Among them was the conquistador Hernando Cortes, who led massacres in Mexico but who also, some scholars believe, had the famous Dresden Codex—one of just four Maya illustrated books surviving ...

book burnings by the Spanish clergy. Only three other Mayan codices remain today. The Dresden and Paris Codices are on display in the cities for which they were named. The fourth codex ...

The first writing I could find on the Codex was an essay in "Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern," a 1985 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter ...

Best known for his Harry Dresden fantasy noir novels (Dead Beat , etc.), bestseller Butcher shows he's equally adept at epic fantasy in the second Codex Alera book. Two years after the events of ...

In a place where our understanding of time and space no longer applies, there is truth. Homicide detective Thomas learns this whilst on the run from his own department, accused of a crime that he ...

It is available for purchase on Simon & Schuster. 17. The Dresden Files By Jim Butcher Spanning an impressive 17 books (and counting) and written over the course of more than two decades, ...

This 1464 translation by William Caxton was the first book printed in English. The Hortus Eystettensis was a work commissioned by Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen to Basilius Besler in 1613. The ...

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The latest from the chronicler of urban grit known for “Lush Life” and “Clockers” — as well as writing on “The Wire” TV series — is set in 2008 in East Harlem, where a five-story ...