Name: 100 Books that Changed the World
Author: Christianson, Scott und Salter, Coli

Beschreibung

100 Books that Changed the World

In 100 Books that Changed the World, prize-winning author Scott Christianson brings together an exceptional collection of truly groundbreaking books - from scriptures that founded religions, to scientific treatises that challenged beliefs, to novels that kick- started literary genres. This elegantly designed book offers a sweeping, chronological survey of the most important books from around the globe, from the earliest illuminated manuscripts to the age of the ebook publication. von Christianson, Scott und Salter, Coli

Produktdetails

Einband:

Gebunden

Seitenzahl:

224

Erschienen:

2018-04-05

Sprache:

Englisch

EAN:

9781849944519

ISBN:

1849944512

Verlag:

Batsford Books Limited

Gewicht:

885 g

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Über den Autor

Christianson, Scott und Salter, Coli

SCOTT CHRISTIANSON, Ph.D. is a prize-winning author. His books include 100 Diagrams That Changed the World, With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America; Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House; Notorious Prisons: Inside the World's Most Feared Institutions; Bodies of Evidence: Forensics and Crime; Freeing Charles: The Epic Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Nation, Village Voice, and Newsday.Colin Salter is a keen cyclist. Based in Edinburgh he has completed the arduous North Coast 500 by bike and written Remarkable Road Trips, which was nominated for the 2019 Stanford Travel Book Awards.