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Books on Fire: The Tumultuous Story of the World's Great Libraries Book

Takes you on a journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times showing how the urge to write read and collect books has always gone hand in hand with the impulse to destroy them. This work also reveals a danger facing libraries with the digitalization of books threatening both the existence of the physical book and the idea of reading for free.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Books on Fire traces the tumultuous story of the world's great libraries from the burning of the great library of Alexandria (on three separate occasions) and the libraries of the Chinese Qing Dynasty to more modern catastrophic losses such as...

  • Pickabook

    Jon E. Graham, Lucien X. Polastron

  • 0500513848
  • 9780500513842
  • Lucien X. Polastron, Jon E. Graham
  • 24 September 2007
  • Thames & Hudson
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 384
  • First Edition
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