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89) Infinite secrets
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English
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In 1991 an extraordinary item was put up for auction. To the untrained eye, it was nothing more than a small Byzantine prayer book, yet it sold for over $2 million. Twenty-two centuries after Archimedes wrote his most revealing mathematical work, "Infinite Secrets" reports the story of the manuscript's amazing discovery and how modern technology is being used to read its startling contents. A scribe in the 13th century had incompletely erased a 10th-century...
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Language
English
Description
"The definitive handbook for the novelist who is ready to revise...This wise and friendly guide shows writers how to turn first-draft manuscripts into the novels of their dreams. A critic, longtime teacher, and award-winning novelist, Sandra Scofield illustrates how to reread a work of fiction with a view of its subject and vision, and how to take it apart and put it back together again, stronger and deeper. Scofield builds her explanations around...