 | The Book on the Bookshelf
Release Date: September 14, 1999He has been called "the poet laureate of technology" and a writer who is "erudite, witty, thoughtful, and accessible." Now Henry Petroski turns to the subject of books and bookshelves, and wonders whether it was inevitable that books would come to be arranged vertically as they are today on horizontal shelves. As we learn how the ancient scroll became the codex became the volume we are used to, we explore the ways in which the housing of books evolved. Petroski takes us into the pre-Gutenberg world, where books were so scarce they were chai...
 |  | A Few Good Books: Using Contemporary Readers' Advisory Strategies to Connect Readers with Books
Publication Date: November 23, 2009| ISBN-10: 155570669X | ISBN-13: 978-1555706692| Edition: 1 Meet the changing needs of the contemporary reader with this current and comprehensive new readers' advisory resource. A Few Good Books will help you build a solid foundation in the theory and practice of readers' advisory and learn how exciting new Library 2.0 technologies, including tags, clouds, e-books virtual RA, and other digital formats will enhance your programs. A uniquely helpful section on RA for readers with disabilities, patrons who are non-native speakers of English, and adult new...
|  | Days of Reading (Penguin Great Ideas)
Release Date: October 27, 2009| Series: Penguin Great Ideas In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves � and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives � and destroyed them. Now Penguin br...
|  | A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
Publication Date: August 15, 1995National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist ...
|  | Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women
Release Date: April 30, 2002The first reference of its kind, Great Books for Girls is an invaluable list of more than six hundred titles--picture books, novels, mysteries, biographies, folktales, sports books, and more--that will encourage, challenge, and ultimately nurture in girls the strong qualities our culture so often suppresses. Kathleen Odean, a librarian and former member of the prestigious Caldecott and Newbery Award committees, has gathered and annotated a list of books starring bold, confident heroines for children from toddlers to age fourteen. Here are old...
|  | Writers on Writing, Volume II: More Collected Essays from The New York Times (Writers on Writing (Times Books Paperback))
Publication Date: May 1, 2004| Series: Writers on Writing (Times Books Paperback) (Book 2) "Glimpses into writers and the circumstances that shape them . . . Valuable gleanings."-Kirkus Reviews In a second volume of original essays drawn from the long-running New York Times column, Writers on Writing brings together another group of contemporary literature's finest voices to muse on the challenges and gifts of language and creativity.The pieces range from taciturn, hilarious advice for aspiring writers to thoughtful, soul-wrenching reflections on writing in the midst of national tragedy. Wil...
|  | Passing Time in the Loo (Compact Classics)
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|  | The Anatomy of Bibliomania
Publication Date: October 23, 2001| ISBN-10: 0252070437 | ISBN-13: 978-0252070433An unmitigated delight for any bibliophile, Holbrook Jackson's "Anatomy of Bibliomania" is the cornerstone of his indispensable trio of books on 'the usefulness, purpose, and pleasures that proceed from books'. "The Anatomy of Bibliomania" begins at the beginning, when books first started to appear, and gives book lovers the solace and company of book lovers from ancient Rome, the Renaissance, and the Romantics. Jackson inspects the allure of books, their curative and restorative properties, and the passion ...
|  | Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West
Publication Date: May 31, 2011 In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common ideals, practices, and institutions. It’s like Masonry, but without the secret handshakes. Grafton reveals the microdynamics of the scholarly life through a series of essays on institutions and on scholars ranging from early modern polymaths to modern intellectual historians to American thinkers and writers. He...
|  | Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea
Publication Date: December 15, 2008| ISBN-10: 0674030486 | ISBN-13: 978-0674030480 When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars of late Roman Caesarea, did far more. Both produced new kinds of books, in which parallel columns made possible critical comparisons previously unenvisioned, whether between biblical texts or between national histories. Eusebius went even...
|  | Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read
Release Date: November 2, 2010 Ever been betrayed by a pretty cover and a pair of alluring blurbs?Rest assured: Read This Next will never hurt you. The 500 book recommendations contained within these pages have all been carefully vetted and approved by two literary professionals with discerning taste and witty wit. Arranged into delightful thematic lists, these suggestions cover the best of literature high and low, from page-turning classics to mind-expanding fluff; from murder mysteries and post-apocalyptic visions to historical fiction and bathroom books. Each book is paired with deeply ...
|  | 501 Great Writers: A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of Literature
Publication Date: October 1, 2008| Series: 501 Great Entertaining and informative, this collection of brief, informal biographies spans the centuries from Sophocles in ancient Greece to Harper Lee in America's Deep South. Along the way, readers will enjoy pithy biographical sketches of existentialists Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, French satirist Voltaire and Edwardian satirist Oscar Wilde, dramatists from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, poets from Dante to William Wordsworth and T.S. Eliot, and novelists who include Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Vi...
|  | Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America
Release Date: November 11, 2008“These thirteen books must be seen as representative, not definitive, works. They are nodal points, places where vast areas of thought and feeling gathered and dispersed, creating a nation as various and vibrant as the United States, which must be considered one of the most successful nation-states in modern history, and a republic built firmly on ideas, which are contained in its major texts. Where we have been must, of course, determine where we are going. My hope is that this book helps to show us where we have been and engenders a lively conversation...
|  | 2013 Authors Are My Rock Stars wall calendar
Release Date: June 1, 2012From William Shakespeare to Mark Twain to Jack Kerouac to Maya Angelou--authors ROCK. With that in mind comes a brand-new wall calendar declaring, loud and proud--Authors are My Rock Stars. Featuring insightful quotes alongside dramatic and intimate photos, this calendar showcases those authors with that extra bit of rock star edge. ...
|  | The Evolution of the Book
Publication Date: April 23, 1998| ISBN-10: 0195118596 | ISBN-13: 978-0195118599| Edition: Highlighting Distinguished scholar and library systems innovator Frederick Kilgour tells a five-thousand-year story in this exciting work, a tale beginning with the invention of writing and concluding with the emerging electronic book. Calling on a lifetime of interest in the growth of information technology, Kilgour brings a fresh approach to the history of the book, emphasizing in rich, authoritative detail the successive technological advances that allowed the book to keep pace with ever-increasi...
|  | The World is a Text: The Writing, Reading, and Thinking About Culture and Its Contexts (2nd Edition)
Publication Date: July 28, 2005| ISBN-10: 0131931989 | ISBN-13: 978-0131931985| Edition: 2The book teaches readers the usefulness of learning to actively "read" their surroundings. The new edition features a greatly expanded section on writing, editing, and making arguments.This cultural studies reader directly engages the process of writing about the "texts" one sees in everyday life. Its comprehensive and inclusive approach focuses on the relationship between reading traditional works–such as short stories, and poems–and other less-traditional ones–such as movi...
|  | What a World Reading 3: Amazing Stories from Around the Globe (2nd Edition) (What a World Reading: Amazing Stories from Around the Globe)
Publication Date: January 20, 2011| ISBN-10: 0131382012 | ISBN-13: 978-0131382015| Edition: 2 What a World: Amazing Stories from Around the Globe,is a six-book series that explores many fascinating topics from around the world and across history. The stories in What a Worldcover a diverse range of high-interest topics, from biographical pieces to exploration of cultures in various historical and contemporary periods. FeaturesWords that Go Together activities highlight collocations -- words that are easier to learn together.Critical Thinking questions develop...
|  | ENGLISH COMMON READER: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE MASS READING PUB
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|  | Information Literacy Instruction Handbook
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0838909639 | ISBN-13: 978-0838909638Information Literacy Instruction Handbook is designed primarily for librarians new to teaching or management of information literacy instruction. In addition, it serves as a one-stop refresher source on key topics for more experienced librarians. The approach is practical, with an emphasis on up to date situations and approaches. It contains concise and practical chapters, written by experienced information literacy instruction librarians, providing the basics but with references to other key sources for those w...
|  | Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy
Publication Date: September 13, 1999| ISBN-10: 0521576938 | ISBN-13: 978-0521576932| Edition: First Edition This is a full-length study of a topic of central importance to the development of Italian and European culture. The spread of printing to Renaissance Italy had a dramatic impact on all users of books. As works came to be diffused more widely and cheaply, and reading became a more popular activity, so authors adapted their writing and methods of publishing to the demands and opportunities of the new medium. Brian Richardson focuses on the interaction between the book industry and w...
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