A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'Burning the Books is fascinating, thought-provoking and very timely. No one should keep quiet about this library history' IAN HISLOP Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge ...(展开全部)

『著者简介』 理查德•奥文登（Richard Ovenden），毕业于杜伦大学和伦敦大学学院，并在牛津大学贝利奥尔学院担任研究员。他自2014年起任牛津大学博德利图书馆的馆长。在此之前，他曾在杜伦大学图书馆、上议院图书馆、苏格兰国家图书馆和爱丁堡大学任职。他是古文物研究学会和皇家艺术学会的会员，美国哲学学会的成员，还是《摄影师约翰•汤姆森（1837—1921）》的作者。他于2019年英国女王寿辰荣获大英帝国勋章。 『译者简介』 刘佳玥，伦敦大学学院硕士，近代早期研究专业，主要研究方向为英国17世纪女性作者的手稿和出版物。

The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction-and surprising survival-of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful ...(展开全部)

The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction-and surprising survival-of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful ...(展开全部)

This Element provides a pedagogical overview of the history of knowledge, including its main currents, distinguishing ideas, and key concepts. However, it is not primarily a state-of-the-art overview but rather an argumentative contribution that seeks to push the field in a certain direction – towards studying knowledge in society and knowledge in people's lives. Hence, the his...(展开全部)

The Birth of the Archive traces the history of archives from their emergence in the Late Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, and vividly shows how archives permeated and fundamentally changed European culture. Archives were compiled and maintained by peasants and kings, merchants and churchmen, and conceptions of archives were as diverse as those who used them. The com...(展开全部)

罗德里克·卡夫，印刷史学家，图书馆长，联合国教科文组织及大英图书馆顾问，拥有大量珍本书藏书，并在世界各地的图书馆及大学开设信息学课程。著有 THE PRIVATE PRESS（《私人出版社》） Impressions of Nature: A History of Na ture Printing（《自然的印象：自然印刷法的历史》）等。 萨拉·阿亚德，一生都在研究书，她作过图书管理员、书商、编辑、艺术史学家、图片研究者，她将对文字和视觉艺术的兴趣紧密结合在一起。

◎ 作者简介 罗德里克 • 凯夫（Roderick Cave），印刷史学家和图书馆员，曾与世界各地的图书馆和大学合作，研究稀有书籍并开发了信息科学课程，《自然印象：自然印刷史》一书的作者。 萨拉 • 阿亚德（Sara Ayad），艺术史学家和图片研究人员，对书籍的历史特别感兴趣。 ………………………… ◎ 译者简介 潘亚薇，女，国际关系学院文学学士，南开大学翻译硕士，曾为 China Daily等知名媒体担任外聘翻译，参与北京奥运会等重大国际活动的翻译工作，曾担任高等教育出版社《爱阅读 • 新课标必读丛书》特约撰稿人，译有哈佛大学书店畅销书《爱上老去》，丹麦儿童文学“女巫克拉拉”系列之《烈火试炼》《遗忘诅咒》《奇美拉的复仇》《布拉维塔魔咒》等，曾受聘于天津青年职业学院及多家英语培训机构，担任英语阅读讲师，其教学成果广受好评。

A major new history of Zionism and Israel, by the renowned author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine In this groundbreaking work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside of the government and military in areas such as the country’s education system, media, and cinema. In particular, Pappe examin...(展开全部)

马丁· 里昂斯（Martyn Lyons），书籍历史方面的专家。出生在伦敦，毕业于牛津大学。担任新南威尔士大学历史及哲学学院的教授，曾在法国、英国、巴西和西班牙等国家做访问学者。发表及出版过大量的关于图书历史方面的文章和著作。