The book on the bookshelf - Henry Petroski
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KORTE INHOUD
From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage.
Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn't. As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. Unimpeachably researched, ...
Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn't. As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. Unimpeachably researched, ...
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1999 Uitgever: Alfred A. Knopf 290 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0375406492 ISBN-13: 9780375406492Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Hardcover with dustjacket, 290pp., 15x24cm., illustr. in b/w., in fair condition (dustjacket and binding with traces of use). ISBN 9780375406492.
New York Alfred A. Knopf 1999
Tracing the evolution of the book and its companion, the bookshelf, an intrigui...
New York Alfred A. Knopf 1999
Tracing the evolution of the book and its companion, the bookshelf, an intrigui...
