Category - History
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Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe
HardcoverOriginal price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of libra...
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Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An exploration of historical memory and networks of meaning in the context of today’s crises of extremism and polarization.As authoritarianism co...
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Doing digital history: A beginner's guide to working with text as data
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This book is a practical introduction to digital history. It offers advice on the scoping of a project, evaluation of existing digital history re...
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The Library: A Fragile History
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Perfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to t...
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The Library: A Fragile History
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The “engaging” and “ambitious” (Washington Post) history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age. ...
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Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Libraries of the ancient world have long held a place in the public imagination. Even in antiquity, the library at Alexandria was nearly legendar...
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The Library: A World History
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00Original price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00Current price $60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /A library is not just a collection of books, but also the buildings that house them. As varied and inventive as the volumes they hold, such buildin...
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The Library Book
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Susan Orlean's bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is "a sheer delight...as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the ...
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The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /The Materiality of the Archive is the first volume to bring together a range of methodological approaches to the materiality of archives, as a fr...
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative ...
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