In this book, the author explores 100 books that have played a critical role in the creation and expansion of books and all that they bring -... Show moreIn this book, the author explores 100 books that have played a critical role in the creation and expansion of books and all that they bring - literacy, numeracy, expansion of knowledge, religion, political theory, oppression, liberation, and much more. The book is ordered chronologically and divided thematically. Each of the 100 sections focuses on one book that represents a particular development in the evolution of books and in turn, world history and society. Abundant photographs inform and embellish. In the beginning: Cave paintings: El Castillo Cave -- Earliest evidence of mathematical knowledge: Ishango Bone -- Cuneiform tablets: Epric of Gilgamesh -- An Andean mystery: Caral Khipu -- Egyptian books on papyrus: Book of the Dead of Ani -- Eastern approaches: Chinese developments in bookmaking: Guodian Chu Slips -- Mass production in Japan: Sh寴oku's Dharani -- Monumental Korean undertaking: Tripitaka Koreana -- Indian palm-leaf manuscript: Nalanda Perfection of Wisdon Sutra -- The biggest books ever written: Yongle Dadian -- Bone, bamboo and bark: Batak Pustakha -- Burmese folding format: Parabaik -- The great classics: Origins of a children's classic: Aesop's Fables -- A timeless epic: Homer's Iliad -- An early masterpiece of Ethiopian art: Garima Gospels -- The first cookbooks: Apicius -- A mathematical miracle: Archimedes Palimpsest -- Medieval worlds & the book: Ireland's greatest treasure: Book of Kells -- Schism and discord: Chludov Psalter -- The foundation of pharmacology: Dioscorides' De Materia Medica -- A masterpiece of Armenian illumination: T'oros Roslin Gospels -- The father of mapping: Ptolemy's Geographica -- A sailor's guide to Byzantium: Cristoforo's Liber Insularum Archipelagi -- Illumination by the master of theprayer book: Bruges Roman de la Rose -- A giant among giants: Farnese Hours -- Light from the East: The oldest printed book of all: Dunhuang Diamond Sutra -- A literary and artistic masterpiece: Murasaki's The Tale of Genji -- The "Indian Aesop": Panchatantra -- The standard Islamic Book of Astronomy: Al-Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars -- A forgotten precursor of Leonardo da Vinci: Al-Jazari's Compendium on the Mechanical Arts -- An early Islamic book produced in Java: Boke van Bonang -- Wheels of change: Gutenberg's revolution: Gutenberg's 42-line Bible -- A blockbuster among early printed books: Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle -- A book from the first English printer: Caxton's Chesse Moralysed -- The first joke book: Wynkyn's Demaundes Joyous -- The earliest scientific tests: Euclid's Elementa Geometriae -- A model for future book design: Aldine Virgil -- Printing in Arabic: Gregorio's Book of Hours -- The first printing in Africa: Sefer Abudarham -- Heavenly voices: St. Gall Cantatorium -- A Gutenberg problem solved: Constance Gradual -- A major work of Biblical scholarship: Complutensian Polyglot Bible -- A dangerous invention: Developing the Swedish language: Gustav Vasa Bible -- Practical censorship at work: Erasmus' De ratione conscribendi epistolas -- The first printing in British America: Bay Psalm Book -- An Aztec view of Pre-Columbian life: Codex Mendoza -- Searching for pepper and nutmeg: Linschoten's Itinerario -- The first modern study of anatomy: Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica -- An amazing amateur astonomer: Brahe's astronomiae -- A foundation stone of modern science: Newton's Principia -- Everyman his own expert: Makham's Cavelarice -- Fashion in clothing: Helm's Art and Fashion -- An outstanding British contribution to botany: Blackwell's Curious Herball -- A Baroque dance to the music of time: Tomlinson's Art of Dancing Printing & the enlightenment: Rococo fress for classical drama: Boucher's Moliᥲe -- The greatest dictionary of the English language: Johnson's Dictionary -- A very early book for children: Newbery's Little Pretty Pocket-Book -- The lodestone for the enlightenment: Diderot's Encyclop⥤ie -- A pioner in information retrieval: Linnaeus' Species Plantarum -- Using graphs to convery information: Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas -- Records of crime and punishment: Newgate Calendar -- The literary oddity that entranced Europe: Sterne's Tristram Shandy -- Mighty lewd or literary classic?: Cleland's Fanny Hill -- An African-American work in an ancient field: Banneker's Almanack -- The master of black and white: Bewick's British Birds -- Landscape design at its best: Repton's Red Books -- How tactile writing began: Ha赹's Education of the Blind -- Print & steam: Patently brilliant Yankee inventiveness: Perkins' Patent -- The first book illustrated photographically:Atkins Photographs of British algae -- Photography moves to the Third World: Duperly's Daguerian excursions in Jamaica -- Missionary printing in Canada: Evan's Syllabic hymnbook -- The development of serial publishing: Dickens' Pickwick Papers -- Pulp fiction, Victorian style: Powell's Old Grizzly Adams -- Innovative books for young readers: Aikin's Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable -- Moral education through pictures: Hoffman's Struwwelpeter -- From Medieval mysticism to paper engineering: Meegendorfer's Grand circus -- Have guidebook, will travel: Baedeker's Switzerland -- The first celebrity chef: Soyer's Modern housewife -- Marketing for the Colonies: Boldrewood's Robbery under arms -- The book in the turbulent 20th century: The blind seer of Buenos Aires: Borges' Garden of forking paths -- A major advance in document production: Carlson's Lab book -- Printing as a performing art: Cranach-Presse's Hamlet -- A West-Coast interpretation of an American epic: Whitman's Leaves of grass -- Tangoing towards the revolution: Kamensky's Tango with cows -- Time-travel Surrealism: Ernst's Une semaine de Bont⥠-- Street literature-The voice of the people: Nnadozie's Beware of harlots -- Twentieth-century solutions to publishing needs: Lehmann's Invitation to the waltz -- Never surrender! Clandestine presses in war: Kami⮳ki's Stones for the rampart -- The greatest Samizdat book: Bulgakov's Master and Margarita -- Guidance in the marital home: Stopes' Married love -- The limits of political propaganda: Frank's Diary of a young girl -- Digitisation & the future of the book: All his own work: Hunter;s Old papermaking -- The last of the old, the first of the new: RAND's Million random digits -- Modernising Medieval manuscripts: Electronic Beowulf -- The first e-book?: Ruiz's Mechanical encyclopedia -- Multum in Parvo -- the smallest books: Technion Nano Bible -- Modern technology and manga: Koyama-Richard's One thousand years of manga -- Are "artists" books' books?: prieto's antibook -- Is it a book, or is it a book?: Sulawesi Lontar. Roderick Cave & Sara Ayad. Main Heritage Reading Room Z4 .C39 2014 Reference Item-ID: i25227348 BIB-ID: 2706538 Includes bibliographical references and index. Show less
