The Book of 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 of the Book write by Idries Shah. This book was released on 1969. The Book of the Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Book of the Book
A Book of 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 A Book of the Book write by Jerome Rothenberg. This book was released on 2000. A Book of the Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By Jerome Rothenberg. Contributions by Steven Clay.
The Book of Books
The Book of 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 The Book of Books write by Melvyn Bragg. This book was released on 2012-08-21. The Book of Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The King James Bible has often been called the "Book of Books," both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611, it has been the best–selling book in the world, and many believe, it has had the greatest impact. The King James Bible has spread the Protestant faith. It has also been the greatest influence on the enrichment of the English language and its literature. It has been the Bible of wars from the British Civil War in the seventeenth century to the American Civil War two centuries later, and it has been carried into battle in innumerable conflicts since then. Its influence on social movements—particularly involving women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and politics was profound. It was crucial to the growth of democracy. It was integral to the abolition of slavery, and it defined attitudes to modern science, education, and sex. As Lord Melvyn Bragg's The Adventure of English explored the history of our language, so The Book of Books reveals the extraordinary and still–felt impact of a work created 400 years ago.
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: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
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.
