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A '''book''' is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages bound together and protected by a cover.
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==History==
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When writing systems were created in ancient civilizations, a variety of objects, such as stone, clay, tree bark, metal sheets, and bones, were used for writing.
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In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets were used as a writing medium. Tablets were flattened and mostly dry pieces of clay that could be easily carried, and impressed with a stylus.
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Scrolls were the first form of editable record keeping texts, used in Eastern Mediterranean ancient Egyptian civilizations and by the Israelites among others.
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After that the development of the more recognizable form as a book followed, the codex (plural, codices), which became popular around the 1st century AD. Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 4 April 636) explained the then-current relation between codex, book and scroll in his Etymologiae (VI.13): "A codex is composed of many books; a book is of one scroll. It is called codex by way of metaphor from the trunks (codex) of trees or vines, as if it were a wooden stock, because it contains in itself a multitude of books, as it were of branches."
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Books were largely copied by hand until the invention of the printing press in Europe by [[Johannes Gutenberg]] around 1440.
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The methods used for the printing and binding of books continued fundamentally unchanged from the 15th century into the early [[20th century]]. While there was more mechanization, a book printer in [[1900]] had much in common with Gutenberg.
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==1st editions==
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[[Richard Grove]] highlights the the importance of first editions, since inconvenient facts may be removed in later editions.{{cn}} There exists a story about [[Kurt Gödel]] who compared books written by [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]] to those that were citing him as a source and found that "in a suspicious number of cases, the cited passages do not exist; either the citations refer to a non-existent chapter, to a missing paragraph, or to a page on which the supposed text does not appear, as if the books had been altered after the citations were made".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120305071900/http://theartmovement.info/aldus/aldusblog/?p=20 saved at [https://archive.is/phkL4 Archive.is]</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160401053045/http://jaysanalysis.com/2014/06/10/philosophy-phoenix-arises-to-annihilate-degrasse-tyson/</ref>
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Revision as of 21:29, 20 January 2021

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"We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
Typetechnology

A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages bound together and protected by a cover.

"And Then They Came for the Books..." a video by Truthstream Media

History

When writing systems were created in ancient civilizations, a variety of objects, such as stone, clay, tree bark, metal sheets, and bones, were used for writing.

In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets were used as a writing medium. Tablets were flattened and mostly dry pieces of clay that could be easily carried, and impressed with a stylus.

Scrolls were the first form of editable record keeping texts, used in Eastern Mediterranean ancient Egyptian civilizations and by the Israelites among others.

After that the development of the more recognizable form as a book followed, the codex (plural, codices), which became popular around the 1st century AD. Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 4 April 636) explained the then-current relation between codex, book and scroll in his Etymologiae (VI.13): "A codex is composed of many books; a book is of one scroll. It is called codex by way of metaphor from the trunks (codex) of trees or vines, as if it were a wooden stock, because it contains in itself a multitude of books, as it were of branches."

Books were largely copied by hand until the invention of the printing press in Europe by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440.

The methods used for the printing and binding of books continued fundamentally unchanged from the 15th century into the early 20th century. While there was more mechanization, a book printer in 1900 had much in common with Gutenberg.

1st editions

Richard Grove highlights the the importance of first editions, since inconvenient facts may be removed in later editions.[citation needed] There exists a story about Kurt Gödel who compared books written by Leibniz to those that were citing him as a source and found that "in a suspicious number of cases, the cited passages do not exist; either the citations refer to a non-existent chapter, to a missing paragraph, or to a page on which the supposed text does not appear, as if the books had been altered after the citations were made".[1][2]

References


 

Examples

Page nameDescription
200 Years TogetherAleksandr Solzhenitsyn's work on the relationship between Russians and Jews inside the Russian and Soviet Empires.
America's Secret Establishment
American War MachineA 2014 book by Peter Dale Scott.
Autistic genocide clockThe genocide of people with autism. A part of eugenics.
Britannia Unchained
Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA
Confessions of an Economic Hit ManTestimony about how economies are managed by outside agencies (such as the IMF and the WB) as a form of 'crypto-colonialism'.
Conjuring HitlerFor the average UK/USA citizen schooled and brought up on a diet of a plucky little Island Nation battling against the odds and joined by its US ally just in time to defeat the Evil Empire, it makes very uncomfortable reading indeed. Most will close their minds to its meticulously researched, documented and footnoted contents.
Coup d'etat in slow motionAn in-depth analysis of the events and politics surrounding the assassination of Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme.
Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the InternetAbout freedom in the internet age
Dark Alliance
Defamation FactoryA history of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). It reveals an ugly and unsavory pattern of political intrigue and ideological fanaticism which, over the years, has paved the way for the ADL’s tainted journey to the corridors of power
Document:Afterword to "Who Really Killed Chris Hani?"Courts have decided that freedom of expression trumps all other rights as without it nobody, including the courts, would ever hear of breaches of other rights. So those who have attempted to suppress this book have prevented the world from discovering and prosecuting the criminals, who perpetrated the foul murders. In law we would describe them as accessories after the fact of these killings.
Document:Fifty Years of the Deep StateA detailed overview of the modern US deep state which names names, the most prominent of which, George H. W. Bush, is exposed as the kingpin of the US Deep state and probable a key mover behind the 9/11 plot.
Document:Guilt by AssociationA copiously referenced account of the extent to which Zionist Israeli interests have taken effective control of the US state, their methodology and their responsibility for taking America to war in Iraq in 2003
Document:Northern Ireland Information Service - MisinformationIt is now well established (and has been admitted by the government), that the task of the Information Policy branch of Army headquarters in the early to mid 1970s was disinformation. False stories were spread in order to discredit the IRA as well as other enemies of the Intelligence services, such as Loyalist politicians and the Labour government.
Document:The Shadow FactoryThe workings and scope of the US Military-Intelligence complex focussing particularly on the NSA.
Introduction.
Document:The Spectacle of The False Flag
Document:The Taking Of America, 1-2-3An authoritative description of the JFK assassination and succeeding crimes from the photographic expert advisor to Jim Garrison.
Document:The White Book And The Isratine ProposalThe White Book's Fundamental Historical Solution:Isratine” – a single-state solution for Jews and Palestinians to live in peace. Call it the Federal Republic of the Holy Land.
Encyclopedia of Domestic Assassinations
Escape From Evil
Family Of SecretsA highly creditable expose of the US Deep State in general and the Bush family in particular.
File:1984.pdfGeorge Orwell's classic and prescient 1949 dystopian novel about total surveillance in "Oceania", one of the world's then three warring power blocks.
File:911 The Third Truth v2.pdfDimitri Khalezov's theory about the use of not-so-mini pre-planted nuclear devices to collapse the World Trade Centre towers on 9-11
File:A History of The Marranos.pdf
File:Advance to Barbarism.pdfA look at the allies' calculated bombing of civilian populations. Together with the Nuremberg trials, this suggests the age old maxim that "the most serious war crime is to be on the losing side."
File:America's Secret Establishment.pdf"If I have a magnum opus, this is it."
File:Animal Farm.pdfA famous allegorical novel about the corruption of revolutionaries and subversion of revolutions.
File:Auschwitz - A judge looks at the evidence.pdfA systematic, critical examination of the documents, testimonies, confessions and personal accounts relating to Auschwitz as a center of programmatic extermination by gassing and other means
File:Barack Obama - the Unauthorized Biography.pdfA sharp analysis which clearly showed Obama to be more more than a puppet long before most people had noticed there was only rhetoric behind his promises of "change you can believe in".
File:Ben-Gurions Scandals.pdf
File:Between Two Ages.pdfA 1970 book that had a very clear vision of the Internet along with other technical developments that would today be considered outlandish. Especially weather warfare and society control by electromagnetic means. Some quotes summarized here.
File:Bolshevism From Moses To Lenin.pdfConversations between Adolf Hitler and Dietrich Eckart between 1919 and 1923
File:CIA Search for the Manchurian Candidate.pdf
File:Countergangs1971-76.pdf
File:Did 6 Million Really Die.pdfA witness account of the 1980's Canadian trials of Ernst Zundel in which he was charged with "...disseminating false news" concerning the treatment of Jews by Germany during WWII
File:Final Judgment.pdfOne of the most controvesial books on the JFK assassination - because it very specifically implicates Judaic interests and Israel
File:Germany Must Perish.pdf
File:Gestapo-Chief - The CIA & Heinrich Muller (1998).pdf
File:Heresy in 21st Century France.pdfA book about the status of historical revisionism in early 21st century France, sub-titled "A Case of insubmission to the Holocaust dogma"
File:Hidden History of Zionism.pdf
File:Hidden-No-Longer.pdf
File:Israeli Founding Myths.pdfDescribed by the author as "...the History of a Heresy". It presents evidence-based criticisms of official narratives that remain absolute taboo in the West, most notably on The Holocaust, Zionism, and the Nuremberg Tribunal
File:Jeff Schmidt - Disciplined Minds A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives.pdf
File:Martin Bormann - Nazi In Exile.pdfA deep history of transnational corporate ownership networks originating from the fascist junction of state and economic power in Germany before and during WWII
File:Neonazis and Euromaidan.pdfThe story of events in Ukraine between autumn 2013 and June 2014 from the perspective of the dissenting Russian-speaking culture of the south-east.
File:Not Guilty at Nuremberg.pdfLong suppressed and ignored German defense evidence from the post-WWII Nuremberg trials. A very useful work of reference for those researching Victors' Justice in general and the Nuremberg Tribunals in particular
File:Orwellian Ireland.pdfA collection of articles on the Irish Deep State as it manifests in the power of its Intelligence services, all of which are alleged to be, to a greater or lesser extent, subservient to the UK and US intelligence services
File:Port Arthur Massacre-A Critical Study.pdf
... further results
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