The Bibliotheck
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Scottish journal of bibliography and allied topics.
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Scottish journal of bibliography and allied topics.
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-04-11
Total Pages: 109
ISBN-13: 1609776623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAndrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age (1906). He also wrote Ballades in Blue China (1880) and Rhymes la Mode (1884).
Author: Sir John Young Walker MacAlister
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 504
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan Orlean
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2019-10-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1476740194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSusan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In the “exquisitely written, consistently entertaining” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. “A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 114
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Author: University of St. Andrews. Library
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 614
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Montague Rhodes James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-01-20
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1108027881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed description of over 80 medieval manuscripts, with 27 plates, originally published in 1932 and still sought after today.
Author: Owen Gingerich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0802714153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how the technical 16th-century treatise launched a revolution more profound than the Reformation, and how copies have evolved into million-dollar cultural icons.
Author: Edmund Lester Pearson
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-11
Total Pages: 118
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdmund Lester Pearson's "The Librarian at Play" is a lovely piece that presents a comical perspective on the life of libraries through a series of anecdotes involving librarians and visitors. The work includes depictions of the implementation of telephone reference, experiences at a branch library, and a unique tour of Hell, in which individuals are categorized according to genealogy inquiries posed to librarians. These individual columns are works of fiction that embody the essence of librarians and their profession.