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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the sh...more

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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at...more

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One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is spea...more

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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracte...more

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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

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What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But ...more

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What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But ...more

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And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and the voice of the author begins to speak inside you...more

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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys ...more