New York Public Library: Webster’s Timeline History, 1300 – 2007

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Webster’s bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on “New York Public Library,” including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have New York Public Library in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with New York Publi… More >>

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New York Public Library Literature Companion

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Pick up The New York Public Library Literature Companion to check the dates of Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past or to find out how James Joyce’s Ulysses changed U.S. obscenity laws, and you may find yourself hours later absorbed in the imaginary worlds of Camelot and The Matrix or sidetracked by the fascinating history of The New Yorker. Designed to satisfy the curious browser as well as the serious researcher, this exciting new resource offers the most u… More >>

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Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good

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Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library is a philosophical and historical analysis of how the rise of consumerism has led to the decline of the original mission of public libraries to sustain and promote democracy through civic education. Through a reading of historical figures such as Plato, Helvetius, Rousseau, and John Stuart Mill, the book shows how democracy and even capitalism were originally believed to depend upon the moral and political education that… More >>

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