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  • Worlds Made by Words

    Worlds Made by Words

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    In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the...
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  • Inky Fingers

    Inky Fingers

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    An Open Letters Review Best Book of the YearThe author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book.From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama,...
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  • A Is for Alibi

    A Is for Alibi

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    READ THE SENSATIONAL BLOCKBUSTER THAT STARTED IT ALL!Take it from the top in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton's knockout thriller that introduced detective Kinsey Millhone―and a hot...
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  • Magus | | 9780674301610

    Magus

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    A Seminary Co-op Notable Book PROSE Award in European History "Marvellously readable . . . Not for nothing is Grafton renowned as today's leading historian of Renaissance intellectual culture . . ...
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  • New Worlds, Ancient Texts

    New Worlds, Ancient Texts

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    Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the...
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  • Defenders of the Text

    Defenders of the Text

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    Anthony Grafton is erudite and elegant in the style of the best historical writers who make the past come alive for the reader. In a full-scale presentation of the world of scholarship, from the...
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  • Forgers and Critics, New Edition

    Forgers and Critics, New Edition

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    The close links between forgery and criticism throughout history In Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling...
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  • New Worlds, Ancient Texts | | 9780674618756

    New Worlds, Ancient Texts

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    Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the...
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  • Christianity and the Transformation of the Book

    Christianity and the Transformation of the Book

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    When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary...
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  • Cardano's Cosmos

    Cardano's Cosmos

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    Girolamo Cardano was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe. He was also a leading astrologer of his day, whose predictions...
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  • One Thousand One Spot Illustrations of the Lively Twenties

    One Thousand One Spot Illustrations of the Lively …

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    The Roaring Twenties was an inspiring decade of liberation when cigarette-smoking debutantes defiantly paraded Fifth Avenue and trendy speakeasies flourished in flagrant violation of Prohibition...
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  • The Classical Tradition

    The Classical Tradition

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    “A vast cabinet of curiosities.”—Stephen Greenblatt“Eclectic rather than exhaustive, less an encyclopedia than a buffet.”—Frederic Raphael, Literary ReviewHow do we get from the polis to the police?...
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  • I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue

    I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue

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    “[An] extraordinary book.” —New RepublicFusing high scholarship with high drama, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg uncover a secret and extraordinary aspect of a legendary Renaissance scholar’s...
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  • The Art of Discovery

    The Art of Discovery

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    A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledgeIn the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the...
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  • O Is for Outlaw

    O Is for Outlaw

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    “Grafton keeps pulling out surprises―and pulling us in.” ―Entertainment WeeklyO is for once upon a time. . .Let’s talk about Kinsey’s past. We know of the aunt who raised her, the second husband who...
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  • Inky Fingers | | 9780674271210

    Inky Fingers

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    An Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year“Grafton presents largely unfamiliar material...in a clear, even breezy style...Erudite.”—Michael Dirda, Washington PostIn this celebration of bookmaking...
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