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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

10 best books like The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Elizabeth L. Eisenstein): Half Broke Horses, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, Owl Babies, The Book on the Bookshelf, The Book in the Renaissance, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations, The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800, Harry Potter: A Journey Through A History of Magic

Half Broke Horses
AuthorJeannette Walls
ISBN1416586288
Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant.

"Those old cows knew trouble was coming...
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
AuthorAnne Fadiman
ISBN0374525641
Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, over-medication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as...
Owl Babies
AuthorMartin Waddell
ISBN0744592704
4 Cuteness ★'s


Awe, I love owls! So when I saw this book at the store I just had to buy it for my little niece just so I could read it to her lol :) This book is pretty simple with some repetition, it uses great rhyming patterns and it's poetic. It is easy to understand and has real-life situations...
The Book on the Bookshelf
AuthorHenry Petroski
ISBN0375706399
"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...
The Book in the Renaissance
AuthorAndrew Pettegree
The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegree reveals in this work of great historical merit,...
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
AuthorBenedict Anderson
ISBN0860915468
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...
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
AuthorGeorge Chauncey
ISBN0465026214
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century

Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of...
In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations
AuthorJerry Mander
ISBN0844669512
Mander goes beyond television (which he proclaimed as being dangerous to personal health and sanity in Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television) to critique our technological society as a whole, challenge its utopian promises, and track its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide....
The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800
AuthorLucien Febvre
ISBN1859841082
Books, & the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance & heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre...
Harry Potter: A Journey Through A History of Magic
AuthorBritish Library
ISBN1408890771
An irresistible romp through the history of magic, from alchemy to unicorns, ancient witchcraft to Harry's Hogwarts – packed with unseen sketches and manuscript pages from J.K. Rowling, magical illustrations from Jim Kay and weird, wonderful and inspiring artefacts that have been magically...
Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life
AuthorMallory Smith
ISBN1984855425
The diaries of a remarkable young woman who was determined to live a meaningful and happy life despite her struggle with cystic fibrosis and a rare superbug--from age fifteen to her death at the age of twenty-five.

Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of three, Mallory Smith grew up to be...
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
AuthorE.L. Konigsburg
ISBN0689866372
I Prefer Not To....

That's Margaret Rose Kane's response to every activity she's asked to participate in at the summer camp to which she's been exiled while her parents are in Peru. So Margaret Rose is delighted when her beloved uncles rescue her from Camp Talequa, with its uptight camp director...
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