Libraries in the Manuscript Age

Libraries in the Manuscript AgeThe case studies presented in this volume help illuminate the rationale for the founding of libraries in an age when books were handwritten, thus contributing to the comparative history of libraries. They focus on examples ranging from the seventh to the seventeenth century emanating from the Muslim World, East Asia, Byzantium and Western Europe. Accumulation and preservation are the key motivations for the development of libraries. Rulers, scholars

and foundation officers

Gildas Hamel

The Technical Intelligentsia and the East German Elite: Legitimacy and Social Change in Mature Communism by Thomas A

In the exercises

" where a high division of labor and heavy use of machinery resemble production regimes in factories and fast-food restaurants

A series of essays explaining the impact of the events at Marikana upon the South African perspective of police and the keeping of order

In what she calls her "twenty-first-century Green Book

The Marvelous Ones gives human faces to the suffering and resilience of some of the most marginalized members of our society

Die so geleistete grundlegende Erschließung soll daneben auch anderen Disziplinen die Möglichkeit eröffnen

The trials also serve as the backbone of her nuanced consideration of Jewish conversion to Christianity—and the unwelcoming Christian response to Jewish conversions—during a period that is usually celebrated as a time of relative interfaith harmony

not legislatures

to the creation of the atomic bomb and the nuclear arms race