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Books: A Living History

Name: Books: A Living History
SKU: 9780500251652
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By (author) Martyn Lyons,

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Explores one of the most versatile, useful and enduring technologies ever invented: the book. This title charts the evolution and influence of books around the world, from the cuneiform tablets of ancient Sumer through the development of movable type and the emergence of the modern information revolution.

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ISBN: 9780500251652

Book Format: Hardback

Pages: 224

Dimensions: 19 × 25.4 cm

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Format Hardback | 224 pages
Dimensions 19 × 25.4 cm | 0
Publication Date 03 October 2011
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication City/Country United Kingdom

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Martyn Lyons

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Martin Lyons is Professor in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He has published widely on the history of books and reading, including Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants and Ordinary Writings, Personal Narratives: Writing Practices in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Europe.

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