© 2012 ParisRevu The Bibliothèque des Amis d’Instruction (Library of the Friends of Education) was a workers’ self-help library founded in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris in 1861 by a group of artisans led by the lithographer Giraud. It claims…
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Anthem Library of the Month | SOCIETA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA
© 2011 Congresso della Società Italiana di BIOGEOGRAFIA Much as I like large libraries and their never ending collections, I also have a passion for (relatively) small places. It started in the corridors of the British Institute of Florence and…
Anthem Library of the Month | CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND DOCUMENTATION IN MUMBAI
The Centre for Education and Documentation in Mumbai was founded sometime in the late 1970s, amid a host of solicitors’ offices in an inconspicuous side street behind Regal Cinema. For a graduate student in the late 1980s looking for information…
Anthem Book Spotlight | EUROPE’S UNFINISHED CURRENCY
October was a busy month for our author, Dr Thomas Mayer. His book, ‘Europe’s Unfinished Currency,’ was published at the beginning of the month and in order to promote and celebrate the release, Dr Mayer participated in a book tour…
Anthem Library of the Month | NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY
© 2012 New York Society Library People who are melodramatic about the decline of the physical book often see booklovers as having to retreat to redoubts, sanctuaries, like people of learning retiring to monasteries in late antiquity. Things may not…
Anthem Book Spotlight | HORROR AND THE HORROR FILM
During the recent Halloween season, our new book, Horror and the Horror Film by Bruce F. Kawin, was featured as a giveaway prize in several horror festivals around the U.S. Both the RI International Horror Film Festival and Knoxville Horror…
Anthem Library of the Month | BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPANA
© 2012 Alquibla The Biblioteca Nacional de España, opposite the Recoletos underground station in Madrid, was created and opened to the public by Philip V in 1712, and is thus celebrating its tercentenary in 2012. It became a national library…
Anthem Library of the Month | BIBLIOTHECA ZI-KA-WEI
If you want to escape the remorseless development and frenetic pace of modern Shanghai and re-discover that colonial pre-1949 period when the city was an International Settlement run by foreigners with their own police force, soldiers and gunboats then, hidden…
Anthem Library of the Month | STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA
© 2009 Kelly Makepeace “During a recent trip to Melbourne, I found the State Library of Victoria a beautiful architectural environment in which to work. The Library is a lively focal point in the city for students, workers and visitors and…
The Importance of Reading Classics
Classics. They seem to be eternal. We all have read them. We all want to read more. Anthem Press will be launching its own series of Classics in 2012. Watch this space! In the meantime, here are some takes on…