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Written from the perspective of a librarian, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the impact of e-books on academic libraries. The author discusses advantages to both researchers and librarians and provides current examples of innovative uses of e-books in academic contexts. This book reviews the current situation in e-book publishing, and describes problems in managing e-books in libraries caused by the variety of purchase models and varying formats available, and the lack of standardisation. It discusses solutions for providing access and maintaining bibliographic control, looks at v

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Marking the tercentenary of David Hume's birth, Annette Baier has created an engaging guide to the philosophy of one of the greatest thinkers of Enlightenment Britain. Drawing deeply on a lifetime of scholarship and incisive commentary, she deftly weaves Hume's autobiography together with his writings and correspondence, finding in these personal experiences new ways to illuminate his ideas about religion, human nature, and the social order.Excerpts from Hume's autobiography at the beginning of each chapter open a window onto the eighteenth-century context in which Hume's philosophy developed. Famous in Christian Britain as a polymath and a nonbeliever, Hume recounts how his early encounters with clerical authority laid the foundation for his lifelong skepticism toward religion. In Scotland, where he grew up, he had been forced to study lists of sins in order to spot his own childish flaws, he reports. Later, as a young man, he witnessed the clergy's punishment of a pregnant unmarried servant, and this led him to question the violent consequences of the Church's emphasis on the doctrine of original sin. Baier's clear interpretation of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature explains the link between Hume's growing disillusionment and his belief that ethics should be based on investigations of human nature, not on religious dogma.Four months before he died, Hume concluded his autobiography with a eulogy he wrote for his own funeral. It makes no mention of his flaws, critics, or disappointments. Baier's more realistic account rivets our attention on connections between the way Hume lived and the way he thought-insights unavailable to Hume himself, perhaps, despite his lifelong introspection.

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This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories. This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African influences on East Germany (and vice versa), the volume sheds light on personal and institutional agency, cultural cross-fertilization, migration, development, and solidarity.

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Fahrenheit 4.0 caractérise la fusion du monde virtuel et du monde réel. C?est également la ± température à laquelle le livre papier disparaît au profi t du tout-numérique. À partir du temps de lecture d?un livre sur une liseuse, les algorithmes prédisent la rentrée littéraire. Les entreprises de commerce électronique envoient désormais des livres avant même que nous les ayons commandés. Seule une politique de terre brûlée peut tuer dans l?œuf cette révolution. Aussi, je décide symboliquement de brûler les livres de ma bibliothèque, tous ces livres de ± référence qui bombent dans leur reliure. Mais comme chacun sait, au jour des Cendres débute le Carême, pé- riode de quarante jours qui se termine par la Passion et la Résurrection. Ce jour est marqué par une célébration au cours de laquelle je décide de chanter les louanges de la lecture sous toutes ses formes. C?est l?objet de ce livre. Rien de plus normal : au commencement était le Verbe ! ± Qu?est-ce qui justifi e cet optimisme béat de tous ces lettrés versificateurs ? Sans doute l?interdiction de l?euthanasie poétique encourage l?acharnement thérapeutique. Conclusion, il faut cesser d?alimenter Houellebecq. Mais il est sans doute déjà trop tard, d?Ormesson est entré dans la Pléiade, et Beckett n?y est pas encore. ± Un homme sur cinq fait semblant de lire en public pour attirer l?attention et un quart des hommes posent volontairement de façon visible le livre dont ils ont parlé pour attirer leurs conquêtes dans leur lit. [?] À l?inverse, l?arrière d?un Kindle n?a vraiment rien de sexy ! Je vous conseille sans fausse pudeur la chronique familiale Ada ou l?ardeur de Nabokov, dans une version plus charnelle, en papier. ± J?ai fait mes humanités en couchant avec la marquise de Merteuil et en fantasmant sur Ada de Nabokov. Animateur d'une rubrique littéraire au Finyear magazine, l'auteur propose ici un essai mêlant considérations littéraires, analyse de la chaîne du livre, constat du remplacement progressif du livre papier par le livre numérique et louanges de la lecture. ©Electre 2016

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