This “accessible, quite enjoyable, and highly informative read” will change the way you look at technology, history, and power (Booklist). “[Bernstein] enables us to see what remains the same, even as much has changed.” —Library ...
From the birth of writing in Mesopotamia to the communication technologies of today, a financial theorist and historian documents the technology of human media - a revolutionary tool that allowed rulers to extend their control far and wide, ...
From the author of A Splendid Exchange comes a remarkable history of media - from the alphabet to the internet - that examines how it has shaped human society over millennia.
Masters of the Word: Traditional Jewish Bible Commentary from the First Through Tenth Centuries
MASTERS WORD OF THE Traditional Jewish Bible Commentary From the First Through Tenth Centuries VOLUME I YONATAN KOLATCH KTAV Publishing House , Inc. Jersey City , N.J. Copyright © 2006 by Rabbi Yonatan Kolatch Library of Congress.