Burning Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Burning Book write by Jessica Bruder. This book was released on 2007-08-07. Burning Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jessica Bruderis a reporter for theOregonian.Her writing has also appeared in theNew York Times,theWashington Post,and theNew York Observer.She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Burned
Burned - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Burned write by Ellen Hopkins. This book was released on 2013-09-10. Burned available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
Burning the Books
Burning the Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Burning the Books write by Richard Ovenden. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Burning the Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.
Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability write by Paul K. Longmore. This book was released on 2003. Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist.'
Before I Burn
Before I Burn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Before I Burn write by Gaute Heivoll. This book was released on 2015-01-01. Before I Burn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late 1970s, a pyromaniac runs amok in a close-knit community in rural Norway. Homes are burnt to a cinder, and panic spreads, as neighbors wonder who amongst them could be wreaking such fear and anguish. And slowly, almost imperceptibly, a mother comes to realize that her son is lighting the fires. Born into this time of chaos, Gaute Heivoll is indelibly linked to the arsonist intent on such destruction. By juxtaposing the pyromaniac's story with his own, Heivoll explores memory, loss, and the agonizing separation of child from parent that it is a rite of passage for us all. Written in fluid, luminous prose, Before I Burn is a literary sensation, by the foremost Norwegian writer of his generation.
