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Dal rovente deserto del Sahara fino alle gelide foreste scandinave, da sempre uomini e donne levano lo sguardo verso il cielo e, colmi di fascino e meraviglia, si pongono domande circa le origini dell'uomo e del mondo Sulla Terra i miti nascono per dare spiegazioni a fenomeni naturali apparentemente inspiegabili, come le eruzioni vulcaniche e i fulmini. Ma servono anche a dare un senso alla vita umana, a fornire risposte alle domande che ci facciamo ancora oggi: da dove viene l'Umanità? Perché siamo destinati a morire?

الحضارة الفرعونية واحدة من أهم وأعظم الحضارات التي مازالت يشوبها الغموض حتى الآن، يطرح الكتاب أهم الحقائق التي يجب أن تعرفها عن الحضارة الفرعونية كما يصحح الكثير من المفاهيم الخاطئة التي يدعيها البعض في هيئة 100 سؤال وجواب. يوضح الكتاب شكل الحياة اليومية في مصر القديمة بالتفصيل، من حيث البيوت والملابس والتعليم والطعام والرياضة...إلخ. كما يطرح أهم الملوك والملكات في مصر القديمة وكيف كانت مكانة المرأة، بالإضافة إلى الغرائبيات والطقوس الخاصة التي ميزت تلك الحضارة.

Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. But despite these arguments' significance to American politics, American Jewish life, and to Israel itself, no one has ever systematically examined their history and explained why they matter. In We Are Not One, historian Eric Alterman traces this debate from its nineteenth-century origins.

In 21 Days to Baghdad, historian Dr. Heather Stur describes the commitment of the division to Kuwait, the invasion of Iraq and the three weeks of violent desert conflicts on the way to Baghdad before the siege and battle for the city itself, and the “thunder runs” that saw its fall to U.S. forces. She then details the complex security mission that required the soldiers and their commanders to convince Iraqi citizens that the U.S. was there to help them, while at the same time they continued fighting Saddam Hussein’s elite Republican Guard, paramilitary forces, and terrorists.

What was it like to live during the time of Jesus? Where did people live? Who did they marry? What was family life like? And how did people survive? These are just some of the questions that Scott Korb answers in this engaging new book, which explores what everyday life entailed two thousand years ago in first-century Palestine, that tumultuous era when the Roman Empire was at its zenith and a new religion---Christianity---was born.

At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes’ lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle...

“Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrative of New York’s immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the...

Il termine 'Primavera araba' è stato coniato per indicare l'ondata rivoluzionaria di manifestazioni, guerre civili e proteste, violente e non violente, che hanno scosso il Nord Africa e il Medioriente a partire dal dicembre del 2010. Tutto è partito dalla Tunisia e dalla sua sollevazione anti regime che si propagò presto ad altri paesi del cosiddetto mondo arabo. Fra questi ultimi abbiamo la Siria, la Libia, lo Yemen, l'Egitto, e il Bahrain.