The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our TimeIn The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000 year old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today. 71 color illustrations

We Are Free to Change the World calls on each of us to think our way

but a nuanced

As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984

offering a key to his beloved works of drama and fiction

under the rupic “Constant Reader

terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination

arguing that it ignores the immigration of Malays from outside the peninsula to participate in trade or commercial agriculture

who fought back and refused to accept the lives into which they were born

and the lack of any real grassroots movement in contemporary America

then literature plays an important part in the history of race in America

Prominent US labor historian

compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure