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Matthew Battles Library (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Library : an Unquiet History
- Publication Name
- Library
- Title
- Library
- Subtitle
- An Unquiet History
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0393351459
- EAN
- 9780393351453
- ISBN
- 9780393351453
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Genre
- Antiques & Collectibles, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
- Topic
- Library & Information Science / General, World, Books, Books & Reading
- Release Year
- 2015
- Release Date
- 21/08/2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 7.5 Oz
- Type
- Textbook
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries and on to the Information Age, to explore how libraries are built and how they are destroyed: from the scroll burnings in ancient China to the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia to the latest revolutionary upheavals of the digital age. A new afterword elucidates how knowledge is preserved amid the creative destruction of twenty-first-century technology.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393351459
ISBN-13
9780393351453
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204036281
Product Key Features
Book Title
Library : an Unquiet History
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Library & Information Science / General, World, Books, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Antiques & Collectibles, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Z721.B28 2015
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Blow[s] the dust off our stodgy, conventional conception of the library to reveal the living heart of culture., Battles' sprightly narrative performs a valuable service by blowing the dust off our stodgy, conventional conception of the library to reveal the living heart of cultures that beats beneath its stone facade., This is an idiosyncratic and brave book...like many other fine works of literature, [it] is not unlike a library., Battles turns an all-seeing telescope on the most spectacular galaxy in our intellectual heavens--that magnificent constellation of books we call a library--and brings into focus the brightest stars and blackest holes in its dynamic history., Fascinating...At its heart, the book is above all a celebration of mankind's ceaseless quest to quench curiosity and organize knowledge--a quest all the more timely, yet more overwhelming, in an era when our collective 'library' has swelled into the world wide web, the largest information system humanity has ever known., Battles' book is an obvious choice for bibliophiles. But the author's evident enthusiasm for his subject just might fan into flame any passion for books and libraries that smolders in the heart of the general reader, too., Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking...sweeping in its inclusiveness, extraordinarily brisk in narrative vigor, and consistently lively--utterly trumping the cliches of the mustiness of libraries and the dreariness of librarians. A book among books, to be savored and gone back to.
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2016-299442
Dewey Decimal
027/.009
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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