Exlibris

Author : Michiko Kakutani
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780525574989

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Ex Libris by Michiko Kakutani Pdf

Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in today—with beautiful illustrations throughout. “A book tailormade for bibliophiles.”—Oprah Winfrey “An ebullient celebration of books and reading.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) In the introduction to her new collection of essays, Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread, Michiko Kakutani writes: “In a world riven by political and social divisions, literature can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures and religions, national boundaries and historical eras. It can give us an understanding of lives very different from our own, and a sense of the shared joys and losses of human experience.” Readers will discover novels and memoirs by some of the most gifted writers working today; favorite classics worth reading or rereading; and nonfiction works, both old and new, that illuminate our social and political landscape and some of today’s most pressing issues, from climate change to medicine to the consequences of digital innovation. There are essential works in American history (The Federalist Papers, The Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.); books that address timely cultural dynamics (Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction, Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Image, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale); classics of children’s literature (the Harry Potter novels, Where the Wild Things Are); and novels by acclaimed contemporary writers like Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Ian McEwan. With richly detailed illustrations by lettering artist Dana Tanamachi that evoke vintage bookplates, Ex Libris is an impassioned reminder of why reading matters more than ever.

Author : Giovanni Corbellini
Publisher : LetteraVentidue Edizioni
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788862427548

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exlibris by Giovanni Corbellini Pdf

Architects write a lot, especially now when conceptual aspects have become central in the advanced reflections and narrative forms increasingly intersect the quest of design practices far an ultimate legitimation. In the growing mass of the publishing offer, these keywords try to highlight recurrent issues, tracking synthetic paths of orientation between different critical positions, with particular attention to what happens in the neighbouring fields of the arts and sciences.

Author : Patricia Cornwell
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385489003

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Ruth, A Portrait by Patricia Cornwell Pdf

Ruth Bell Graham is known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. It was Ruth who influenced Billy, as his most trusted life-partner. In Ruth, a Portrait, we meet this fascinating and remarkable woman. Brimming with anecdotes, this is a breathtaking journey, with stops at many of this century's epoch-making events. The childhood years of the future Mrs. Billy Graham were spent light-years away--in the China of the 1920s and 1930s. The daughter of medical missionaries, she and her family were caught in a crucible of unspeakable hardship; in addition to pestilence and plague, there was the unstable political and military turmoil surrounding the Nationalist government, the Communists, and the Japanese invaders. These hazardous realities shaped Ruth Bell and her family, a family inured to difficulties, but buoyed up by their deep belief in God's abiding will. Virtually raised by the Grahams, the author is a repository of Ruth Bell Graham's stories and has seen firsthand the spirit of this courageous woman. Patricia Cornwell not only gives readers a full, rounded, and intimate portrait of Ruth Bell Graham, but also insight into the life of the Graham family and particularly Billy Graham.

Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374527229

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Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman Pdf

A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life.

Author : Ross King
Publisher : Random House
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448189601

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Ex Libris by Ross King Pdf

Responding to a cryptic summons to a remote country house, London bookseller Isaac Inchbold finds himself responsible for restoring a magnificent library pillaged during the English Civil War, and in the process slipping from the surface of 1660s London into an underworld of spies and smugglers, ciphers and forgeries. As he assembles the fragments of a complex historical mystery, Inchbold learns how Sir Ambrose Plessington, founder of the library, escaped from Bohemia on the eve of the Thirty Years War with plunder from the Imperial Library. Inchbold's hunt for one of these stolen volumes - a lost Hermetic text - soon casts him into an elaborate intrigue; his fortunes hang on the discovery of the missing manuscript but his search reveals that the elusive volume is not what it seems and that he has been made an unwitting player in a treacherous game.

Author : Matt Madden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1941250440

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Ex Libris by Matt Madden Pdf

You are looking at (or: you are holding) the book Ex Libris by Matt Madden. Maybe you came looking for it, maybe you just came across it in a bookstore or at someone's house. Maybe you are reading this in a catalogue on a screen. What kind of adventure do you think takes place in these pages? To judge by the cover design and the title, it would seem that books themselves are a subject of this book. Does this book have a comic book as its hero? If you put the book down now, you'll never find out, but on the other hand imaginary, hypothetical versions of the story will branch off endlessly in some corner of your mind. If you do want to find out what happens, all you need to do is open the book and read the first page. But be careful: you might just get sucked in

Author : Richard Braungart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Bookplates, German
ISBN : OSU:32435018526343

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Neue Deutsche Exlibris by Richard Braungart Pdf

Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781429929424

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Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman Pdf

Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's 22-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who only really considered herself married when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttony--Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.

Author : Simon Groth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648374629

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Ex Libris by Simon Groth Pdf

Author : Ralph Gibson
Publisher : powerHouse Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114349454

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Ex Libris by Ralph Gibson Pdf

An artist-printed signed and numbered silver-gelatin photographic print, eight by ten inches, inside a specially produced clothbound slipcase with a book signed and numbered by the artist.

Author : H. Vervliet
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1984-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9024729955

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ABHB Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries by H. Vervliet Pdf

This twelfth volume of ABHB (Annual bibliography of the history of the printed book and libraries) contains 3333 records, selected from some 2000 periodicals, the list of which follows this introduction. They have been compiled by the National Committees of the following countries: Italy Australia Austria Luxembourg Belgium The Netherlands Poland Bulgaria Canada Portugal Denmark Rumania Finland South Africa France Spain German Democratic Republic Switzerland German Federal Republic USA Great Britain USSR Hungary Yugoslavia Ireland (Republic of) Spain and Latin America have partially been covered through the good of fices of an American colleague. Benevolent readers are requested to signal the names of bibliographers and historians from countries not mentioned above, who would be willing to co-operate to this scheme of international bibliographic collaboration. The editor will greatly appreciate any communication on this matter. Subject As has been said in the introduction to the previous volumes, this bibliography aims at recording all books and articles of scholarly value which relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of the arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic, social and cultural VIII INTRODUCTION environment, involved in its production, distribution, conservation, and description. Of course, the ideal of a complete coverage is nearly impossible to attain. However, it is the policy of this publication to include missing items as much as possible in the forthcoming volumes. The same applies to countries newly added to the bibliography.

Author : John Oehler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1689376651

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Ex Libris by John Oehler Pdf

From 1ST PLACE WINNER in PNWA fiction comes EX LIBRIS, an action-packed thriller of international deception and worldwide peril. --Dan Lovel, a former agent with the US Diplomatic Security Service, has saved lives, taken lives, and enraged a lot of people who still wish him dead. He now lives off the grid recovering stolen art and destroying counterfeits. Shortly before Christmas, Astrid Desmarais, a World Bank executive whom Dan once saved, asks him to steal five books from the locked collection of forbidden books in a monastery in Prague. Dan reluctantly agrees, but from the moment he enters the monastery, events explode into near chaos. What secrets do these books hold? Why have they been hidden for centuries? Why are people willing to kill to possess them? When Dan discovers the shocking truth of the last volume, he realizes its potential to ignite global conflict of unparalleled scale. He faces decisions that tear at his soul, but he must return to the life he tried to bury and draw on all his former skills to prevent nuclear war. Reminiscent of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, and Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity, EX LIBRIS is a pulse-pounding page-turner that will keep you up at night. You will be thinking of its chilling ramifications long after finishing. John Oehler is a bestselling, multiple award-winning author. His other novels include Aphrodesia: Death by Passion, Papyrus, and Tepui: The Last Expedition.

Author : Fridolf Johnson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0486234851

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A Treasury of Bookplates from the Renaissance to the Present by Fridolf Johnson Pdf

Collection of 761 miniature works of art representing 500 years of the bookplate from the first known example -- ca. 1450 -- to a wide range of fascinating 20th-century designs. Introduction.

Author : Herzog August Bibliothek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Book-plates
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080288848

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The Ex-libris Collection of the Ducal Library at Wolfenbüttel by Herzog August Bibliothek Pdf

Author : T.G. Roettiger
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780359786442

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Ex Libris Merlini: Wrath of the Scarlet Maidens by T.G. Roettiger Pdf

In the fall of 1924, occultist and New Hampshire native, Benjamin Franklin Wentworth comes into possession of an ancient text which appears to show that the tomb of the man who inspired the legend of Merlin the Magician is located somewhere in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He assembles an eclectic crew, including the mysterious Professor Hecate N� Fidelma, a reputed witch, and sets off in search of the tomb. However, their plans go awry. Unsure whom she can trust, Hecate sets out on her own and goes into hiding. Pregnant and alone, she is in desperate need of help. But someone suspects her secret and has found where she is. And they are interested in more than just an old book...