The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First CenturyA history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today Why do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Nicholas Dames embarks on a literary journey spanning two millennia, revealing how an ancient editorial technique became a universally recognized component of narrative art and a means to register the sensation of time. Dames begins with the textual compilations of the Roman world, where chapters evolved as a tool to

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Featuring work by Iman Mersal (Egypt)

The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful

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meant finding the courage to protect it

a notion of sovereignty as power over "life" is implicit

and the place of the individual within it

Misquoting Muhammad takes the reader back in time through Islamic civilization and traces how and why such controversies developed

searching mind to the writers she admires

John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems

To many people around the globe

” the central essay of this small but dense book