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The rise and fall of Alexandria : birthplace of the modern world / Justin Pollard and Howard Reid..

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2007.Description: 329 p. : map ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0143112511 (pbk.) :
  • 9780143112518
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 932
LOC classification:
  • 513 DT 154 P771r 2007
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 513 DT 154 P771r 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000072639

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.

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