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In Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag el-Gamous Cemetery, Kerry Muhlestein and team offer new information that will help shape thinking about the dawn of the pyramid age and life during cultural and religious change in Egypt’s Graeco-Roman Fayoum.
Every day I have to wake up and make a decision. No. A commitment. Do I want to be bred like an animal or do I want to live like one, out in the wild? The world has descended into chaos, but it's always been crazy. This is beyond chaos. This is breaking us down into our base elements. Women are for breeding and that's it. Men are for labor. But the question arises, what are we all doing this for? When does the cost of survival outweigh our desire to live? I mean, even as I am, I'm not doing much living. It's just waking up to survive another day. So, what makes life worth living? Our comforts. The cities have that. Maybe it's the pleasures in life. But then, the cities have that too. There's...
Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, Third Edition covers the whole range of the history of ancient Egypt from the Prehistoric Period until the end of Roman rule in Egypt based on the latest information provided by academic scholars and archaeologists. This is done through a revised introduction on the history of ancient Egypt, the dictionary section has over 1,000 dictionary entries on historical figures, geographical locations, important institutions and other facets of ancient Egyptian civilization. This is followed by two appendices one of which is a chronological table of Egyptian rulers and governors and the other a list of all known museums which contain ancient Egyptian objects. The volume ends with a detailed bibliography of Egyptian historical periods, archaeological sites, general topics such as pyramids, languages and arts and crafts and the publications of Egyptian material in museums throughout the world.
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Examining the challenges faced by novelists writing realist fiction in the age of climate change, this open access book considers the various ways in which contemporary writers have evolved new and transformed modes of realism to grapple with the problems of living on an endangered planet. Focusing on fiction set in the 'long present' – a term used to cover the actual present, the near future and an historic past that interacts with the present – Thieme argues that long-present realism negates the possibility of deferring engagement with the climate crisis on the grounds that it is a future threat. Thieme examines work by twelve novelists: Margaret Atwood, James Bradley, Amitav Ghosh, He...
The first study of one of the most innovative of contemporary novelists, Liz Jensen, and of the otherworlds in her fiction.