University of Destruction - 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 University of Destruction write by David Wheaton. This book was released on 2005-05. University of Destruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Teens are shown the three pillars of peril for teens entering college--sex, drugs, and rebellion--and then offered a plan for avoiding those pitfalls.
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 In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself.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.
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books
A Universal History of the Destruction 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 A Universal History of the Destruction of Books write by Fernando Báez. This book was released on 2008. A Universal History of the Destruction of Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to the looting of libraries in post-war Iraq.
Prompt and Utter Destruction
Prompt and Utter Destruction - 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 Prompt and Utter Destruction write by J. Samuel Walker. This book was released on 2016. Prompt and Utter Destruction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Creation and Destruction of Value
The Creation and Destruction of Value - 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 Creation and Destruction of Value write by Harold James. This book was released on 2012-10-22. The Creation and Destruction of Value available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalizationÑabove all in the Great DepressionÑto show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration: against the mobility of capital or goods, but also against flows of migration. By a parallel examination of the financial panics of 1929 and 1931 as well as that of 2008, he shows how banking and monetary collapses suddenly and radically alter the rules of engagement for every other type of economic activity. Increased calls for state action in countercyclical fiscal policy bring demands for trade protection. In the open economy of the twenty-first century, such calls are only viable in very large statesÑprobably only in the United States and China. By contrast, in smaller countries demand trickles out of the national container, creating jobs in other countries. The international community is thus paralyzed, and international institutions are challenged by conflicts of interest. The book shows the looming psychological and material consequences of an interconnected world for people and the institutions they create.
