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Author : Alain Blottière
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789774168987
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Vintage Egypt: Cruising the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel written by Alain Blottière and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alain Blottiere
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Vintage Egypt written by Alain Blottiere and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As wealthy tourists descended upon Egypt in the early-twentieth-century, a well-heeled jet set emerged in Cairo and Alexandria. Period photographs celebrate the glamour: a Bugatti at the foot of the pyramids, high tea served in jasmine-draped gardens. . .
Author : Andrew Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781649031129
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)
Download or read book On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel written by Andrew Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorfully illustrated celebration of the classic era of cruising on the Nile, new in paperback Since Antony and Cleopatra honeymooned on the Nile on a gilded barge, visitors to Egypt have taken to the river as the best way to experience the country's wonders. Early travelers took a dahabiya, an elegant triangular-sailed houseboat, and leisurely meandered from riverside site to site, for three months or more. Then from the late nineteenth century, Thomas Cook of Leicester, England, revolutionized the journey with a fleet of specially built paddle steamers. For the next sixty years these 'floating palaces,' with their private cabins, and dining, smoking, and viewing salons, red-uniformed dragoman guides, and organized donkey excursions, carried the aristocratic, moneyed, and adventurous of international society of the time. Using period photography, and colorful vintage posters and advertising material, this book tells the story of the people, the places, and the boats, from pioneering Nile travelers like Amelia Edwards and Lucie Duff Gordon, through to famed later passengers, such as Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, and, of course, Agatha Christie, whose staging of a death on the Nile only added to the allure.
Author : Andrew Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789774167195
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Grand Hotels of Egypt written by Andrew Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest resthouses serving travelers on the Overland Route between Britain and Bombay to the grand Edwardian palaces on the Nile that made Egypt the exotic alternative to wintering on the Riviera, the hotels of Alexandria, Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan were always about far more than just bed and board. As bridgeheads for African exploration, neutral territories for conducting diplomacy, headquarters for armies, providers of home comforts for writers, painters, scholars, and archaeologists in the field, and social hubs for an international elite, more of importance happened in Egypt's hotels than in any other setting. It was through the hotels that visitors from the west--the earliest adventurers, then the travelers and, finally, the tourists--experienced the Orient. This book tells the stories of Egypt's historic hotels (including the Cecil, Shepheard's, the Mena House, Gezira Palace, Semiramis, Winter Palace, and Cataract) and some of the people who stayed in them, from Amelia Edwards, Lucie Duff Gordon and Florence Nightingale to Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, and TE Lawrence.
Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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Author : C.L.R. James
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593687337
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (936 download)
Download or read book The Black Jacobins written by C.L.R. James and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.
Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Author : David Hands
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 074947842X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Design Management written by David Hands and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design Management is the essential handbook to all things design. As a discipline, design management is continually in motion; changing, responding and adapting to the dynamics of social and business transformation. As a business function, it combines project management, design, strategy and supply chain techniques to enable the creation of more effectively designed products, services, communications and brands. As such, it is relevant to a very broad range of industries and sectors, and Design Management recognizes this by structuring content around four key universal perspectives: values, horizons, visions, and futures. These perspectives give an overview of the development, key issues and future direction of design management. Meticulously researched, Design Management goes beyond individual project-level implementation to explore design strategy at both organizational and macro levels. By showcasing its impact all the way up to industrial and national application, students will gain a deep understanding of the nuances, scope and scalability of design. Filled with vibrant case studies and guest perspectives from a spectrum of industry leaders and policy makers, this book is an invaluable real-world commentary on design's role as a key asset in organiZational activity. The book's engaging and accessible style provides students and practitioners with everything needed to foster a climate of creative engagement. Online resources include a valuable toolkit of PowerPoint slides, review questions, project questions, activity worksheets and further reading.
Author : Jane Archer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136380868
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Manual of Travel Agency Practice written by Jane Archer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, this successful must-have manual is thoroughly updated with new chapters and material, covering issues including: * Technology development - the different types of travel agency systems available, what they do, how they do it and how to use them * The Internet - how it is used to book travel, forecasts for its future use and how travel agenets stand in relation to it * Global distribution systems - how to make bookings, and the new windows-based environment * A full endorsement by Travel Weekly The manual demonstrates correct methods for processing travel reservations, identifying business client needs and suitable documentation. It also shows key facts for the profitable planning, organization and operation of the retail travel agency. Each chapter contains exercises pertinent to the topics covered. Students on any of the large number of courses in travel and tourism (ICM, City & Guilds, ABTA, IATA, UFTAA, BTEC, SCOTVEC, University of Oxford Certificate, Diploma of Vocational Education) will find this book invaluable.
Author : Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538157365
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Egypt written by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Dictionary of Egypt, Fifth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Author : Nadia Wassef
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374600198
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Shelf Life written by Nadia Wassef and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As a bookseller, I loved Shelf Life for the chance to peer behind the curtain of Diwan, Nadia Wassef’s Egyptian bookstore—the way that the personal is inextricable from the professional, the way that failure and success are often lovers, the relationship between neighborhoods and books and life. Nadia’s story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found solace in the aisles of a bookstore.” —Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here “Shelf Life is such a unique memoir about career, life, love, friendship, motherhood, and the impossibility of succeeding at all of them at the same time. It is the story of Diwan, the first modern bookstore in Cairo, which was opened by three women, one of whom penned this book. As a bookstore owner I found this fascinating. As a reader I found it fascinating. Blunt, honest, funny.” —Jenny Lawson, author of Broken (in the best possible way) The warm and winning story of opening a modern bookstore where there were none, Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller recounts Nadia Wassef’s troubles and triumphs as a founder and manager of Cairo-based Diwan The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk. Nadia Wassef knows this song by heart. In 2002, with her sister, Hind, and their friend, Nihal, she founded Diwan, a fiercely independent bookstore. They were three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and nothing to lose. At the time, nothing like Diwan existed in Egypt. Culture was languishing under government mismanagement, and books were considered a luxury, not a necessity. Ten years later, Diwan had become a rousing success, with ten locations, 150 employees, and a fervent fan base. Frank, fresh, and very funny, Nadia Wassef’s memoir tells the story of this journey. Its eclectic cast of characters features Diwan’s impassioned regulars, like the demanding Dr. Medhat; Samir, the driver with CEO aspirations; meditative and mythical Nihal; silent but deadly Hind; dictatorial and exacting Nadia, a self-proclaimed bitch to work with—and the many people, mostly men, who said Diwan would never work. Shelf Life is a portrait of a country hurtling toward revolution, a feminist rallying cry, and an unapologetic crash course in running a business under the law of entropy. Above all, it is a celebration of the power of words to bring us home.
Author : John Coleman Darnell
Publisher : Yale Egyptology
ISBN 13 : 1950343057
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Inscription of Queen Katimala at Semna written by John Coleman Darnell and published by Yale Egyptology. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete translation and commentary on the important tableau and inscription of Queen Katimala/Karimala at Semna. Proper understanding of the paleography, grammar, and content reveals Katimala to have been a Nubian ruler at the time of the Twenty-First to Twenty-Second Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. She emerges as a political and military leader who took control of at least Lower Nubia in the wake of failed military activities on the part of a male predecessor. Katimala's inscription is not illegible, as has often been stated, but is a well-composed Lower Nubian example of a politico-religious manifesto applying many of the conventions of early Egyptian literary and historical compositions.
Author : Andrew Humphreys
Publisher : Amer Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774164965
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (649 download)
Download or read book Grand Hotels of Egypt in the Golden Age of Travel written by Andrew Humphreys and published by Amer Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest resthouses serving travelers on the Overland Route between Britain and Bombay to the grand Edwardian palaces on the Nile that made Egypt the exotic alternative to wintering on the Riviera, the hotels of Alexandria, Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan were always about far more than just bed and board. As bridgeheads for African exploration, neutral territories for conducting diplomacy, headquarters for armies, providers of home comforts for writers, painters, scholars, and archaeologists in the field, and social hubs for an international elite, more of importance happened in Egypt's hotels than in any other setting. It was through the hotels that visitors from the west-the earliest adventurers, then the travelers and, finally, the tourists-experienced the Orient. This book tells the stories of Egypt's historic hotels (including the Cecil, Shepheard's, the Mena House, Gezira Palace, Semiramis, Winter Palace, and Cataract) and some of the people who stayed in them, from Amelia Edwards, Lucie Duff Gordon and Florence Nightingale to Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, and TE Lawrence.
Author : Emilie K. Baker
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Stories of Old Greece and Rome written by Emilie K. Baker and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Stories of Old Greece and Rome" by Emilie K. Baker. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074565701X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Liquid Modernity written by Zygmunt Bauman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history. This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life - emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community - and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning. Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics. Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today.
Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307792269
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book In an Antique Land written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.
Author : James Morris Morgan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Recollections of a Rebel Reefer written by James Morris Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
