Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers Suclass Code_0QK and how challenging it can

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” Drawn from the wondrous tales told to Kipling as a child by his Indian nurses

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or human rights could jeopardize the global economic equilibrium—or provoke a catastrophic “hot war” that neither country wants

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Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers Suclass Code_0QK and how challenging it canPortable Magic unfurls an exciting and iconoclastic new story of the book in human hands, exploring when, why and how it acquired its particular hold over us. Gathering together a millennium's worth of pivotal encounters with volumes big and small, Smith reveals that, as much as their contents, it is books' physical form their 'bookhood' that lends them their distinctive and sometimes dangerous magic. From the Diamond Sutra to Jilly Cooper's Riders,