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Burning the Books - A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden
$25.68 NZD
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Category: History
An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservation of knowledge is vital for the survival of civilizati ...Show more
Burning the Books: A history of knowledge under attack by Richard Ovenden
$37.99 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Reading Level: near fine
Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of Nazi intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge and the fight against all the odds to preserve it. Richard Ovenden, director of the ...Show more
The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien by Richard Ovenden
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Over more than four decades J.R.R. Tolkien’s son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien, published some twenty-four volumes of his father’s work, much more than his father had succeeded in publishing during his own lifetime. Standing on the mountain of his son’s colossal publishing effort and extrao ...Show more
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