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Burning the Books

Burning the Books

A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

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Richard Ovenden
Richard Ovenden
2020

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490 books

Social History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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22 books

Censorship

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I Kill the Mockingbird
Merchants of Truth
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News
Fahrenheit 451
Ella Minnow Pea
Axiom's End
D: A Tale of Two Worlds

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26 books

Libraries And Librarians

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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
Read Dangerously
Cruising the library
Purity in Print
Imperiled Innocents
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library

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20 books

Information Science

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Sorting Things Out
BiblioTech
Library: An Unquiet History
The Book on the Bookshelf
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
A Brief History of the Book: From Tablet to Tablet

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27 books

Books

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Read Dangerously
Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired
Dark Archives
Purity in Print
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
BiblioTech