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	Book Burning
		In a symbolic act of ominous significance, on May 10 the students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of “un-German” books, presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture.
		At the meeting places, students threw the pillaged and unwanted books into the bonfires with great joyous ceremony, band-playing, songs, “fire oaths,” and incantations.
		The works of leading German writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Alfred Kerr were consigned to flames in a book burning ceremony in Berlin.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005852 (596 words)

	AbeBooks: 75th Anniversary of the Nazi Book Burnings
		Burning a book is a symbolic act — words are not just being suppressed, they are being destroyed by fire.
		Rebecca Knuth — a professor at the University of Hawaii — author of Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction and Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century.
		His 1908 novel The Iron Heel depicts the rise of fascism in the USA with a socialist hero, and was one of three of his books to be burned.
	www.abebooks.com /docs/Community/Featured/book-burning.shtml (939 words)

	Islam Watch - "Book Burning: The Nazis, the Clergies and the Ayatollahs" by Jahanshah Rashidian
		Book Burning: The Nazis, the Clergies and the Ayatollahs
		Book was branded as magic and treasonous, and the writer or reader was punishable by torture or death.
		Burning books just like the first Christians did in New Testament is a great way to say "no" to Satan and "yes" to Jesus.
	www.islam-watch.org /Jahanshah/Book-Burning-Nazis-Clergies-Ayatollahs.htm (2899 words)

	Book-Burning and Censorship
		When the British burned the US Capitol in 1814, the entire Library of Congress collection was lost; it was rebuilt a year later from the personal library of Freethinker Thomas Jefferson.
		The largest single act of book burning in modern history took place on 25 August 1992, when the Oriental Institute (Orijentalni institut) in Sarajevo was attacked by Serb nationalist forces, who immolated the National and University Library of Bosnia, destroying a priceless collection of 5,263 bound manuscripts and hundreds of thousands of Ottoman documents.
		Some book burnings, like the burning of the Talmud, were not so solely aimed at stamping out ideas but for a more nefarious purpose: suppressing a culture.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0510almanac.htm (680 words)

	Rejection of Pascal's Wager: Title
		The book is both the symbol and the main conveyor of rational thinking.
		Book burning is rooted in the Christian pysche.
		Due to all this hatred of secular books, for a period of more than one thousand years, from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, there was not a single library in Christian Europe that had more than 10,000 books.
	www.geocities.com /paulntobin/bookburn.html (993 words)

	Art Winslow: The New Book Burning - Media on The Huffington Post
		Book editor David Ulin concedes that the Sunday book review has "shrunk," but the addition of Web-based columns and coverage both on the Web and in weekday editions of the paper are intended to compensate for that shrinkage.
		At the San Francisco Chronicle, which folded its book section in with other pages in 2001 only to restore it as a freestanding section after reader outcry, editor Oscar Villalon is left with a four-page broadsheet rather than the six pages his section once had, with the average number of weekly reviews down by one-third.
		By choking off such discussion of books (rumored to have ideas associated with them) we impoverish the public weal and help ensure that they are shipped back to their point of origin after the very briefest of shelf lives.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /art-winslow/the-new-book-burning_b_46820.html (1069 words)

	Book Burning (Iran Press Service)
		Like the Nazis, Islamic Republic of Iran's book burning and censorship are aimed at stamping out ideas of freedom and also a more nefarious purpose in a line with the early Muslim invaders: suppressing Persian ancient culture and civilisation.
		Today, the heritage of the Nazi's and early Muslims' book burning became the political Islam with its shocking results in the last three decades in the Islamic world, especially in Iran and Afghanistan.
		So as the 75 anniversary of book burning passes and the event is condemned worldwide, ‎other forms of book-burning flourish.
	www.iran-press-service.com /ips/articles-2008/may2008/book-burning.shtml (1393 words)

	The Anniversary of Book Burning (ROOZ :: English)
		Recently we passed the 75 anniversary of Nazi book burning and on the occasion, a ‎ceremony was held in Berlin, among other German cities.
		What is even more frightening is that the public book burnings in ‎the film were only part of the bigger picture and events that took place outside the public ‎view.
		Book burners ‎know that they have nothing to say and his fear drives him to book burning.
	www.roozonline.com /english/archives/2008/05/the_anniversary_of_book_burnin.html (606 words)

	Book Burning Censorship and Beyond
		Book burning is used just as much for its symbolism as it is for practical purposes.
		-In modern times, book burning is not as effective as it once was due to the fact that you can burn thousands of copies of one book and there would still be many more left.
		Book burning is used as more of a gesture of protest to shock people rather than a real meathod of destroying a book completely.
	members.tripod.com /book_burning (140 words)

	Book Burning
		The American Library Association, which tracks challenges to controversial books in the United States, said book burnings are relatively rare partly because local authorities seldom grant legal permits for such fiery spectacles.
		But book burnings are really very extreme." She also noted that the wildly popular Harry Potter series has attracted more formal challenges in public school libraries than any other book or book collection for two straight years.
		The church modeled the book burning on a biblical passage from the New Testament's Book of Acts, which describes how former practitioners of magic burned their books in public.
	www.scaryplace.com /BookBurning.html (546 words)

	Ockham's Razor - 04/07/1999: Book Burning and the Reflex
		When the burning of this one anthology failed to quell the opposition of the Confucian scholars, Sheh Huang-ti burned all their books, with the exception of those with a utilitarian use such as medicine, agriculture and of course, those related to the pursuit of everlasting life.
		The largest mass burning of books of that era was at the famous library in Alexandria which was destroyed in the civil war that occurred during the reign of Aurelian in the 3rd century AD.
		In the last decade the most publicised book burnings have been instigated by the anti-gay clergyman John Birmingham of Kansas City, who burned books donated by the gay community to high school libraries in the hope of countering anti-gay attitudes.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ockham/stories/s32651.htm (1621 words)

	Book Burning for Booksellers - Shop Tested Procedures for Successful Book Ignition (Page 1 of 2)
		To some this was a sacred act, symbolizing the divine rejection of a sinister, albeit mushrooming educational movement that some have argued gave birth to and bred the "me" generation with its pro-choice, hedonistic approach to morality.
		In my opinion, there is one kind of book burning that is laudable, and only one narrowly defined group of citizens should be licensed (and insured) to do it - booksellers.
		Sure, donate some of your better bad books to your local thrift shop, have a garage sale to get rid of more, and so on, but once you've distilled your inventory into the very quintessence of bibliographic slag, face it; the best thing to do is throw a book-burning party.
	www.bookthink.com /0030/30bur.htm (567 words)

	ALA \| Book Burning
		In light of the historical actions of the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country in response to the Nazi book burnings, we are proud to share news of an exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Exhibit Information.
		Book Burning in circa 200 B.C.E. Book Burning in the 16th Century
		Farrer, James Anson, 1849-1925, Books condemned to be burnt.
	www.ala.org /ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bookburning/bookburning.cfm (520 words)

	Book Burning
		In her previous book, Libricide, Rebecca Knuth focused on book destruction by authoritarian regimes: Nazis, Serbs in Bosnia, Iraqis in Kuwait, Maoists during the Cultural Revolution in China, and the Chinese Communists in Tibet.
		Burning Books and Leveling Libraries is structured in three parts.
		The book concludes with a discussion of the events in Iraq in 2003, and the responsibility of American war strategists for the widespread pillaging that ensued after the toppling of Saddam Hussein.
	www.hss.ed.ac.uk /chb/BookBurning.htm (334 words)

	Pillaging and Book-Burning
		The most famous clerical proponent of burning symbols of earthly vanity or pride was Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), who preached in Florence against worldliness and organized "bonfires of the vanities" in which men and women hurled their most costly clothing and jewels and other precious objects on the fire.
		The effect of burning only one volume, or even all the authorities could get their hands on, would be far more effective as a weapon against manuscript books because of the enormous labor needed to reproduce them and their consequent scarcity.
		By buying and burning the printers' stocks of printed books, the English agents of the anti-Reformation clergy were actually good for business, and the printers turned their profits from the burned books into still more editions of the same books.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng211/pillaging_and_bookburning.htm (531 words)

	Book Burning - Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead
		Today, the heritage of the Nazi’s and early Muslims’; book burning became the political Islam with its shoking results in the last three decades in the Islamic world, especially in Iran and Afghanistan.
		Contrary to the Nazis in 1933, today, IRI’s book burning and censorship are not so solely aimed at stamping out ideas of freedom but for a more nefarious purpose and in a line with the early Muslim invaders: suppressing Persian ancient culture.
		Books have traditionally been the most reliable and enduring repositories of knowledge of whatever type.
	www.mideastyouth.com /2008/05/10/book-burning (2277 words)

	She-Ra: Princess of Power: Book Burning - TV.com
		Just then, Northland is invaded by the Horde themselves, who steal all the school's books for a book burning ceremony, with the intention of replacing them with books depicting the Horde as the rightful rulers of Etheria.
		As books are burned in the town square, and the Horde do all they can to ensure the schools teach pro-Horde views, She-Ra must do all she can to stop them, before the Horde's propaganda can corrupt the minds of the children.
		The book burning ceremonies and spread of pro-Horde propaganda is clearly inspired by the real-life activities of the Nazis in Germany.
	www.tv.com /she-ra-princess-of-power/book-burning/episode/156565/summary.html (496 words)

	Burning of the Marriage Hat -- Home Page -- Burning of the Marriage Hat by Margaret Benshoof-Holler ISBN 0971447322
		Burning of the Marriage Hat, a fiction book, is based on my experience of coming of age and giving a child up for adoption in Wyoming during the 1960s.
		Burning of the Marriage Hat is a story about a middle-class family in a small town in Wyoming and the coming of age of a young woman during the post-McCarthy era of the 1960s.
		Burning of the Marriage Hat goes deep to the root of the land, the people and family, and the narrator's own sense of unresolved issues.
	www.burningofthemarriagehat.com /welcome.html (2380 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| 'Satanic' Harry Potter books burnt
		A bonfire of Harry Potter books have been burnt on a bonfire in New Mexico, by people accusing the fictional boy wizard of being the devil.
		The theme of the books - in which Potter attends a wizard's school and battles beasts and other wizards - has been attacked by some for attracting children to dark magic.
		The anti-Potter sermon was followed by the night-time book burning, which Pastor Brock said was part of a drive for Christians to get rid of items that prevent them from communicating with God.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1735623.stm (455 words)

	NoGodBlog.com - 21st Century Book Burning
		While burning a book may have made some sense as a way to attempt the spread of certain information in the past it isn't even logical today.
		I went through my collection and donated most books, including many gay and freethinking themed books, to the local public library before moving to NC becasue they are a pain in the arse to move.
		Speaking of burning bibles and flags, I am annoyed at the hypocrisy of staunch Christian politicians trying to ban the burning of the United States flag while in this same country it is perfectly legal to burn a bible.
	www.atheists.org /nogodblog/index.php/2006/06/27/21st_century_book_burning (5811 words)

	Burning Chrome by William Gibson
		Burning Chrome is a collection of ten Gibson's short stories, ranging from conventional science fiction to cyberpunk novellas of the 'Sprawl'-series.
		With their vividly human characters and their remorseless, hot-wired futures, these stories are simultaneously science fiction at its sharpest and instantly recognizable Polaroids of the postmodern condition.
		The stories in Burning Chrome were published in various magazines and two were published in the Mirrorshades anthology edited by Bruce Sterling.
	project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/burningchrome.html (292 words)

	Newsvine - book-burning
		Book burning in Minot, North Dakota - teens burn books, CDs, and magazines of their own free will.
		I repeat: They are not burning books to prevent people from reading them.
		From the page: -- The ceremonial burning of the diary of Holocaust victim Anne Frank by far-right extremists in eastern Germany was condemned by the German government on Friday amid calls to intensify efforts to stamp out neo-Nazi activity.
	www.newsvine.com /book-burning (255 words)

	U.S. Senate: Reference Home > The Burning of Washington
		Unable to be saved was the collection of 3,000 books that comprised the congressional library, at the time housed in a lofty room in the north wing of the Capitol.
		The library was later re-established with the purchase of Thomas Jefferson’s private book collection, which eventually became the Library of Congress.
		Many of the books listed on senate.gov can be found at your local public library or a government depository library, or can be purchased on the Web or from a bookstore.
	www.senate.gov /reference/reference_item/Burning.htm (518 words)

	Book burning: Encyclopedia II - Book burning - Notable book burning incidents
		One of the largest destruction of books occured at the Library of Alexandria, traditionally held to be in 640, however the precise years are unknown as are whether the fires were intentional or accidental.
		After every braille book at the institute that could be found was burned, supporters of the code's inventor, Louis Braille, rebelled against Dufau by continuing to use the code, and braille was eventually restored at the school.
		In May 1981 Sinhalese police officers on rampage burned the public library of Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka; a huge library collection, which was the second largest library in Asia, was destroyed: 97,000 books and very rare collection of ancient palm leaf volumes were among them [5].
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Book_burning_-_Notable_book_burning_incidents/id/618707 (1520 words)

	Banned Books Online
		E for Ecstasy, a book on the drug MDMA, was seized by Australian customs in 1994, and at last check (May 2000), the official ban on the book was still in force in that country.
		In 1988, after the book had fallen from favor enough to have dropped out of print, the publishers issued a new edition that removed nearly all references to race from the book (and cut out a plotline involving Prince Bumpo's desire to become white).
		To see a list of books have been the targets of recent school censorship attempts in the United States see this list of Challenged and Banned Books of 2004 from the American Library Association.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /books/banned-books.html (4458 words)

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