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after learning that Borders may be closing I took a book picture of the re-released & redesigned classics. it's hard going considering I read lots & lots & lots of genre fiction. :D

 

penguin classics - www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/pubsetpages/clothboundcl...

coralie bickford-smith (the book designer) - www.cb-smith.com

 

eta: this is the US collection of the Penguin Classics. the first series of the collection released in the UK is numbered on the sides (1-10) the US collection does not book #1 Madame Bovary or #8 Crime and Punishment. instead the US collection has 24 books, while the UK collection has 26!

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Books I have bought or been given over the past couple of months

Seattle Public Library, Central Branch. Seattle, WA

It's a coincidence that I put up the Kindle in front of the book "The Dark Side". (It's actually "The Dark Side of Love" by Rafik Schami.)

File name: 08_02_002730

 

Box label: Public buildings: Libraries

 

Title: Boston Athenaeum. Interior

 

Alternative title: Boston Athenaeum: Beacon St. interior

 

Creator/Contributor: Marr, Thomas E. (photographer)

 

Date issued:

 

Date created: 1901 (approximate)

 

Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.

 

Genre: Photographic prints

 

Subjects: Boston Athenaeum; Athenaeums; Libraries; Buildings; Interiors; Bookstacks

 

Notes: Number on image: 5610

 

Provenance:

 

Statement of responsibility: T. E. Marr

 

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

 

Rights: Rights status not evaluated.

 

Using SEL30M35 macro lens.

Stacks as place to store mechanical system components prior to installation

another shot at the antique store they love me there

Look, he just went through a life-altering change and he wants to do some reading up.

This was drawn fromthe imagination so the perspective and shading is a bit off but I was just having some fun.

The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court is the largest covered public square in Europe. It is a large space enclosed by a spectacular glass roof with the world-famous Reading Room at its center.

In the original design of the British Museum, the courtyard was meant to be a garden. However, in 1852–7 the Reading Room and a number of bookstacks were built in the courtyard to house the library department of the Museum and the space was lost. In 1997, the Museum’s library department was relocated to the new British Library building in St Pancras and there was an opportunity to re-open the space to public. An architectural competition was launched to re-design the courtyard space. It was eventually won by Norman Foster.

  

Man, I wish I had time to get to these -- they look really interesting. I've only read the intro book to semiotics and the reference guide to terms in philosophy for theology. The rest are things I really need to read, though.

 

From top-to-bottom:

 

- Nihilism Before Nietzsche, by Michael Allen Gillespie

- How to read Nietzsche, by Keith Ansell Pearson (series editor: Simon Critchley)

- Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ, by Frederick Nietzsche

- The Birth of Tragedy/The Genealogy of Morals, by Frederick Nietzsche

- Beyond Good & Evil, by Frederick Nietzsche

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Frederick Nietzsche

- Jacques Derrida: Live Theory, by James K. A. Smith

- Discipline & Punish, by Michel Foucault

- The Archaelogy of Knowledge, by Michel Foucault

- The Order of Things, by Michel Foucault

- Madness and Civilization, by Michel Foucault

- 101 Key Terms in Philosophy and their Importance for Theology, by Kelly Clark, Richard Lints, and James K. A. Smith

- What Is Postmodern Biblical Criticism? by A. K. M. Adam

- The Postmodern Condition, by Francois Lyotard

- Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islamn, Modernity, by Talal Asad

- Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition, by Alasdair MacIntyre

- Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, by Alasdair MacIntyre

- After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, by Alasdair MacIntyre

- The Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle

- The Matrix and Philosophy, edited by William Irwin

- More Matrix and Philosophy, edited by William Irwin

- Introducing Semiotics, by Paul Cobley and Litza Jansz

- Introducing Modernism, by Chris Rodrigues and Chris Garratt

- Introducing Postmodernism, by Richard Appignanesi and Chris Garratt

- Get a Grip on Philosophy, by Neil Turnbull

Bookstack, top to bottom:

Hildafolk by Luke Pearson

The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick

The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens

We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

This is for Kate's Brilliant Photo A Day Challenge - the theme is "the last thing you bought" (this book, for Homesong Book Club, that is, if we're not counting bus tickets and groceries...).

 

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An amazing book store in Halifax. We wandered in because the site of piles and towers of books stacked in the windows made us curious. There were towers up to the ceiling, windows cut out through books, stairs lined w/ books. There were narrow corridors and twists and turns - some you could not even get through.

The good thing about being in Germany is that amazon works here. Norway leaves something to be desired when it comes to having books shipped to your home.

 

This here is my last haul, plus two Norwegian books I'm saving for a blue day. Currently reading Vernor Vinge.

Sterling Memorial Library is the main library building of the Yale University Library system in New Haven, Connecticut. Opened in 1931, the library was designed by James Gamble Rogers as the centerpiece of Yale's Gothic Revival campus. It is elaborately ornamented, featuring extensive sculpture and painting as well as hundreds of panes of stained glass created by G. Owen Bonawit. In addition to five large reading rooms, a Music Library, and courtyard on the ground floor, the library's tower has fifteen levels of bookstacks containing over 4 million volumes. It connects via tunnel to the underground Bass Library, which contains an additional 150,000 volumes.

For National Poetry Month, we invited library users to send us poems "written" using book titles. April 2013.

John Paul Jones - Evan Thomas

Eight Men Out - Eliot Asinof

The Way to Bright Star - Dee Brown

Write It When I'm Gone - Thomas DeFrank

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - David Simon

The Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston

River of Doubt - Candice Millard (not pictured)

Fraud of the Century - Roy Morris Jr.

Stalingrad - Anthony Beevor

Cod - Mark Kurlansky

Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin

Indian Wars - Bill Yenne

Robbing the Bees - Holley Bishop (not pictured)

The Boys of '98 - Dale Walker

The Somme - Peter Hart

Fire and Brimstone - Michael Punke (not pictured)

The Great Bridge - David McCullough

The Burma Road - Donovan Webster

 

18 books, bit of an improvement over 2008 and a personal record. Sadly, now that I'm going back to school, 2010 is likely to take a dramatic drop. As always, lists and links are here.

This rabbit photographed during Krispy's Feb. 2005 visit.

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My Toes Are Cold

 

It's been cold these last couple of weeks at night (well duh it's winter). I keep wearing thicker socks but my toes are always cold until I got to bed. Our heater isn't that great at making the apartment warm (not in the least bit).

 

I decided to do this one after really liking the one I took in the bookstacks at one of my school's libraries a few days ago. I really do like taking pictures of people's feet and shoes.

The pile grew quickly as Borders had 70% off!!!

 

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Santa's delivery and then some.

The tallest so far which means some of the smaller text isn't readable on the spines.

Hopefully I'll be finished soon... Heh.

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File name: 08_02_002725

 

Box label: Public buildings: Libraries

 

Title: Boston Athenaeum. Interior

 

Alternative title: Boston Athenaeum: Beacon St. interior

 

Creator/Contributor: Marr, Thomas E. (photographer)

 

Date issued:

 

Date created: 1901

 

Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.

 

Genre: Photographic prints

 

Subjects: Boston Athenaeum; Athenaeums; Libraries; Buildings; Interiors; Bookstacks

 

Notes: Number on image: 5606

 

Provenance:

 

Statement of responsibility: T. E. Marr

 

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

 

Rights: Rights status not evaluated.

 

A few of my favourite old books. I do love a beautiful spine.

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Jaunzems, Steve, university photographer.

 

1 photograph : col. ; 4.5 x 6.5 in.

 

Date: ca. 1970 - mid 1980s

 

Location: William G. Davis Building (South Building), University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

 

Architects: A.D. Margison and Raymond Moriyama

 

Notes:

Forms part of: History of Erindale collection

 

Subjects:

Erindale College Library

Students

Book Stacks

 

Rights Info: University of Toronto

 

Repository: UTM Library Archives, Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre

 

Part Of: History of Erindale Photographic Collection

 

Digital File Name: 0061-4-box7-sec36

File name: 08_02_004143

 

Box label: Boston Public Library: Branches

 

Title: Boston public Library: West End Branch interior

 

Alternative title:

 

Creator/Contributor:

 

Date issued:

 

Date created: 1894-1960 (approximate)

 

Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 7 x 9 in.

 

Genre: Photographic prints

 

Subjects: Boston Public Library. West End Branch Library; Public libraries; Interiors; Bookstacks

 

Notes: Image dated: After 1894

 

Provenance:

 

Statement of responsibility:

 

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

 

Rights: Rights status not evaluated.

 

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Unread lesbian books, not yet added to The Lesbrary.

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The Annie Leibovitz was only £12 in the Edinburgh Fopps :)

Let It Snow by John Green, Lauren Myracle and Maureen Johnson

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

331.365 // Y3 // 23.01.2011

 

This is what I'm working my way through at the moment! A couple of Christmas gifts, books that I've been meaning to read for a while that I haven't gotten round to, and some hand-me-downs... Keeping me occupied at lunch-time and during my commute!

 

(Those with notes have been read.)

File name: 08_02_006029

 

Box label: Boston Public Library: Branches (loose items)

 

Title: Jeffries Point

 

Alternative title:

 

Creator/Contributor: Davis, George H. (photographer)

 

Date issued:

 

Date created:

 

Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.

 

Genre: Photographic prints; Portrait photographs

 

Subjects: Boston Public Library; Public libraries; Bookstacks; Children; Reading

 

Notes:

 

Provenance:

 

Statement of responsibility: Photography by George H. Davis Jr., Boston

 

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

 

Rights: Rights status not evaluated.

 

The 4th floor also holds our book stacks which contains over 18,000 titles. The monograph collection includes a matchless assortment of “primary” printed works of historical importance, including physical science monographs, textbooks, laboratory manuals, instrument catalogs, and published correspondence, two-thirds of which dates between the years 1850-1950. For more information about our holdings search our book catalog here!

 

Photo credit: AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives.

A belated uploading of the stack of books from www.flickr.com/photos/snbg

 

The books are:

Farthing, by Jo Walton (1st in the series)

Ha'penny, by Jo Walton (2nd in the series)

A Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

A Void, by George Perec

Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow

Brasyl, by Ian McDonald

Rumo, by Walter Moers

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