The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
10 best books like The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (Sven Birkerts): The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison, Queenslayer, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, The Medium is the Massage, Through Gates of Splendor, Long Walk To Freedom, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown, The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future, The Hunting Accident, Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality
| Author | Mikita Brottman |
| ISBN | 0062384333 |
A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.
On sabbatical from teaching literature...
| Author | Sebastien de Castell |
The fifth book in the page-turning SPELLSLINGER fantasy series.
Kellen and Reichis have just finished fighting a duel in the desert when Kellen inadvertently smears blood on the Daroman flag - an act of treason for which the Marshals have no choice but to arrest him. Just before he's put before...
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
| Author | David Graeber |
| ISBN | 1933633867 |
Before there was money, there was debt
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred...
The Medium is the Massage
| Author | Marshall McLuhan |
| ISBN | 1584230703 |
The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward...
Through Gates of Splendor
| Author | Elisabeth Elliot |
| ISBN | 0842371516 |
In 1956, five young men, including Elliot's husband, Jim, traveled into the jungles of Ecuador to establish communication with the fierce Huaorani Tribe, a people whose only previous response to the outside world has been to attack all strangers. The men's mission combined modern technology with...
| 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...
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
| Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0525426760 |
The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition.
Here is the story of the remarkable year leading up to the siege of Yorktown. It sets Washington against his traitorous nemesis Benedict Arnold and...
| Author | Robert Darnton |
| ISBN | 1586488260 |
The invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological breakthroughs in human history. With the printed book, information and ideas could disseminate more widely and effectively than ever before—and in some cases, affect and redirect the sway of history....
I reread this in the past couple weeks because the book won yet another award, and I am sharing my review again because I just don't think enough people have read it, and it deserves more attention.
I think I can name four great comics events in this year of 2017 so far, and this is one of them (the others...
Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality
"I desire mercy, not sacrifice." Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the "unclean" in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities are well aware, the tensions and conflicts between...
