[PDF.45ba] Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected

Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected

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 | #705159 in Books |  1995-10-31 |  1995-10-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.99 x.46 x5.18l,.54 | File type: PDF | 210 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A nose is not a nose|By John M. Wilson|Boostin has tossed off this small, entertaining, and informative book as a kind of summary to his long and fruitful career as a scholar of most things. It is good reading with a few jumps-too-far in its historical hop-scotch from civilization's ancient to modern common wisdom. But the jumps are worth thinking about as we try to unravel our|From Library Journal|Librarian of Congress emeritus Boorstin (formerly history, Univ. of Chicago) presents a distillation of his ideas on the role of discovery and surprise in history. Some lesser pieces written for particular occasions and an affectionate but p

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers demonstrates the truth behind the aphorism that if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the world would have been changed. Boorstin goes on to uncover the elements of accident, improvisation and contradiction at the core of American institutions and beliefs.

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected   |  Daniel J. Boorstin. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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