La historia del Antiguo Egipto: Un viaje al corazón de la antigua civilización egipcia, los faraones, creencias, historia y mucho más (Spanish ... by Diyasim Z. Dirack Price verified 10 hours ago

Sumérgete en los misterios y maravillas de una de las civilizaciones más fascinantes de la historia con la historia del antiguo Egipto. Un viaje épico a través de milenios, desde los primeros asentamientos a orillas del Nilo hasta la caída del último faraón ante el poder de Roma. Con una narrativa vibrante y detallada, descubrirás cómo los antiguos egipcios levantaron monumentos que desafían el tiempo, desarrollaron una cultura rica en mitología y conocimientos, y dejaron un legado imborrable que sigue cautivando al mundo ...

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Death Masks of the Rich and Famous by Wes Chestleydale (4 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Perfect plaster impressions of the recently deceased. Tangible representations of the most celebrated and renowned, passed down through history. The death mask has immortalized the visages of the world's most magnificent and magnanimous! Gaze upon the lifeless faces of some of histories greatest luminaries including... Alfred Nobel, Franz Liszt, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Samuel Morse, Napoleon Bonaparte, Jonathan Swift, Ulysses S. Grant, Leo Tolstoy, Pope Pius IX, Ludwig van Beethoven, Eva "Evita" Peron, John Dillinger, Pancho Villa, Sir ...

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Populism, Corruption and War: A Close Look at the Era of Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine's Politics by Dmytro Samoylenko Price verified 14 hours ago

This book is dedicated to the most important period of modern Ukrainian history. It reveals important details that contributed to Volodymyr Zelensky's rise to power and his actions as president. You will learn about the influence of oligarchs on Ukrainian politics and the reasons that influenced Vladimir Putin's decision to start aggression against Ukraine. The book "Populism, Corruption, and War" consists of many stories, each of which helps to understand the nuances of Ukrainian politics, the reasons, the course of actions, and ...

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Theorising Justice: A Primer for Social Scientists by Johanna Ohlsson (Bristol University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together divergent approaches to justice theorising, this volume connects normative and philosophical theories with the more empirically focused approaches emerging today in the social and political sciences and policy scholarship. The chapters overview a variety of mainstream approaches and radical critiques of justice to illustrate their value in addressing the pressing problems of climate change and economic development. Stressing the value of assessing justice ...

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Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico by Veronica Herrera (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Most of the world's population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricity, and health clinics, is either inadequate or sorely missing. Water and Politics shows how politicians benefit politically from manipulating public service provision for electoral gain. In many young democracies, politicians exchange water service for votes or political support, rewarding allies or punishing political enemies. Surprisingly, the political problem of water provision has become more ...

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Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature (Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment) by Matthias Klestil (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten's journals, Booker T. Washington's autobiographies, and Charles W. Chesnutt's short fiction. The volume highlights how literary forms of environmental knowledge in the ...

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The Italian Diaspora in South Africa: Nostalgia, Identity, and Belonging in the Second and Third Generations (Routledge Studies in Development, ... by Maria Chiara Marchetti-Mercer (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 44 minutes ago

This book investigates the experiences of second- and third-generation Italians living in South Africa, exploring how nostalgia for Italy influences their sense of identity and belonging. The Italian community in South Africa is a unique diaspora, with a complex history, including roots in Italian colonial activities in Africa, and in World War II. This book looks at how the descendants of these early migrants take pride in being Italian and value the Italian language. They also ascribe much importance to their family roots, and ...

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Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Benjamin Taylor (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Silent Hill: The Terror Engine (Landmark Video Games) by Bernard Perron (University of Michigan Press) (130 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series. Silent Hill, with its first title released in 1999, is one of the most influential of the horror video game series. Perron situates the games within the survival horror genre, both by looking at the history of the genre and by comparing Silent Hill with such important ...

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Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America (Nation of Nations Book 23) by Helen Heran Jun (NYU Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Helen Heran Jun explores how the history of U.S. citizenshiphas positioned Asian Americans and African Americans in interlocking socio-political relationships since the mid nineteenth century. Rejecting the conventional emphasis on 'inter-racial prejudice,' Jun demonstrates how a politics of inclusion has constituted a racial Other within Asian American and African American discourses of national identity. Race for Citizenship examines three salient moments when African American and Asian American citizenship become acutely visible ...

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