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Conrad Gessner-Kongress, Zürich, 6.-9. Juni 2016
Bibliothecae.it, 2016 To mark the 500th birthday of Conrad Gessner, the Leonardo da Vinci of Switzerland, an international congress was organized by the University and the Zentralbibliothek Zurich, which attracted many researchers to Zurich.
Urs Leu
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The History of Book Ciphers [PDF]
, 2007 You can do a lot with a book, besides read it! In fact, we know that by 1526 — some 70 years after Gutenberg printed his first Bible — at least one of out forebears, Jacobus Silvestri, was thinking of how a book might be used for cryptographic purposes.
Albert C. Leighton, Stephen M. Matyas
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Politics and Crisis in the 1850s: An Interview with Rachel Shelden
, 2019 Today we are speaking with Rachel Shelden, Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2013), which
Luskey, Ashley Whitehead
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Review of Law in America: A Short History, by Lawrence M. Friedman [PDF]
, 2003 [Excerpt] Lawrence M. Friedman’s Law in America: A Short History is a fascinating survey of the history of the American legal system. The book is written for both the legal professional and those interested in American legal history.
Mierins, Andrew M.
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Victor Gollancz: a socialist publisher in British Popular Front years
Revista Mundos do Trabalho, 2017 This article aims to consider the paths of Victor Gollancz (1893-1967), one of the most important publishers and British humanitarian activists of the Twentieth century. As a bookseller, Gollancz founded his own company in 1927, Victor Gollancz Ltd., one
Matheus Cardoso Silva
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Linfield in the War Years [PDF]
, 2007 Editor’s note: This vignette provides a look back through 150 years of history as Linfield approaches its sesquicentennial in 2008. Marvin Henberg, professor of philosophy, is writing an illustrated history titled Inspired Pragmatism: An Illustrated ...
Henberg, Marvin
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Federica Formiga, ‘L’invenzione perfetta. Storia del libro’, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2021
TECA, 2022 Valentina Sestini
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Review of: Health and Disease in Human History (Robert I. Rotberg ed.) [PDF]
, 2001 Review of the book: Health and Disease in Human History: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader (Robert I. Rotberg ed., MIT Press 2000). ISBN 0- 262-18207-6 [345 pp. $25.00 Paper, 5 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02142]
Cromwell, Terry
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Book Review: \u3ci\u3eThe Divine Body in History: A Comparative Study of the Symbolism of Time and Embodiment in St. Augustine and Rāmānuja.\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
, 2014 Book review of, The Divine Body in History: A Comparative Study of the Symbolism of Time and Embodiment in St. Augustine and Rāmānuja.
Sydnor, Jon P.
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From The History of a Book to a "History of the Book" [PDF]
Representations, 2009 The ambition of this article is to wrest attention away from the fraction of any book's life cycle spent in the hands of readers and toward, instead, the whole spectrum of social practices for which printed matter provides a prompt. It asks, how accounts of print culture would look if narrated from the point of view not of human readers and users, but ...
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