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Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context...

Trivia-on-Book: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared: A Novel by Jonas Jonasson Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, written by Jonas Jonasson, follows...

A new, interactive approach to storytime, The Whole Book Approach was developed in conjunction with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and expert author Megan Dowd Lambert's graduate work in children's literature at Simmons College, offering a practical guide for reshaping storytime and getting...

This book presents and explores a challenging new approach in book history. It offers a coherent volume of thirteen chapters in the field of early modern book history covering a wide range of topics and it is written by renowned scholars in the field. The rationale and content of this volume will...

Trivia-on-Book: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! In our materialistic age, decluttering is essential and Marie Kondo teaches how to do so to perfection. Having researched for years on organizing...

This book is an edited volume of essays that showcases how books played a crucial role in making and materialising histories of travel, scientific exchanges, translation, and global markets from the late-eighteenth century to the present. While existing book historical practice is overly dependent...

Scott's Books is an approachable introduction to the Waverley Novels. Drawing on substantial research in Scott's intertextual sources, it offers a fresh approach to the existing readings where the thematic and theoretical are the norm. Avoiding jargon, and moving briskly, it tackles the vexed question...

The Red Well-Read Reader - Book Three is the third book of a ten-book series. Each of the first nine books has roughly 40 fun, rhyming, thought-provoking stories which teach children, young and not-so-young, how to read for meaning. Book Ten, having numerous phonics charts, is actually a fundamental...

The LARB Digital Edition epub is a selection of feature articles from the Los Angeles Review of Books's History section, personally curated by history editor Robert Zaretsky.

Trivia-on-Book: The Road to Character by David Brooks Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! A well-known conservative pundit and The New York Times columnist, David Brooks, takes the most influential bestseller lists by storm with his freshly published...

Trivia-on-Book: Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari Take the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends! In the 2015 New York Times Bestseller Modern Romance, celebrated actor and comedian Aziz Ansari explores the interaction between love and technology and how this affects today's...

This series (just like Missy herself) is super duper royal deluxe! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches. Aimed at 5- to 7-year-olds, this line of books is for children who are just starting to read independently. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced...

Apricot wine and stewed calf’s head, melancholy medicine and "ointment of roses." Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books–handwritten manuals that included a combination of...

A reindeer is a fur covered animal. Reindeer look like the animals that are said to pull Santa’s sleigh, but they don’t have shiny noses, and they can’t fly! Reindeer are often called caribou. In some parts of the world they are called reindeer. In other parts they are called caribou. In some...