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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Author: Godfrey Oswald
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-08-11
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 147662772X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Which are the oldest public libraries in the world? In what years were the first books printed in French, Thai, Japanese, Arabic, Turkish? What are the oldest extant texts written in Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish? When was the first major computer database used in libraries? What are the titles of the largest, smallest or most expensive books ever published? Where is the world’s busiest public library? Which three books were the first to contain photographs? In its updated and expanded third edition, this reference work provides hundreds of fascinating facts about libraries, books, periodicals, reference databases, specialty archives, bookstores, catalogs, technology, information science organizations and library buildings.
Author: Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2018-01-29
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 0838916953
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Author: Leonardo Boff
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 1608332942
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: B. Venkat Mani
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0823273423
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association Winner, 2018 German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize in Germanistik and Cultural Studies. From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation along routes of “bibliomigrancy”—the physical and virtual movement of books—Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves. Mani argues that the proliferation of world literature in a society is the function of a nation’s relationship with print culture—a Faustian pact with books. Moving from early Orientalist collections, to the Nazi magazine Weltliteratur, to the European Digital Library, Mani reveals the political foundations for a history of world literature that is at once a philosophical ideal, a process of exchange, a mode of reading, and a system of classification. Shifting current scholarship’s focus from the academic to the general reader, from the university to the public sphere, Recoding World Literature argues that world literature is culturally determined, historically conditioned, and politically charged.