The Library PDF book is popular Language Arts & Disciplines book written by Arthur der Weduwen. The book was released by Profile Books on 2021-10-14 with total hardcover pages 425. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read The Library by Arthur der Weduwen in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that
Almost as old as the idea of the library is the urge to destroy it. Author Lucien X. Polastron traces the history of this destruction, examining the causes for
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
While the importance of writing has often been recognized, the role of books and especially that of libraries has just as often been slighted. Knowledge, once g
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge
