The Book in the Ancient World: How the Wisdom of the Ages Was Preserved

Paul Chrystal

€ 39.99

This is both a history of books as objects and artefacts but also a social history about the use and transmission (or restriction) of knowledge in the ancient world.

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The Last Murder at the End of the World
World Without End
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Haunting Adeline
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Freedom
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No One Knows
How the Word Is Passed
The Wager
Braiding Sweetgrass
Abandoned in Death
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Shadow of the Gods
Bullet That Missed
Boundless Leadership
Practical Guide to Conquering the World
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Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
Novelist as a Vocation
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Fairy Tale
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First to Die at the End
Wish You Were Here
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The Body Keeps the Score
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The Hawthorne Legacy
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