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Daisy BuchananHardback, 288 pages9780241691656   Forget ‘self-help’ and embrace ‘shelf-help’ by discovering the healing power of books and reading ...

Maryanne Wolf Paperback 9780062388773   The Reading Brain in a Digital World   A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we ...

Sander L. Gilman, Heta PyrhönenHardback, 304 pages9781789149494   How Reading and Listening in Childhood Shapes Us   A collection of essays that ex...

Katarzyna BartoszynskaPaperback, 100 pages9781958846148   A lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read.   In this e...

Ahmed El Shamsy Paperback 9780691241913   How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition   Islamic book culture dates back to ...

Michel DesmurgetAndrew Brown (translation)Paperback, 350 pages9781509546404   All forms of recreational digital consumption – whether on smartphone...

David MikicsHardback, 336 pages9780674724723   Reading, David Mikics says, should not be drudgery, and not mere information-gathering or escape eit...

Jacques EllulPaperback, 512 pages9780394703909   As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul’s The Tech...

Neil PostmanPaperback9780679745402   A witty, often terrifying account that chronicles our transformation into a society that is shaped by technolo...

Jaron Lanier Paperback 9781529112405   In this work Jaron Lanier draws on his insider's expertise to explain precisely how social media works - by ...

Andrew PettegreeHardback, 480 pages9781800814936   Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - b...

Doris Behrens-Abouseif Hardback 9789004387003   This book is the first to date to be dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the...

Mary CarruthersPaperback, 540 pages9780521716314   Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in ...

Keith HoustonPaperback, 448 pages9781324086352   A Cover-to-Cover Exploration Of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time   We may love books, but do w...

Tom Nichols Paperback, 336 pages Second Edition 9780197763834   People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by techn...

Meghan Cox Gurdon Paperback 9780349422961   A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming the simple stuff of a book, ...

Abul Faraj Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Nadim Bayard Dodge (tr.) 9781871031621   The Catalog (Kitab al-fihrist) by Ibn al-Nadim (d. 995 AD) is an index of...

Robert MacfarlanePaperback, 48 pages9780241978313   An essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a book.   Every book is a kind of...

Justin E.H. Smith Paperback, 208 pages 9780691235219   An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian d...

Arthur der Weduwen, Andrew PettegreePaperback, 528 pages9781788163439   Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, buil...

Kevin HarveyPaperback, 240 pages9781472583604   Bibliotherapy and the Transforming Power of Reading   The Literary Lifeline is a tribute to the tra...

Arshin Adib-MoghaddamPaperback, 184 pages9781526189509   A Manifesto for Critical Artificial Intelligence   The myth of good AI offers a bold new a...

Roland AllenPaperback, 416 pages9781788169332   The first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks.   We s...

James Raven (editor)Paperback, 448 pages9780192886897   The history of the book is the history of millions of written, printed, and illustrated tex...