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Index A History Of The
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Author : Dennis Duncan
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2023-02-28
Index A History Of The written by Dennis Duncan and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with History categories.
A New York Times Editors' Choice Book Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub and Goodreads A playful history of the humble index and its outsized effect on our reading lives. Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists’ living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and—of course—indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart—and we have been for eight hundred years.
Manuscripts In Christ S Emmanuel Jesus Selwyn And Sidney Sussex Colleges Peterhouse And Trinity Hall Cambridge
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Author : Angela M. Lucas
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2016
Manuscripts In Christ S Emmanuel Jesus Selwyn And Sidney Sussex Colleges Peterhouse And Trinity Hall Cambridge written by Angela M. Lucas and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Education categories.
Latest volume in a series which is "a monumental achievement" (Review of English Studies)
Times Of History Times Of Nature
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Author : Anders Ekström
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-02-11
Times Of History Times Of Nature written by Anders Ekström and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-11 with History categories.
As climate change becomes an increasingly important part of public discourse, the relationship between time in nature and history is changing. Nature can no longer be considered a slow and immobile background to human history, and the future can no longer be viewed as open and detached from the past. Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.
Information
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Author : Ann Blair
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-26
Information written by Ann Blair and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with History categories.
"Information technology shapes nearly every part of modern life, and debates about information--its meaning, effects, and applications--are central to a range of fields, from economics, technology, and politics to library science, media studies, and cultural studies. This rich, unique resource traces the history of information with an approach designed to draw connections across fields and perspectives, and provide essential context for our current age of information. Clear, accessible, and authoritative, the book opens with a series of articles that provide a narrative history of information from premodern practices to twenty-first-century information culture. This section focuses on major developments in the creation, storage, search, exchange, management, and manipulation of information, as well as the many meanings and uses of information over time. Coverage spans Europe, North America, and many other places and periods, including the medieval Islamic world and early modern East Asia, as well as the emergence of global networks. A second, alphabetical section includes more than 100 concise articles that cover specific concepts (e.g., data, intellectual property, privacy); formats and genres (books, databases, maps, newspapers, scrolls, social media); people (archivists, diplomats and spies, readers, secretaries, teachers); practices (censorship, forecasting, learning, surveilling, translating); processes (digitization, quantification, storage and search); systems (bureaucracy, platforms, telecommunications); technologies (algorithms, cameras, computers), and much more. The book concludes with an informative glossary, defining terms from "analog/digital" to "World Wide Web.""--
The Historian
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Author : Elizabeth Kostova
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 2005-06-01
The Historian written by Elizabeth Kostova and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-01 with Fiction categories.
The record-breaking phenomenon from Elizabeth Kostova is a celebrated masterpiece that "refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle). Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe—in a feat of storytelling so rich, so hypnotic, so exciting that it has enthralled readers around the world. “Part thriller, part history, part romance...Kostova has a keen sense of storytelling and she has a marvelous tale to tell.” —Baltimore Sun
The Exeter Book
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Author : Israel Gollancz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
The Exeter Book written by Israel Gollancz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with English poetry categories.
The Story Of Art
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Author : E. H. Gombrich
language : en
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Release Date : 2023-03-23
The Story Of Art written by E. H. Gombrich and has been published by Phaidon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-23 with categories.
A cornerstone of art history - in a compact yet readable format and with a new preface by the author's granddaughter
The Cambridge Social History Of Britain 1750 1950
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Author : F. M. L Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Cambridge Social History Of Britain 1750 1950 written by F. M. L Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
Index The Papers Of The Continental Congress 1774 1789 Quack Zwolle
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Index The Papers Of The Continental Congress 1774 1789 Quack Zwolle written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Government publications categories.
Index A History Of The A Bookish Adventure From Medieval Manuscripts To The Digital Age
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Author : Dennis Duncan
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2022-02-15
Index A History Of The A Bookish Adventure From Medieval Manuscripts To The Digital Age written by Dennis Duncan and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with History categories.
A New York Times Editors' Choice Book and a New Yorker Best Book of 2022 So Far Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub and Goodreads A playful history of the humble index and its outsized effect on our reading lives. Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists’ living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and—of course—indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart—and we have been for eight hundred years.