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100 1  Duncan, Dennis. 
245 10 Index, a history of the|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic 
       resource]|bA bookish adventure from medieval manuscripts 
       to the digital age.|cDennis Duncan. 
260    |c2022. 
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520    A New York Times Editors' Choice Book  Named a Most 
       Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub and Goodreads    
       A playful history of the humble index and its outsized 
       effect on our reading lives.    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. 
533    Electronic reproduction.|bNew York :|cW. W. Norton & 
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