Author: DK Publishing
Publisher: DK Travel
Keywords: egypt, guides, eyewitness, travel
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1969-12-31
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0756666775
ISBN-13: 9780756666774
Author: Timothy Mitchell
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: egypt, colonising
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 1991-10-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520075684
ISBN-13: 9780520075689
Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe’s colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.
Author: Jaromir Malek
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: egypt, ancient, cat
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1997-07-29
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0812216326
ISBN-13: 9780812216325
Cat fanciers who consider their pets majestic have history on their side: felines were domesticated in ancient Egypt around 2000 B.C. while their European cousins still ran wild. Over the centuries they gained an exalted position in royal societyrevered as an incarnation of a goddess, modeled in bronze statuettes, and even mummified and buried with their owners. Yet cats also won commoners’ respect for their humble origins and protective instincts, earning them a prominent place in the personal religion of ordinary people.Egypt scholar Jaromir Malek has called on a variety of artistic a
Author: Russ Versteeg
Publisher: Carolina Academic Pre
Keywords: egypt, ancient, law
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0890899789
ISBN-13: 9780890899786
This book examines the legal philosophy, legal institutions, and laws of the ancient Egyptians. Ancient documents, accounts, and literature provide the basis for perspectives of law and the Egyptian legal system. VerSteeg delineates and analyzes the elements of Egyptian law, explaining how social, religious, cultural, and political forces shaped both the procedural and substantive aspects of law. Part I considers the theory of justice in ancient Egypt, exploring the role of law in society. Part I also traces the development of the judicial system distinguishing the various types of judges, cou
Author: Robert Bauval
Publisher: The Disinformation Company
Keywords: code, egypt
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1934708003
ISBN-13: 9781934708002
The Orion Mystery, published in 1994, introduced the world to a highly original, and now internationally famous, star-correlation theory about the Giza pyramids in Egypt, and sent a huge shock wave of controversy throughout the scientific community, the effects of which are still felt today.The Egypt Code not only develops this pyramid-stars correlation, but also reveals an amazing “Grand Unified Plan,” which involves the wonderful temple of Upper Egypt.The Egypt Code is unlike any other book before it and covers the whole of Egypt’s ancient civilization in a manner never bef
Author: Clyde Edgerto
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: egypt, across, walking
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1988-02-12
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345346491
ISBN-13: 9780345346490
"An unpretentious, finely-crafted novel that will linger with the readers like the last strains of a favorite hymn. It is more enjoyable than a pitcher full of sweet tea and one of Mattie’s home-cooked dinners."THE ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTIONShe had as much business keeping a stray dog as she had walking across Egypt--which not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. She’s Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen, who at 78, might be slowing down just a bit. When young, delinquent Wesley Benfield drops in on her life, he is even less likely a compa
Author: Jack Altman
Publisher: JPM Publications
Keywords: way, guides, egypt
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2000-03
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 2884520082
ISBN-13: 9782884520089
Each guide in the This Way series offers information on the highlights of not only the world’s most popular tourist regions, but also more unusual destinations such as Kenya, Thailand, and Jordan. Designed to provide the maximum of cultural, historical, and practical information in a minimum space, each guide offers a variety of street, subway, and regional maps. From cosmopolitan cities and towering skyscrapers to small villages and natural wonders, each guide is filled with valuable recommendations and addresses for monuments, parks, markets, restaurants, and cafes, whether for a weeke
