A Remarkable Papyrus Scroll
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A Remarkable Papyrus Scroll Written In The Hieratic Character About 1050 B C
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
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Manuka
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Author : Cliff Van Eaton
language : en
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
Release Date : 2015-03-17
Manuka written by Cliff Van Eaton and has been published by Exisle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-17 with Business & Economics categories.
New Zealand's manuka honey is known around the world. It fetches extremely high prices, and beekeepers do everything in their power to produce as much of it as they can. Wound dressings containing manuka honey are used in leading hospitals, and it has saved the lives of patients infected with disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to standard antibiotic drugs. In so doing, it has forced the medical profession to re-think its position on the therapeutic properties of natural products. This book chronicles the remarkable 'rags-to-riches' story of manuka honey, as seen through the eyes of a beekeeping specialist who watched it unfold from the very beginning. It's a great science tale of an unassuming university lecturer and his hardworking lab assistant who found something totally unexpected in a product everyone had written off. And it's an entertaining account of the way that simple discovery magically caught the international media's attention, helping some enterprising New Zealanders with a love of bees to develop manuka honey-based products and take them to the rest of the world. The book describes the remarkable antibacterial and therapeutic properties of manuka and the range of uses it has.
Transferred Illusions
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Author : Marilyn Deegan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-24
Transferred Illusions written by Marilyn Deegan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is a study of the forms and institutions of print - newspapers, books, scholarly editions, publishing, libraries - as they relate to and are changed by emergent digital forms and institutions. In the early 1990s hypertext was briefly hailed as a liberating writing tool for non-linear creation. Fast forward no more than a decade, and we are reading old books from screens. It is, however, the newspaper, for around two hundred years print's most powerful mass vehicle, whose economy persuasively shapes its electronic remediation through huge digitization initiatives, dominated by a handful of centralizing service providers, funded and wrapped round by online advertising. The error is to assume a culture of total replacement. The Internet is just another information space, sharing characteristics that have always defined such spaces - wonderfully effective and unstable, loaded with valuable resources and misinformation; that is, both good and bad. This is why it is important that writers, critics, publishers and librarians - in modern parlance, the knowledge providers - be critically engaged in shaping and regulating cyberspace, and not merely the passive instruments or unreflecting users of the digital tools in our hands.
The Derveni Papyrus
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Author : Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-11-26
The Derveni Papyrus written by Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-26 with Philosophy categories.
The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries is devoted to this fascinating and challenging document, discovered in 1962 in a tomb in Derveni, near Thessaloniki, and dated c. 340-320 BCE. It contains a text probably written at the end of 5th c. BCE, which after some reflections on minor divinities and unusual cults, comments upon a poem attributed to Orpheus from an allegorical and philosophical perspective. This volume focuses on the restoration and conservation of the papyrus, the ideas of the anonymous author about Erinyes and daimons, the quoted Orphic poem in comparison with Hesiod’s Theogony and Parmenides’ poem, the exegetical approach of the commentator, his cosmogonic system, his attitude regarding mystery cults and his peculiar theology.
The Pharaoh S Treasure
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Author : John Gaudet
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-10-02
The Pharaoh S Treasure written by John Gaudet and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-02 with History categories.
For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on tablets. But it was with the advent of papyrus paper when the ability to record and transmit information exploded, allowing for an exchanging of ideas from the banks of the Nile throughout the Mediterranean—and the civilized world—for the first time in human history.In The Pharaoh’s Treasure, John Gaudet looks at this pivotal transition to papyrus paper, which would become the most commonly used information medium in the world for more than 4,000 years. Far from fragile, papyrus paper is an especially durable writing surface; papyrus books and documents in ancient and medieval times had a usable life of hundreds of years, and this durability has allowed items like the famous Nag Hammadi codices from the third and fourth century to survive.
The Spear The Scroll And The Pebble
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Author : Richard A. Billows
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-01-12
The Spear The Scroll And The Pebble written by Richard A. Billows and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-12 with History categories.
This book presents a powerful new argument for how and why the Greek city-states, including their distinctive society and culture, came to be - and why they had the highly unusual and influential form they took. After reviewing early city-state formation, and the economic underpinnings of city-state society, three key chapters examine the way the Greeks developed their unique society. The spear, scroll and pebble encapsulate the book's core ideas. The Spear: city-state Greeks developed a citizen-militia military system that gave relatively equal importance to each citizen-warrior, thereby emboldening the citizen-warriors to demand political rights. The Pebble: the resultant growth of collective political systems of oligarchy and democracy led to thousands of citizens forming the sovereign element of the state; they made political decisions through communal debate and voting. The Scroll: in order for such systems to function, a shared information base had to be created, and this was done by setting up public notices of laws, proposed policies, public meeting agendas, and a host of other information. To access this information, these military and political citizens had to be able to read. Billows examines the spread of schools and literacy throughout the Greek world, showing that the male city-state Greeks formed the world's first-known mass literate society. He concludes by showing that it was the mass-literate nature of the Greek city-state society that explains the remarkable and influential culture the classical Greeks produced.
The Great Library Legacy How Knowledge Was Preserved Across Centuries
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Author : Ahmed Musa
language : en
Publisher: Recorded Books
Release Date : 2025-01-08
The Great Library Legacy How Knowledge Was Preserved Across Centuries written by Ahmed Musa and has been published by Recorded Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-08 with History categories.
The Great Library Legacy takes you on a journey through the history of humanity’s most significant repositories of knowledge. From the legendary Library of Alexandria to modern digital archives, this book explores how the great libraries of the world have preserved and disseminated knowledge across generations. It discusses the vital role these institutions played in shaping culture, science, and philosophy, and the challenges they faced in surviving wars, censorship, and neglect. As we move into the digital age, The Great Library Legacy reflects on the ongoing importance of safeguarding knowledge for future generations. Through stories of preservation, destruction, and revival, this book underscores the timeless human drive to record and pass on wisdom. It serves as a tribute to the libraries that have survived the test of time and an urgent reminder of the need to protect our intellectual heritage in an increasingly digital world.
Unearthing The Family Of Alexander The Great
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Author : David Grant
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Unearthing The Family Of Alexander The Great written by David Grant and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with History categories.
“Reading with all the innate and iconoclastic dramatic flair of a well scripted novel . . .an extraordinary story of modern archaeology.” —Midwest Book Review In October 336 BC, statues of the twelve Olympian Gods were paraded through the ancient capital of Macedon. Following them was a thirteenth, a statue of King Philip II who was deifying himself in front of the Greek world. Moments later Philip was stabbed to death; it was a world-shaking event that heralded in the reign of his son, Alexander the Great. Equally driven by a heroic lineage stretching back to gods and heroes, Alexander conquered the Persian Empire in eleven years but died mysteriously in Babylon. Some 2,300 years later, a cluster of subterranean tombs were unearthed in northern Greece containing the remains of the Macedonian royal line. This is the remarkable story of the quest to identify the family of Alexander the Great and the dynasty that changed the Graeco-Persian world forever. Written in close cooperation with the investigating archaeologists, anthropologists, and scientists, this book presents the revelations, mysteries and controversies in a charming, accessible style. Is this really the tomb of Philip II, Alexander’s father? And who was the warrior woman buried with weapons and armor beside him? “Impressively researched, Grant weaves an adventurous tale set in what reads like a travelogue of Greek history and folklore that makes Unearthing the Family of Alexander the Great an important work for academics and anthropologists, but also for a wider audience, both for its important subject matter and excellent presentation. Highly recommended.” —Richard A. Gabriel, author of Great Generals of the Ancient World “Faultless ancient Greek history.” —Books Monthly
Transactions Of The Academy Of Science Of Saint Louis
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Author : Academy of Science of St. Louis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
Transactions Of The Academy Of Science Of Saint Louis written by Academy of Science of St. Louis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with Science categories.
List of members in each volume, except v. 5.
Looking Beyond The Text
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2025-02-13
Looking Beyond The Text written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-13 with History categories.
Looking beyond the Text investigates the production, transmission, and reception of texts and manuscripts in ancient Egypt, focusing on the complex practices and culture of the scribes who made them. Drawing on theories and methods from other disciplines such as literary studies, neuroscience, and book history, the authors discuss the physical practices of writing, social contexts of texts and manuscripts, and scribes themselves. The papers examine a wide range of manuscripts, including letters, medical compendia, poems, religious corpora, and other text genres, written on varied media in different time periods. The resulting collection offers new perspectives on the key role of scribes in ancient Egypt and models more contextualized and materially informed modes of philology.