TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pollard,Justin
AU  - Reid,Howard
TI  - The rise and fall of Alexandria: birthplace of the modern world 
SN  - 0143112511 (pbk.) :
AV  - 513 DT 154 P771r 2007
U1  - 932 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Prime ministers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Alexandria (Egypt)
KW  - History
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - 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
ER  -