Dennis Duncan’s entertaining and informative “Index, A History of the” moves from the 13th-century origins of the form to the world of digital search engines. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

Host Scott Tong speaks with Dennis Duncan, author of "Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age." The new book explores the development of those things ...

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In 1966, William F. Buckley published a memoir about his quixotic run for mayor of New York the previous year. Among the people to whom he gave the book as a gift was his sometimes friendly, sometimes ...

When and how and why did we come up with the idea of an index? Dennis Duncan will be here to talk about his book “Index, A History of the.” What happens when a violinist’s recently discovered ...

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On Morningstar's The Long View podcast, Robin Wigglesworth discussed his new book that examines the remarkable history of indexing, Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index ...