A 14th Century Jewish religious book, preserved by experts from the University of Manchester's John Rylands Library, is to go on show in New York.
"Child Star" charts Shirley Temple's triumph over experiences that almost seem to have been conspiring to make her interesting — but the book preserves them so perfectly, and offers such a trove of loot, that children will read it in a state of Ali Baba greed.
When trying to reconstruct the philosophy of Heraclitus, for example, modern scholars rely above all on the actual quotations from Heraclitus' book preserved in later authors.
The book preserved and made available many works that had previously existed only in privately held manuscripts.
Anthony C. Wood New York, Sept. 1, 2008 The writer, the founder and chairman of the New York Preservation Archive Project, is the author of a book about preserving New York.
A book (as opposed to an e-book) preserves the ideas therein in the form of an artifact, which has intrinsic value as a physical object.
The workshop concludes with the publication of a book that preserves and celebrates the veterans' writing.
It was, as the agency historian Richard Sellars writes in his book "Preserving Nature in the National Parks," "a revolutionary change in the understanding of national parks by Service professionals".
As Anthony Wood puts it in his 2007 book "Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City's Landmarks," this was "the crisis needed to dislodge the draft law from the mayor's desk," and the law was signed on April 19.
But Morpurgo, a distinguished British author of children's books, preserves much of the oddness and complexity of the original, and, though his text is in prose, even some of the poetry.
