An Animated History of Books - Library Sciences
Take an online journey through the history of books. From the beginning of story telling by cave dwellers to the electronic age, this is a delightful and informative site. An Animated History of Books also speculates on the future of books. This ... [... more]
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The Art & History of Books
 Author: Norma Levarie Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 002.09 EAN: 9781884718038 ISBN: 1884718035 Number Of Pages: 328 Publication Date: 1995-03 [... more]
$29.95
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Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries throughout ...
Atrocious: The book's jacket draws us in with the observation that, "almost as old as the idea of the library is the urge to destroy it." One should not be fooled by this statement into thinking that the purposeful destruction of libraries will [... more]
$24.95
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The Business of Books: How the International ...
Bottom Line: Buy it: ... At least from a writer's perspective, all of Schiffrin's assertions about the publishing industry are stunningly true. In fact, my agent quit the business some years ago after attending a lecture by a revoltingly wealthy and [... more]
$15.00
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Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an ...
Author: Mrinalini Sinha Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 954.0357 EAN: 9780822337959 ISBN: 0822337959 Number Of Pages: 392 Publication Date: 2006 [... more]
$24.95
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500 Years of Book Design
Thin: There are several superb books on the history of book design: Joseph Blumenthal, Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955; Norma Levarie, The Art and History of Books; S. H. Steinberg, Five Hundred Years of Printing; and Warren Chappell and Robert [... more]
$40.00
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Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
Responding to the texts- in the margins: Most of us can recall (with shame, fear, or both) the warnings of parents and teachers regarding writing in the margins of books. Cute childish scribbles, elaborate adolescent doodles - or one's cleverest penciled [... more]
$21.00
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The Book on the Bookshelf
Amazon.com Review: Consider the book. Though Goodnight Moon and Finnegans Wake differ considerably in content and intended audience, they do share some basic characteristics. They have pages, they're roughly the same shape, and whether in a bookstore, [... more]
$26.00
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The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
Book Description: During the centuries when printed paper was the only means by which texts could be carried across time and distance, most people believed that reading helped to shape the minds, attitudes, and actions of readers. From quantified [... more]
$46.00
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Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the ...
A loving chronicle of a more literate era: Reading Mondlin and Meador's descriptions of the long-gone used-book emporia that once graced Fourth Avenue in New York City both depressed and exhilarated me. Depressed, because I'll never have a chance to [... more]
$15.95
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Book Row: An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the ...
A loving chronicle of a more literate era: Reading Mondlin and Meador's descriptions of the long-gone used-book emporia that once graced Fourth Avenue in New York City both depressed and exhilarated me. Depressed, because I'll never have a chance to [... more]
$28.00
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The Smithsonian Book of Books
Just How Special Books Were: The contemporary books we buy today fill many categories, and while they may be special for a variety of reasons, their mass production that condemns them to a comparatively brief life, also is the cause of how visually [... more]
$49.95
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