FUTURE OF THE PAST, THE

C2002, GOOD+ PAPERBACK, LIGHT WEAR & EDGES TANNED PICADOR [STILLE, ALEXANDER] CONTENTS QUITE TANNED, BUT UNMARKED

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A fascinating tour of the past as it exists today, and of the dangers that threaten it, through incisive portraits of our attempts to maintain it: the high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and the Ganges; the efforts to preserve Latin within the Vatican; the digital glut inside the National Archives, which may have caused more information to be lost than ever before; and an oral culture threatened by a "new" technology: writing itself. Stille explores not simply the past, but our ideas about the past--and how they will have to change if our past is to have a future.

Product Info

ISBN: 0312420943

ISBN-13: 9780312420949

Publisher: PICADOR

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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