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The Book on the Bookshelf
Henry Petroski
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2010-12-01
主題
Literary Criticism / Books & Reading
Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General
Technology & Engineering / History
ISBN
0307773280
9780307773289
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7ahpbLtmksgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
From the author of the highly praised
The Pencil
and
The Evolution of Useful Things
comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage.
Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn't. As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. Unimpeachably researched, enviably written, and charmed with anecdotes from Seneca to Samuel Pepys to a nineteenth-century bibliophile who had to climb over his books to get into bed,
The Book on the Bookshelf
is indispensable for anyone who loves books.