Pollard, Justin,  1968- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: Viking, 2006. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-315) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0143112511 (pbk.) :  $16.00 9780143112518 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Prime ministers--Great Britain--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Alexandria (Egypt)--History.<br/>Alexandria (Egypt)--Intellectual life.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>513 DT 154  / P771r 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>932