Alchemy and the quest for the Philosopher's Stone have been a strand in the development of European culture from antiquity onwards. With the spread of printing,

A comprehensive selection of alchemist emblems, brought together for the first time and reproduced to a standard that is close in quality and size to the origin

"Originally published by the California Historical Society Press and Heyday Books"--T.p. verso.

In the early 1970s, video arcade games sprung to life in the form of Pong, Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Pac-Man, and if you were lucky enough to have an Atari

This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital