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Release : 1938
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Author : Henry Petroski
Release : 2010-12-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Book on the Bookshelf by : Henry Petroski
Download or read book The Book on the Bookshelf written by Henry Petroski. This book was released on 2010-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lydia Pyne
Release : 2016-01-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 347/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bookshelf by : Lydia Pyne
Download or read book Bookshelf written by Lydia Pyne. This book was released on 2016-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Writer and historian Lydia Pyne finds bookshelves to be holders not just of books but of so many other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms of contemporary human existence. With a shrewd eye toward this particular moment in the history of books, Pyne takes the reader on a tour of the bookshelf that leads critically to this juncture: amid rumors of the death of book culture, why is the life of the bookshelf in full bloom? Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Author : Wright Field Reference Library
Release : 1947
Genre : Aeronautics
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Book Synopsis The Bookshelf by : Wright Field Reference Library
Download or read book The Bookshelf written by Wright Field Reference Library. This book was released on 1947. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annie Austen
Release : 2019-10-24
Genre : House & Home
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Book Synopsis Shelf Respect by : Annie Austen
Download or read book Shelf Respect written by Annie Austen. This book was released on 2019-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decluttering is all the rage, but what do you do when your preferred style of interior decor is miles of overstuffed bookshelves? If you can't bring yourself to KonMari your collection, SHELF RESPECT will validate your life choices. The perfect gift for the book lover in your life: a celebration of the humble but oh-so-wonderful bookshelf. Do you alphabetise your books or organise by genre... or (heaven forbid) colour? Have you merged your collection with your other half's? (And do you write your name inside the cover, just in case?) Do you keep all the books you've read, or only the most cherished? (Is there such a thing as too many books?) Are you a Billy aficionado, or are we talking library ladders and bespoke Oak shelves? Bound to provoke (good-natured) debate between Bibliophiles, SHELF RESPECT is a charmingly illustrated book in defence of towering TBR piles and overflowing shelves... no matter how you choose to organise them.
