| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-280) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The guardian of all things: memory as a biography -- Finding a voice: memory as word -- The cave illumination: memory as symbol -- Clay, reeds, and skin: memory as medium -- The bloody statue: memory as metaphor -- Long-leggedy beasties: memory as reference -- Patterns in the carpey: memory as instruction -- Tick, talk: memory as recording -- Diamonds and rust: memory as free -- The persistence of memory: memory as existence. |
| Summary |
"The Guardian of All Things is a sweeping scientific hisotry that takes us on a 10,000-year-old journey replete with incredible ideas, inventions, and transformations. From cave drawings to oral histories to libraries to the Internet, The Guardian of All Things is the history of how humans have relentlessly pursued new ways to preserve and manage memory, both within the human brain and as a series of inventions external to it." -- Dust jacket. |
| Subject |
Memory -- History.
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Technology and civilization.
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Civilization -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780312620318 hardback $25.99 |
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0312620314 |
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