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The Phone Book

The Phone Book

The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads

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Ammon Shea
Ammon Shea

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166 books

Microhistory

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Libraries in the Ancient World
Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart
Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding
Sweat
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
The Royal Art of Poison

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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

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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