Counterpoint, February 2008. Trade Paperback. Mikita Brottman wonders, just why is reading so great? It's a solitary practice, one that takes away from time that could be spent developing important social networking skills. Reading's not required for health, happiness, or a loving family. And, if reading is so important, why..... More
Paul Dry Books, June 2009. Trade Paperback. Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?--Henry Ward Beecher The Book Shopper is a spirited and witty guide to the world of disheveled used bookstores and dusty basements where shelves sag under the burden of so many books. In the..... More
Holt Paperbacks, May 2007. Trade Paperback. As warm and stimulating as a library to which one returns again and again. --Chicago Tribune (Editor's Choice) While books contain insights into our selves and the world, it takes a conversation--between the author and the reader, or between two readers--to bring them fully..... More
University of California Press, December 1996. Trade Paperback. The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence of a more equitable discursive order. These essays suggest that it won't be that..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, September 2007. Trade Paperback. "Do we still know how to read a novel?" John Sutherland, Chairman of the 2005 Booker Prize Committee, asks. His answer is an unequivocal, "No." But Sutherland has not given up hope. With acerbic wit and intellect, he traces the history of what..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, October 1997. Trade Paperback. At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book--that string of confused, alien ciphers--shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto..... More
Random House, January 1974. Limited. Cloth. Octavo. Limited edition of 3200. First edition. Off white cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Silver emblem on front. [57 pp.]. More
Privately Printed, 1929. Limited. Hardcover. Edition limited to 950 copies. Blue boards with paper cover label in cloth backstrip, also with paper label. Wrapped in glassine, housed in box. Bookplate covering scars of previously removed bookplate; else, near fine condition. More
Everthemore Books, December 2014. Trade Paperback. More
University of Virginia Press, April 2003. Hardcover. On a December day in 1885, Bill Barnes, a journeyman from the New York World, and Joe McCann, representing the New York Herald, faced off in a match race of Swifts, compositors who set type by hand, individually, letter by letter, with incredible..... More
Yale University Press, January 1991. Trade Paperback. Discussing a wide range of literary theory in a clear and accessible way, prize-winning author Robert Scholes here continues his ongoing construction of a humane semiotic approach to the problems of reading, writing, and teaching. Taking the view that "all the world's a...... More
ECW Press, April 2017. Hardcover. An intimate narrative exploring the past, present, and future of books Four seismic shifts have rocked human communication: the invention of writing, the alphabet, mechanical type and the printing press, and digitization. Poised over this fourth transition, e-reader in one hand, perfect-bound book in the..... More
Random House~trade, January 1966. Hardcover. Moderate shelf wear on the jacket. Price clipped. Edges and borders of the print block lightly tanned. More
