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Reinventing knowledge : from Alexandria to the Internet
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Reinventing knowledge : from Alexandria to the Internet

Author: Ian F McNeely; Lisa Wolverton
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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McNeely presents a compact history of Western culture via the institutions that have shaped knowledge from the classical period to the present.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ian F McNeely; Lisa Wolverton
ISBN: 9780393065060 0393065065 9780393337716 0393337715
OCLC Number: 181139380
Description: xxii, 318 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The library --
The monastery --
The university --
The republic of letters --
The disciplines --
The laboratory.
Responsibility: Ian F. McNeely ; with Lisa Wolverton.
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Alighting at the pivotal points of cultural transformation, this book offers a history of the key institutions that have organised knowledge in the West from the classical period onward.  Read more...

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