Exlibris

Author : Michiko Kakutani
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 0525574980
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ex Libris written by Michiko Kakutani and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374527228
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ex Libris written by Anne Fadiman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life.

Author : Patricia Cornwell
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0385489005
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruth, A Portrait written by Patricia Cornwell and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 1998-10-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Giovanni Corbellini
Publisher : LetteraVentidue Edizioni
ISBN 13 : 8862427549
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book exlibris written by Giovanni Corbellini and published by LetteraVentidue Edizioni. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Matt Madden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941250440
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ex Libris written by Matt Madden and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Simon Groth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648374626
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ex Libris written by Simon Groth and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Verna Barstad Grimm
Publisher : Spokane, Wash. : Spokane Public Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Bookplate Literature written by Verna Barstad Grimm and published by Spokane, Wash. : Spokane Public Library. This book was released on 1926 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karl Emich Leiningen-Westerburg (Graf zu)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Book-plates written by Karl Emich Leiningen-Westerburg (Graf zu) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. Vervliet
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9789024729951
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ABHB Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries written by H. Vervliet and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1984-07-31 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ex Libris Society (London, England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the Ex Libris Society written by Ex Libris Society (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 2-17.