Remarkable Books The World S Most Beautiful And Historic Works
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Remarkable Books
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Remarkable Books written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Best books categories.
"... a beautiful and enthralling guide to more than 80 of the world's most celebrated, rare, and important written works, from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Anne Frank's diary. Including handwritten illuminated manuscripts, seminal printed volumes, and some of the greatest examples of illustrated literature, each exquisite chapter charts both the evolution and the legacy of every landmark book profiled."--The publisher
Remarkable Books
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Author : DK
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2017-09-05
Remarkable Books written by DK and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with History categories.
Imagine a world without Principia Mathematica, Rights of Man, the Bible, Shakespeare, or the Mahabharata. Remarkable Books features 75 of the world’s most momentous titles – from The Art of War to Anne Frank’s Diary – and reveals their far-ranging impact. Books are the medium through which scientists, storytellers, and philosophers introduce their ideas. Discover seminal religious and political titles, cornerstones of science such as On the Origin of Species, and ancient texts such as the I Ching, which is still used today to answer fundamental questions about human existence. Get up close to see fascinating details, such as Vesalius’ exquisite anatomical illustrations in Epitome, Leonardo da Vinci’s annotated notebooks, or the hand-decorated pages in the Gutenberg Bible. Discover why Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was the most influential maths title ever published, and marvel at rare treasures such as the Aubin Codex, which tells the history of the Aztecs and the early Spanish colonial period in Mexico. Remarkable Books gathers stories, diaries, scientific treatises, plays, dictionaries, and religious texts into a stunning celebration of the power of books.
Remarkable Books The World S Most Beautiful And Historic Works
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Author : Father Michael Collins
language : en
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Remarkable Books The World S Most Beautiful And Historic Works written by Father Michael Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Books That Changed History
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Author : DK
language : en
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Release Date : 2017-09-07
Books That Changed History written by DK and has been published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-07 with Reference categories.
Imagine a world without Principia Mathematica, Rights of Man, the Bible, Shakespeare, or the Mahabharata. Books that Changed History features 75 of the world's most momentous titles - from The Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary - and reveals their far-ranging impact. Books are the medium through which scientists, storytellers, and philosophers introduce their ideas. Discover seminal religious and political titles, cornerstones of science such as On the Origin of Species, and ancient texts such as the I Ching, which is still used today to answer fundamental questions about human existence. Get up close to see fascinating details, such as Versalius' exquisite anatomical illustrations in Epitome, Leonardo da Vinci's annotated notebooks, or the hand-decorated pages in the Gutenberg Bible. Discover why Euclid's Elements of Geometry was the most influential maths title ever published, and marvel at rare treasures such as the Aubin Codex, which tells the history of the Aztecs and the early Spanaish colonial period in Mexico. Books that Changed History gathers stories, diaries, scientific treatises, plays, dictionaries, and religious texts into a stunning celebration of the power of books.
The World S Most Beautiful Libraries
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Author : Georg Ruppelt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The World S Most Beautiful Libraries written by Georg Ruppelt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to a camel bookmobile on the Kenyan-Somali border, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space, the collection of knowledge, learning, and imagination offers a sense of infinite possibility. It's the unrivaled realm of discovery, where every faded manuscript or mighty clothbound tome might reveal a provocative new idea, a far-flung fantasy, an ancient belief, a religious conviction, or a whole new way of being in the world. In this new photographic journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries to reveal their architectural, historical, and imaginative wonder. Through great wooden doors, up spiraling staircases, and along exquisite, shelf-lined corridors, he leads us through outstanding private, public, educational, and monastic libraries, dating as far back as 766. Between them, these medieval, classical, baroque, rococo, and 19th-century institutions hold some of the most precious records of human thought and deed, inscribed and printed in manuscripts, volumes, papyrus scrolls, and incunabula. In each, Listri's poised images capture the library's unique atmosphere, as much as their most prized holdings and design details. Featured libraries include the papal collections of the Vatican Apostolic Library, Trinity College Library, home to the Book of Kells and Book of Durrow, and the priceless holdings of the Laurentian Library in Florence, the private library of the powerful House of Medici, designed by Michelangelo. With meticulous descriptions accompanying each featured library, we learn not only of the libraries' astonishing holdings - from which highlights are illustrated - but also of their often lively, turbulent, or controversial pasts. Like Altenburg Abbey in Austria, an outpost of imperial Catholicism repeatedly destroyed during the European wars of religion. Or the Franciscan monastery in Lima, Peru, wi
Why I Write
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Author : George Orwell
language : en
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
Release Date : 2021-01-01
Why I Write written by George Orwell and has been published by Renard Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
The World Of The Book
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Author : Des Cowley
language : en
Publisher: The Miegunyah Press
Release Date : 2007
The World Of The Book written by Des Cowley and has been published by The Miegunyah Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Celebration of the book drawing on the collections of the State Library of Victoria.
Mrs Dalloway
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Author : Virginia Woolf
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-12-05
Mrs Dalloway written by Virginia Woolf and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-05 with Fiction categories.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Mrs. Dalloway" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.
We Were The Lucky Ones
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Author : Georgia Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-02-14
We Were The Lucky Ones written by Georgia Hunter and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-14 with Fiction categories.
The New York Times bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide | Soon to be a Hulu limited series starring Joey King and Logan Lerman Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds. “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety. As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death, either by working grueling hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an unwavering will to survive and by the fear that they may never see one another again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere. An extraordinary, propulsive novel, We Were the Lucky Ones demonstrates how in the face of the twentieth century’s darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive.
Little Miss Primrose By The Author Of St Olave S
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Author : Eliza Stephenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
Little Miss Primrose By The Author Of St Olave S written by Eliza Stephenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with categories.