{"product_id":"the-future-of-the-past-alexander-stille-9780312420949","title":"The Future of the Past","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fascinating tour of the past as it exists today, and of the dangers that threaten it, through incisive portraits of our attempts to maintain it: the high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and the Ganges; the efforts to preserve Latin within the Vatican; the digital glut inside the National Archives, which may have caused more information to be lost than ever before; and an oral culture threatened by a \"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander Stille\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0312420943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312420949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/27\/2003 pg. 28","brand":"Alexander Stille","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44201692397823,"sku":"9780312420949","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7508778f-9394-434a-a6d6-20f3bf285ece.jpg?v=1691490852","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-future-of-the-past-alexander-stille-9780312420949","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}