Books

How a Book is Made

• 4 Page are printed in fourths

• Pages are broken into single pages

• Pages are bound together

• Pages are glued into the spine of a cover

Evolution of the Book

• Codex was the first form of a book

• Johannes Gutenbuerg printing press was the first advanced form of a book.

• The Chinese made paper for writing

• The Europeans used a type of wood to make books

• Nicolas Jenson made two types font, one of those being Times New Roman.

• The spines where made in a flat form, which made it easier for books to open; which led to easy damage of the book. This was corrected by the rounded spine, but this cause books to close in on itself.

• Are the magic of books found in its aesthetics or only the words?

The Affect of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Society

• Talks about the experience of a slave

• Written by Harriet Beecher Stow

• It was regarded differently by the North and South of America.

• This grew tensions about slavery, resulting in the Civil War.

• Slavery was then abolished after the Civil War

• Famous quote by Abraham Lincoln “So you are the women that wrote the book that started this war.”

• How powerful are words.

The Jungle

• Talks about the grotesque conditions of the meat industry.