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049 _aGRAL
100 1 _aPollard, Justin,
_d1968-
245 1 4 _aThe rise and fall of Alexandria :
_bbirthplace of the modern world /
_cJustin Pollard and Howard Reid..
260 _aNew York, NY :
_bPenguin Books,
_c2007.
300 _a329 p. :
_bmap ;
_c22 cm.
500 _aOriginally published: Viking, 2006.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-315) and index.
505 0 _aFlour 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.
650 0 _aPrime ministers
_zGreat Britain
_vBiography.
651 0 _aAlexandria (Egypt)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aAlexandria (Egypt)
_xIntellectual life.
700 1 _aReid, Howard.
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