Letters from Mesopotamia: Official Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia
Author | : A. Leo Oppenheim |
Publisher | : Chicago : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : A. Leo Oppenheim |
Publisher | : Chicago : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Veenhof |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2005-12-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9047416872 |
This book is the fourteenth volume in the series Altbabylonische Briefe in Umschrift und Übersetzung, which aims to make the many — often dispersed — letters from the Old Babylonian period available in transliteration and translation. Volume 14 collects 226 Old Babylonian letters from The Louvre.
Author | : Dr Karl Kruszelnicki |
Publisher | : Macmillan Publishers Aus. |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2015-10-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1743540221 |
Lean back and settle in for cutting-edge scientific snippets from the trend-setting Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. In Short Back & Science, Dr Karl combs through some of the greatest scientific conundrums of our age, such as what is killing half the bacteria on Earth every two days and why don't mole rats get cancer? Why would anyone pay $40 million for a cup of tea, and how did a toilet seat help to end the First World War? Are bananas really slippery, radioactive and loaded with potassium? What do clouds weigh? And why are there scientists running around naked in the Antarctic? Brushing aside any hype about coconuts and antioxidants, there is no one better to trim down to the facts than Australia's most trusted scientist, Dr Karl. This is a specially formatted fixed layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.
Author | : Amanda H. Podany |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Middle East |
ISBN | : 0190059044 |
"This sweeping history of the ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia, Iran) takes readers on a journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquest of Alexander the Great. The book is built around the life stories of many ancient men and women, from kings, priestesses, and merchants to bricklayers, musicians, and weavers. Their habits of daily life, beliefs, triumphs, and crises, and the changes that they faced over time are explored through their written words and the archaeological remains of the buildings, cities, and empires in which they lived. Rather than chronicling three thousand years of kingdoms, the book instead creates a tapestry of life stories through which readers come to know specific individuals from many walks of life, and to understand their places within the broad history of events and institutions in the ancient Near East. These life stories are preserved on ancient cuneiform tablets, which allow us to trace, for example, the career of a weaver as she advanced to became a supervisor of a workshop, listen to a king trying to persuade his generals to prepare for a siege, and feel the pain of a starving young couple who were driven to sell all four of their young children into slavery during a famine. What might seem at first glance to be a remote and inaccessible ancient culture proves to be a comprehensible world, one that bequeathed to us many of our institutions and beliefs, a truly fascinating place to visit"--
Author | : Richard W. Butler |
Publisher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1845936531 |
This book presents individuals who have made an important contribution to tourism. Most are entrepreneurs in the classic sense, but others are individuals who have had unintentional subsequent effects on tourism through their actions. The book is arranged in four parts: (i) giants of hospitality (chapters 1-5); (ii) giants of travel (chapters 6-10); (iii) giants of activities (chapters 11-14); and (iv) giants of development (chapters 15-19).
Author | : Lydia Pyne |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2021-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178914485X |
A global exploration of postcards as artifacts at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. Postcards are usually associated with banal holiday pleasantries, but they are made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. When they were invented, postcards established what is now taken for granted in modern times: the ability to send and receive messages around the world easily and inexpensively. Fundamentally they are about creating personal connections—links between people, places, and beliefs. Lydia Pyne examines postcards on a global scale, to understand them as artifacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. In doing so, she shows how postcards were the first global social network and also, here in the twenty-first century, how postcards are not yet extinct.
Author | : Izre'el |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2023-10-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004659374 |
Author | : Paul Cooper |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 2024-07-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0369760417 |
"A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive."?The Times Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse. Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world.