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9 produkter
A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
Häftad, 2024
204 kr
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Every Book Its Reader
The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
Häftad, 2006
177 kr
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Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired …
On Paper
The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History
E-bok, 2013
158 kr
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A Best Book of the Year: Mother Jones , Bloomberg News, National Post , Kirkus Reviews A consideration of all things paper—its invention that revolutionized human civilization; its thousand-fold uses (and misuses), proliferation, and sweeping influence on society; its makers, shapers, collectors, …
Cross of Snow
A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
E-bok, 2020
240 kr
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A major literary biography of America''s best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than fifty years, and a much-needed reassessment for the twenty-first century of a writer whose stature and celebrity were unparalleled in his time, whose work helped to explain America''s new world not …
De papel
En torno a sus dos mil años de historia
Av Nicholas A. Basbanes, Ignacio Padilla Suarez
E-bok, 2014
108 kr
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De papel. Todo sobre sus dos mil años de historia es resultado del interés de Nicholas Basbanes por estudiar el impacto que el papel ha tenido en la transformación cultural de la humanidad. Su investigación llevó al autor por todo el mundo y a través de dos milenios de historia para desentrañar …
World of Letters
Yale University Press, 1908-2008
Inbunden, 2008
316 kr
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The author of A Gentle Madness recounts the lively stories behind a century of publishing at a leading university press For Yale University Press, which celebrates its hundredth birthday in 2008, the century has been an eventful one, punctuated with no few surprises. The Press has published more …
