"The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up of Japanese Americans, was the most decorated unit of World War II. Even with their families confined behind barbed wire in government concentration camps, these soldiers fought bravely to rescue a Texan battalion lost deep behind enemy lines. This story, based on the actual events, follows members of the 442nd as they face incarceration, prejudice, and horrific casualties in their battle to rescue The Lost Battalion"--Page 4 of cover.

• "Omnium totius orbis emporiorum compendium" : the Frankfurt Fair in the early modern period / John L. Flood
• Itinerant booksellers, printers, and pedlars in sixteenth-century Spain and Portugal / Clive Griffin
• Murder, debt and retribution in the Italico-Franco-Spanish book trade : the Beraud-Michel-Ruiz affair, 1586-91 / Ian Maclean
• "To all booksellers, country chapmen, hawkers and others" : how the population of East Anglia obtained its printed materials / David Stoker
• Watching the pedlar's movements: itinerant distribution in the urban Netherlands / Jeroen Salman
• The Scottish chapman / John Morris
• The book trade in public spaces: London street booksellers, 1690-1850 / Michael Harris.

• Athanasius Kircher and his world
• Baroque imaginary : the world of Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-80)
• Kircher's Rome : a way to understand the Celeberrimus Museum Kircherianum
• Reveries in time of plague : Kircher and the plague epidemic of
• 1656
• Kircher and his critics : censorial practice and pragmatic disregard in the Society of Jesus
• Quasi-optical palingenesis : the circulation of portraits and the image of Kircher
• Kircher, Peiresc, and the foundation of Coptic studies, or, The quest for Barachias Nephi
• Trees, some amulets, and the seventy-two names of God : Kircher reveals the Kabbalah
• Kircher's chronology
• Athanasius Kircher, Giordano Bruno, and the panspermia of the infinite universe
• Father Athanasius on the isthmus of a middle state : understanding Kircher's paleontology
• The angel and the compass : Athanasius Kircher's geographical project
• Magnetic language : Athanasius Kircher and communication
• Publishing the polygraphy : manuscript, instrument, and print in the work of Athanasius Kircher
• Private and public knowledge : Kircher, esotericism and the republic of letters
• Baroque science between the old world and the new : Father Kircher and his fellow Jesuit, Valentin Stansel (1621-1705)
• A Jesuit's books in the new world : Athanasius Kircher and his American readers
• True lies : Kircher's China illustrata and the life story of a Mexican mystic
• Athanasius Kircher's China illustrata (1667) : an apologia pro sua vita
• The afterlife of a polymath
• Understanding Kircher in context.

• Rouen and its printers from the 15th to the 19th century-- Lyon's printers and booksellers from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century-- Gavarni's Parisian population reproduced-- the literary dangers of the city - policing immoral books in Berlin, 1850-1880-- readers, browsers, strangers, spectators - narrative forms and metropolitan encounters in 20th-century Berlin-- commercial spies and cultural invaders - the French press, "Penetration Pacifique" and xenophobic nationalism in the shadow of war-- neutrality under threat - freedom, use and "abuse" in Switzerland, 1914-19-- the "cultured city" - the art press in Berlin and Paris in the early 20th century-- text and image in the constuction of an urban readership - allied propaganda in France during World War II-- structures of the typescript.
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This collection of essays build on the premise that the urban environment was fundamental to the development of printing from the outset, since it was in towns that the necessary combination of technical and entrepreneurial competencies were located, and where a growing demand for printed texts was found. It is with this urban cultural environment that the essays in this collection are principly concerned, and they set out to demonstrate the centrality of printing and publishing to the understanding of urban culture, examined from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The studies focus on a number of specific urban contexts, mainly in France and Germany and in the post 1800 period.
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• Foreword / Michael A. Keller
• Preface / Roberto G. Trujillo and Henry Lowood
• Introduction : inside the baroque encyclopedia / Daniel Stolzenberg
• Science, history, and erudition : Athanasius Kircher's museum at the Collegio Romano / Paula Findlen
• Kircher's magnetic investigations / Martha Baldwin
• Kircher's subterranean world and the dignity of the geocosm / Tara E. Nummedal
• The connoisseur of magic / Daniel Stolzenberg
• Between the demonic and the miraculous : Athanasius Kircher and the baroque culture of machines / Michael John Gorman
• Making music, making knowledge : the harmonius universe of Athanasius Kircher / Penelope Gouk
• Matters medical / Martha Baldwin
• "If you have a secret, either keep it, or reveal it" : cryptography and universal language / Nick Wilding
• China illustrata : the universe in a cup of tea / Haun Saussy
• Kircher's Egypt / Daniel Stolzenberg
• Kircher among the ruins : esoteric knowledge and universal history / Daniel Stolzenberg
• Appendix I : Kircher's correspondence / Nick Wilding
• Appendix II : Bibliography of works by and related to Athanasius Kircher at the Stanford University Libraries / John E. Mustain and Barry E. Hinman.

• Other contributors include Jennifer Andersen, Anna Battigelli, Anthony Grafton, Arthur F. Marotti, Kevin Sharpe, William H. Sherman, Evelyn B. Tribble.
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Books are such an integral part of every facet of our lives that, even as we wonder about their future, we easily forget how precious they were to early modern readers. The close relationship between reader and book, between reading and writing, during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries has left us with a large body of evidence not only of the habits of individual readers but of the social and intellectual worlds they inhabited. The Reader Revealed brings to life the early owners and readers of books from the Folger Shakeseare Library, from the humble and pious to the most assiduous collectors. Early readers read with pen in hand; it is in their underlinings, emendations, and other marginalia that these readers are most vividly revealed to us. From highly decorated icon books to cheap, well-thumbed chap books of the late 17th century - which were carried in pockets until many disintegrated - The Reader Revealed shows the variety of ways in which readers have related to books over the centuries. The use of books as repositories of birth records, scholarly marginalia, and schoolboy doodles is also examined.
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In this illustrated survey, the author explores the use and purpose of bookbindings - over and above protecting the text inside them - and the purpose of the study of the book as a physical object. Examples from the British Library's collection are included.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Conventions
• 1: Introduction: The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book
• 2: Literatory Life: The Culture and Credibility of the Printed Book in Early Modern London
• 3: "The Advancement of Wholesome Knowledge": The Politics of Print and the Practices of Propriety
• 4: John Streater and the Knights of the Galaxy: Republicanism, Natural Knowledge, and the Politics of Printing
• 5: Faust and the Pirates: The Cultural Construction of the Printing Revolution
• 6: The Physiology of Reading: Print and the Passions
• 7: Piracy and Usurpation: Natural Philosophy in the Restoration
• 8: Histories of the Heavens: John Flamsteed, Isaac Newton, and the Historia Coelestis Britannica
• 9: Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas-commercial, intellectual, political, and individual. "A compelling exposition of how authors, printers, booksellers and readers competed for power over the printed page. . . . The richness of Mr. Johns's book lies in the splendid detail he has collected to describe the world of books in the first two centuries after the printing press arrived in England."-Alberto Manguel, Washington Times "[A] mammoth and stimulating account of the place of print in the history of knowledge. . . . Johns has written a tremendously learned primer."-D. Graham Burnett, New Republic "A detailed, engrossing, and genuinely eye-opening account of the formative stages of the print culture. . . . This is scholarship at its best."-Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor "The most lucid and persuasive account of the new kind of knowledge produced by print. . . . A work to rank alongside McLuhan."-John Sutherland, The Independent "Entertainingly written. . . . The most comprehensive account available . . . well documented and engaging."-Ian Maclean, Times Literary Supplement.
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This text takes a look at early modern England and the creative and commercial forces in which print culture was formed and its many arenas - commercial, intellectual, political and individual. It includes detailed information on booksellers shops, the Royal Society, paper manufactories and type foundaries. Also featured are replications of the bitter disputes between authors and printers, printers and booksellers and clerics and individuals as they debate and resolve the meaning and rights attached to the creation of ideas, their appearance in written form and then in print, and the opportunity to sell, buy, and read printed work. Focusing on the interplay between the scientific and print revolutions and on their roles, both complementary and antagonistic, the text looks at production and dissemination of knowledge. Print also being used to manipulate those findings for political, religious or idealogical reasons.
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SET IN THE 1960s, the era of campus revolts, war protests, drugs and free love, State of Emergency follows the frenetic odyssey of Roger, a self-styled radical professor attempting to write an expose of government and military endeavors to annihilate dissidents like him. Pursued by agents who would still his pen and accompanied by Penny, his former student and now his 1ong-suffering lover, they head for Europe and northern Africa. Finding refuge among their brethren in the counter-culture of various countries, Roger nevertheless feels the enemy is close upon his heels. Everywhere he turns, shadows lurk that threaten to destroy him both emotionally and physically. Are the dangers real or an imaginary symptom of the paranoia created by the drug culture of the 1960s? Floyd Salas has successfully created a philosophical and psychological thriller based on an unsettling chapter in recent history, when idealism was pitted against a totalitarian mentality that cloaked democracy in hypocrisy.
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• Part 1 Why bookbinding?: bookbinding and the history of books-- some bookbinders' price lists of the 17th and 18th centuries.
• Part 2 Bookbinding - a dead craft?: a binding by Paul Kersten, 1900-- a binding by W.T. Walker, 1909-- the Thomas Harrison memorial competition, 1955-1975 - a record-- modern bookbindings acquired by the British Library, 1974-1983-- a binding by Pierre-Lucien Martin,
• 1961.
• Part 3 The late medieval tradition in bookbinding-- Part IV Gold-tooled bindings.
• Part 5 Unusual materials.
• Part 6 Collectors and collections.
• Part 7 Preserving the past.
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This text consists of articles on the history of bookbinding and related subjects, most of which have been published previously in a wide variety of places. Several articles have been updated and two have been substantially rewritten. They have been grouped under seven headings and range from general topics such as bookbinding as a subject for study and the need to preserve the book in all its aspects, to more detailed descriptions of binders, the binding trade, collectors and collections. The balance is heavily weighted in favour of the gold-tooled bindings, showing an early liking for splendid products of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The more recent articles reflect Mirjam Foot's growing interest in the study of binding structures and binding techniques, amd in exploring the relation between the history of bookbinding and that of book production, the book trade, and, more generally, the history of the book and its place in the history of society at large. Written by an expert in the field, these articles place bookbinding in a wider historical context and should contribute to a greater understanding and knowldege of the history of bookbinding. The text should be of interest to bibliographers, book collectors, librarians, antiquarian booksellers, art historians, bookbinders and conservators.
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