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340.59 KAD Heaven on earth : a journey through Sharia Law | 340.954 LIN Classical Law of India | 341 BRO Basic documents in international law | 341.4500209730904 DEU In Praise of Good Bookstores | 341.753 POR Algorithmic antitrust | 341.754 WOR WTO dispute settlement procedures : a collection of the relevant legal texts | 341.758 DRA Information feudalism: Who owns the knowledge economy? |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Books, even obscure ones, are readily available online in the age of digital retail. As bookstores attempt to find their identity in a new era, some have survived by selling everything from toys to socks, coffee to stationery. In this short book, Jeff Deutsch, the director of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago, aims to make the case for the value of spaces devoted to books and the value of the time spent browsing their stacks. It is a defense of serious bookstores, but more importantly it is a paean to the spaces that support them; the experience of readers as they engage with the books, the stacks, and each other; and the particular community created by the presence of such an institution. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a bookseller and his particular experience at Sem Co-op, Deutsch aims, in a series of brief essays, to consider how concepts like space, time, abundance, measure, community, and reverence find expression in a good bookstore, and to show some ways in which the importance of the bookstore is both urgent and enduring
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