The Pyramids (New and Revised)

The Pyramids (New and Revised)An authoritative account by preeminent Egyptologist Miroslav Verner covering over 70 of Egypts and Sudans pyramids, their historical and political significance, updated in a magnificent new edition A pyramid, as the posthumous residence of a king and the place of his eternal cult, was just a single, if dominant, part of a larger complex of structures with specific religious, economic, and administrative functions. The first royal pyramid in Egypt was

water use and emissions to waterways whilst also assessing how energy is used during cultivated meat production processes

or outright ignored

A fresh and stimulating examination of the ideology

This volume offers an overview of the origins and main religious and doctrinal characteristics of the Mahanubhavs

The essays in ‘John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education‘ examine Ruskin’s influence on educating girls

drawing attention to aspects such as cultivation

diminished pollinator habitats

and eugenics

and re-evaluates the public role of theatre and poetry during a particularly turbulent period in English history

piercing and sucking insect and mite pests

Racism and the cultural politics of punishment onalyses the 2011 English ‘riots’ and the state’s startlingly punitive response

It uses a wide range of interesting sources