12 books that changed the world - Bragg, Melvyn, 1939- (London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2006)
Principia mathematica / Isacc Newton -- Married love / Marie Stopes -- Magna Carta -- The rule book of Association Football -- On the origin of species / Chales Darwin -- On the aboliton of the slave trade / William Wilberforce -- A vindication of the rights of women / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Experimental researches in electricity / Michael Faraday -- Patent specification for Arkwright's spinning machine / Richard Arkwright -- The King James bible / William Tyndale -- An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith -- The first folio / William Shakespeare.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Books and reading; Civilization, Western; English literature -- History and criticism