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Featuring a foreword by James Naughtie.

Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 75 of the world´s most celebrated, rare, and seminal books are examined and explained in this stunning treasury.

Books That Changed History is a unique encyclopedia spanning the history of the written word, from 3000 BCE to the modern day. Chronological chapters show the evolution of human knowledge and the changing ways in which books are made. Discover incredible coverage of history´s most influential books including the Mahabharata, Shakespeare´s First Folio, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Penguin´s first ever paperbacks.

From Darwin´s groundbreaking On the Origin of Species to Louis Braille´s conception of the Braille system that we still use today, these are world famous books that have had the biggest impact on history.

Every book is presented with breathtaking photography and fascinating biographies of those who created them. Books That Changed History gathers dictionaries, diaries, plays, poems, treaties, and religious texts into one stunning celebration of the undisputed power of books.

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1: Foreword
2: Introduction
3: 3000BCE - 999CE 1: Ancient Egyptian Books of the Dead
2: I Ching
3: The Art of War
4: Mahabharata
5: Dead Sea Scroll
6: Vienna Dioscoride
7: Book of Kells
8: The Blue Qur´an
9: Diamond Sutra
10: The Exeter Book
11: Directory

4: 1000-1449 1: The Tale of Genji
2: The Canon of Medicine
3: The Domesday
4: The Gospels of Henry the Lion
5: Les Très Riches
6: Heures du Duc de Berry
7: Directory

5: 1450 - 1649 1: Gutenberg Bible
2: Elementa Geometriae
3: Nuremberg Chronicle
4: Divine Comedy
5: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
6: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton
7: The Codex Leicester
8: Vier Bücher vonmenschlicher Proportion
9: Il Principe
10: Epitome
11: Cosmographia
12: Les Prophéties
13: Aubin Codex
14: The Discoverie of Witchcraft
15: Don Quixote
16: King James Bible
17: Hortus Eystettensis
18: Tutte l´opere d´architettura
19: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies
20: Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo
21: Bay Psalm Book
22: Directory

6: 1650-1899 1: Micrographia
2: Philosophi‘ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
3: Systema Naturae
4: L´Encyclopédie... des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers
5: A Dictionary of the English Language
6: Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis
7: Tristram Shandy
8: Fables in Verse
9: The Wealth of Nations
10: Rights of Man
11: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
12: Birds of America
13: Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots
14: Baedeker guidebooks
15: The Pickwick Papers
16: The Holy Land
17: Photographs of British Algae:
18: Cyanotype Impressions
19: Uncle Tom´s Cabin
20: Leaves of Grass
21: On the Origin of Species
22: Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland
23: Das Kapital
24: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Now Newly Imprinted
25: Un Coup de Dés Jamais N´Abolira Le Hasard
26: Directory

7: 1900 Onwards 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2: The Tale of Peter Rabbit
3: The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
4: General Theory of Relativity
5: Pro Dva Kvadrata
6: Penguin´s First 10 Paperback Books
7: The Diary of a Young Girl
8: Le Petit Prince
9: Le Deuxième Sexe
10: The Feminine Mystique
11: Silent Spring
12: Quotations from Chairman
13: Mao Tse-tung
14: Directory

8: Index
9: Acknowledgements

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