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 In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself.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.
Burning Book
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.
Make Your Home Among Strangers
Make Your Home Among Strangers - 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 Make Your Home Among Strangers write by Jennine Capó Crucet. This book was released on 2015-08-04. Make Your Home Among Strangers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A young, Cuban-American woman is accepted into an elite college right as her home life unravels.
The Wood Burn Book
The Wood Burn 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 The Wood Burn Book write by Rachel Strauss. This book was released on 2020-08-18. The Wood Burn Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Wood Burn Book teaches you everything you need to know to master the art of pyrography.
A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden)
A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden) - 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 A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden) write by Zhi Li. This book was released on 2016-06-07. A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. His approach synthesized Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ethics and incorporated the Neo-Confucian idealism of such thinkers as Wang Yangming (1472–1529). The result was a series of heretical writings that caught fire among Li Zhi's contemporaries, despite an imperial ban on their publication, and intrigued Chinese audiences long after his death. Translated for the first time into English, Li Zhi's bold challenge to established doctrines will captivate anyone curious about the origins of such subtly transgressive works as the sixteenth-century play The Peony Pavilion or the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber. In A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden), Li Zhi confronts accepted ideas about gender, questions the true identity of history's heroes and villains, and offers his own readings of Confucius, Laozi, and the Buddha. Fond of vivid sentiment and sharp expression, Li Zhi made no distinction between high and low literary genres in his literary analysis. He refused to support sanctioned ideas about morality and wrote stinging social critiques. Li Zhi praised scholars who risked everything to expose extortion and misrule. In this sophisticated translation, English-speaking readers encounter the best of this heterodox intellectual's vital contribution to Chinese thought and culture.
