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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: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2007.Description: 329 p. : map ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0143112511 (pbk.) :
  • 9780143112518
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DT154.A4 P65 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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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks DT154.A4P65 2007 1 Available 33710001259154

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.