Since its appearance in the middle of the fourteenth century, The Love of Books: The Philobiblon ...
Matthew Battles does not write stories that move, develop or unfold. He creates worlds that hiss,...
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.Since its app...
Matthew Battles explores the questions of why writing exists and what it means to those who write...
On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, ...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinar...
As a bacteria threatens to wipe out humankind, a plutocrat sets himself up as the benignant dicta...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinar...