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Автор: Duncan, Dennis (Деннис Дункан)
Название: Index, A History of the
Перевод названия: Деннис Дункан: История индексации
ISBN: 9780141989662
Издательство: Random House
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Язык: Работы по истории и общим вопросам

Справочные материалы по литературе

Серийные, периодические издания, аннотации, указатели

Библиографический учёт и предметный контроль

Социальная история и история культуры

ISBN-10: 0141989661
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 352
Вес: 0.20 кг.
Дата издания: 06.10.2022
Язык: English
Размер: 198 x 129 x 15
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Основная тема: Social & Cultural History, Bibliographic & Subject Control, Literary Reference Works, Language: History & General Works, Serials, Periodicals, Abstracts, Indexes
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: *A TIME, New Yorker, Financial Times and History Today Book of the Year*Hilarious Sam LeithI loved this book Susie DentWitty and affectionate Lynne TrussPerfect for book lovers, a delightful history of the wonders to be found in the humble book indexMost of us give little thought to the back of the book - its just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne.

This is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Here, for the first time, its story is told. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Dennis Duncan reveals how the index has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office and made us all into the readers we are today.

We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and - of course - indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart, and we have been for eight hundred years.

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