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A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia.Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness. Portrayed in mythology as either a gift from heroes or a curse from the gods, it has been used as both an instrument of power and a channel of the divine; a means of social bonding and of individual self-definition. Now, as the revolution once wrought by the printed word gives way to the digital age, many fear that the art of writing, and the nuanced thinking nurtured by writing, are under threat. But writing itself, despite striving for permanence, is always in the midst of growth and transfiguration.Celebrating the impulse to record, invent, and make one's mark, Matthew Battles reenchants the written word for all those susceptible to the power and beauty of writing in all of its forms. 15 illustrations
Hardcover:
9780393058857 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 27, 2015, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia.
Paperback:
9780393352924 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 12, 2016, cover price $16.95 | also contains Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word
CD/Spoken Word:
9781494562533 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, August 18, 2015), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Why does writing exist?
Paperback:
9781628920512 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 9, 2017, cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9780263125122, titled "One Girl at a Time" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 1991), cover price $18.95 | also contains One Girl at a Time
Hardcover:
9780786268504 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 2, 2004), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Provides a historical study of libraries and books, their preservation, and destruction, from the U.
9780434008872 | Gardners Books, October 31, 2003, cover price $30.65 | About this edition: Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved, but also controlled, inspired, shaped, hidden and obliterated knowledge.
9780393020298 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Provides an intriguing historical study of libraries and books, their preservation, and destruction, from the U.
Paperback:
9780393351453 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 27, 2015), cover price $15.95
9780099437079 | New edition (Vintage Uk, October 7, 2004), cover price $14.25 | About this edition: Gives a fast-paced tour through the stacks from ancient times.
9780393325645 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Provides a historical study of libraries and books, their preservation, and destruction, from the U.
Prebinding:
9781435290563 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $23.95
Product Description: With textbook readers and digital downloads proliferating, it is easy to imagine a time when printed books will vanish. Such forecasts miss the mark, argue Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Battles. Future bookshelves will not be wholly virtual, and libraries will thrive―although in a variety of new social, cultural, and architectural forms...read more
Paperback:
9780674725034 | Harvard Univ Pr, July 7, 2014, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: With textbook readers and digital downloads proliferating, it is easy to imagine a time when printed books will vanish.
Product Description: Outside the ruins of San Francisco, a former UC Berkeley professor of literature recounts the chilling sequence of events which led to his current lowly state - a gruesome pandemic which killed nearly every living soul on the planet, in a matter of days...read more
Paperback:
9781935869504 | Reprint edition (Hilobooks, May 15, 2012), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Jack Londonâs plague novel, in which the worldâs population has been reduced to a few scattered bands of primitive scavengers, has influenced subsequent science-fiction apocalypses and dystopias  from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four to the movies Road Warrior and Idiocracy.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781624068843 | Unabridged edition (Ingram Pub Services, August 31, 2013), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Outside the ruins of San Francisco, a former UC Berkeley professor of literature recounts the chilling sequence of events which led to his current lowly state - a gruesome pandemic which killed nearly every living soul on the planet, in a matter of days.
Product Description: Matthew Battles does not write stories that move, develop or unfold. He creates worlds that hiss, snap, and rattle, and decorates them with objects that brood in black, glassine silence, or crumble into dusty revelation. Characters are left to grab at scraps of reality sent whipping about them at hurricane force...read more
Paperback:
9781935869122 | Pgw, May 22, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Matthew Battles does not write stories that move, develop or unfold.
Hardcover:
9780878467372 | Museum of Fine Arts Boston, October 1, 2008, cover price $60.00
Product Description: Wallace Stegner called its stacks "enchanted." Barbara Tuchman called it "my Archimedes bathtub, my burning bush." But to Thomas Wolfe, it was a place of "wilderment and despair." Since its opening in 1915, the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library has led a spirited life as Harvard's physical and, in a sense, its spiritual heart...read more
Hardcover:
9780674016682 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 15, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Wallace Stegner called its stacks "enchanted.
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