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Tree (Paperback)
Matthew Battles
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books
about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms,
uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with
humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower over us and
yet fade into background. Their lifespan outstrips ours, and yet
their wisdom remains inscrutable, treasured up in the heartwood.
They serve us in many ways-as keel, lodgepole, and execution
site-and yet to become human, we had to come down from their limbs.
In this book Matthew Battles follows the tree's branches across
art, poetry, and landscape, marking the edges of imagination with
wildness and shadow. Object Lessons is published in partnership
with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved
but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are
in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB
visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from
classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries and on to the
Information Age, to explore how libraries are built and how they
are destroyed: from the scroll burnings in ancient China to the
burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia to the latest
revolutionary upheavals of the digital age. A new afterword
elucidates how knowledge is preserved amid the creative destruction
of twenty-first-century technology.
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