The Book on the Bookshelf [Audiobook] download free by Henry Petroski
- Listen audiobook: The Book on the Bookshelf
- Author: Henry Petroski
- Release date: 2000/10/22
- Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780375706394
- Rating: 9.53 of 10
- Votes: 206
- Review by: Hanna Guevara
- Review rating: 9.73 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/7
- Duration: 3H40M57S in 256 kbps (60 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-23
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, MP3, FLAC, Apple Lossless, MPEG-4 SLS, WAV, WMA, MPEG-4 DST (compression ZIP, CBZ, RAR, CPIO)
- Total pages original book: 300
- Includes a PDF summary of 27 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M30S (5.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage. Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn't. As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. Unimpeachably researched, enviably written, and charmed with anecdotes from Seneca to Samuel Pepys to a nineteenth-century bibliophile who had to climb over his books to get into bed, The Book on the Bookshelf is indispensable for anyone who loves books.
- Other categories, genre or collection: History Of Engineering & Technology, Literary Studies: General, Literary Reference Works, Library & Information Sciences
- Download servers: 4Shared, Uploaded, FileServe, Box, FileHosting, Dropbox. Compressed in ZIP, CBZ, RAR, CPIO
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.72 USD
- Dimensions: 134x201x16mm
- Weight: 282g
- Printed by: Vintage Books
- Published in: New York, United States
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