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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): 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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Libro 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
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513 DT 143 C136 2000 The Cairo heritage : essays in honor of Laila Ali Ibrahim / 513 DT 148 R268c 2000 Cairo : city of history / 513 DT 148 R268c 2007 Cairo : city of history / 513 DT 154 P771r 2007 The rise and fall of Alexandria : birthplace of the modern world / 513 DT 159.6 N962 2005 Nubian ceremonial life : studies in Islamic syncretism and cultural change / 513 DT 45 E32 2008 Egypte / 513 DT 46 C436t 1996 Todo Egipto /

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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