ilość książek w kategorii: 1430
With the Camel Corps Up the Nile: the 'Gordon Relief Expedition' Against the Mahdists, Sudan, 1885
ISBN: 9781846779107 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The sand of the desert is sodden red
The Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead' This is a fascinating memoir of the early career of a prominent British soldier of the late 19th and early 20th century. It is made the more interesting because it concerns the actions of one of those odd types of unit that special and peculiar conditions occasionally create in armed forces-in this case the Guard's Camel Regiment. The author guides the reader through the fascinating and unique business of combining Guardsmen and camels before they together embark on the ill-fated campaign to rescue... 'The sand of the desert is sodden red
The Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead' This is a fascinating memoir of the early career of a p... |
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125,06 zł |
The Floating Stones of Egypt
ISBN: 9781450287494 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People have been speculating for centuries about how the ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramids. Few people have paid attention to Herodotus and his writings about Egypt's intricate canal system, but historian James V. Barr believes these played a critical role in pyramid construction. Relying on years of research, he presents the lock and canal system of construction. Barr also examines other theories of pyramid construction such as the levitation theory and the ramp theory. He explains why explanations of pyramid construction that do not focus on the canal system are wrong and why the...
People have been speculating for centuries about how the ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramids. Few people have paid attention to Herodotus and h...
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59,91 zł |
The Floating Stones of Egypt
ISBN: 9781450287487 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People have been speculating for centuries about how the ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramids. Few people have paid attention to Herodotus and his writings about Egypt's intricate canal system, but historian James V. Barr believes these played a critical role in pyramid construction. Relying on years of research, he presents the lock and canal system of construction. Barr also examines other theories of pyramid construction such as the levitation theory and the ramp theory. He explains why explanations of pyramid construction that do not focus on the canal system are wrong and why the...
People have been speculating for centuries about how the ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramids. Few people have paid attention to Herodotus and h...
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102,86 zł |
Egyptian Mummies: Unraveling the Secrets of an Ancient Art
ISBN: 9780688146245 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Egyptian Mummies results from research done in preparation for the mummification of a human body, the first to be done in the Egyptian style in two thousand years. Through these studies, noted Egyptologist Bob Brier has unearthed the gripping stories of grave robberies and stolen mummies, the forgotten language of the pharaohs, and the tombs of the royal mummies. In an easily accesible and lively style, Brier uncovers the complete historical context of ancient Egyptian culture and offers a fascinating contemporary interpretation of it. Illuminating their mysteries, myths, sacred... Egyptian Mummies results from research done in preparation for the mummification of a human body, the first to be done in the Egyptian sty... |
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91,34 zł |
The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt: New Insights Into the Fayum Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic
ISBN: 9789087280796 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exhaustive study explores the rise of farming and herding in the Fayum oasis in the Egyptian Western Desert. The neolithic farmer-herders in the Fayum relied heavily on hunting and fishing, which had been the major subsistence activities since the Epipaleolithic period. Shiari's research on lithic artifacts used by the Epipaleolithic hunter-fishers and Neolithic farmer-herders in the Fayum is a unique investigation into the mobility and residential strategy of the Fayum people and their time and labor investments in tool production.
This exhaustive study explores the rise of farming and herding in the Fayum oasis in the Egyptian Western Desert. The neolithic farmer-herders in the ...
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228,03 zł |
Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt
ISBN: 9780804774383 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950s and the gender politics of Islamism today, Laura Bier reveals how discussions about education, companionate marriage, and enlightened motherhood, as well as veiling, work, and other means of claiming public space created opportunities to reconsider the relationship between modernity, state...
The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and...
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501,66 zł |
Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt
ISBN: 9780804774390 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950s and the gender politics of Islamism today, Laura Bier reveals how discussions about education, companionate marriage, and enlightened motherhood, as well as veiling, work, and other means of claiming public space created opportunities to reconsider the relationship between modernity, state...
The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and...
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120,25 zł |
Arabische Briefe Aus Dem 10.-16. Jahrhundert
ISBN: 9783110260465 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die arabische Papyrologie ist in den letzten Jahren verstarkt in den Fokus der Arabistik geruckt, da die Dokumente Informationen zu Bereichen der islamisch-arabischen Kultur-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte liefern, wie sie so in literarischen Quellen nicht greifbar sind. Die Erschlieung der Bestande ist allerdings nach wie vor gering. Mit diesem Band werden die Bestande der Papyrussammlung der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien weiter erschlossen. Es handelt sich um 18 uberwiegend vollstandige Briefe auf Papier, die aus dem 10.-16. Jahrhundert n. Chr. stammen. Sie... Die arabische Papyrologie ist in den letzten Jahren verstarkt in den Fokus der Arabistik geruckt, da die Dokumente Informationen zu Bereichen der i... |
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697,23 zł |
Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War
ISBN: 9781439139349 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gripping tale of international intrigue, betrayal, and personal drama during the darkest days of the Cold War, Eisenhower 1956 is the first major book to examine the event in thirty years. Debunking most historians' opinion that the Suez crisis was merely a minor incident linked to the end of colonial rule in Egypt, Eisenhower 1956--drawing on hundreds of newly declassified documents--makes clear that it was the most dangerous crisis of Eisenhower's presidency. Eisenhower used economic threats to force his British, French, and Israeli allies to withdraw from...
A gripping tale of international intrigue, betrayal, and personal drama during the darkest days of the Cold War, Eisenhower 1956 is t...
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85,89 zł |
Zanouba
ISBN: 9780815627180 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in late 19th and 20th-century Egypt, this novel offers a window on the everyday lives of cloistered women and the way they interact with each other and with male relatives, spouses and other men.
Set in late 19th and 20th-century Egypt, this novel offers a window on the everyday lives of cloistered women and the way they interact with each othe...
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181,09 zł |
The Nile Quest: A Record of the Exploration of the Nile and Its Basin
ISBN: 9781108033008 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Harry Johnston (1858 1927), was a British artist, explorer and colonial administrator. He was a key figure in the so-called 'Scramble for Africa', the invasion and colonisation of Africa by major European powers in the late nineteenth century. This book, first published in 1903, is Johnston's wide-ranging history of Nile exploration, beginning with the Ancient Egyptians and the Greeks and continuing into the Victorian period. As well as charting the development of ancient civilisations in the Nile region, Johnston also discusses its wider role in world history and its appeal to powerful...
Sir Harry Johnston (1858 1927), was a British artist, explorer and colonial administrator. He was a key figure in the so-called 'Scramble for Africa',...
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212,77 zł |
Marginality and Exclusion in Egypt
ISBN: 9781780320854 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of the new Egyptian revolution, this insightful collection explores issues of power, politics, and inequality in Egypt and the Middle East. It argues that the notion of marginality tends to mask the true power relations that perpetuate poverty and exclusion. It is these dynamic processes of political and economic transformation that need explanation.The book provides an analysis of key areas of the Egyptian political economy such as labor, urbanization, and the creation of slums, disability, refugees, street children, and agrarian livelihoods, reaching the impactful conclusion...
In the wake of the new Egyptian revolution, this insightful collection explores issues of power, politics, and inequality in Egypt and the Middle East...
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430,72 zł |
The Early Coptic Papacy: The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership in Late Antiquity
ISBN: 9789774168345 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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128,63 zł |
Egypt and the Near East - The Crossroads: Proceedings of an International Conference on the Relations of Egypt and the Near East in the Bronze Age, Pr
ISBN: 9788073083625 / Angielski / Twarda / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The present volume presents the proceedings from the international workshop entitled Egypt and the Near East - the Crossroads, dedicated to the study of the relations between the two regions. The symposium took place from September 1-3, 2010 at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.
The present volume presents the proceedings from the international workshop entitled Egypt and the Near East - the Crossroads, dedicated to the study ...
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293,91 zł |
Alexander: Invincible King of Macedonia
ISBN: 9788182744264 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A senior intelligence officer at the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Tsouras has also written widely on military history. Here he writes of Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE) as a leaders, soldier, and general, saying that no other legendary warrior mastered every aspect of war with such success and
A senior intelligence officer at the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Tsouras has also written widely on military history. Here he writes of Alexander ...
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120,02 zł |
Attachment to Abandoned Heritage: The Case of Suakin, Sudan
ISBN: 9781407310893 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At present scantily populated, Suakin was the most prominent port on the Red Sea coast from the fifteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. It was an archetype of an Islamic urban built town which remained continuously occupied by the same multi-generational families. During the period of British rule in Sudan they replaced the ancient port by the establishment of Port Sudan. Using this ancient site as an illustration, the main goal of the research is to gain an insight into the relationships between people and heritage sites: how and why people feel attachments to them... At present scantily populated, Suakin was the most prominent port on the Red Sea coast from the fifteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth... |
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393,38 zł |
Routes and Realms
ISBN: 9780199913879 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Routes and Realms explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to land from the ninth through the eleventh centuries, the earliest period of intensive written production in Arabic. In this groundbreaking first book, Zayde Antrim develops a "discourse of place," a framework for approaching formal texts devoted to the representation of territory across genres. The discourse of place included such varied works as topographical histories, literary anthologies, religious treatises, world geographies, poetry, travel literature, and maps. By closely reading and analyzing...
Routes and Realms explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to land from the ninth through the eleventh centuries, the earliest...
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423,95 zł |
An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians: The Defnitive 1860 Edition
ISBN: 9789774165603 / Angielski / Miękka / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few works about the Middle East have exerted such wide and long-lasting influence as Edward William Lane's An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. First published in 1836, this classic book has never gone out of print, continuously providing material and inspiration for generations of scholars, writers, and travelers, who have praised its comprehensiveness, detail, and perception. Yet the editions in print during most of the twentieth century would not have met Lane's approval. Lacking parts of Lane's text and many of his original illustrations (while adding...
Few works about the Middle East have exerted such wide and long-lasting influence as Edward William Lane's An Account of the Manners and Customs o...
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133,30 zł |
The War in Darfur: Reclaiming Sudanese History
ISBN: 9780415524872 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No other crisis in Africa has received as much attention in the West in the past 10 years as the war in Darfur. This study explores how this war has been experienced by the refugees who have fled from it and puts forward potential solutions to the conflict.
No other crisis in Africa has received as much attention in the West in the past 10 years as the war in Darfur. This study explores how this war has b...
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709,42 zł |
An Incurable Past: Nasser's Egypt Then and Now
ISBN: 9780813044040 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanning virtually the entire twentieth century and as timely as the outbreak of the 2011 January Revolution, this work has much to say about where Egypt has been, who Egyptians are and, ultimately, where they may take their country. Joel Gordon, author of Nasser: Hero of the Arab Nation A truly extraordinary accomplishment that is thought provoking, creative, and inspiring. Belli is the first in Middle Eastern studies to examine the cultural history of twentieth- century Egypt through the interactions between education and remembrance. Her revised theoretical approach is... Spanning virtually the entire twentieth century and as timely as the outbreak of the 2011 January Revolution, this work has much to say about wher... |
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456,92 zł |