Peter D Epiro: 3 books
The Book of Firsts
150 World-Changing People and Events, from Caesar Augustus to the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
The Book of Firsts is an entertaining, enlightening, and highly browsable tour of the major innovations of the past twenty centuries and how they shaped our world.
Peter D’Epiro makes this handy overview of human history both fun and thought-provoking with his survey of the major “firsts”—inventions,...
Sprezzatura
50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A witty, erudite celebration of fifty great Italian cultural achievements that have significantly influenced Western civilization from the authors of What Are the Seven Wonders of the World?
“Sprezzatura,” or the art of effortless mastery, was coined in 1528 by Baldassare Castiglione in...
What are the Seven Wonders of the World?
And 100 Other Great Cultural Lists--Fully Explicated
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Can you name...Newton's 3 laws of motion?The 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse?The 5 pillars of Islam? The 6 wives of Henry VIII?The 7 kinds of plane triangles? The 8 Beatitudes?If you're not sure about the answers to the above, this is the book for you. A compendium of 101 culturally significant particulars...