Book Description
This book offers an explanation of how the Great Pyramid was designed and built.
Author : John Romer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 2007-03-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521871662
This book offers an explanation of how the Great Pyramid was designed and built.
Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781559703147
In ancient Egypt, a pharaoh wants to dispense with a pyramid as his grave, but the priests convince him that building one is necessary to keep the populace busy and controlled. A political allegory by an Albanian writer, author of The Concert.
Author : Brett McCracken
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433569620
We're facing an information overload. With the quick tap of a finger we can access an endless stream of addictive information—sports scores, breaking news, political opinions, streaming TV, the latest Instagram posts, and much more. Accessing information has never been easier—but acquiring wisdom is increasingly difficult. In an effort to help us consume a more balanced, healthy diet of information, Brett McCracken has created the "Wisdom Pyramid." Inspired by the food pyramid model, the Wisdom Pyramid challenges us to increase our intake of enduring, trustworthy sources (like the Bible) while moderating our consumption of less reliable sources (like the Internet and social media). At a time when so much of our daily media diet is toxic and making us spiritually sick, The Wisdom Pyramid suggests that we become healthy and wise when we reorient our lives around God—the foundation of truth and the eternal source of wisdom.
Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1423142497
Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. From the creator of the hit Percy Jackson series.
Author : Peter Tompkins
Publisher : Lane, Allen
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,94 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9780713905953
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062971468
New York Times Bestseller One of the Best Books of 2021 by Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe and Esquire, and one of Oprah’s 15 Favorite Books of the Year “The Man Who Lived Underground reminds us that any ‘greatest writers of the 20th century’ list that doesn’t start and end with Richard Wright is laughable. It might very well be Wright’s most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book.” —Kiese Laymon A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and violence in America by the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system. This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a never-before-seen masterpiece by Richard Wright. Written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers, it would see publication in Wright's lifetime only in drastically condensed and truncated form, and ultimately be included in the posthumous short story collection Eight Men. Now, for the first time, by special arrangement with the author’s estate, the full text of the work that meant more to Wright than any other (“I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration”) is published in the form that he intended, complete with his companion essay, “Memories of My Grandmother.” Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson, contributes an afterword.
Author : Craig B. Smith
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1588346269
Going beyond even the expertise of archaeologists and historians, world-class engineer Craig B. Smith explores the planning and engineering behind the incredible Great Pyramid of Giza. How would the ancient Egyptians have developed their building plans, devised work schedules, managed laborers, solved specific design and engineering problems, or even improvised on the job? The answers are here, along with dazzling, one-of-a-kind color photographs and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations of tools, materials, and building techniques the ancient masters used. In his foreword to the book, Egypt's Undersecretary of State for the Giza Monuments Zahi Hawass explains the importance of understanding the Great Pyramid as a straightforward construction project.
Author : Roger Herz-Fischler
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2000-10-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0889203245
Many theories surround the geometric and mathematical factors that determined the shape of the Great Pyramid. Herz-Fischler examines and tests the theories of a range of, mostly Victorian, archaeologists, architects, engineers and mathematicians including Jomard, Perring, Ramee and Petrie.
Author : Barbara Minto
Publisher : Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Business communication
ISBN : 9781292372266
This book reveals that the mind automatically sorts information into distinctive pyramidal groupings. However, if any group of ideas are arranged into a pyramid structure in the first place, not only will it save valuable time and effort to write, it will take even less effort to read and comprehend it
Author : Miroslav Verner
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802139351
Discusses the pyramids, peeling back the layers of these ancient structures to reveal something about the civilization that built them.