A comprehensive gazetteer enables the reader to locate the sites where Black Virgins can be found and provides information about their origins. A work focusing on the Black Virgins, symbols of power and majesty.

The Cult of the Black Virgin

History

Begg, Ean

Africa

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Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen

Nefertiti (c.1350 BC) is widely known from the exquisite painted bust of her in the Berlin Museum. But beyond this image we know little about her. Wife of Akhenaten, the monotheistic pharaoh, adored by her family, blessed by the sun god, and worshipped by her people, Nefertiti suddenly and completely vanished from the record. Was she banished by her husband or raised to rule as his equal? Did she reign, under another name, in her own right? Could she have been the `eminence grise' behind the young Tutankhamun, her son-in-law? Tyldesley draws on archaeological, textual and artistic evidence in a detailed discussion of Nefertiti's life and times at the ephemeral and heretical Amarna court.

Biographies & Memoirs

Tyldesley, Joyce A.

Community & Culture

A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together and the brutal horror at the center of European colonialism. Conrad's crowning achievement recounts Marlow's physical and psychological journey deep into the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the mysterious trader Kurtz.

Heart of Darkness (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

Literature & Fiction

Conrad/Joseph

United States

The books of the New Testament are some of the most extraordinary documents ever created-brilliant, vivid works central to the lives of many millions of readers over the centuries. Yet the picture they give of Jesus's world is a very partial one. Written some time after the events they describe, and with very specific doctrinal aims, they offer fascinating glimpses of Palestine that are nevertheless often refracted through a prism of doubtful clarity. 
 Geza Vermes, one of the world's foremost biblical scholars, is uniquely positioned to guide the reader through the many conundrums presented by the New Testament. Who's Who in the Age of Jesus is an ambitious and enjoyable attempt to sift through the sources for the period to create biographies of all the major (and some fascinating minor) figures from Jesus's era. The book allows readers to understand a Jewish, Roman, and Hellenistic world crowded with explosive, mutually antagonistic groups-a world that would give rise both to a new Judaism and ultimately to Christianity.

Who's Who in the Age of Jesus

Religion & Spirituality

Vermès, Géza

Christian Books & Bibles

Talk Talk

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

T.Coraghessan Boyle

Mystery

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2007-1-1 Pages: 736 Publisher: Penguin It began with simple sleeplessness It had been almost a yearsince I'd found Hannah dead. and I thought I'd managed to erase alltraces of that night within. . myself ... I was wrong Calamity Physics:. The resulting explosion of energy. light. heartbreak. and wonder as Blue van Meer enters the elite St.Gallway School Blue's unusual past draws her to a charismaticgroup of friends (see. wild. wayward youths. Everyman Parenting) and their captivating teacher. Hannah Schneider. A sudden drowning. a series of inexplicable events. and finally the shocking death ofHannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries. And Blue is leftto make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instinct andcultural lexicon to guide her.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Marisha Pessl

Girls of Riyadh

Rajaa Alsanea

Wild Child

Boyle, T.C.

EXP Rules of Civility: A Novel

Amor Towles

Bringing Up Bébé

Pamela Druckerman

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