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By: Applebaum, Anne
Price: $5.50
Publisher: Anchor: August 2013
Seller ID: 342487
ISBN: 140009593X
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
By: Fleming
Price: $12.50
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: July 2013
Seller ID: 296815
ISBN: 0393079465
Condition: Used - Very Good
Though we tend not to associate what was once called alchemy with what we now call chemistry, Fleming shows that the difference is merely one of linguistic modernization. Alchemy was once the chemistry, of Arabic derivation, and its practitioners were among the principal scientists and physicians of their ages. No point is more important for understanding the strange and fascinating figures in this book than the prestige of alchemy among the learned men of the age.
Fleming follows some of these complexities and contradictions of the "Age of Lights" into the biographies of two of its e...
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By: James Reston
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Anchor: May 2002
Seller ID: 20274
ISBN: 0385495625
Condition: Used - Very Good
By: Judt, Tony
Price: $9.50
Publisher: Penguin Books: September 2006
Seller ID: 325857
ISBN: 0143037757
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one inte...
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By: W. H. Auden, Louis Kronenberger
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Dorset Press: January 1920
Seller ID: 96747
ISBN: 0880290560
Condition: Used - Very Good
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Basic Books: November 2010
Seller ID: 343395
ISBN: 046502081X
Condition: Used - Very Good
By: Will Durant
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1953
Seller ID: 176197
ISBN: 4199894811
Condition: Used - Very Good
