Author: Minot Judson Savage
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Category : Christian ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Paul Jordan
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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This work tells the story of the Great Sphinx of Giza as egyptology has uncovered it. The author details the Sphinx's impact on the ancient world, on Arab writers, on Renaissance travellers, on the pioneers of Egyptology and on modern scholarship. He tells the story of the Sphinx's many bouts of excavation and restoration and above all, puts the Sphinx in the context of all that is known about ancient Egyptian history and religion.

Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: MAA Press
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Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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"Solving these riddles is not simply a matter of logic and calculation, though these play a role. Luck and inspiration are factors as well, so beginners and experts alike may profitably exercise their wits on Gardner's problems, whose subjects range from geometry to word play to questions relating to physics and geology. We guarantee that you will solve some of these riddles, be stumped by others, and be amused by almost all of the stories and settings that Gardner has devised to raise these questions." --Back cover.

Author: Willis Goth Regier
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803205260
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in poetry, fiction, and music, so impressed the philosopher Hegel that he pronounced the creature “the symbol of the symbolic itself.” With a wealth of illustrations, Book of the Sphinx confirms Hegel's lofty judgment, finding the Sphinx everywhere: in tragedies, paintings, opera, murder mysteries, brothels, bars, and advertisements. Pursuing the Sphinx through kaleidoscopic sightings and encyclopedic observations, Willis Goth Regier plumbs the symbol's mysteries, conducting the reader down ever more perplexing and intriguing paths. Wonderfully readable, his highly idiosyncratic tour of the ages and the arts leads at last to a conception of the Sphinx that embraces nothing less than all that is unknowable—proving once again that confronting a Sphinx is one of the most dangerous and exhilarating adventures of the imagination.

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Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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Author: Tim Dedopulos
Publisher: Carlton Books
ISBN: 9781780978741
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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60 riddles and conundrums inspired by the spirit of Ancient Egypt, illustrated beautifully with hieroglyphics and iconic images dating back to 3150 BC. Puzzles include 'The Labyrinth', 'The Temple of Anubis' and 'The Priest's Estate'. Each conundrum is full of secret treasures and traps for the unwary.

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Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Author: Saint Louis (Mo.). Public school library
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Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 780

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