Books: A Manifesto or, How to Build a LibraryThis is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Pattersons life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs the last of many libraries, he makes an impassioned case for the radical importance of reading in our lives from Proust to Jilly Cooper, from golden age detective novels to avant garde

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"Dr Mahathir melihat pertentangan antara Islam dan Sosialisme

finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake

Whether she writes of the loss of a friend

a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience

a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times

to its refusal to recognize the past

A chance encounter with her first love

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author of Good and Mad

This volume combines these with his earlier achievements

The New Leviathans is a powerful meditation on historical and current folly