Books: A Manifesto or, How to Build a Library

Books: A Manifesto or, How to Build a LibraryThis is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Pattersons life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs the last of many libraries, he makes an impassioned case for the radical importance of reading in our lives from Proust to Jilly Cooper, from golden age detective novels to avant garde

Covert Joy offers the particular bliss a book can bring that she expresses in the title story:

at the age of twenty-four

he displays a conscious effort to rely upon sound narrations of hadith

published in 1927 as part of the ‘To-day and To-morrow’ series – the inspiration for our present-day FUTURES

Welcome to technofeudalism

A Free and Responsible Press

The book spans the last several decades: from Owens' roots in DIY

and striking insight

Julian Baggini expertly explores the best and worst food practices in a huge array of different societies past and present to identify the principles that can guide our future

from financialization and privatization to the climate crisis

in-depth coverage of Kubrick's personal

fossil-fueled industrialization