Explanations and index
Title | Explanations and index PDF eBook |
Author | Orestes Augustus Brownson |
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Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1966 |
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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Title | Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Duncan |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 319 |
Release | 2022-02-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1324002557 |
A New York Times Editors' Choice Book and a New Yorker Best Book of 2022 So Far Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub and Goodreads A playful history of the humble index and its outsized effect on our reading lives. Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists’ living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and—of course—indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart—and we have been for eight hundred years.
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum: Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the collection of the British Museum
Title | Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum: Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the collection of the British Museum PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 684 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Agaristidae |
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Catalogue of the Fossil Plants of the Glossopteris Flora in the Department of Geology British Museum (Natural History).
Title | Catalogue of the Fossil Plants of the Glossopteris Flora in the Department of Geology British Museum (Natural History). PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 398 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Ferns, Fossil |
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Reports from Select Committees of H.C., and Evidence
Title | Reports from Select Committees of H.C., and Evidence PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 432 |
Release | 1899 |
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Quarterly Index of Additions to the Milwaukee Public Library
Title | Quarterly Index of Additions to the Milwaukee Public Library PDF eBook |
Author | Milwaukee Public Library |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 418 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Classified catalogs |
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Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes
Title | Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes PDF eBook |
Author | Worthington George Smith |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 582 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Basidiomycetes |
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