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2016.
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English
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Reveals how books and the materials that make them reflect the history of human civilization, tracing the development of writing, printing, illustrating, and binding to demonstrate the transition from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the mass-distributed books of today.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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This history of the pocket calculator reveals how the device was designed and invented, and how it ushered in modern mathematics and contributed to both the creation of the atomic bomb and the mission to land men on the moon.
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English
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"One of Library Journal's Best Books in Poetry for 2012" Jessica Greenbaum is the author of the award-winning poetry collection Inventing Difficulty. Her poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the Nation, Poetry, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor of upstreet.
This is the second collection from a Brooklyn poet whose work many readers will know from the New Yorker. Jessica Greenbaum's narrative poems, in which objects...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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"Jeff Pearlman has captured the swagger of the '86 Mets. You don't have to be a Mets fan to enjoy this book—it's a great read for all baseball enthusiasts." —Philadelphia Daily News
Award-winning Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innocent time when a city worshipped a man named Mookie and the Yankees were the second-best team in New York.
It was 1986, and the
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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His self-titled 1987 album went triple platinum and made him the first male solo artist to have four singles from their debut crack the top three on the Billboard Hot 100. His follow-up, 1989's Repeat Offender, went quadruple platinum and landed two singles at number one. Marx takes a straight-talking look back on his life and career. In doing so he offers a sobering assessment of the music business as he has experienced it over four decades: the...
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