Library (An Unquiet History)
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Product Details
Author:
Matthew Battles
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
262
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company (July 27, 2015)
Imprint:
W. W. Norton & Company
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9780393351453
ISBN-10:
0393351459
Weight:
11.57oz
Dimensions:
5.5" x 8.3" x 0.7"
File:
-NortonNorton_062726-20260627.xml
List Price:
$24.99
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65
Case Pack:
28
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P-WWN
Discount Code:
B
Overview
Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries and on to the Information Age, to explore how libraries are built and how they are destroyed: from the scroll burnings in ancient China to the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia to the latest revolutionary upheavals of the digital age. A new afterword elucidates how knowledge is preserved amid the creative destruction of twenty-first-century technology.
