Burning the books : a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge
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- ISBN: 9780674241206
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Physical Description:
308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First Harvard University Press edition.
- Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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General Note: | "First published in Great Britain as Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack in 2020 by John Murray (Publishers) A Hachette UK company"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-290) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Cracked clay under the mounds -- A pyre of papyrus -- When books were dog cheap -- An ark to save learning -- Spoil of the conqueror -- How to disobey Kafka -- The twice-burned library -- The paper brigade -- To be burned unread -- Sarajevo Mon Amour -- Flames of empire -- An obsession with archives -- The digital deluge -- Paradise lost? -- Coda: Why we will always need libraries and archives. |
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Smithers Public Library | ANF 363.31 OVE (Text) | 35101000592464 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |