In Praise of Good BookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutschthe director of Chicagos Seminary Co op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the worldpays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. He considers how qualities like space, time, abundance, and community find expression in a good bookstore. Along the way, he also predictsperhaps

the visionary thinker Rene Girard identified the constant

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giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency

told through pivotal events and family history

You learn how ungentle mourning can be

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money is being re-placed by tokens

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and gives people access to the resources they need