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Edité par Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2002
ISBN 10 : 1860648320ISBN 13 : 9781860648328
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. Popular interest in ancient Egypt has too often tended to focus on the deeds of rulers, great nobles, and priests. In Pharaohs People, T.G.H. James by contrast examines the daily working lives of Egyptians lower down the social scale: bureaucrats, scribes, craftsmen, and workers of the land. James has drawn on the evidence of paintings and inscriptions from tombs and temples, from official archives, private correspondence, accounts, and dispatches. Most of the texts have been newly translated for this book and, in examining them, the author brings to life the fascinating intricacies of daily life under the Pharaohs.
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Edité par Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2008
ISBN 10 : 1845114965ISBN 13 : 9781845114961
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. Behind the faade of sombreros and tequila, tourist traps and holiday resorts, there lies a very different Mexico. In Sliced Iguana Isabella Tree explores a country that is the heart and lifeblood of the Americas, a country of extremes and contradictions. In a land so markedly shaped by machismo, she finds a town controlled by arm-wrestling matriarchs and party-mad transvestites and in war-torn Chiapas she discovers shamans worshipping Mayan gods inside Catholic churches and conducting exorcisms with the aid of Pepsi. At a graveside vigil on the Night of the Dead she encounters the last delicate vestige of a pre-Columbian cult that elsewhere has morphed into an Americanised Halloween. With a group of Huichol Indians, perhaps the last truly autonomous tribe in the entire American continent, she participates in rituals using peyote, the hallucinogenic cactus, to bring rain to the drought-stricken sierra and appease the forces of Nature so recklessly abused by the conquistadors and their successors.Through her narrative Isabella Tree threads the brightly coloured history of Mexico and tells the stories of the people that have defined its fractured past and will shape its future - kings and conquistadors, politicians and rebels, shamans and priests, mestizos and indigenous Indians. This is a story of Mexico like no other, capturing the essence of its psyche and illuminating the struggles and hopes of a people and a country on the cusp of change.This edition features a new Preface by [Tree].
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Edité par Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2001
ISBN 10 : 1860646158ISBN 13 : 9781860646157
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. Revised. In November 1922 a momentous discovery, unlike any other before or since, changed our understanding of the ancient world. However, until now the marvelous story of Carters quest for Tutankhamun and its culmination in his unearthing of the intact, treasure-filled tomb has been told without a reliable account of the man behind the discovery and the myths that have surrounded it. Carter's legendary discovery in the Valley of the Kings and his painstaking clearance of the intact royal burial are the topic of this definitive biography.
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Edité par Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2004
ISBN 10 : 1850434034ISBN 13 : 9781850434030
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : new. The Caucasus--a region of supreme natural beauty and fiercely proud warriors--has throughout history been characterized by violence and turmoil. During the Great Caucasus War of 1834-1859, the warring mountain tribes of Daghestan and Chechnya united under the charismatic leadership of the Muslim chieftain Imam Shamyl, the "Lion of Daghestan", and held at bay the invading Russian army for nearly 25 years. Lesley Blanch vividly recounts the epic story of their heroic and bloody struggle for freedom and the life of a man still legendary in the Caucasus.
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Edité par Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2011
ISBN 10 : 1848857691ISBN 13 : 9781848857698
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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Etat : new.
Edité par Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2003
ISBN 10 : 1860648940ISBN 13 : 9781860648946
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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Etat : new.
Edité par Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2009
ISBN 10 : 1845118987ISBN 13 : 9781845118983
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. Reprint. Linking East and West, Asia with Europe, the Silk Road was once the most important trading route in the world. A conduit for the exchange of prized silks, spices and jewels as well as philosophies, cultures and religions, the Silk Road was a catalyst for the rise and fall of some of the greatest civilizations in history. This second title in the trilogy--The War, The Road and The Lake--this is the account of Sven Hedins 10,000-mile journey along the ancient Silk Road, as he carried out a mission for the Chinese to create a road linking China with the rogue province of Xinjiang. Forbidden by the government to conduct archaeological investigations, Hedin ignored the restriction and was imprisoned for it, but the research that he brought back with him has formed the basis of much of the Wests knowledge of the Silk Road and its history. Today, as waves of tourists tread its abandoned routes and explore its ruined caravanserais, they follow in the footsteps of this original Silk Road explorer.
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Edité par Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2009
ISBN 10 : 1845118634ISBN 13 : 9781845118631
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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Etat : new.
Edité par Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2009
ISBN 10 : 1845119959ISBN 13 : 9781845119959
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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Etat : new.
Edité par Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2001
ISBN 10 : 1860646778ISBN 13 : 9781860646775
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of Western painting--Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia Goncharova, Suzanne Valadon, Berthe Morisot, Kathe Kllwitz--and produces a brilliantly incisive and richly illustrated study. She explains the obstacles as both external and surmountable and internal and insurmountable in the race for achievement.
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Edité par Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2009
ISBN 10 : 1845118049ISBN 13 : 9781845118044
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. Reprint. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)--poet, philosopher, painter, novelist, playwright, composer, traveller, political commentator and Asias first Nobel Laureate--was one of his eras cultural icons. Proclaimed as the greatest poet India has ever produced, Tagore left an astonishing legacy undimmed nearly 70 years after his death. But he was also an enigmatic, complex and contradictory figure, torn between Indias spiritual values and the spirit of the West. In this definitive biography, Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson explore the man behind the myth, presenting the power of his person, the power of his name and the power of his work. The result is an enlightening and exquisitely rendered portrayal--not of the legend but, to quote Tagore, of *the figure that once moved.*.
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Edité par Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2001
ISBN 10 : 186064645XISBN 13 : 9781860646454
Vendeur : Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
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Softcover. Etat : Good. Invited by The Guardian newspaper to explore his choice of 100 films in the millennium in a weekly column spanning two years, film writer and critic Derek Malcolm set out on a project which has attracted much attention. This book is a critical celebration of unparalleled knowledge and understanding of what cinema can achieve. Malcolm not only pleases to filmgoers, but introduces readers to films that they may not yet have discovered.
Edité par Brand: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2001
ISBN 10 : 1860646441ISBN 13 : 9781860646447
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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Etat : new.