The Hereford Mappa Mundi
Author : Gabriel Alington
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 9780852443552
Author : Gabriel Alington
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 9780852443552
Author : Lynne Kelly
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374312370
To work off a family debt, 10-year-old Hastin leaves his desert village in India to work as a circus elephant keeper but many challenges await him, including trying to keep Nandita, a sweet elephant, safe from the cruel circus owner.
Author : Richard Ovenden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674241207
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 In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself.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.
Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0307773280
From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage. Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn't. As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. Unimpeachably researched, enviably written, and charmed with anecdotes from Seneca to Samuel Pepys to a nineteenth-century bibliophile who had to climb over his books to get into bed, The Book on the Bookshelf is indispensable for anyone who loves books.
Author : John Willis Clark
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Burnett Hillman Streeter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110802789X
A fascinating illustrated study of the changing design and use of English libraries between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Author : Daniel Ganninger
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2016-05-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781533500342
Are you ready to learn something new? The 2nd volume in the Knowledge Stew Guide series continues the quest to find the most interesting facts in the world. Take a journey through topics that range from science, history, and geography to food, entertainment, and business and learn the facts behind the facts. Discover things you might not have known about the moon, or why we're taller in the morning and shorter at night. Find out about a strange amusement park, a secret vault at Mt. Rushmore, or the world's most expensive coffee. These things, plus plenty more, are waiting for your brain to take them in. Just don't forget your spoon. For even more facts, check out Volume 1 of Knowledge Stew: The Guide to the Most Interesting Facts in the World.
Author : Jason König
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1107244587
The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.
Author : John Willis Clark
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Tim Major
Publisher : Clary
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781732981010
FantasyYA novelGrowing up listening to her father's stories of his time as a medical mage in the King's Royal Militia, Clary developed a hunger for adventure that set her apart from her peers. She dreamed of magic, sword fights, and far off lands, unable to bear the thought of being just another vintner's housewife, trapped in the small border town of Vinvale. With the arrival of the Saroza pilgrimage, a journey made by nobles across the treacherous Arid Sea desert, Clary finally gets the chance to chase the wondrous life she craves. Unfortunately, as she soon discovers, real adventures aren't as glamorous as she imagined. When Vinvale and its royal guests are beset upon by the dreaded Exiled Regiment and its tyrant leader, the Chained King, she learns just how wrong she was: princes aren't gallant heroes; knights aren't invincible; and beautiful far off lands are harsh and unforgiving. Her life is thrown into chaos as her village burns to the ground before her, and she is taken as a slave captive. Now, uncertain of her fate, she must master her newfound powers in order to escape, all while trying to protect what family and friends she has left.