01645cam a2200361Ia 4500 79215 20230410103934.0 070911r20072006nyub b 001 0 eng d (OCoLC)ocn170956065 YDXCP YDXCP BAKER BKL OCL KEC 0143112511 (pbk.) : $16.00 9780143112518 (OCoLC)170956065 513 DT 154 P771r 2007 932 GRAL Pollard, Justin, 1968- The rise and fall of Alexandria : birthplace of the modern world / Justin Pollard and Howard Reid.. New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2007. 329 p. : map ; 22 cm. Originally published: Viking, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-315) and index. Flour and sand -- Stealing a god -- Egypt reborn -- The legacy of Aristotle -- City of the mind -- Greek pharaohs -- The music of the spheres -- The little O -- The "Eureka" factor -- A Greek tragedy -- The last pharaoh -- The clockwork city -- Urbi et orbi -- Dawn of the iconoclasts -- Into the soft machine -- The ascendancy of faith -- The end of reason -- Hypatia -- The shipwreck of time -- Epilogue: A distant shore. Prime ministers Great Britain Biography. Alexandria (Egypt) History. Alexandria (Egypt) Intellectual life. Reid, Howard. YBP Library Services YANK 2601652 Baker & Taylor BKTY 16.00 12.00 0143112511 0007189604 active lcc bk C0 DRFGD JCM 28827 28827 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-10 1 0 513 DT 154 P771r 2007 00000072639 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk