Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Monday, October 4, 2010
The Minnesota Road Guide to Haunted Locations
Where to go in Minnesota to possibly sleep in a haunted bed & breakfast, hear ghostly wails in a theatre, go roller-skating with ghosts, encounter a haunted doll, hike a haunted trail, hear spirits playing music, have a drink in a haunted pub, see gravestones move on their own, and much, much more.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
At Home with Books is a visual delight, a helpful resource, and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library. Includes professional advice on editing and categorizing your library; caring for your books; preserving, restoring, and storing rare books; finding out-of-print books; and choosing furniture, lighting, and shelving. Full-color photographs.
Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg: Saving a Modern Masterpiece
With 400 images and drawings, this book presents architect Alvar Aalto's famous library in Vyborg, Russia, and the international efforts since 1994 to restore it. Within this extraordinary example of modernist design, its original plans dating from 1927 and constructed with modifications between 1933 & 1935 is a catalog of innovative concepts that reflect Aalto's most mature and influential work.
Friday, September 17, 2010
The Library: An Illustrated History
In this remarkable story, Stuart A.P. Murray traces the elaborate history of the library from its very beginnings in the ancient libraries of Babylon and Alexandria to some of the greatest contemporary institutions - the Royal Society of London, the Newberry Library, the Smithsonian, and many others. Illustrated with 80 rich color photos, readers can follow the fascinating progress of the institution we now know today as the library. A rich textual and visual resource, "The Library" will delight patrons and library staff alike.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Banned Books Postcard
Be a thrill seeker. Read a banned book!
A girl that reads banned books ?
Hummmmmmm.... Don't know to many of them ! If you space travel maybe we can hang out sometime !
A girl that reads banned books ?
Hummmmmmm.... Don't know to many of them ! If you space travel maybe we can hang out sometime !
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Libraries Rock Dog Tee Shirt
Share your love for the Library with this colorful fun design with the words Libraries Rock. Great for a Librarian.
Monday, August 25, 2008
The Dicts or Sayings of the Philosophers
From the first dated book printed in England. The Dicts or Sayings of the Philosophers. Printed by Caxton at Westminster, 1477. British Museum, Phot. Oxford University Press. William Caxton (c. 1415~1422 – c. March 1492) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. He was the first English person to work as a printer and the first person to introduce a printing press into England. He was also the first English retailer of books (his London contemporaries were all Dutch, German or French). [Wikipedia]
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Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers (Early English Text Society Original Series)
Monday, August 4, 2008
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