SOCIETY Knowing What We Know: The Transmission Of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom To Modern Magic Simon Winchester William Collins, $34.99. Simon Winchester is a one-person encyclopaedia. His books ...

Installation view of Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg, Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (all photos David S. Rubin ...

Selena Wisnom walks the shelves of King Ashurbanipal’s library, revealing what the books tell us about the ideas circulating in 7th-century BC Mesopotamia ...