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Shelf Life: How Books Have Changed the Destinies and Desires of People and Nations
Shelf Life How Books Have Changed the Destinies and Desires of People and Nations
Author: George Grant, Karen B. Grant
WELLNESS OF BEAUTY AND  TRUTH — "Books are the wise man's passport to success and greatness. — Books are the thresholds to wonder, the gateways to enlightenment, — the foundations of virtue, and the pediment of honor." —             &nb...  more »

It is no secret that reading plays a different role in most peoples lives today than it did  for previous generations. In all too any instances reading is merely a diversion -- something done in order to fall asleep or kill time on a plane rather than a means of expanding one's horizons.

To George and Karen Grant, however, reading is a vital part of living. Readers are quite happily a breed apart," they write, "not that they are elitists, snobs, or ivory tower parvenus, It's just that over the course of their lives they have developed a taste for quiet reflection and substantive expression." Thus, the Grants have created Shelf Life as a celebration of the civilized culture that grows up around the printed word. "

Shelf Life explores this culture of books and the enormous impact reading has had--and indeed continues to have--on the lives of people, the course of nations, and the enrichment of life.
ISBN-13: 9781581820430
ISBN-10: 1581820437
Publication Date: 1999
Pages: 221
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Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
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