Download or read book Burning the Books written by Richard Ovenden and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.
Download or read book Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse Tung written by Mao Tse-Tung and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung' is a volume of selected statements taken from the speeches and writings by Mao Mao Tse-Tung, published from 1964 to 1976. It was often printed in small editions that could be easily carried and that were bound in bright red covers, which led to its western moniker of the 'Little Red Book'. It is one of the most printed books in history, and will be of considerable value to those with an interest in Mao Tse-Tung and in the history of the Communist Party of China. The chapters of this book include: 'The Communist Party', 'Classes and Class Struggle', 'Socialism and Communism', 'The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among The People', 'War and Peace', 'Imperialism and All Reactionaries ad Paper Tigers', 'Dare to Struggle and Dare to Win', et cetera. We are republishing this antiquarian volume now complete with a new prefatory biography of Mao Tse-Tung.
Download or read book The Gamekeeper s Directory Containing Instructions for the Preservation of Game Destruction of Vermin and the Prevention of Poaching Second Edition Revised by John B Johnson written by Thomas Burgeland JOHNSON and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Copyright Term Film Labeling and Film Preservation Legislation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Preservation of Jewish Religious Books in Sixteenth Century Germany Johannes Reuchlin s Augenspiegel written by Daniel O'Callaghan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first complete and thoroughly commented English translation of Johannes Reuchlin’s Augenspiegel (1511). The translation sheds light on the author’s motive in appealing to the authorities for the preservation of Jewish books at a stage of great cultural change in Early Modern Europe. It also addresses the question of how the church and state dealt intellectually with Judaism at a time when it was considered a threat to the existence of Christianity. The translation of one of the most politically controversial sixteenth century pamphlets provides a view of the treatment of a minority’s culture with perhaps lessons for today’s world.
Download or read book Get Started Preserving written by Susannah Steel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start making your own jellies and jams with Get Started: Preserving, part of a new series of learning guides from DK where nothing is assumed and everything is explained. Each course follows the same structure: start simple and learn the basics, build on what you've learned, and then show off your new skills! Get Started: Preserving teaches the complete beginner the skills needed to make 70 delicious recipes. Start simple with freezer jams and easy chutneys, build on your skills with cordials and fruit cheeses, and then show off with marmalades, fruit curds, and cured meats. With step-by-step pictures and practice projects to keep you on the right track, Get Started: Preserving will help you learn your new skill in no time. More than any other series on the market, DK's Get Started aims to provide the reader with carefully structured learning and a classroom approach to teaching that allows you to build your own course from practical lessons and themed projects. Each book begins by answering fundamental questions, identifying an essential starter kit of tools and equipment, and explaining how to build a course. The book then divides into subject areas, with key techniques for each area demonstrated through visual glossaries and step-by-steps, followed by graded projects with annotated instructions and an assessment of how to build on achievements. Let DK be the perfect one-on-one tutor you never had: patient, illuminating, inspiring - always at hand to point you in the right direction so you can achieve your potential.
Download or read book The 1st Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ideology of Order written by Preston T. King and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main concern of this book is to analyse the tradition which believes that "order" is the cardinal principle which takes precedence over "justice" through the study of its progenitors.
Download or read book The Ideology of Order written by Preston King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A school of thought traceable to the political writings of Bodin and Hobbes believes that "order" is the cardinal principle which takes precedence over "justice" - which is reduced to conformity. The main concern of this book is to analyse this tradition through study of its progenitors.
Download or read book Regulations to Govern the Preservation of Records of Class 1 Motor Carriers Prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission in Accordance with Section 220 of the Interstate Commerce Act written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Monumental Challenge of Preservation written by Michele Valerie Cloonan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence. The monuments—movable, immovable, tangible, and intangible—of the world's shared cultural heritage are at risk. War, terrorism, natural disaster, vandalism, and neglect make the work of preservation a greater challenge than it has been since World War II. In The Monumental Challenge of Preservation Michèle Cloonan makes the case that, at this critical juncture, we must consider preservation in the broadest possible contexts. Preservation requires the efforts of an increasing number of stakeholders. In order to explore the cultural, political, technological, economic, and ethical dimensions of preservation, Cloonan examines particular monuments and their preservation dilemmas. The massive Bamiyan Buddhas, blown up by the Taliban in 2001, are still the subject of debates over how, or whether, to preserve what remains, and the U. S. National Park Service has undertaken the complex task of preserving the symbolic and often ephemeral objects that visitors leave at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial—to take just two of the many examples described in the book. Cloonan also considers the ongoing genocide and cultural genocide in Syria; the challenges of preserving our digital heritage; the dynamic between original and copy; efforts to preserve the papers and architectural fragments of the architect Louis Sullivan; and the possibility of sustainable preservation. In the end, Cloonan suggests, we are what we preserve—and don't preserve. Every day we make preservation decisions, individually and collectively, that have longer-term ramifications than we might expect.
Download or read book Ball Blue Book of Canning and Preserving Recipes written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Ball Blue Book is a fascinating handbook for canning and preserving, providing traditional recipes and handy tips for how to use a wide variety of jars to conserve different foods. This classic volume is a must-read guide for anyone who wants to learn the art of canning and preserving their own food or for old hands who are looking for fresh inspiration and recipe tips. Charts and diagrams will assist you with calculating portion sizes and understanding the traditional uses for different jars. From canning methods for fruit, vegetables, and meat, to ideas for preservative combinations, the Ball Blue Book Of Canning And Preserving Recipes includes a wide range of instructions. The contents of this fascinating volume include: 1. Preserving and Canning Food: Jams, Jellies and Pickles, 2. Things Every Home Canner Should Know 3. Vegetables 4. Soups Read & Co. Books has proudly republished this classic text in a new edition, including a specially commissioned introduction on preserving food. This volume is not to be missed by those interested in traditional recipes and methods of food preservation.
Download or read book Food Preservation Canning Preserving Jelly Making written by Margaret Gleason and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Preservation of Wood written by Alexander James Wallis-Tayler and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
