Beauty History

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    • How Japan Saved American Style
    • By: W. David Marx
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In Ametora, cultural historian W. David Marx traces the Japanese assimilation of American fashion over the past 150 years....

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    • Hidden Faith Born of Suffering
    • By: Makoto Fujimura, Philip Yancey - foreword
    • Narrated by: Ova Saopeng
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • In this world of pain and suffering, God often seems silent. But light is yet present in darkness, and silence speaks with hidden beauty and truth....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Anthony Doerr
    • Narrated by: Zach Appelman
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64,851 ratings
    • When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home....

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    • How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
    • By: Richard Holmes
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science....

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    • The Life of the American Beauty Who Became the Toast—and Scandal—of Two Continents, Ruled an Age and Raised a Son—Winston Churchill—Who Shaped History
    • By: Ralph G. Martin
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Jennie Churchill was not merely Winston’s mother. She was the most captivating and desired woman of her age. Originally from Brooklyn, Jennie became the reigning queen of British society. Beautiful and defiant, she lived with an honesty that made her the talk of two continents....

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    • An Intimate History of the First World War
    • By: Peter Englund, Peter Graves - translator
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Renowned historian Peter Englund presents an intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of 20 men and women from around the globe - a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like....

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    • The Life and Work of New York Fashion Icon Ophelia DeVore
    • By: Alina Mitchell, Audrey Smaltz - foreword
    • Narrated by: LaQuita James
    • Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Ophelia DeVore boldly overcame tragedy and hardship to become the first Black model in the United States of America. She possessed grace, finesse, intelligence, natural beauty, and courage....

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    • The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
    • By: Natalie Dykstra
    • Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • 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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    • Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty
    • By: Alexander Lee
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • A fascinating and counterintuitive portrait of the sordid, hidden world behind the dazzling artwork of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and more....

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    • Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
    • By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
    • Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,931 ratings
    • On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, 20-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History....

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    • Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
    • By: Ayana D. Byrd, Lori L. Tharps
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair....

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    • The Incense Road Novella 3
    • By: Tracy Higley
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • An Epic Quest Across the Sands of Arabia... In Part 3 of this sweeping historical adventure, Kamillah finds herself caught between warring powers ...

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    • The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
    • By: Jill Burke
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives. Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century?

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    • A Scientist’s Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World
    • By: Stefan Klein
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In 10 short chapters of lyrical prose, Stefan Klein uses everyday objects and events as a springboard to meditate on the beauty of the underlying science....

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    • A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era
    • By: Karen Bowman
    • Narrated by: Susan Duerden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • This exciting history of fashion trends reveals the flamboyant fashions and outlandish outfits adopted (and discarded) by our ancestors....

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    • A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art
    • By: Patrick Bringley
    • Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • All the Beauty in the World is a moving, revelatory portrait of one of the world's great museums and its treasures by someone whose value is often overlooked: the museum guard....

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    • How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
    • By: Sabine Hossenfelder
    • Narrated by: Laura Jennings
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,000 ratings
    • A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science....

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    • By: Farzana Doctor
    • Narrated by: Adrienne Fish
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • September 1984, Thornton College private school. After 15-year-old Zahabiya’s father remarries, she can’t wait to leave home and convinces him to send her away to boarding school. But will she fit in?

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    • A Tale of Ancient Egypt
    • By: Mark Gajewski
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The story of Neferure, the Beauty of Re, caught in the struggle for control of New Kingdom Egypt between her mother, Hatshepsut, and her half-...

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    • American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
    • By: Damien Lewis
    • Narrated by: Damien Lewis
    • Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. This is the story of her heroic personal resistance to Nazi Germany....

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