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Author | : Jacques Bonnet |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2012-07-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1468301853 |
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“A charming book full of erudition and wit” that explores the human impulse to accumulate books (Literary Review). Jacques Bonnet, a lifelong accumulator of books ancient and modern, lives in a house large enough to accommodate his tens of thousands of volumes, as well as some overspill from the libraries of his friends. While his musings on the habits of collectors from the earliest known libraries are learned, amusing, and instructive, his advice on cataloging may even save lives. Ranging from classical Greece to contemporary Iceland, from Balzac to Moby-Dick and Google, Phantoms on the Bookshelves is a blend of memoir, history, and love letter that will be a lasting delight for all who treasure books.
Author | : Jacques Bonnet |
Publisher | : MacLehose Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1623652634 |
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This enchanting study on the art of living with books considers how our personal libraries reveal our true nature: far more than just places, they are living labyrinths of our innermost feelings. The author, a lifelong accumulator of books both ancient and modern, lives in a house large enough to accommodate his many thousands of books, as well as overspill from the libraries of his friends. While his musings on the habits of collectors past and present are learned, witty and instructive, his advice on cataloguing may even save the lives of those whose books are so prodigiously piled as to be a hazard. Phantoms on the Bookshelves ranges from classical Greece to contemporary Iceland, from Balzac and Moby Dick to Google, offering up delicious anecdotes along the way. This elegantly produced volume will be a lasting delight to specialist collectors, librarians, bibliophiles and all those who treasure books.
Author | : Janet Gardner |
Publisher | : Alfred Music |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781457439988 |
Download Phantom of the Music Room Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Who or what is that shadowy figure playing the piano in the school music room after dark? Several students and Deputy Barney set out to solve this musical mystery with surprising results. Phantom of the Music Room features six songs with clever texts set to musical classics by Chopin, Dvorák, Sousa and others. For grades 3 and up. App. 30 minutes.
Author | : Steve Behling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Avengers (Fictitious characters) |
ISBN | : 9781368047197 |
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"Whether running Stark Industries or suited up as Iron Man, Tony Stark has dedicated his life to making sure his technologies do not harm others. When S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Coulson informs Tony that two Avengers went missing while looking into one of his inventions, Tony immediately transforms into Iron Man and jets off to find them! But his simple rescue turns out to be ... Not so simple. Along the way he must face mutating dogs, robotic sharks, and freaky shape-shifting monsters from another dimension! As Tony tries to take on the problems himself, he realizes he needs help from his fellow Avengers. But will they arrive in time? Or will Tony be left out in the cold against another threat, The Space Phantons?"--Back cover.
Author | : Janet Malcolm |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307431665 |
Download Reading Chekhov Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov’s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov’s life and framed by an account of Malcolm’s journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Yalta. She writes of Chekhov’s childhood, his relationships, his travels, his early success, and his self-imposed “exile”—always with an eye to connecting them to themes and characters in his work. Lovers of Chekhov as well as those new to his work will be transfixed by Reading Chekhov.
Author | : Georges Didi-Huberman |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-01-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780271072098 |
Download The Surviving Image Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally published in French in 2002, examines the life and work of art historian Aby Warburg. Demonstrates the complexity and importance of Warburg's ideas, addressing broader questions regarding art historians' conceptions of time, memory, symbols, and the relationship between art and the rational and irrational forces of the psyche.
Author | : Jorge Luis Borges |
Publisher | : Pocket Paragon |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download The Library of Babel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Not many living artists would be sufficiently brave or inspired to attempt reflecting in art what Borges constructs in words. But the detailed, evocative etchings by Erik Desmazieres provide a perfect counterpoint to the visionary prose. Like Borges, Desmazieres has created his own universe, his own definition of the meaning, topography and geography of the Library of Babel. Printed together, with the etchings reproduced in fine-line duotone, text and art unite to present an artist's book that belongs in the circle of Borges's sacrosanct Crimson Hexagon - "books smaller than natural books, books omnipotent, illustrated, and magical.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : V. S. Ramachandran |
Publisher | : Dutton Books |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Brain |
ISBN | : |
Download A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"How can people come to believe that their poodle is an impostor? Or see colors in numbers? Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA, said of V. S. Ramachandran's first book, "The patients he describes are fascinating, and his experiments on them are both simple and ingenious." With his unique energy and style Ramachandran now shares his insights into the mind from such everyday human experiences as pain, sight, and the appreciation of beauty to the ultimate philosophical conundrums of consciousness."--BOOK JACKET.
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Download Ghosts: Recent Hauntings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sheila Liming |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1452960666 |
Download What a Library Means to a Woman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examining the personal library and the making of self When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five thousand volumes was divided and subsequently sold. Decades later, it was reassembled and returned to The Mount, her historic Massachusetts estate. What a Library Means to a Woman examines personal libraries as technologies of self-creation in modern America, focusing on Wharton and her remarkable collection of books. Sheila Liming explores the connection between libraries and self-making in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture, from the 1860s to the 1930s. She tells the story of Wharton’s library in concert with Wharton scholarship and treatises from this era concerning the wider fields of book history, material and print culture, and the histories (and pathologies) of collecting. Liming’s study blends literary and historical analysis while engaging with modern discussions about gender, inheritance, and hoarding. It offers a review of the many meanings of a library collection, while reading one specific collection in light of its owner’s literary celebrity. What a Library Means to a Woman was born from Liming’s ongoing work digitizing the Wharton library collection. It ultimately argues for a multifaceted understanding of authorship by linking Wharton’s literary persona to her library, which was, as she saw it, the site of her self-making.