The Library of Alexandria

The Library of Alexandria
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780857714381
ISBN-13 : 0857714384
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Library of Alexandria by : Roy MacLeod

The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature and art and artefacts of ancient Egypt. This book demonstrates that Alexandria became - through the contemporary reputation of its library - a point of confluence for Greek, Roman, Jewish and Syrian culture that drew scholars and statesmen from throughout the ancient world. It also explores the histories of Alexander the Great and of Alexandria itself, the greatest city of the ancient world. This new paperback edition offers general readers an accessible introduction to the history of this magnificent yet still mysterious institution from the time of its foundation up to its tragic destruction.

Streets with a Story

Streets with a Story
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 0951187104
ISBN-13 : 9780951187104
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Streets with a Story by : Eric A. Willats

History of the Kuykendall Family

History of the Kuykendall Family
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Publisher : Рипол Классик
Total Pages : 689
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ISBN-10 : 9785872287711
ISBN-13 : 5872287712
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis History of the Kuykendall Family by : George Benson Kuykendall

With Genealogy as Found in Early Dutch Church Records, State and Government Documents, Together with Sketches of Colonial Times, Old Log Cabin Days, Indian Wars, Pioneer Hardships, Social Customs, Dress and Mode of Living of the Early Forefathers

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Total Pages : 173
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ISBN-10 : 9780892361571
ISBN-13 : 0892361573
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal by : The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 17 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, and photographs. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 17 includes articles written by Elisabeth Doumeyrou, Gerhard Gruitrooy, Lee Hendrix, Clark Hulse, David Jaffé, Jean-Nérée Ronfort, and Belinda Rathbone.

Australia, a Cultural History

Australia, a Cultural History
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Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015015352456
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Australia, a Cultural History by : John Rickard

Creating God

Creating God
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 424
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ISBN-10 : 9781526156181
ISBN-13 : 1526156180
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Creating God by : Robin Derricourt

What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread? In this bold new book, award-winning author Robin Derricourt takes us on a journey through the birth and growth of several major religions, using history and archaeology to recreate the times, places and societies that witnessed the rise of significant monotheistic faiths. Beginning with Mormonism and working backwards through Islam, Christianity and Judaism to Zoroastrianism, Creating God opens up the conditions that allowed religious movements to emerge, attract their first followers and grow. Throughout history there have been many prophets: individuals who believed they were in direct contact with the divine, with instructions to spread a religious message. While many disappeared without trace, some gained millions of followers and established a lasting religion. In Creating God, Robin Derricourt has produced a brilliant, panoramic book that offers new insights on the origins of major religions and raises essential questions about why some succeeded where others failed.

Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...

Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 2868
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000133148001
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Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ... by : United States. Superintendent of Documents

Anti-Book

Anti-Book
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 383
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ISBN-10 : 9781452951997
ISBN-13 : 1452951993
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Anti-Book by : Nicholas Thoburn

No, Anti-Book is not a book about books. Not exactly. And yet it is a must for anyone interested in the future of the book. Presenting what he terms “a communism of textual matter,” Nicholas Thoburn explores the encounter between political thought and experimental writing and publishing, shifting the politics of text from an exclusive concern with content and meaning to the media forms and social relations by which text is produced and consumed. Taking a “post-digital” approach in considering a wide array of textual media forms, Thoburn invites us to challenge the commodity form of books—to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce. His critique is, instead, one immersed in the many materialities of text. Anti-Book engages with an array of writing and publishing projects, including Antonin Artaud’s paper gris-gris, Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto, Guy Debord’s sandpaper-bound Mémoires, the collective novelist Wu Ming, and the digital/print hybrid of Mute magazine. Empirically grounded, it is also a major achievement in expressing a political philosophy of writing and publishing, where the materiality of text is interlaced with conceptual production. Each chapter investigates a different form of textual media in concert with a particular concept: the small-press pamphlet as “communist object,” the magazine as “diagrammatic publishing,” political books in the modes of “root” and “rhizome,” the “multiple single” of anonymous authorship, and myth as “unidentified narrative object.” An absorbingly written contribution to contemporary media theory in all its manifestations, Anti-Book will enrich current debates about radical publishing, artists’ books and other new genre and media forms in alternative media, art publishing, media studies, cultural studies, critical theory, and social and political theory.