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

Houston, Keith

 
9781324086352: The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1324086351 ISBN 13: 9781324086352
Verlag: Norton & Company, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In 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-of civilisations, empires, human ingenuity and madness. 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. Sure to delight book lovers of all stripes with its lush, full-colour illustrations, The Book gives us the momentous and surprising history behind humanity's most important-and universal-information technology.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Keith Houston is the author of Face with Tears of Joy, Empire of the Sum, Shady Characters, and The Book. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and on Mental Floss, BBC Culture, and Literary Hub. He lives in Linlithgow, Scotland.

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Verlag
Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1324086351
ISBN 13 
9781324086352
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
428
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