Author: Piotr Bienkowski
Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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This is an accessible introduction to Jordan's diverse and fascinating cultural heritage. In each subsequent chapter a leading scholar describes and outlines the development and variety of a particular art-form

Author: Carl S. Ehrlich
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 074254334X
Category : Middle Eastern literature
Languages : en
Pages : 523

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Sumerian literature / Gonzalo Rubio -- Egyptian literature / Susan Tower Hollis -- Akkadian literature / Benjamin R. Foster -- Hittite literature / Gary Beckman -- Canaanite literature / Wayne T. Pitard -- Hebrew/Israelite literature / Carl S. Ehrlich -- Aramaic literature / Ingo Kottsieper.

Author: Paula Wagner
Publisher: She Writes Press
ISBN: 1631525301
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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At eighteen, Paula is already a seasoned traveler, having begun life in England, crisscrossed the US as a young child, and survived a year in a London boarding school, immersed in her mother’s heritage. But when, at eighteen, she leaves home for Israel to explore her father’s Jewish roots and learn Hebrew on a kibbutz ulpan (a work/study program on a collective farm), her quest will change her life forever. Seduced by her love of language, she continues the journey to France for several years before returning at last to settle to Israel. As she navigates her odyssey from vision to reality, she will learn much more than two new languages—and realize that if she is ever to forge her own identity, she must also separate from her twin sister and follow her own path.

Author: Christian Marek
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691182906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 820

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This monumental book provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to the Roman imperial period. In this English-language edition of the critically acclaimed German book, Christian Marek masterfully employs ancient sources to illuminate civic institutions, urban and rural society, agriculture, trade and money, the influential Greek writers of the Second Sophistic, the notoriously bloody exhibitions of the gladiatorial arena, and more.

Author: Stella Caldwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783120093
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Travel back in time to the ancient and mysterious land of the pharaohs. Journey down the River Nile and discover colossal monuments, temples and tombs in all their colour and splendour, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Experience the glory of ancient Egypt as it was, back in the days when mighty pharaohs ruled."--

Author: David Price Williams
Publisher: Markosia Enterprises Ltd
ISBN: 1913802515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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David Price Williams is a well-known Middle Eastern archaeologist and ‘An Ancient Land: Genesis of an archaeologist’ is an account of his work in the Holy Land, especially about his four-year multi-disciplinary expedition to find for the first time the effects of climatic change on human cultural and physical evolution.

Author: Diane Tuft
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614281993
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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After receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2012, art photographer Diane Tuft travelled to Antarctica to study and document the effects of ultraviolet and infrared radiation on the landscape. 'Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land' chronicles the extraordinary results of that expedition, with over 50 stunning images that capture Antarctica's raw, untouched splendour with colours, textures, and compositions that verge on the surreal. Gondwana presents a living reflection of hundreds of millions of years of Earth's history, a mythical land as it has never been imagined before. You can see more pictures and learn more about this stunning book by visiting the book's dedicated website: http://www.gondwanabook.com/ AUTHOR: Diane Tuft is a New York-based mixed-media artist who has focused primarily on photography since 1998. She earned a degree in mathematics at the University of Connecticut before continuing her studies in art at Pratt Institute in New York. She has always been fascinated by the mystery of what exists beyond the visible; capturing this through her camera--often travelling to the world's most remote places to do so--has been a guiding principle of her work. over 50 illustrations

Author: Dorothy Weitz Drummond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974823317
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Day after day we are presented with horrific images from the Holy Land: snipers, suicide bombings, homes reduced to rubble, children dying on their way to school. An ironically twisted David and Goliath story pits slingshot armed teenagers against attack helicopters. Outside a still smoldering restaurant a father cradles the breathless body of his young daughter.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomical photography
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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This series of compelling night images of the land and skies of Israel offers the viewer mystical points of entry and departure. The world depicted in "Celestial Nights" is composed of a delicately constructed order in which earth and the heavens mirror each other. Folberg's photographs describe places where the spiritual is at once near, imprinted in the forms of the arid landscapes, and far away in the recesses of space. Neil Folberg, a former student and colleague of Ansel Adams, is renowned for landscapes and images of "built environments." Born in San Francisco and raised in the Mid-west, Folberg has lived in Jerusalem since 1976. Timothy Ferris is the bestselling author of "Coming of Age in the Milky Way." "The genius of these images is not in the revelation of any new truth, but in the expression of unsolvable equations. We are shown both realms of the visible universe, Earth and sky."--"Astronomy," June 2002

Author: Shlomo Sand
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844679462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.