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2. History of bookselling - Wikipedia

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   History of bookselling. Bookshop in Much Wenlock, UK. The selling of books dates back to ancient times. The founding of libraries in c.300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers. In Rome, toward the end of the republic, it became the fashion to have a library, and Roman booksellers carried on a flourishing trade.

3. The Lost City of Z (book) - Wikipedia

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   F2546 .G747 2009. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon is a non-fiction book by American author David Grann. Published in 2009, the book recounts the activities of the British explorer Percy Fawcett who, in 1925, disappeared with his son in the Amazon rainforest while looking for the ancient "Lost City of Z". In the book ...

4. Amazons - Wikipedia

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   Amazons. Wounded Amazon of the Capitoline Museums, Rome. A Greek fighting an Amazon; detail from painted sarcophagus found in Italy, 350–325 BC. "Amazon preparing for battle" (Queen Antiope or Hippolyta) or "Armed Venus", by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert, 1860, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In Greek mythology, the Amazons ( Ancient ...

5. Bookselling - Wikipedia

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   Bookselling is the commercial trading of books which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. [1] People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, bookpeople, bookmen, or bookwomen. The founding of libraries in c. 300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers.

6. History of books - Wikipedia

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   The history of the book became an acknowledged academic discipline in the latter half of the 20th century. It was fostered by William Ivins Jr.'s Prints and Visual Communication (1953) and Henri-Jean Martin and Lucien Febvre's L'apparition du livre (The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450–1800) in 1958 as well as Marshall McLuhan's Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man ...

7. The Darkening Age - Wikipedia

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   352. ISBN. 978-0544800885. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World is a 2017 book by Catherine Nixey. In the book, Nixey argues that early Christians deliberately destroyed classical Greek and Roman cultures and contributed to the loss of classical knowledge. [1] [2] The book was an international bestseller, was ...