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The Egyptian Book of the Dead, often referred to as the "Book of Coming Forth by Day," is a profound collection of ancient funerary texts and spells created to guide the deceased through the complex journey of the afterlife. Emerging during the New Kingdom period around 1550 BCE, these texts continued to evolve until about 50 BCE. They developed from earlier religious texts such as the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts, becoming more personalized...
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead, also known as the "Book of Coming Forth by Day," is a collection of ancient funerary texts and spells aimed at guiding the deceased through the afterlife. These texts were in use from the beginning of the New Kingdom, around 1550 BCE, until about 50 BCE. The Book of the Dead evolved from earlier texts such as the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom and the Coffin Texts of the Middle Kingdom, gradually becoming more personalized...
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Jonah was not afraid to go to Nineveh; Jonah loved the ninevite people. Jonah was a happy prophet; Jonah was never angry at God, see the true reason why Jonah went to Joppa Bay to sail to tarshas, see the true reason Jonah prayed in the fish's belly. Stomach see the real reason why Jonah told the sailors to throw him overboard into the water "God was never angry at Jonah" God was angry at Balaam. This book is about one thing the word of the Lord came...
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I adored it' JULIE HAWORTH
'Witty, well-observed and utterly charming' SOPHIE COUSENS
'Funny, tender and insightful' ERICKA WALLER
Two sisters, one absent father and a grand inheritance . . .
Maggie and Liz may be sisters (and yes, named after a pair of much more famous siblings), but that's about all they have in common. Maggie is a free spirit - travelling the world, flitting through life and relationships without ever really having to connect....
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A series I can get behind on so many levels! ... This book is enchanting with a capital EEEEEE! Steph is so relatable and utterly adorable' Reader review, 5 stars
Steph Williams is excited to get her hands stuck into her latest gardening project. This time, she's been commissioned by Lady Clara of Ashford Manor to restore the stately gardens to their former glory.
But the estate is suddenly thrown into chaos when a dead body is discovered in one...
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A look at the history of psychiatry's foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people.
In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeths Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and gender-variant people in...
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A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically.
In The Pandemic Workplace, anthropologist Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US workplace and how it changed-and changed us-during the pandemic. She argues that the unprecedented organizational challenges of the pandemic forced us to radically reexamine our attitudes about work and to think more deeply about how values clash in the workplace. These changes...
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A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery.
It's now widely understood that the fullest expression of nineteenth-century American capitalism was found in the structures of chattel slavery. It's also understood that almost every other institution and aspect of life then was at least entangled with-and often profited from-slavery's perpetuation. Yet as Sharon Ann Murphy shows...