of the Bard's manuscripts, books, or letters has ever been found.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dismissed Mary Sidney Herbert without explanation
- De Lisa en 07-30-19
De: Stuart Kells
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The Art of the Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher - translator
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the postpsychological novel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative and Inspiring
- De Mo en 11-27-21
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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In Montparnasse
- The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí
- De: Sue Roe
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and ends with the 1936 unveiling of Dalí’s Lobster Telephone. As those extraordinary years unfolded, the Surrealists found ever more innovative ways of exploring the interior life, and asking new questions about how to define art. In Montparnasse recounts how this artistic revolution came to be amidst the salons and cafés of that vibrant neighborhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Second of Two Books
- De Robert Keith en 10-26-19
De: Sue Roe
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How Fiction Works
- De: James Wood
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Ranging widely from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings, Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. He sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision, resulting in nothing less than a philosophy of the novel, which has won critical acclaim nationwide, from the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times Book Review.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Educational!
- De Don en 05-04-09
De: James Wood
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Art Is Life
- Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
- De: Jerry Saltz
- Narrado por: Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: Witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary listeners to fine art as few critics have.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WRONG for audio program
- De Karen Lehrer en 11-07-22
De: Jerry Saltz
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Botticelli's Secret
- The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
- De: Joseph Luzzi
- Narrado por: Keith Szarabajka
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. A powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story
- De Chris M en 12-09-22
De: Joseph Luzzi
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Talking About Detective Fiction
- De: P. D. James
- Narrado por: Diana Bishop
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal thoughts and observations on one of the most popular and enduring forms of literature, P. D. James examines the challenges, achievements and potential of a genre which has fascinated her as a novelist for nearly 50 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and Informative
- De Nancy J en 03-17-13
De: P. D. James
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On the Natural History of Destruction
- De: W. G. Sebald, Anthea Bell - Translator
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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On the Natural History of Destruction is W.G. Sebald's harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least examined "silences" of our time. In it, the acclaimed novelist examines the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment, and the reasons for the astonishing absence of this unprecedented trauma from German history and culture. This void in history is in part a repression of things - such as the death by fire of the city of Hamburg at the hands of the RAF - too terrible to bear.
De: W. G. Sebald, y otros
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Printer's Error
- Irreverent Stories from Book History
- De: Rebecca Romney, J. P. Romney
- Narrado por: J.P. Romney
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn't been smooth; downright bizarre is more like it. Printer's Error chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the history of Western printing. Take, for example, the Gutenberg Bible. While the book is regarded as the first printed work in the Western world, Gutenberg's name doesn't appear anywhere on it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Porn for Ye Old Bibliophiles
- De George M. Liveakos en 03-24-17
De: Rebecca Romney, y otros
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Dark Archives
- A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
- De: Megan Rosenbloom
- Narrado por: Justis Bolding
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy - the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Abbey Pflegl en 11-21-21
De: Megan Rosenbloom
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The Hidden Habits of Genius
- Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit - Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness
- De: Craig Wright
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 335
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 290
What is genius? The word evokes iconic figures like Einstein, Beethoven, Picasso, and Steve Jobs, whose cultural contributions have irreversibly shaped society. Yet Beethoven could not multiply. Picasso couldn’t pass a fourth grade math test. And Jobs left high school with a 2.65 GPA. The Hidden Habits of Genius explores the meaning of this contested term, and the unexpected motivations of those we have dubbed "genius" throughout history, from Charles Darwin and Marie Curie to Leonardo Da Vinci and Andy Warhol to Toni Morrison and Elon Musk.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Click-bait title, minimal substance inside
- De James S. en 11-27-20
De: Craig Wright
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The Art of the English Murder
- From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 176
In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide panic in the early 19th century, and the case of Frederick and Maria Manning, the suburban couple who were hanged after killing Maria's lover and burying him under their kitchen floor. Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should Come With a Spoiler Alert
- De Jessica en 04-15-16
De: Lucy Worsley
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Possessed
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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- Lisa Thibodeaux
- 11-17-22
Reads like a dissertation
There’s a lot I liked about this, esp. the depths of research into recorded references to hoarding and hoarders… but not designed for those who want practical ways to deal with hoarding.
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- Deedra
- 04-14-22
Possessed
I was hoping for more history and less Freud. This was a good book,but it did not really get into the 'why'. Lee Ann Howlett was a very good narrator.I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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