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Future of The Past hard cover - $2 (Upper East Side)
East 84th near Second and Third
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The Future of The Past hard cover with dust cover by Alexander Stille
* 341 pages
“A fascinating tour of the past as it exists today, and of dangers that threaten it, through incisive portraits of our attempts to maintain it: high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and Ganges; efforts to preserve Latin within the Vatican; digital glut inside the National Archives, which may have caused more information to be lost than ever before; and oral culture threatened by new technology:writing itself. Stille explores not simply the past, but our ideas about the past―and how they will have to change if our past is to have a future.