Books that changed history: From the Art of War to Anne Frank's diary
Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 75 of the world's most celebrated, rare, and seminal books are examined and explained in this stunning treasury. 'Books That Changed History' is a unique encyclopedia spanning the history o...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 75 of the world's most celebrated, rare, and seminal books are examined and explained in this stunning treasury. 'Books That Changed History' is a unique encyclopedia spanning the history of the written word, from 3000 BCE to the modern day. Chronological chapters show the evolution of human knowledge and the changing ways in which books are made. Discover incredible coverage of history's most influential books including the Mahabharata, Shakespeare's First Folio, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Penguin's first ever paperbacks. From Darwin's groundbreaking On the Origin of Species to Louis Braille's conception of the Braille system that we still use today, these are world famous books that have had the biggest impact on history. Every book is presented with breathtaking photography and fascinating biographies of those who created them. 'Books That Changed History' gathers dictionaries, diaries, plays, poems, treaties, and religious texts into one stunning celebration of the undisputed power of books |
| Beschreibung: | Includes index |
| Beschreibung: | 256 pages Illustrationen 31 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780241289334 0241289335 9781465463623 1465463623 |
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| 505 | 8 | |a Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard / Stéphane Mallarmé -- Directory -- 1900 Onwards: -- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum -- The Tale of Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter -- The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm / Brothers Grimm (illustrator Arthur Rackham) -- General Theory of Relativity / Albert Einstein -- Pro Dva Kvadrata / El Lissitzky -- Penguin's First 10 Paperback Books / Various authors (publisher Allen Lane) -- The Diary of a Young Girl / Anne Frank -- Le Petit Prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Le Deuxième Sexe / Simone de Beauvoir -- The Feminine Mystique / Betty Friedan -- Silent Spring / Rachel Carson -- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung / Mao Tse-tung -- Directory -- Index -- Acknowledgements | |
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| contents | Foreword -- Introduction -- 3000 BCE -- 999 CE: -- Ancient Egyptian Books of the Dead / Various Authors -- I Ching / Author unknown -- The Art of War / Sun Tzu -- Mahābhārata / Vyāsa -- Dead Sea Scrolls / Various authors -- Vienna Dioscorides / Pedanius Dioscorides -- Book of Kells / Irish Columban Monks -- The Blue Qur'an / Author unknown -- Diamond Sutra / Author unknown -- The Exeter Book / Author unknown -- Directory -- 1000 -- 1449: -- The Tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu -- The Canon of Medicine / Ibn Sīnā -- The Domesday Book / Various scribes -- The Gospels of Henry the Lion / Monks of Helmarshausen -- Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry / Limbourg Brothers -- Directory -- 1450 -- 1649: -- Gutenberg Bible / Johann Gutenberg -- Elementa Geometriae / Euclid -- Nuremberg Chronicle / Hartmann Schedel -- Divine Comedy / Dante Alighieri -- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili / Author unknown (publisher Aldus Manutius) -- Harmonice Musices Odhecaton / Ottaviano Petrucci -- The Codex Leicester / Leonardo da Vinci -- Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion / Albrecht Dürer -- Il Principe Niccolò Machiavelli -- Epitome / Andreas Vesalius -- Cosmographia / Sebastian Münster -- Les Prophéties / Nostradamus -- Aubin Codex / Various authors -- The Discoverie of Witchcraft / Reginald Scot -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- King James Bible / Translation committee -- Hortus Eystettensis / Basilius Besler -- Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva / Seastiano Serlio -- Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies / William Shakespeare -- Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo / Galileo Galilei -- Bay Psalm Book / Richard Mather -- Directory -- 1650 -- 1899: -- Micrographia / Robert Hooke -- Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica / Sir Isaac Newton -- Systema Naturae / Carolus Linnaeus -- L'Encyclopédie ... des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers / Ed. Denis Diderot and jean d'Alembert -- A Dictionary of the English Language / Samuel Johnson -- Bucolic, Georgica, et Aeneis / Virgil (printer John Baskerville) -- Tristram Shandy / Laurence Sterne -- Fables in Verse / Aesop (publisher John Newbery) -- The Wealth of Nations / Adam Smith -- Rights of Man / Thomas Paine -- Songs of Innocence and of Experience / William Blake -- Birds of America / John James Audubon -- Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots / Louis Braille -- Baedeker guidebooks / Karl Baedeker -- The Pickwick Papers / Charles Dickens -- The Holy Land / David Roberts -- Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions / Anna Atkins -- Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman -- On the Origin of Species / Charles Darwin -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- Das Kapital / Karl Marx -- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted / Geoffrey Chaucer (Kelmscott Press) -- Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard / Stéphane Mallarmé -- Directory -- 1900 Onwards: -- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum -- The Tale of Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter -- The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm / Brothers Grimm (illustrator Arthur Rackham) -- General Theory of Relativity / Albert Einstein -- Pro Dva Kvadrata / El Lissitzky -- Penguin's First 10 Paperback Books / Various authors (publisher Allen Lane) -- The Diary of a Young Girl / Anne Frank -- Le Petit Prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Le Deuxième Sexe / Simone de Beauvoir -- The Feminine Mystique / Betty Friedan -- Silent Spring / Rachel Carson -- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung / Mao Tse-tung -- Directory -- Index -- Acknowledgements |
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| spelling | Books that changed history From the Art of War to Anne Frank's diary contributors Father Michael Collins with Alexandra Black, Thomas Cussans, John Farndon, and Philip Parker ; Foreword by James Naughtie London Dorling Kindersley Ltd. 2017 256 pages Illustrationen 31 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index Foreword -- Introduction -- 3000 BCE -- 999 CE: -- Ancient Egyptian Books of the Dead / Various Authors -- I Ching / Author unknown -- The Art of War / Sun Tzu -- Mahābhārata / Vyāsa -- Dead Sea Scrolls / Various authors -- Vienna Dioscorides / Pedanius Dioscorides -- Book of Kells / Irish Columban Monks -- The Blue Qur'an / Author unknown -- Diamond Sutra / Author unknown -- The Exeter Book / Author unknown -- Directory -- 1000 -- 1449: -- The Tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu -- The Canon of Medicine / Ibn Sīnā -- The Domesday Book / Various scribes -- The Gospels of Henry the Lion / Monks of Helmarshausen -- Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry / Limbourg Brothers -- Directory -- 1450 -- 1649: -- Gutenberg Bible / Johann Gutenberg -- Elementa Geometriae / Euclid -- Nuremberg Chronicle / Hartmann Schedel -- Divine Comedy / Dante Alighieri -- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili / Author unknown (publisher Aldus Manutius) -- Harmonice Musices Odhecaton / Ottaviano Petrucci -- The Codex Leicester / Leonardo da Vinci -- Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion / Albrecht Dürer -- Il Principe Niccolò Machiavelli -- Epitome / Andreas Vesalius -- Cosmographia / Sebastian Münster -- Les Prophéties / Nostradamus -- Aubin Codex / Various authors -- The Discoverie of Witchcraft / Reginald Scot -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- King James Bible / Translation committee -- Hortus Eystettensis / Basilius Besler -- Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva / Seastiano Serlio -- Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies / William Shakespeare -- Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo / Galileo Galilei -- Bay Psalm Book / Richard Mather -- Directory -- 1650 -- 1899: -- Micrographia / Robert Hooke -- Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica / Sir Isaac Newton -- Systema Naturae / Carolus Linnaeus -- L'Encyclopédie ... des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers / Ed. 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Frank Baum -- The Tale of Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter -- The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm / Brothers Grimm (illustrator Arthur Rackham) -- General Theory of Relativity / Albert Einstein -- Pro Dva Kvadrata / El Lissitzky -- Penguin's First 10 Paperback Books / Various authors (publisher Allen Lane) -- The Diary of a Young Girl / Anne Frank -- Le Petit Prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Le Deuxième Sexe / Simone de Beauvoir -- The Feminine Mystique / Betty Friedan -- Silent Spring / Rachel Carson -- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung / Mao Tse-tung -- Directory -- Index -- Acknowledgements Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 75 of the world's most celebrated, rare, and seminal books are examined and explained in this stunning treasury. 'Books That Changed History' is a unique encyclopedia spanning the history of the written word, from 3000 BCE to the modern day. Chronological chapters show the evolution of human knowledge and the changing ways in which books are made. Discover incredible coverage of history's most influential books including the Mahabharata, Shakespeare's First Folio, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Penguin's first ever paperbacks. From Darwin's groundbreaking On the Origin of Species to Louis Braille's conception of the Braille system that we still use today, these are world famous books that have had the biggest impact on history. Every book is presented with breathtaking photography and fascinating biographies of those who created them. 'Books That Changed History' gathers dictionaries, diaries, plays, poems, treaties, and religious texts into one stunning celebration of the undisputed power of books Books and reading Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) History Collins, Michael 1960- (DE-588)122200594 aut Black, Alexandra (DE-588)1178051277 aut Cussans, Thomas aut Farndon, John 1960- (DE-588)1024216292 aut Parker, Philip 1965- (DE-588)143625721 aut Naughtie, James win Ebook version 9780241323045 |
| spellingShingle | Collins, Michael 1960- Black, Alexandra Cussans, Thomas Farndon, John 1960- Parker, Philip 1965- Books that changed history From the Art of War to Anne Frank's diary Foreword -- Introduction -- 3000 BCE -- 999 CE: -- Ancient Egyptian Books of the Dead / Various Authors -- I Ching / Author unknown -- The Art of War / Sun Tzu -- Mahābhārata / Vyāsa -- Dead Sea Scrolls / Various authors -- Vienna Dioscorides / Pedanius Dioscorides -- Book of Kells / Irish Columban Monks -- The Blue Qur'an / Author unknown -- Diamond Sutra / Author unknown -- The Exeter Book / Author unknown -- Directory -- 1000 -- 1449: -- The Tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu -- The Canon of Medicine / Ibn Sīnā -- The Domesday Book / Various scribes -- The Gospels of Henry the Lion / Monks of Helmarshausen -- Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry / Limbourg Brothers -- Directory -- 1450 -- 1649: -- Gutenberg Bible / Johann Gutenberg -- Elementa Geometriae / Euclid -- Nuremberg Chronicle / Hartmann Schedel -- Divine Comedy / Dante Alighieri -- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili / Author unknown (publisher Aldus Manutius) -- Harmonice Musices Odhecaton / Ottaviano Petrucci -- The Codex Leicester / Leonardo da Vinci -- Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion / Albrecht Dürer -- Il Principe Niccolò Machiavelli -- Epitome / Andreas Vesalius -- Cosmographia / Sebastian Münster -- Les Prophéties / Nostradamus -- Aubin Codex / Various authors -- The Discoverie of Witchcraft / Reginald Scot -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- King James Bible / Translation committee -- Hortus Eystettensis / Basilius Besler -- Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva / Seastiano Serlio -- Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies / William Shakespeare -- Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo / Galileo Galilei -- Bay Psalm Book / Richard Mather -- Directory -- 1650 -- 1899: -- Micrographia / Robert Hooke -- Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica / Sir Isaac Newton -- Systema Naturae / Carolus Linnaeus -- L'Encyclopédie ... des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers / Ed. Denis Diderot and jean d'Alembert -- A Dictionary of the English Language / Samuel Johnson -- Bucolic, Georgica, et Aeneis / Virgil (printer John Baskerville) -- Tristram Shandy / Laurence Sterne -- Fables in Verse / Aesop (publisher John Newbery) -- The Wealth of Nations / Adam Smith -- Rights of Man / Thomas Paine -- Songs of Innocence and of Experience / William Blake -- Birds of America / John James Audubon -- Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots / Louis Braille -- Baedeker guidebooks / Karl Baedeker -- The Pickwick Papers / Charles Dickens -- The Holy Land / David Roberts -- Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions / Anna Atkins -- Uncle Tom's Cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Leaves of Grass / Walt Whitman -- On the Origin of Species / Charles Darwin -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- Das Kapital / Karl Marx -- The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted / Geoffrey Chaucer (Kelmscott Press) -- Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard / Stéphane Mallarmé -- Directory -- 1900 Onwards: -- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum -- The Tale of Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter -- The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm / Brothers Grimm (illustrator Arthur Rackham) -- General Theory of Relativity / Albert Einstein -- Pro Dva Kvadrata / El Lissitzky -- Penguin's First 10 Paperback Books / Various authors (publisher Allen Lane) -- The Diary of a Young Girl / Anne Frank -- Le Petit Prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Le Deuxième Sexe / Simone de Beauvoir -- The Feminine Mystique / Betty Friedan -- Silent Spring / Rachel Carson -- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung / Mao Tse-tung -- Directory -- Index -- Acknowledgements |
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| title_full | Books that changed history From the Art of War to Anne Frank's diary contributors Father Michael Collins with Alexandra Black, Thomas Cussans, John Farndon, and Philip Parker ; Foreword by James Naughtie |
| title_fullStr | Books that changed history From the Art of War to Anne Frank's diary contributors Father Michael Collins with Alexandra Black, Thomas Cussans, John Farndon, and Philip Parker ; Foreword by James Naughtie |
| title_full_unstemmed | Books that changed history From the Art of War to Anne Frank's diary contributors Father Michael Collins with Alexandra Black, Thomas Cussans, John Farndon, and Philip Parker ; Foreword by James Naughtie |
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