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050	0	0	_aZ695.9 _b.D86 2022
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100	1		_aDuncan, Dennis _q(Dennis J. B.), _eauthor. _91034
245	1	0	_aIndex, a history of the : _ba bookish adventure from medieval manuscripts to the digital age / _cDennis Duncan.
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bW.W. Norton & Company, _c2022.
300			_avii, 343 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aFirst published in Great Britain under the title Index, a history of the : a bookish adventure.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 273-297) and index.
520			_a"Most of us give little thought to the back of the book-it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists' living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and-of course-indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart-and we have been for eight hundred years"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aIndexing _xHistory. _91035
650		0	_aInformation organization _9683
650		0	_aIndexes _xHistory. _91036
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