The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
9 best books like The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (Robert Darnton): The Book on the Bookshelf, Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore, The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read, Long Walk To Freedom, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
| Author | Henry Petroski |
| ISBN | 0375706399 |
"A fascinating history of two related common objects, impeccably documented and beautifully illustrated." —Civilization
Henry Petroski, "the poet laureate of technology" and author of the highly acclaimed The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things now sets his sights on perhaps...
Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore
| Author | Lawrence Goldstone |
| ISBN | 0312263953 |
More than a sequel, Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore is a companion piece for Used and Rare. A delight for the general reader and book collector alike, it details the Goldstones' further explorations into the curious world of book collecting. In Slightly Chipped, they get hooked on the correspondence...
| Author | Stuart Kelly |
| ISBN | 1400062977 |
In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books...
| Author | Nelson Mandela |
| ISBN | 0349116024 |
From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation and development as a freedom fighter, this first volume of Nelson Mandela's classic autobiography charts the early years of his life, which culminated in his prison sentence in 1962. Emotive, compelling...
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Author | Benedict Anderson |
| ISBN | 0860915468 |
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention. In this widely...
| Author | Michael Dirda |
| ISBN | 0805083383 |
"As warm and stimulating as a library to which one returns again and again."
—Chicago Tribune (Editor's Choice)
While books contain insights into our selves and the world, it takes a conversation—between the author and the reader, or between two readers—to bring them fully to...
| Author | Nicholson Baker |
| ISBN | 0375726217 |
The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country's libraries—including the Library of Congress—have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult...
| Author | Sven Birkerts |
| ISBN | 0865479577 |
A reissue of the book that first examined the future of reading and literature in the electronic age, now with a new introduction and Afterword
In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer...
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
| Author | Alan Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0199747490 |
In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America....
