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  • The Book

    by Amaranth Borsuk ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface.What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around 150 CE. It was preceded by clay tablets and papyrus scrolls. Are those books? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Book

    by Amaranth Borsuk ...
    Narrated by Sarah Mollo-Christensen ...
    Series series MIT Press Essential Knowledge

    Unabridged

    5 hours 55 min

    In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amaranth Borsuk considers the history of the book, the future of the book, and the idea of the book. Tracing the interrelationship of form and content in the book's development, she bridges book history, book arts, and electronic literature to expand our definition of an object we thought we knew intimately.Contrary to the many reports of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Graphic Design Theory

    Readings from the Field

    Edited by Helen Armstrong ...
    Graphic Design Theory is organized in three sections: "Creating the Field" traces the evolution of graphic design over the course of the early 1900s, including influential avant-garde ideas of futurism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus; "Building on Success" covers the mid- to late twentieth century and considers the International Style, modernism, and postmodernism; and "Mapping the Future" opens ... Read more

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    Writing from the planning stages through completion.Any student at almost any level can improve his/her writing skills. ... Read more

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