Pyramidiots

Author : Robert Carroll
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118045633

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The Skeptic's Dictionary by Robert Carroll Pdf

A wealth of evidence for doubters and disbelievers "Whether it's the latest shark cartilage scam, or some new 'repressed memory' idiocy that besets you, I suggest you carry a copy of this dictionary at all times, or at least have it within reach as first aid for psychic attacks. We need all the help we can get." -James Randi, President, James Randi Educational Foundation, randi.org "From alternative medicine, aliens, and psychics to the farthest shores of science and beyond, Robert Carroll presents a fascinating look at some of humanity's most strange and wonderful ideas. Refreshing and witty, both believers and unbelievers will find this compendium complete and captivating. Buy this book and feed your head!" -Clifford Pickover, author of The Stars of Heaven and Dreaming the Future "A refreshing compendium of clear thinking, a welcome and potent antidote to the reams of books on the supernatural and pseudoscientific." -John Allen Paulos, author of Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper "This book covers an amazing range of topics and can protect many people from being scammed." -Stephen Barrett, M.D., quackwatch.org Featuring close to 400 definitions, arguments, and essays on topics ranging from acupuncture to zombies, The Skeptic's Dictionary is a lively, commonsense trove of detailed information on all things supernatural, occult, paranormal, and pseudoscientific. It covers such categories as alternative medicine; cryptozoology; extraterrestrials and UFOs; frauds and hoaxes; junk science; logic and perception; New Age energy; and the psychic. For the open-minded seeker, the soft or hardened skeptic, and the believing doubter, this book offers a remarkable range of information that puts to the test the best arguments of true believers.

Author : Jason Colavito
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781105579899

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Pyramidiots by Jason Colavito Pdf

Of all the ancient structures scattered across the globe, Egypt's Great Pyramid, built by the Pharaoh Khufu (also known as Cheops) around 2580-2560 BCE on the desert plateau of Giza, has attracted the most attention from ancient astronaut theorists and alternative historians. By some estimates, more has been written about the Great Pyramid than any other topic in ancient history, excepting only the Bible. The sheer number of odd theories about the pyramid has led archaeologists to label fringe investigators "pyramidiots." There is hardly any modern fringe theory about the Great Pyramid that is not derivative of one in place by 1877, the year James Bonwick wrote the overview of the 47 most popular theories about the pyramid that you are about to read. Thus, the following book is essential reading for understanding the history of pyramid theories and how ancient astronaut theorists and alternative archaeologists employ them.

Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297870630

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Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt by Terry Deary Pdf

Think that Ancient Egypt is just a load of old obelisks? Don't bet your afterlife on it. Ancient Egypt should be deader than most of our yesterdays. After all it was at its height 5,000 years ago. Yet we still marvel at its mummies and ponder over its pyramids. It's easy to forget these people once lived and laughed, loved and breathed ... though not for very long. These were dangerous days for princes and peasants alike. In Ancient Egypt - a world of wars and woes, poverty and plagues - life was short. Forty was a good age to reach. A pharaoh who was eaten by a hippo ended up as dead as a ditch-digger stung by a scorpion. Unwrap the bandages and you'll find that the Egyptians' bizarre adventures in life were every bit as fascinating as the monuments they left to their deaths.

Author : Zahi Hawass
Publisher : Leonardo Paolo Lovari
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9788898301331

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Magic of the Pyramids by Zahi Hawass Pdf

“World-renowned archaeologist Zahi Hawass. He is one of the world’s authorities on the Giza pyramids, and has spent his life excavating around the pyramids and the Sphinx. He made major important discoveries such as the tombs of the pyramid builders and the secret doors inside the pyramid of Khufu. Dr. Hawass has received fi ve honorary doctorates from different international universities and was named as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People for the year 2006 by Time Magazine. His adventures around the pyramids have been presented in many TV shows. In this book, you will feel the thrill and the adventures of the modern-day Indiana Jones.”

Author : J. Douglas Kenyon
Publisher : Atlantis Rising LLC
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781467500883

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Atlantis Rising Magazine - 85 January/February 2011 by J. Douglas Kenyon Pdf

In this issue Letters Early Rays Jeane Manning - The Life and Times of Tom Bearden Michael Cremo - Secret of the Hollywood Cross - Linda Goodman�s Search for the Remains of Osiris in Tinsel Town Queen Victoria & the Beyond - Was the British Empire Ever Guided by the Departed?p> The Stones of the Ancients - Pyramids, Crystals, and the Chi Force Planning the Pyramids - These Architects Were Far Ahead of Their Time How New Is New Science? Judgment Day - Is It Something We Visit on Ourselves? The Search for Beckett�s Bones - Does Anyone Know Where They Are? Politics, Money, & Science -Who Really Decides Which Ideas Prevail and Which Do Not? The Mystery of Mudra - Is There a Secret Code in Saintly Gestures? Up Close and Personal with Ball Lightning - Our Writer�s Paranormal Adventure

Author : Jason Thompson
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617978647

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Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology, Volume 3 by Jason Thompson Pdf

The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later. This, the third of a three-volume history of Egyptology, follows the progress of the discipline from the trauma of the First World War, through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, and into Egyptology's new horizons at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Wonderful Things affirms that the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, but it also demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Only by understanding how Egyptology has developed can we truly understand the Egyptian past.

Author : Janssen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004669697

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Annual Egyptological Bibliography, Volume 25 by Janssen Pdf

Author : L. L. Wynn
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477317044

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Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt by L. L. Wynn Pdf

Cairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectability—and love affairs. Sara, a working-class woman, has an affair with a married man and becomes pregnant, only to be abandoned by him; Ayah and Zeid, a respectably engaged couple, argue over whether Ayah’s friend is a prostitute or a virgin; Malak, a European belly dancer who sometimes gets paid for sex, wants to be loved by a man who won’t treat her like a whore just because she’s a dancer; and Alia, a Christian banker who left her abusive husband, is the mistress of a wealthy Muslim man, Haroun, who encourages business by hosting risqué parties for other men and their mistresses. Set in transnational Cairo over two decades, Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt is an ethnography that explores female respectability, male honor, and Western theories and fantasies about Arab society. L. L. Wynn uses stories of love affairs to interrogate three areas of classic anthropological theory: mimesis, kinship, and gift. She develops a broad picture of how individuals love and desire within a cultural and political system that structures the possibilities of, and penalties for, going against sexual and gender norms. Wynn demonstrates that love is at once a moral horizon, an attribute that “naturally” inheres in particular social relations, a social phenomenon strengthened through cultural concepts of gift and kinship, and an emotion deeply felt and desired by individuals.

Author : Christopher Wright
Publisher : Hard Shell Word Factory
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759911734

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Eagle of Darkness by Christopher Wright Pdf

Thriller/Espionage: Martin Kramer's ambition is to become a deputy director of the CIA. But he brings the threat of nuclear war when he launches Operation Oracle, a personal campaign of hate against Israel.

Author : Sally MacDonald,Michael Rice
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315431727

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Consuming Ancient Egypt by Sally MacDonald,Michael Rice Pdf

Consuming Ancient Egypt examines the influence of Ancient Egypt on the everyday lives of contemporary people, of all ages, throughout the world. It looks at the Egypt tourist sees, Egypt in film and Egypt as the inspiration for opera. It asks why so many books are published each year on Egyptological subjects at all levels, from the austerely academic to the riotous celebrations of Egypt as a land of mystery, enchantment and fantasy. It then considers the ways in which Ancient Egypt interacts with the living world, in architecture, museum going, the acquisition of souvenirs and reproductions, design, and the perpetual appeal of the mummy. The significance of Egypt as an adjunct to (and frequently the subject of) marketing in the consumer society is examined. It reveals much about Egypt's immemorial appeal and the psychology of those who succumb to its magic.

Author : Karen Mutton
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781948803564

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Subterranean Realms by Karen Mutton Pdf

Subterranean Realms is a unique book that surveys underground and rock cut structures created in the past. It is the third book in Mutton’s trilogy on mysterious realms, the others being Sunken Realms and Water Realms. We know who built some of these astonishing and mysterious structures, but others were built by unknown civilizations in prehistory for reasons that are debated among researchers. Some subterranean structures may have been built for initiation ceremonies or perhaps for acoustic reasons, or both. Mutton discusses such interesting sites as: Derinkuyu, an underground city in Cappadocia, Turkey that housed 20,000 people; Roman catacombs of Domitilla; Palermo Capuchin catacombs; Alexandria catacombs; Paris catacombs; Maltese hypogeum; Rock-cut structures of Petra; Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae; Elephanta Caves, India; Lalibela, Ethiopia; Tarquinia Etruscan necropolis; Hallstatt salt mine; Beijing air raid shelters; Japanese high command Okinawa tunnels; more. There are tons of illustrations in this fascinating book!

Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781407129433

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Horrible Histories: Awful Egyptians by Terry Deary Pdf

Think you would have liked being an Ancient Egyptian? Not after you've read this book! Discover the disgusting details of their groovy gods, their potty pyramids and (of course!) their mad mummies. Find out how a hunted hippo got his own back on a foul pharaoh! Discover the truth about cool queen Cleo and the curse of Tutankhaumun! There's also a Top Ten of funny pharaohs, a Mad Mummies quiz and lots of foul facts about the messy mistakes the Egyptians made before becoming mummy-making experts. History has never been so horrible!

Author : Jozef M. A. Janssen
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9004042725

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ANNUAL EGYPTOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 1975 by Jozef M. A. Janssen Pdf

Author : Peter Strom Rudman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015067670938

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How Mathematics Happened by Peter Strom Rudman Pdf

A comprehensive evolution of the history of mathematics that discusses how ancient civilizations understood numbers and used them.

Author : L. L. Wynn
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292774094

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Pyramids and Nightclubs by L. L. Wynn Pdf

2008 — Leeds Honor Book in Urban Anthropology – Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology Living in Egypt at the turn of the millennium, cultural anthropologist L. L. Wynn was struck by the juxtapositions of Western, Gulf Arab, and Egyptian viewpoints she encountered. For some, Egypt is the land of mummies and pharaohs. For others, it is a vortex of decadence, where nightlife promises a chance to salivate over belly dancers and maybe even glimpse a movie star. Offering a new approach to ethnography, Pyramids and Nightclubs examines cross-cultural encounters to bring to light the counterintuitive ways in which Egypt is defined. Guiding readers on an armchair journey that introduces us to Russian and Australian belly dancers on Nile cruise ships, Egyptian rumors about an Arab prince and his royal entourage, Saudi girls looking for a less restrictive dating scene, and other visitors to this "antique" land, Wynn uses the lens of travel and tourism to depict a fascinating and often surprising version of Egypt, while exploring the concept of stereotype itself. Tracing the history of Western and Arab fascination with Egypt through spurious hunts for lost civilizations and the new economic disparities brought about by the oil industry, Pyramids and Nightclubs ultimately describes the ways in which moments of cultural contact, driven by tourism and labor migration, become eye-opening opportunities for defining self and other.