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The storied city : the quest for Timbuktu and the fantastic mission to save its past / by English, Charlie,author.(CARDINAL)559859;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable. --

Subjects: Manuscripts, Arabic; Libraries; Islamic learning and scholarship; Cultural property;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / by Hammer, Joshua,1957-author.(CARDINAL)657207;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of desctuction at the hands of Al Quaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.

Subjects: Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."; Cultural property; Islamic learning and scholarship; Learning and scholarship; Librarians; Libraries; Libraries; Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / by Hammer, Joshua,1957-author.(CARDINAL)657207;

Subjects: Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."; Libraries; Manuscripts, Arabic; Cultural property; Islamic learning and scholarship; Librarians;

Available copies: 45 / Total copies: 49

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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu [sound recording] : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / by Hammer, Joshua,1957-,author.; Boehmer, Paul,narrator.;

Read by Paul Boehmer.To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean s Eleven.

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Libraries; Manuscripts, Arabic; Cultural property; Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."; Islamic learning and scholarship; Librarians;

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6

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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu [large print] : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / by Hammer, Joshua,1957-author.(CARDINAL)657207;

Led by mild-mannered archivist and historian Abdel Kader Haidara, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven to save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from destruction by Al Qaeda.

Subjects: Large print books.; Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."; Libraries; Manuscripts, Arabic; Cultural property; Islamic learning and scholarship; Librarians;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6

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The beginnings of Western science : the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 / by Lindberg, David C.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-440) and index."This landmark book represents the first attempt in two decades to survey the science of the ancient world, the first attempt in four decades to write a comprehensive history of medieval science, and the first attempt ever to present a full, unified account of both ancient and medieval science in a single volume. In The Beginnings of Western Science, David C. Lindberg provides a rich chronicle of the development of scientific ideas, practices, and institutions from the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers to the late-medieval scholastics. Lindberg surveys all the most important themes in the history of ancient and medieval science, including developments in cosmology, astronomy, mechanics, optics, alchemy, natural history, and medicine. He synthesizes a wealth of information in superbly organized, clearly written chapters designed to serve students, scholars, and nonspecialists alike. In addition, Lindberg offers an illuminating account of the transmission of Greek science to medieval Islam and subsequently to medieval Europe. And throughout the book he pays close attention to the cultural and institutional contexts within which scientific knowledge was created and disseminated and to the ways in which the content and practice of science were influenced by interaction with philosophy and religion. Carefully selected maps, drawings, and photographs complement the text. Lindberg's story rests on a large body of important scholarship produced by historians of science, philosophy, and religion over the past few decades. However, Lindberg does not hesitate to offer new interpretations and to hazard fresh judgments aimed at resolving long-standing historical disputes. Addressed to the general educated reader as well as to students, his book will also appeal to any scholar whose interests touch on the history of the scientific enterprise."--Amazon.com viewed Nov. 3, 2022.

Subjects: Science, Ancient; Science, Medieval;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The study : the inner life of Renaissance libraries / by Hui, Andrew,1980-author;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I. Bibliophilia -- Antiquity Face to Face -- Invention of the Studiolo -- Bookishness and Sanctity -- How to Build a Library with Montaigne -- Part II. Bibliomania -- Ark, Abyss, Abundance -- The World as Text in Don Quixote -- The Tempest as Wunderkammer -- Faustus in His Study -- Epilogue: The Wordless Library."A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance library. With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo-a "little studio"-and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy and a poison for the soul. Blending fresh, insightful readings of literary and visual works with engaging accounts of his life as an insatiable bookworm, Hui traces how humanists from Petrarch to Machiavelli to Montaigne created their own intimate studies. He looks at imaginary libraries in Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Marlowe, and discusses how Renaissance painters depicted the Virgin Mary and St. Jerome as saintly bibliophiles. Yet writers of the period also saw a dark side to solitary reading. It drove Don Quixote to madness, Prospero to exile, and Faustus to perdition. Hui draws parallels with our own age of information surplus and charts the studiolo's influence on bibliographic fabulists like Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco.Beautifully illustrated, The Study is at once a celebration of bibliophilia and a critique of bibliomania. Incorporating perspectives on Islamic, Mughal, and Chinese book cultures, it offers a timely and eloquent meditation on the ways we read and misread today"--"With the advent of the printing press in Europe, the possibility of assembling a personal library became more and more attainable for the cultural elite. In this book, Andrew Hui traces the historical development of the Renaissance studiolo, a personal study and library, from Petrarch to Montaigne, considering literary representations of the studiolo in Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Marlowe as well as its presence in the visual arts. He explores the ways in which Renaissance writers and scholars engaged with these personal libraries, both real and imaginary, as places for research and refuge, and the impact of their legacy on writers of our own age, such as Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. Hui is interested in how these workspaces shaped the interior lives of their occupants, and how the bookish sanctuary they offered was cast as both a remedy and a poison for the soul. Painters of the period, for example, depicted such Biblical figures as the Virgin Mary and St. Jerome in studies surrounded by books, and some writers extolled the studiolo as a space for salutary self-reflection. But other writers suggested that too much time spent reading and amassing books could lead to bibliomania: it drove Don Quixote to madness, Faustus to perdition, Prospero to exile. Individual chapters focus on the invention of the studiolo as seen through Federico da Montefeltro's Gubbio Studiolo and Raphael's School of Athens; Rabelais's parodies of erudition and classification; the transformation of private study into self-conscious spectacle in The Tempest; and more. While primarily drawing on works from Renaissance Europe, the chapters range across time and geography, incorporating a more global and comparative approach by drawing on texts from the classical tradition of China. Throughout the book, Hui weaves in accounts of his own life with books and libraries, arguing that to study the history of reading, scholars must also become aware of their own history of readings"--

Subjects: Bibliophilia; Private libraries; Humanists; Private libraries; Books and reading; Learning and scholarship; Bibliomania;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3

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