Overview
The library has been a battleground of competing notions of what books mean to us, from the clay-tablet collections of ancient Mesopotamia to the legendary libraries of Alexandria, from the burned scrolls of the Qing Dynasty to the book-pyres of the Hitler Youth, from the Dewey Decimal System to the Internet.
- | By (Author): Matthew Battles
- | Series:
- | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- | Publication Date: Oct 07, 2004
- | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
- | Number of Pages: 256 pages
- | Language: Not available
- | Binding: Paperback|Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0099437074
- | ISBN-13: 9780099437079
