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Budge's Egypt

A Classic 19th-Century Travel Guide

By: E. A. Wallis Budge

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Budge's Egypt

A Classic 19th-Century Travel Guide

By: E. A. Wallis Budge

Nile monuments, Alexandria, Cairo, Heliopolis, Suez, Cleopatra's Needle, the Rosetta Stone, the pyramids, the Sphinx, the temples at Luxor and Karnak, and much more.

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0486149536

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9780486149530

An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary

With an Index of English Words, King List and Geographical List with Indexes, List of Hieroglyphic Characters, Coptic and Semitic Alphabets

By: E. A. Wallis Budge

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An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary

With an Index of English Words, King List and Geographical List with Indexes, List of Hieroglyphic Characters, Coptic and Semitic Alphabets

By: E. A. Wallis Budge

An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, a two volume set written by Egyptian expert E.A. Wallis Budge, is quite simply one of the most comprehensive and detailed dictionaries of Egyptian hieroglyphs with English to accompany it. The series includes a detailed Introduction by the author with key words and glyphs, a bibliography of works used to help with translation and research, glyphs organized alphabetically by the Egyptian alphabet with accompanying words and English translations, tables of hieroglyphs with phonetic and numeric values and accompanying translations, and an Index of both English and Egyptian words. Volume I includes the introduction, bibliography, a list of characters separated by subject and organized by table, and letters "A" through "KH" or "KHA" of hieroglyphs and translations. SIR ERNEST ALFRED THOMPSON WALLIS BUDGE (1857-1934) was born in Bodmin, Cornwall in the UK and discovered an interest in languages at a very early age. Budge spent all his free time learning and discovering Semitic languages, including Assyrian, Syriac, and Hebrew. Eventually, through a close contact, he was able to acquire a job working with Egyptian and Iraqi artifacts at the British Museum. Budge excavated and deciphered numerous cuneiform and hieroglyphic documents, contributing vastly to the museum's collection. Eventually, he became the Keeper of his department, specializing in Egyptology. Budge wrote many books during his lifetime, most specializing in Egyptian life, religion, and language.

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Cosimo, Inc.

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1616404604

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9781616404604

PTSD and Folk Therapy

Everyday Practices of American Masculinity in the Combat Zone

By: John Paul Wallis,Jay Mechling

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PTSD and Folk Therapy

Everyday Practices of American Masculinity in the Combat Zone

By: John Paul Wallis,Jay Mechling

Using war memoirs, war journalism, and the personal experiences of John Paul Wallis as a Marine with two tours of duty in Iraq, Wallis and Mechling analyze the folklore shared by male warriors in the combat zone to understand how the traditional everyday practices of these men in groups serve as a form of psychological first aid for relieving the symptoms associated with the stress of living, working, and fighting in the combat zone. The authors study how boys and men are socialized in American culture, the context for their examining the folk traditions, including pet-keeping, rough-and-tumble play fighting, video game play, masturbation, dark play, and deep play.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793603901

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9781793603906

A Finer Future

Creating an Economy in Service to Life

By: L. Hunter Lovins,Stewart Wallis,Anders Wijkman,John Fullerton

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A Finer Future

Creating an Economy in Service to Life

By: L. Hunter Lovins,Stewart Wallis,Anders Wijkman,John Fullerton

The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet. Humanity is in a race with catastrophe. Is the future one of global warming, 65 million migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality, and grid-locked politics? Or one of empowered entrepreneurs and innovators working towards social change, leveling the playing field, and building a world that works for everyone? While the specter of collapse looms large, A Finer Future demonstrates that humanity has a chance - just - to thread the needle of sustainability and build a regenerative economy through a powerful combination of enlightened entrepreneurialism, regenerative economy, technology, and innovative policy. The authors - world leaders in business, economics, and sustainability - gather the environmental economics evidence, outline the principles of a regenerative economy, and detail a policy roadmap to achieving it, including: Transforming finance and corporations Reimagining energy, agriculture, ecosystems, and the nature of how we work Enhancing human well-being Delivering a world that respects ecosystems and human community. Charting the course to a regenerative economy is the most important work facing humanity and A Finer Future provides the essential blueprint for business leaders, entrepreneurs, environmentalists, politicians, policymakers, and others working to create a world that works for people and the planet. AWARDS SILVER | 2020 Eric Zencey Prize SILVER | 2018 Nautilus Book Awards: Ecology & Environment BRONZE | 2018 Foreword INDIES: Business & Economics

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New Society Publishers

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1771422874

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9781771422871

Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine

An Encyclopedia

By: Thomas F. Glick,Steven John Livesey,Faith Wallis

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Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine

An Encyclopedia

By: Thomas F. Glick,Steven John Livesey,Faith Wallis

Demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the flowering of the Renaissance was a period of great intellectual and practical achievement and innovation. This reference work will be useful to scholars, students, and general readers researching topics in many fields of study, including medieval studies and world history.

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Psychology Press

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0415969301

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9780415969307

Semiconductor Physics and Applications

By: M. Balkanski,Richard Fisher Wallis

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Semiconductor Physics and Applications

By: M. Balkanski,Richard Fisher Wallis

This textbook covers the basic physics of semiconductors and their applications to practical devices, with emphasis on the basic physical principles upon which these devices operate. Extensive use of figures is made to enhance the clarity of the presentation and to establish contact with the experimental side of the topic. Graduate students and lecturers in semiconductor physics, condensed matter physics, electromagnetic theory, and quantum mechanics will find this a useful textbook and reference work.

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Oxford University Press

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0198517416

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9780198517412

The Micmac Indians of Eastern Canada

By: Wilson D. Wallis

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The Micmac Indians of Eastern Canada

By: Wilson D. Wallis

The Micmac Indians of Eastern Canada was first published in 1955. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The culture of an Indian tribe over a period of 300 years is described in this comprehensive ethnographic study by a husband and wife anthropologist team. The earliest accounts of the Micmac Indians were written by seventeenth-century French explorers and missionaries. These give historical perspective to the work done by the Wallises, whose research is based on field trips that bridged a 40-years span. Dr. Wallis first observed the Micmac tribes in 1911–12. He and Mrs. Wallis revisited them in 1950 and 1953, assessing the changes in material cultural and in orientation, drives, and motivations. In addition, they have preserved a rich collection of Micmac folktales and traditions, published as a separate section of the book.

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U of Minnesota Press

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081666014X

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9780816660148

The Nineteenth Century, 1830-1890

By: George Wallis Field

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The Nineteenth Century, 1830-1890

By: George Wallis Field

Discusses topics such as drama, regionalism, realism, lyric poetry, poetic realists in prose, impressionism, symbolism, and the social novel, and authors such as Grillparzer, Hebbel, Buchner, Grabbe, Raimund, Nestroy, Immerman, Alexis, Morike, Auerbach, Droste-Hulshoff, Ludwig, Gotthelf, Heinrich Heine, Platen, Lenau, Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stifter, Keller, Storm, Raabe, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Detlev von Liliencron, Richard Dehmel, and others.

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London : E. Benn ; New York : Barnes & Noble Books

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0510323081

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9780510323080

The Egyptian Heaven and Hell: Volume II (Routledge Revivals)

By: E. A. Wallis Budge

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The Egyptian Heaven and Hell: Volume II (Routledge Revivals)

By: E. A. Wallis Budge

This is the second of three volumes, first published in 1906, which explore the Egyptian theology of the afterlife. It contains the complete hieroglyphic text of the short form of the Åm-Tuat and of the Book of Gates, with translations and reproductions of all the illustrations. In the Book of Gates the doctrines of the sophisticated cult of Osiris are prominent: they affirm that the beatified live for ever in the kingdom of Osiris, and feed daily upon his eternal body. The object of all the Books of the Other World was to provide the dead with a ‘guide’ or ‘handbook,’ containing a description of the regions through which their souls would have to pass on their way to the Kingdom of Osiris, and which would supply them with the words of power and magical names necessary for an unimpeded journey from this world to the next.

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Routledge

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1317649567

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9781317649564

The English German Girl

A Novel

By: Jake Wallis Simons

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The English German Girl

A Novel

By: Jake Wallis Simons

This powerful, meticulously researched novel is a moving tale of one girl’s struggle against a world in turmoil. In 1930s Berlin, choked by the tightening of Hitler’s fist, the Klein family is gradually losing everything that is precious to them. Their fifteen-year-old daughter, Rosa, slips out of Germany on a Kindertransport train to begin a new life in England. Charged with the task of securing a safe passage for her family, she vows that she will not rest until they are safe. But as war breaks out and she loses contact with her parents, Rosa finds herself wondering if there are some vows that can’t be kept. A sweeping tale of love and loss, with the poignant story of the Kindertransport at its heart, this is an exceptional accomplishment from one of Britain’s bravest and most-vibrant young writers.

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Simon and Schuster

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1628734647

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9781628734645

Oil Man

The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum

By: Michael Wallis

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Oil Man

The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum

By: Michael Wallis

This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created. Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. In Oil Man, Michael Wallis, a best-selling historian of the West, presents Phillips against a pageant of luminaries and outlaws that includes Will Rogers, Harry Truman, Edna Ferber, J. Paul Getty, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Spanning the final days of America's frontier West through the Roaring Twenties and two world wars, Oil Man is a bold, colorful biography of an original American entrepreneur. A classic work that continues to gather accolades since its original publication in 1988, the book captures the life and times of an American hero.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806146966

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9780806146966

First Steps in Egyptian Hieroglyphics

A Book for Beginners

By: E. A. Wallis Budge

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First Steps in Egyptian Hieroglyphics

A Book for Beginners

By: E. A. Wallis Budge

Classic primer comprises lists of frequently used signs and determinatives, a vocabulary of about 500 words, a series of 31 texts and extracts, and untransliterated and untranslated texts to be worked out independently.

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Courier Corporation

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048614657X

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9780486146577

Introduction to Combinatorics

By: Walter D. Wallis,John C. George

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Introduction to Combinatorics

By: Walter D. Wallis,John C. George

Accessible to undergraduate students, Introduction to Combinatorics presents approaches for solving counting and structural questions. It looks at how many ways a selection or arrangement can be chosen with a specific set of properties and determines if a selection or arrangement of objects exists that has a particular set of properties. To give students a better idea of what the subject covers, the authors first discuss several examples of typical combinatorial problems. They also provide basic information on sets, proof techniques, enumeration, and graph theory—topics that appear frequently throughout the book. The next few chapters explore enumerative ideas, including the pigeonhole principle and inclusion/exclusion. The text then covers enumerative functions and the relations between them. It describes generating functions and recurrences, important families of functions, and the theorems of Pólya and Redfield. The authors also present introductions to computer algebra and group theory, before considering structures of particular interest in combinatorics: graphs, codes, Latin squares, and experimental designs. The last chapter further illustrates the interaction between linear algebra and combinatorics. Exercises and problems of varying levels of difficulty are included at the end of each chapter. Ideal for undergraduate students in mathematics taking an introductory course in combinatorics, this text explores the different ways of arranging objects and selecting objects from a set. It clearly explains how to solve the various problems that arise in this branch of mathematics.

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CRC Press

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143989499X

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9781439894996

Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation

Writings from America's Heartland

By: Michael Wallis

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Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation

Writings from America's Heartland

By: Michael Wallis

A deeply sympathetic, colorful evocation of life on the American prairies In Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation—a title inspired by the lyrics of Woody Guthrie—best-selling author Michael Wallis creates a brilliant tableau of America’s heartland. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this collection of sixteen essays reflects the finest examples of Wallis’s writing and harkens back to a time before fast food and malls replaced family-owned diners along Route 66. From tales of the notorious Oklahoma panhandle, where “the only law was the colt and the carbine,” to the fate of Woody Guthrie’s mother Nora, who, burdened by depression, set fire to her kids and spent the last years of her life in an asylum, Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation brings to life some of Oklahoma’s most memorable characters—the famous and infamous, the ordinary and down-home. “Enclosed within the covers of this book are some of my favorite spoonfuls of Oklahoma,” says Wallis. The result is a quintessential American book—a crazy quilt of stories and a powerful portrait of Okie identity.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806138246

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9780806138244

Britain, Germany and the Road to the Holocaust

British Attitudes towards Nazi Atrocities

By: Russell Wallis

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Britain, Germany and the Road to the Holocaust

British Attitudes towards Nazi Atrocities

By: Russell Wallis

In the 1930s, the British public's emotional response to the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, including the bombing of Guernica, shaped the mass-politics of the age. Similarly, alleged German atrocities in World War I against the Belgians and the French had led to campaigns in Britain for donations to support the victims. Why then, was the British public seemingly less concerned with the treatment of Jews in Hitler's Germany? Outlining a 'hierarchy of compassion', Russell Wallis seeks to show how and why the Holocaust met initially with such a muted response in Britain. Drawing on primary source material, Wallis shows why the Nuremberg laws, Kristallnacht and the creation of the Prague Ghetto were reported without great protest. Even after the reality of the 'Final Solution' was revealed to the British Parliament by Anthony Eden in 1942, the Holocaust remained a footnote to the war effort. Britain, Germany and the Road to the Holocaust is a study of the British relationship with Germany in the period, and a dissection of British attitudes towards the genocide in Europe.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786723875

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9781786723871

The Book Of Medicines

By: E.A. Wallis Budge

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The Book Of Medicines

By: E.A. Wallis Budge

First published in 2005. The present work contains the text of the great Syriac "Book of Medicines", edited from a manuscript in my possession, in an English translation of the same, with Introduction, Index. The first section of the Book of Medicines consists of Lectures upon Human Anatomy, Pathology, and Therapeutics, to each of which is added a series of prescriptions of the most detailed character, which the author recommends to be administered in the treatment of the various diseases described in the Lecture preceding. this is here published for the first time.

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Routledge

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1136182543

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9781136182549

Egyptian Religion (Routledge Revivals)

Egyptian Ideas of The Future Life

By: E.A. Wallis Budge

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Egyptian Religion (Routledge Revivals)

Egyptian Ideas of The Future Life

By: E.A. Wallis Budge

Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the trustees of the British Museum: numbering into the thousands and of great cultural and historical significance. Budge published well over 100 monographs, which shaped the development of future scholarship and are still of great academic value today, dealing with subjects such as Egyptian religion, history and literature. First published in 1899 as part of the Egypt and Chaldaea series, Egyptian Religion explores the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians with regard to the doctrine of the resurrection and the future life. Although no systematic account dealing solely with this doctrine has been discovered, the Book of the Dead and various other religious texts from which this work is derived reflect ancient Egyptian beliefs, ideals and superstitions. Wallis Budge explores the Gods of the Egyptians and the themes of resurrection and immorality in a classic work, of great significance to students and scholars with an interest in ancient Egyptian and Middle Eastern history and religion.

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Routledge

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1135095159

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9781135095154

The A to Z of Shamanism

By: Graham Harvey,Robert J. Wallis

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The A to Z of Shamanism

By: Graham Harvey,Robert J. Wallis

The A to Z of Shamanism has the duel task of exploring the common ground of shamanic traditions and evaluating the diversity of both traditional indigenous communities and individual Western seekers. This is done in an introduction, a bibliography, a chronology, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries, which explore the consistent features of a variety of shamans, the purposes shamanism serves, the function and activities of the shaman, and the cultural contexts in which they make sense.

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