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  2. History of books - Wikipedia

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    The history of the book became an acknowledged academic discipline in the latter half of the 20th century. It was fostered by William Ivins Jr.'s Prints and Visual Communication (1953) and Henri-Jean Martin and Lucien Febvre's L'apparition du livre (The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450–1800) in 1958 as well as Marshall McLuhan's Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man ...

  3. Paperback - Wikipedia

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    Paperback. A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples. In contrast, hardback (hardcover) books are bound with cardboard covered with cloth, leather, paper, or plastic. Inexpensive books bound in paper have existed since at least the 19th ...

  4. Penguin Books - Wikipedia

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    Penguin's English edition of Yuri Krimov's novel The Tanker "Derbent". The Second World War saw Penguin emerge as a national institution. Though it had no formal role in the war effort, it was integral to it thanks to the publication of such bestselling manuals as Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps and Aircraft Recognition, and supplying books for the services and British POWs.

  5. Portuguese literature - Wikipedia

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    Portuguese literature is literature written in the Portuguese language, from the Portuguese-speaking world. It can refer to Lusophone literature written by authors from Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, and other Community of Portuguese Language Countries. This article focuses on Portuguese literature sensu stricto, that is, literature from ...

  6. The High Mountains of Portugal - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 978-0812997170. OCLC. 911240030. LC Class. PR9199.3.M3855 H54. Preceded by. Beatrice and Virgil. The High Mountains of Portugal is a 2016 novel by Canadian author Yann Martel. [1][2][3] The novel is split into three sections, each of which concerns a widower.

  7. Book design - Wikipedia

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    Book design. Design by Hans Holbein the Younger for a metalwork book cover (or treasure binding) Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent unit. In the words of renowned typographer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974), book design, "though ...