Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to ...
 If you love books, you'll love this one!: The announcement of a new book by Nicholas Basbanes is an occasion of joy for any devoted reader who loves reading about books. My copies of Basbanes' works are the backbone of my collection of books about books, [... more]
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The Disappearance of Childhood
Vale Neil Postman - Your Books Will Always Provoke: When browsing for other items I saw by happy accident that this book is still available. It's a pleasure to recommend this brilliant piece of argument - that the postmodern world of hyper-communication [... more]
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The Return of Merlin
Chopra transcends the legend!: When Deepak Chopra publishes, readers take note. And when he writes about the Arthurian Tales, what can one say? Intertwining his sense of mysticism, his intellectual scope, and a fast-paced, very moving, novel in one is a [... more]
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Better Than Life
Perfect!: There is certainly no shortage of books about reading. Perhaps it's inevitable in this self-referential era, that we end up reading about reading. Most of these works, however, fail to express the joy that their authors feel on reading great [... more]
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Unplugged...and Seated
Chronique amazon.fr: Cette rétrospective intime en public de 1993 marqua le retour en forme de Rod the Mod, qui avait plus ou moins quitté le devant de la scène comme interprète pour s'engager dans une direction plus frivole [... more]
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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Mind-blowing, but a tough slog for lay readers: This was a great book! It gave me a real appreciation for how foreign the medieval way of thought is from current -- because of the printing press. If you've read Walter Ong's _Orality and Literacy_, this [... more]
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Nurturing Children: A History of Pediatrics
Not so much a history as a bibliography: It's difficult to criticize a volume that is the product of a prodigious amount of research, but I'm afraid that the Colons have failed to deliver what the title promises. Nuturing Children is not a history of [... more]
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Why Hitler Came into Power
EXTEMELY Interesting and HISTORICALLY acurate book: EXTEMELY Interesting and HISTORICALLY acurate book written just prior to World War-II by an American Theodore Abel who went to Germany, witnessed the Depression, Inflation, Right and Left Wing rioting [... more]
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A Book of Books
From Amazon.com: Although we may have been taught not to judge a book by its cover, photographer Abelardo Morell reverses the old saying and delightfully shows us how to relish a book by its look. This inventive and clever photographic ode to the printed [... more]
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The definitive edition of Twain's masterpiece: This book is a must-have for serious readers of Twain's greatest novel, one well worth the expense. Based on his original manuscript, it provides the ur-text of this wonderful work (including the original [... more]
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Beyond the Printed Word P
Author: Lochead R Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 791 EAN: 9781550820164 ISBN: 1550820168 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: 1991-12 [... more]
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A short history of the printed word
a must read: The book is a great source of information. The 4 (not 5) stars is given cause the book is filled with postscript errors (missing letters, ligatures replaced by spaces, accented glyphs...). Disapointing for a book about typography. What [... more]
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