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The Book pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
“Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated.”―Erik Spiekermann, typographer
We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages―of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today. Sure to delight book lovers of all stripes with its lush, full-color illustrations, The Book gives us the momentous and surprising history behind humanity’s most important―and universal―information technology.
71 color illustrations
Keith Houston is the author of Shady Characters and the founder of shadycharacters.co.uk. He lives in London.
Required by my prof for the history class but it actually is a great read (kinda Eurocentric tho). Many fun/shocking/disgusting facts about paper, printing, illustration and book binding. For some sections, I really need to watch videos on YouTube to help me visualize, but all in all, it’s one of my fav textbooks and I’d like to read it over again.
評分Required by my prof for the history class but it actually is a great read (kinda Eurocentric tho). Many fun/shocking/disgusting facts about paper, printing, illustration and book binding. For some sections, I really need to watch videos on YouTube to help me visualize, but all in all, it’s one of my fav textbooks and I’d like to read it over again.
評分Required by my prof for the history class but it actually is a great read (kinda Eurocentric tho). Many fun/shocking/disgusting facts about paper, printing, illustration and book binding. For some sections, I really need to watch videos on YouTube to help me visualize, but all in all, it’s one of my fav textbooks and I’d like to read it over again.
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評分Required by my prof for the history class but it actually is a great read (kinda Eurocentric tho). Many fun/shocking/disgusting facts about paper, printing, illustration and book binding. For some sections, I really need to watch videos on YouTube to help me visualize, but all in all, it’s one of my fav textbooks and I’d like to read it over again.
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The Book pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024