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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Báez, Fernando, 1970-     Subjects     Prohibited books -- History.     Libraries and state -- History.     Censorship -- History.     Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Báez, Fernando, 1970-       by title:      A universal history ...      Historia universal d...       by call number:      098.109 B142u     Search the Web     Báez, Fernando, 1970-     Prohibited books -- History.     Libraries and state -- History.     Censorship -- History.     Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History.       MARC Display

A universal history of the destruction of books : from ancient Sumer to modern Iraq / Fernando Báez ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam. by Báez, Fernando, 1970- Atlas & Co. : Distributed to the trade by W.W. Norton, c2008. Call #: 098.109 B142u Subjects Prohibited books -- History.   Libraries and state -- History.   Censorship -- History.   Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- History. ISBN:  1934633011 9781934633014 Uniform title:  Historia universal de la destrucción de libros. English. Description:  xii, 354 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm. Notes:  "Orignally published as Historia universal de la destrucción de libros: De las tablillas sumericas a la Guerra de Irak, Ediciones Destinos, S.A., Barcelona, 2004"--T.p. verso. A Universal History of the Destruction of Books traces a tragic story: the smashed tablets of ancient Sumer, the widespread looting of libraries in post-war Iraq, the leveling of the Library of Alexandria, book burnings by Crusaders and Nazis, and censorship against authors past and present. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-336) and index. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Tantallon Public Library Adult Nonfiction 098.109 B142u Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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