02536cam a22003498i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000320009504000230012704100080015004200080015805000240016608200270019010000520021724501140026926400500038330000470043333600260048033700280050633800270053450001000056150400510066152013340071265000230204665000270206965000280209665000220212465000400214622312421BJBSDDR20240610150805.0ta211116s2023    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a  2021050496  a9781324050513q(paperbacks)  aDLCbspaerdacDLC  aeng  apcc14aZ 695.9bD911i 202300a025.3223/eng/202111231 aDuncan, Dennis,d1974-q(Dennis J. B.),eauthor10aIndex, a history of the :ba bookish adventure from medieval manuscripts to the digital age /cDennis Duncan. 1aNew York, NY :bW.W. Norton & Company,c2023.  a vii, 343 pages :billustrations ; c23 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aFirst published in Great Britain under the title Index, a history of the : a bookish adventure.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"Most of us give little thought to the back of the book-it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists' living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and-of course-indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart-and we have been for eight hundred years"--cProvided by publisher. 0aIndexingxHistory. 4aIndexaciónxhistoria 4aCatalogación xLibros 0aIndexesxHistory. 4aOrganización de la información