The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time

The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our TimeIn The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000 year old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today. 71 color illustrations

philosophy and social science works

Religion is distinctly human

and everyday life traces concepts of experience through Kant

Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there

home demolitions

The most accomplished and accessible entrypoint into Butler’s hypnotic

in part personal

Published in 1968

Indonesian poet Tenas Effendy

one of the locations where humankind originated

and the changes we actually make ― and the fact that they don’t always go

The authors in the present volume argue that the Bandung Conference had a lasting normative influence on the contemporary regional order of Asia