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Book The Second Cataract Fortress of Dorginarti

Download or read book The Second Cataract Fortress of Dorginarti written by Lisa A Heidorn and published by Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-known sites along the length of the Nile River's Second Cataract are the ruins of Egyptian towns and fortresses occupied during the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms. One of the fortresses in the Second Cataract region, Dorginarti existed in a later era than the better-known Middle and New Kingdom forts. The earliest ceramics found at the site date from the later tenth or early ninth century BC, and those from a later occupation stem from the early eighth century. The latest phase of occupation did not extend far beyond the first phase of Persian dominance in Egypt beginning in the last quarter of the sixth century BC. This volume is the final report of the emergency excavations undertaken at Dorginarti for five months in 1964 by the University of Chicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures as part of the UNESCO Nubian salvage project necessitated by the building of the Aswan High Dam. Following a description of the fortress's landscape and resources, the book describes Dorginarti's architecture in detail and then presents the selection of artifacts brought back from the Sudan and stored in the ISAC Museum. The picture that emerges from the archaeological record shows the continuing importance of Lower Nubia after the withdrawal of Egyptian control in the late second millennium BC and before the rise of the Kushite empire in the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty.

Book The Struggle for Fenland

Download or read book The Struggle for Fenland written by M. Byron and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Beatrice’s grandmother, and sole guardian, became gravely ill, the ten-year-old has felt the sting of her own dark shadow, ever present, never fading, there even when not seen. Living in a little house on the edge of the woods, she is afraid of what will become of her if her guardian doesn’t recover, and Beatrice yearns to ask Elijah to spare her grandmother’s life. When Beatrice is lured into the woods by her dog, Barley, she discovers a different world, one where animals can speak, objects are not always what they seem, and time slows. Here, there is an urgent problem that the animals believe only Beatrice can resolve. Using her dark shadow, Beatrice must restore the Light to Mount Rundle before the destructive, violent shadows destroy Fenland. But when Barley and other creatures are snatched by the shadows, Beatrice knows she must first journey to the Netherworld to rescue them before she can recover the Light. As she journeys through Fenland, she meets a boy, Walley, and animals such as Oliver the river otter, George the ground squirrel, and Viola the vole. Together, Oliver, Walley and Beatrice search for the Old Hermit, who they believe can help recover the Light, travel to the Netherworld, and negotiate with Elijah. Along the way, they witness the shadows’ trail of destruction, the darkening landscape, and the displacement of animals in a changing climate. Will Beatrice be able to restore the Light to Mount Rundle before it’s too late? Will the Old Hermit help recover loved ones from the Netherworld? And most importantly, will she secure her chance to barter for her grandmother’s life? A hauntingly beautiful and tender book, The Struggle for Fenland: Quietly We Fall explores the universality of faith, grief, kindness, and compassion for young readers. It is Part One of Beatrice’s journey.

Book The Hollow Fortress

    Book Details:
  • Author : MR B. L. Van Vors
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010-05
  • ISBN : 9780615369501
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Hollow Fortress written by MR B. L. Van Vors and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book R Zero

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  • Author : David Mathias
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2010-03-05
  • ISBN : 1449058493
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book R Zero written by David Mathias and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: META content=Word.Document name=ProgId META content="Microsoft Word 10" name=Generator META content="Microsoft Word 10" name=OriginatorLINK href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDAVIDH%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel=File-List Will Martin, a man in his mid-thirties, suffers from hyperthymesia (perfect memory) and photographic memory, the only known person in the world to have both conditions. Once a successful surgeon, he has spent the last two years on the streets, unable to erase the memory of discovering his wife brutally murdered and his son missing. It has caused Will to give up everything. Will is the target of bounty hunters who find him and coerce Will into volunteering for a study. Will is to participate in an experiment with the drug R-Zero. The idea is sold to Will under the pretense that if successful, it will be used to help victims of horrible crimes move on with their lives and forget the dreadful memory that plagues them. Will can relate and agrees to the experiment, but there are risks. Thoughts are complex and connected, resulting in ‘memory spots’ that linger. Will discovers that there are rogue government agents behind the experiment. A group of seven detainees from Guantanamo who are scheduled for trial, will soon have the memory of their torture erased. Will sets out to destroy R-Zero and the journey takes him to places unimaginable. Will learns who has been controlling the world for the last sixty years. New questions evolve concerning his future and the mysteries behind the tragedies that have surrounded his past.

Book Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections

Download or read book Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections written by William Warburton and published by . This book was released on 1745 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fighting Corsairs

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  • Author : Jeff Dacus
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2020-10-01
  • ISBN : 1493055097
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book The Fighting Corsairs written by Jeff Dacus and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943 when the tide turned against the Japanese. Based on individual interviews and wartime documents, this is a thrilling narrative of the Marines who lived, and died, during the toughest battles of the entire war. It looks at the war through the eyes of some of the greatest fighter pilots of all time, including Bob Hanson, the “Maharajah of Rabaul” and highest-scoring Corsair pilot in history.

Book The Works

Download or read book The Works written by William Warburton and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emergency Military Assistance for Israel and Cambodia

Download or read book Emergency Military Assistance for Israel and Cambodia written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mortal Secrets

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  • Author : Robert Klitzman
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2005-04-13
  • ISBN : 9780801881916
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Mortal Secrets written by Robert Klitzman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-04-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of the Internet and Oprah, in which formerly taboo information is readily available or freely confided, secrecy and privacy have in many ways given way to an onslaught of confession. Yet for those who are HIV positive, decisions about disclosure of their diagnosis force them to confront intimate, fundamental, and rarely discussed questions about truth, lies, sex, and trust. Drawing from interviews with over seventy gay men and women, intravenous drug users, sex workers, bisexual men, and heterosexual men and women, the authors provide a detailed portrait of moral, social, and psychological decision making. The interviews convey the complex emotions of love, lust, longing, hope, despair, and fear that shape individual dilemmas about whether to disclose to, deceive, or trust others concerning this disease. Some of those interviewed revealed their diagnosis widely; others told no one. Some struggled and ultimately told their partners; others spoke in codes or half-truths. One woman discovered her husband's diagnosis in a diary; when confronted, he denied it. Each year in the United States, 40,000 new cases of HIV arise, yet approximately one-third of the 900,000 Americans who are infected do not know it. As treatments have improved, unsafe sexual behavior has increased and efforts at prevention have stalled. Many of those infected continue to fear and experience rejection and discrimination. Addressing broad debates about the nature of secrecy, morality, and silence, this book explores public policy questions in the light of the nuanced, private decisions that are shaping the course of an epidemic and have broader indications for all.

Book Overcoming Depression Without Drugs

Download or read book Overcoming Depression Without Drugs written by John A. Snyder and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revolutionary new book on music and emotion, Dr. John A. Snyder shows us how not to get depressed. Drawing on 40 years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist, he demonstrates that antidepressant pills are dangerous, addictive, and don't work. What does work is listening to feelings and moving toward the very feelings we object to most. Snyder illustrates the special relationship between music and emotion by exploring the inner life of composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Often wrongly portrayed as neurotic, Mahler was actually quite resilient, despite the many tragedies of his short life--a strength that came from his ability to listen to his darkest feelings. Overcoming Depression explains how all of us can access that same emotional strength in our own lives. Written in a direct, conversational style and filled with personal stories from Snyder's life and practice, the book is designed to be a bedside companion to which readers can return again and again for insight and support. " Dr Snyder forcefully challenges what is currently being taught in professional schools and to the public about feeling states. His insights are invaluable for any person interested in how we understand and integrate feeling into our daily lives. I especially recommend this book to any professional who works with people suffering from depression." - Dr. William Packard, psychiatrist "Interwoven with Mahler's riveting life story, Dr. Snyder has another agenda: a sweeping analysis of how sadness--which should be viewed as a normal part of the life experience-- has been hijacked and given a new identity as a "Disease" requiring "Treatment" with a drug, courtesy of the pharmaceutical industry. -Dr. Donald Kushon, psychiatrist " Like Leonard Bernstein in his "Young People's Concerts," John Snyder makes Mahler come alive. He traces the emotional threads that are woven through Mahler's life-in-music, creating a tapestry that helps us better understand our own 'life symphony' and how to orchestrate it. The book's lively and straightforward style makes even subtle concepts easy to grasp." -Dr. Judith D. Fisher, psychiatrist

Book The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton  D D   Lord Bishop of Gloucester

Download or read book The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton D D Lord Bishop of Gloucester written by William Warburton and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New York Times Current History

Download or read book The New York Times Current History written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hollow Fortress

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  • Author : B. L. Voorhees
  • Publisher : Four Gates
  • Release : 2019-01-31
  • ISBN : 9781088007037
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Hollow Fortress written by B. L. Voorhees and published by Four Gates. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Herron, an American soldier falsely accused of desertion, accepts a job offer from a wealthy, though enigmatic elderly woman and finds himself in another world helping to prevent a catastrophic war. Although uncertain whether this other world is a dream or another dimension entirely, he begins to suspect his actions there will reflect back in the world from which he came. In the course of his adventures, he finds love and confronts death, including his own. Gradually, he begins to discover the unimaginable truth of his own being.

Book Habermas and the Public Sphere

Download or read book Habermas and the Public Sphere written by Craig Calhoun and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993-03-02 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habermas's most directly relevant work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. The relationship between civil society and public life is in the forefront of contemporary discussion. No single scholarly voice informs this discussion more than that of Jürgen Habermas. His contributions have shaped the nature of debates over critical theory, feminism, cultural studies, and democratic politics. In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habermas's most directly relevant work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. From political theory to cultural criticism, from ethics to gender studies, from history to media studies, these essays challenge, refine, and extend our understanding of the social foundations and changing character of democracy and public discourse. Contributors Hannah Arendt, Keith Baker, Seyla Benhabib, Harry C. Boyte, Craig Calhoun, Geoff Eley, Nancy Fraser, Nicholas Garnham, Jürgen Habermas, Peter Hohendahl, Lloyd Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Thomas McCarthy, Moishe Postone, Mary P. Ryan, Michael Schudson, Michael Warner, David Zaret

Book Eben Emael and the Defence of Fortress Belgium  1940

Download or read book Eben Emael and the Defence of Fortress Belgium 1940 written by Clayton Donnell and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning of 10 May 1940, the sky literally fell on the heads of the defenders of Fort Eben-Emael, considered to be Belgium's most powerful fortress. This huge structure, with its powerful artillery and infantry weapons, was the key to the Meuse and Albert Canal defences. In the darkness of the pre-dawn, German DFS 230 gliders drifted silently over the southern Netherlands, landing one by one on top of Eben-Emael. Within minutes German Special Forces troops destroyed most of the fort’s weapons and observation capabilities. The following day, the garrison surrendered, and the door to Belgium and France was open. But, as Clayton Donnell relates in this perceptive and meticulously researched study, Eben-Emael was only one of the nineteen forts of the fortified positions of Liège and Namur attacked in May 1940. Three new and sixteen refurbished forts held out for several days, and fought to the death. The story he tells contradicts the common assumption that these static defences were rolled over or bypassed –powerless to resist the overwhelming force of the German combat engineer’s assaults, Stuka bombs and heavy artillery shells. In vivid detail he demonstrates that their importance in the 1940 campaign has been seriously under reported, and he gives clarity to some of the legends that have grown up around the capture of Eben-Emael itself.

Book In the Eye of Heaven

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Keck
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2007-03-06
  • ISBN : 9780765351692
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book In the Eye of Heaven written by David Keck and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fiercely original epic fantasy debut

Book Women and Indian Society

Download or read book Women and Indian Society written by Andal Narayanan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Women and Indian Society: Options and Constraints is all about the women of India: the way they were perceived during the ancient times, the perceptions of their role in a matriarchal society, and the changes that cropped up in their lives during the freedom struggle. However, not much ground appears to have been covered in analysing the causes for the subordinate status of the Indian women. The author has explained the core causes for their cloistered roles, and their marginalisation, and has put forth some key factors that could empower them with an identity of their own and supply them with a viable escape route out of a state of entrapment. The basic reasons for subjugation of women in India are lack of education, denial of exposure to activities outside the homes, and an unreasonable rationalisation that such education or exposure will not improve their lot anyway. This has led to a self-fulfilling prophesy type of consequence, and left the women unchanged. This work is meant to be used as a reference book by serious researchers in women's studies, which has been included as an interdisciplinary subject in most of the Indian universities. Both informative and intimidating, the contents of this book are expected to start a progressive thought process in the minds of discerning readers."