Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

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A fascinating, erudite, and witty glimpse of the human side of ancient Egypt8212this acclaimed classic work is now revised and updated for a new generationDisplaying the unparalleled descriptive power, unerring eye for fascinating detail, keen insight, and trenchant wit that have made the novels she writes (as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels) perennial New York Times bestsellers, internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz brings a long-buried civilization to vivid life. In Red Land, Black Land, she transports us back thousands of years and immerses us in the sights, aromas, and sounds of day-to-day living in the legendary desert realm that was ancient Egypt.Who were these people whose civilization has inspired myriad films, books, artwork, myths, and dreams, and who built astonishing monuments that still stagger the imagination five thousand years later? What d

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Bandit Mentality: Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War, A Memoir

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A former officer of British South Africa8217s anti-terrorist unit recounts his experiences on the frontlines of the Rhodesian Bush war from 197682111980. A native of New Zealand, Lindsay 8216Kiwi8217 O8217Brien served in the British South Africa Police Support Unit8217s anti-terrorist battalion. He traveled across the country as a section leader and a troop commander before joining the UANC political armies as trainer and advisor. The BSA Support Unit started poorly supplied and equipped, but the caliber of the men, mostly African, was second-to-none. Support Unit specialized in the grunt8221 work inside Rhodesia with none of the flamboyant helicopter or cross-border raids carried out by the army. O8217Brien8217s war was primarily within selected tribal lands, seeking out and destroying Communist guerilla units in brisk close-range battles with little t

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Fortunate Life

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A Fortunate Life

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Karim Khan Zand (Makers of the Muslim World)

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A forward thinking and notably popular leader, Karim Khan Zand (1705-1779) was the founder of the Zand dynasty in Iran. In this insightful profile of a man before his time, esteemed academic John Perry shows how by opening up international trade, employing a fair fiscal system and showing respect for existing religious institutions, Karim Khan succeeded in creating a peaceful and prosperous state in a particularly turbulent epoch of history.

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A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization

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A Foundational Conservation Story RevivedAncient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poet Ovid wrote that before civilization began, even the pine tree stood on its own very hills8221 but when civilization took over, the mountain oak, the pine were felled.8221 This happened for a simple reason: trees have been the principal fuel and building material of every society over the millennia, from the time urban areas were settled until the middle of the nineteenth century. To this day trees still fulfill these roles for a good portion of the world8217s population. Without vast supplies of wood from forests, the great civilizations of Sumer, Assyria, Egypt, Crete, Greece, Rome, the Islamic World, Western Europe, and North America would have never emerged. Wood, in fact, is the unsung hero of the technological

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Death Wins in the Arctic: The Lost Winter Patrol of 1910

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A four-man patrol from the North West Mounted Police left Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, heading for Dawson City, Yukon, on December 21, 1910. The harrowing drama of their futile 52-day struggle to survive is an account of courageous failure, one that resonates in its depiction of human intelligence pitted against the forces of nature.

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The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

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A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the best-selling author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the 20th century. With new material gleaned from Russian archives and numerous other sources, this brisk and accessible audiobook (Spain's number-one best seller for 12 weeks) provides a balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to World War II and affording new insights into the war - its causes, course, and consequences.

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The Divine Blueprint: Temples, power places, and the global plan to shape the human soul.

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A fresh and insightful account of the origin of ancient temples and the role played by sacred sites in raising human consciousness. Can a temple transform an ordinary person into an extraordinary being? Ancient texts refer to temples as living beings, intermediaries between matter and spirit that serve to transform people into gods, into bright stars.8221They also describe a global flood in 9703 BC, and how groups of survivors 8212 Seven Sages, Shining Ones, Followers of Horus 8212 set out to rebuild the former mansions of the gods8221 by creating a vast, interconnected network of power places upon the Earth8217s energy hotspots. And the temples that rose from them would serve future generations whenever they lost their spiritual compass. What8217s more, science has now discovered these portals are still working. Based on solid evidence

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A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition

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A fresh and penetrating exploration of South Africa8217s history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the presentI did not think it was possible for a white person to write a history of South Africa which a black South African would find to be a fair and accurate account of a beautiful land and its people. Leonard Thompson has disabused me of that notion. His is a history that is both accurate and authentic, written in a delightful literary style.82218212Archbishop Desmond Tutu The Fourth Edition of this classic text brings South Africa's historyup to date with a new chapter chronicling the first presidential term of Mbeki and ending with the funeral of Nelson Mandela. An admirably objective history of South Africa . . . [that] will be most useful in contemplating the country8217s future.82218212Lorna Hahn,New York Times Book Review This is a work of insight a

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The Greek Myths That Shape the Way We Think

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A fresh and revealing look at the stories at the heart of Greek mythology, exploring their cultural impact throughout history up to the present day.How do ancient Greek myths find themselves retold and reinterpreted in cultures across the world, several millennia later? In this volume, bestselling author Richard Buxton explores the power that eight iconic Greek myths hold in the modern world. Buxton traces these stories and archetypes from their ancient forms through their transformations over time in literature, art, cinema, psychology, and politics.Over their long lives, Greek myths have expressed a myriad of meanings: from aesthetic refinement to erotic fantasy to political power. Greek myths are an integral part of a broader cultural history, their changes in meaning signifying major shifts in art and society myths that strike a resonant cultural chord in one period may fall ou

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