The Book Jacket Art of Chip Kidd. 1 minute read. By TIME. October 24, 2008 12:00 AM EDT. F or over two decades, Chip Kidd has been crafting memorable bookjackets forAmerica’s best writers.

For the past 25 years, Chip Kidd has made a name for himself as a top book designer. His designs have helped transform books into visual icons. But in the brave new world of e-books, where covers ...

Chip Kidd doesn't judge a book by its cover; he creates covers that embody the books — and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. Kidd showcases the art and deep thought of his cover designs ...

Produced at amazing speed in the years after the Conquest, the Domesday Book provides a vivid picture of late 11th-century England. Find out how it was compiled, and what it reveals about life in ...

The Little Domesday Book likely was an earlier draft, containing detailed information gathered from the Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex regions, which for some reason were not included in the GDB.

However, it was never finished and the returns for East Anglia remain in draft form in a second volume known as Little Domesday. Together, these tomes consist of 900 pages, two million words ...

The Domesday Book was compiled on the orders of William I, who became England’s king when he defeated the Saxon king, Harold, at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. In 1085, he ordered a survey to ...

The Domesday survey and Domesday Book have generally been seen as the culmination of the Norman Conquest, and show the results of a great investigation, commissioned by William the Conqueror, of ...