@book{1998:mapp:three_gold, title = {Three Golden Ages}, year = {1998}, note = {In this intriguing book, best-selling author Alf Mapp, Jr. explores three periods in Western history that exploded with creativity: Elizabethan England, Renaissance Florence, and America's founding. What enabled these societies to make staggering jumps in scientific knowledge, develop new political structures, or create timeless works of art?}, edition = {1}, publisher = {Madison Books}, address = {Lanham}, series = {}, volume = {}, author = {Mapp, Alf J.} }