Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt, Paperback - Jessica Barnes

Reducere. The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a ...

A fascinating exploration of the lives of normal people in ancient Egypt. Full of their own strange and amusing stories; documents their anxieties,...

Reducere. This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ...

Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expres...

From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines ...

Reducere. Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman rev...

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The alien influences behind the rise and fall of Egypt's Golden Age - Explains how Akhenaten was the last pharaoh entrusted with the sacred and anc...

Reducere. The scandalous rape of Ancient Egypt is a historical vignette of greed, vanity, and dedicated archaeological research. It is a tale vividly told by...

Drawing on South and East Asian philosophies and medicines, this book illustrates how our bodies and minds are influenced by our actions, habits, a...

DescriptionIn October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed. Flooding vil...

Provides observations on a range of subjects such as: how not to buy plants, the elicit pleasures of bargain-hunting, the misery of writer's block,...

Using the work of Antonio Gramsci and Frantz Fanon, two foundational theorists of anti-capitalism and anticolonialism, this book is an interdiscipl...

Little Miss Splendid is on holiday in Egypt with her friends where she dreams of being Queen Splendid of the Nile! Will the mummies have more banda...

First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologists...

DescriptionThis book explores the tribal politics of the Awlad 'Ali Bedouin in the borderland of Egypt and Libya. These tribal politics are part of...

This study presents an alternative story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by revisiting Egypt's moment of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth centur...

Can you hear it, the hiss of water wiggling its way out into the world uncaptured, wasted, wanton? British-Egyptian Sabrina Mahfouz grew up with am...

Reducere. Napoleon's conquest of Egypt in 1798 was the first contact between a Western power with imperial goals and an ancient regime of an African society....

Music in Conflict studies the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in Palestine-Israel, where conflict has both shaped and cla...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is. This verse is an important reminder, says Ezra Bayda, of w...

Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile.

#1 New York Times BestsellerWith a new introduction by the author and additional material, this 25th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times b...

Just outside the tiny Kansas town of Ulysses in 1903, a Mennonite woman gives birth to Agnes, a girl bearing a birthmark known as a Tieja Kjoaw--Ti...

Reducere. Arguing that the profession of art therapy has its roots in the studio environment, Catherine Moon proposes that it is now time to reclaim these ro...

Considering the impact of racism and discrimination on mental health, this handbook offers tools to improve wellbeing, manage everyday racism and l...

Contributor(s): Editor: Jeffrey SpierEditor: Timothy PottsEditor: Sara E. ColeFrom about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cu...

The Barnes Foundation's historic Pueblo and Navajo collections are explored alongside works by contemporary Native American artistsPublisher: Yale ...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Dr. Eran LermanNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 27Cover type: HardbackR...

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Reducere. The one indispensable resource, water is increasingly controlled and even owned by private capital. By 2012, water was a trillion-dollar industry--...