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Alberto Manguel's The History of Reading was an international best retailer translated into 34 languages and that Manguel received the Medicis Prize. Fourteen years later Manguel anchors his new reserve in the primal interconnection between reading and interest. Tracing 25 decades of human history, from the fourth hundred years BC for this day, Manguel dedicates each of his chapters to a single character - ranging from our best-known thinkers, experts, and artists to seemingly trivial characters of whom we realize bit more than one encouraged utterance - in whom he recognizes a particular way of requesting the question "why?" Most importantly he aims to "awake in viewers a awareness of their own capabilities of enquiry and creativity, of their to question and contest assumed answers, and of their responsibility in furthering the questions our ancestors were requesting a long way away and long earlier".