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Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries throughout History
Lucien X. Polastron
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| #1739021 in Books | Inner Traditions | 2007-08-13 | 2007-08-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.40 x6.00l,1.43 | File type: PDF | 384 pages | ||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Illuminating History of Lost Thought|By P. Kalpman|At first, I found the author's style turgid. But I was mesmerized by the sheer volume of fascinating and scholarly details, so I persisted. As I became immersed in this wonderful book, I also became accustomed to the author's blend of sly asides and wry commentary and his vast scope and depth of information. I recognized that m|From Publishers Weekly|In his acclaimed Double Fold (2001), Nicholson Baker expressed outrage over newspapers and books turned into landfill by librarians who chose microfilm over paper. French historian Polastron picks up where Baker left off, writing wi
A historical survey of the destruction of knowledge from ancient Babylon and China to modern times
• Includes the three separate destructions of the Library of Alexandria as well as many equally significant collections around the world
• Examines the causes of violence directed at repositories of knowledge
• Looks at the dangers posed by digitalization of books to the free availability of knowledge in the future
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