“Books are the carriers of civilization.”
Barbara Tuchman

An Introduction to Book History - a comprehensive critical introduction to the development of the book and print culture from the spoken word to written texts . . . and the future of the book in the electronic age.

A Short History of the Printed Word - from the earliest alphabets through the evolution of the printing press.

The Book Before Printing: Ancient, Medieval and Oriental - comprehensive and authoritative study of the book before Gutenberg.

Library: An Unquiet History - On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet.

History of Libraries of the Western World - covering the ancient world, the medieval period, and the modern era.

The ClueTrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual

From four of the liveliest personalities on the Web comes a provocative, outrageous, and wickedly smart account of how the Internet has radically reframed the seemingly immutable laws of business--and what business needs to know to weather the seismic aftershocks.

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