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Inspired by the process of creating a library for his 15th-century home near the Loire, in France, Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading ... More

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This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the ... More

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This book is an analysis of the Amar Chitra Katha genre, historical comic-books that capture and promote a middle class masculine identity, as ... More

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The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of "The Healing Corpse," which explores the connections between early modern ... More

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Acts of reading appear everywhere in the late middle ages, from the margins of books of hours, to self-portraits of authors in their studies. What ... More

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"A very satisfying, diverse treatment of a topic that has been ignored because it has been hard to treat."--George E. Marcus, Rice University

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"This book narrates the first national celebration of united Italy, the Sixth Centenary of Dante Alighieri in May 1865. Denominated alternatively as ... More

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The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political ... More

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The authors explore the odd culture of books and the enormous impact reading has had--and will continue to have--on the lives of men and women, the ... More

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Of all Soviet cultural myths, none was more resilient than the belief that the USSR had the world's greatest readers. This book explains how the ... More

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Sandra Beckett's book explores the contemporary retelling of the Red Riding Hood tale in Western children's literature.

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Almost as old as the idea of the library is the urge to destroy it. Author Lucien X. Polastron traces the history of this destruction, examining the ... More

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Graphic novels have exploded off bookstore shelves into movies, college courses, and the "New York Times "book review, and comics historian and ... More

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A practical tool for scholars wishing to trace the reading experience of important 19th century Western cultural figures.

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From Machiavelli to Marx, Nietzsche to Hitler, this volume offers a provocative look at some of Western civilization's most infamous authors and ... More

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From Machiavelli to Marx, Nietzsche to Hitler, this volume offers a provocative look at some of Western civilization's most infamous authors and ... More

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Henry Howard Harper (1871-1953) was the American author of: Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (1904), The Functions of the Book Club (1908), ... More

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