The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of “information overload,” yet this experience is not unique to modern …
A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia "e;Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging …
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the …
This delightful book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when books” were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Renowned classicist Lionel …
