The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time - 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 Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time write by Keith Houston. This book was released on 2016-08-22. The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated."— Erik Spiekermann, typographer We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages—of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today. Sure to delight book lovers of all stripes with its lush, full-color illustrations, The Book gives us the momentous and surprising history behind humanity’s most important—and universal—information technology.
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks - 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 Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks write by Keith Houston. This book was released on 2013-09-24. Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.
The Book
The 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 Book write by Amaranth Borsuk. This book was released on 2018-05-04. The Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface. What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around 150 CE. It was preceded by clay tablets and papyrus scrolls. Are those books? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amaranth Borsuk considers the history of the book, the future of the book, and the idea of the book. Tracing the interrelationship of form and content in the book's development, she bridges book history, book arts, and electronic literature to expand our definition of an object we thought we knew intimately. Contrary to the many reports of its death (which has been blamed at various times on newspapers, television, and e-readers), the book is alive. Despite nostalgic paeans to the codex and its printed pages, Borsuk reminds us, the term “book” commonly refers to both medium and content. And the medium has proved to be malleable. Rather than pinning our notion of the book to a single form, Borsuk argues, we should remember its long history of transformation. Considering the book as object, content, idea, and interface, she shows that the physical form of the book has always been the site of experimentation and play. Rather than creating a false dichotomy between print and digital media, we should appreciate their continuities.
The Book
The 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 Book write by Keith Houston. This book was released on 2025-04-29. The Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book's death have been greatly exaggerated."--Erik Spiekermann, typographer
Mankind Beyond Earth
Mankind Beyond Earth - 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 Mankind Beyond Earth write by Claude A. Piantadosi. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Mankind Beyond Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seeking to reenergize Americans' passion for the space program, the value of further exploration of the Moon, and the importance of human beings on the final frontier, Claude A. Piantadosi presents a rich history of American space exploration and its major achievements. He emphasizes the importance of reclaiming national command of our manned program and continuing our unmanned space missions, and he stresses the many adventures that still await us in the unfolding universe. Acknowledging space exploration's practical and financial obstacles, Piantadosi challenges us to revitalize American leadership in space exploration in order to reap its scientific bounty. Piantadosi explains why space exploration, a captivating story of ambition, invention, and discovery, is also increasingly difficult and why space experts always seem to disagree. He argues that the future of the space program requires merging the practicalities of exploration with the constraints of human biology. Space science deals with the unknown, and the margin (and budget) for error is small. Lethal near-vacuum conditions, deadly cosmic radiation, microgravity, vast distances, and highly scattered resources remain immense physical problems. To forge ahead, America needs to develop affordable space transportation and flexible exploration strategies based in sound science. Piantadosi closes with suggestions for accomplishing these goals, combining his healthy skepticism as a scientist with an unshakable belief in space's untapped—and wholly worthwhile—potential.
