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Book On The Bookshelf

Name: Book On The Bookshelf
Brand: Random House
SKU: 06581587
Price: 6795 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: Henry Petroski
ISBN: 9780375706394

Henry Petroski

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 06581587

Publishers Random House, September 2000

From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another ca... Full description

Libristo code: 06581587

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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.