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Library: An Unquiet History
Library: An Unquiet History
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...
Library: An Unquiet History
He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish--and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia. Encyclopedic...
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Library: An Unquiet History [Large Print]
Library : An Unquiet History
Through the ages libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but shaped inspired and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles takes us on a fascinating journey from Boston to Baghdad from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries from the Vatican to the British Library...
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Conturbada História das Bibliotecas, A [Portuguese_brazilian]
Library: An Unquiet History
Library : An Unquiet History
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