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In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many are
The Coming of the Book
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Pages: 388
Authors: Lucien Febvre
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Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of
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Authors: Melinda Baldwin
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-18 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Making "Nature" is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature, one of the world's most influential scientific institutions. Now nearin
Stepchildren of Nature
Language: en
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Authors: Harry Oosterhuis
Categories: Medical
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"In this new cultural history Harry Oosterhuis invites us to reconsider the quality and extent of Krafft-Ebing's influence. Revisiting the case studies on which
A History of the Book in America
Language: en
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The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the presen