Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia

Author: Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2001-12-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780801047305

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The ancient world of Mesopotamia (from Sumer to the subsequent division into Babylonia and Assyria) vividly comes alive in this portrayal of the time period from 3100 BCE to the fall of Assyria (612 BCE) and Babylon (539 BCE). Readers will discover fascinating details about the lives of these people taken from the ancients' own descriptions. Beautifully illustrated, this easy-to-use reference contains a timeline and a historical overview to aid student research.

Paperback Oxford English Dictionary
Paperback Oxford English Dictionary

Author: Maurice Waite

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-05-10

Total Pages: 1026

ISBN-13: 0199640947

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Little Oxford English Dictionary is a book to support knowledge creation of Sara Hawker. Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free Prime shipping. This is a major new edition of the Little Oxford English Dictionary, offering the most accurate and up-to-date coverage of essential, everyday vocabulary. Based on evidence from the Oxford English Corpus, a unique database with hundreds of millions of words of English, it provides a fresh selection of 90,000 words, phrases, and definitions. Definitions are given in a clear, simple style, avoiding technical language, and are easier to understand than ever before, and there are hundreds of notes on spelling and grammar to help you get it right. A brand-new Factfinder center section gives easy access to information on topics such as countries and their capitals, kings and queens, and weights and measures, as well as help with spelling and punctuation. A new, clear design makes the Little Oxford English Dictionary easy to use, and ideal for use at school, at home, and in the office. Find out more about our living language using Oxford Dictionaries Online. Hear how words are spoken with thousands of audio pronunciations, and access over 1.9 million real English example sentences to see how words are used in context. Improve your confidence in writing with helpful grammar and punctuation guides, full thesaurus information, style and usage help, and much more. Discover more on oxforddictionaries.com, Oxford's hub for dictionaries and language reference.

Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia

Author: Gwendolyn Leick

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2002-08-29

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0141927119

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Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relatively unknown. Yet, over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, the very first cities were created. This is the first book to reveal how life was lived in ten Mesopotamian cities: from Eridu, the Mesopotamian Eden, to that potent symbol of decadence, Babylon - the first true metropolis: multicultural, multi-ethnic, the last centre of a dying civilization.

Dirt
Dirt

Author: David R. Montgomery

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007-05-14

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0520933168

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Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil—as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations.

The British Army in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918
The British Army in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918

Author: Paul Knight

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-07-30

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0786493046

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When war broke out between the British and Turkish empires in 1914, the 6th (Poona) Division sailed from India to Basra to bolster Britain's allies, deny the port to enemy shipping, and secure Britain's Persian oil supplies. Further expansion followed: the capture of Al-Amara was the British Army's greatest victory of 1915. When an advance on Baghdad was repulsed, the Siege of Kut became the British Army's longest siege and greatest surrender. Attempts to relieve Kut led to unsuccessful battles that were bloody and muddy even by Western Front standards. Under new leadership, revitalized and reinforced, the British avenged their defeat when Baghdad was captured in March 1917. Thereafter, the British Empire committed, in campaigns of limited value to the overall war effort, huge levels of manpower and materiel desperately needed elsewhere. What was created was modern Iraq and the first Arab government in Baghdad in over 400 years. This detailed history places the campaign in context of Allied operations in the Middle East and sheds light on several unsung heroes of the war, including General Charles Townshend whose spectacular 1915 victories led to humiliating defeat and captivity in 1916; General Frederick Stanley Maude whose March 1917 entry into Baghdad preceded General Allenby's entry into Jerusalem by eight months; and Miss Gertrude Bell, a "female Lawrence of Arabia" who played a central role in the creation of the new Iraqi state.

Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia

Author: Gwendolyn Leick

Publisher: Allan Lane

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 9780713991987

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Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relatively unknown. Yet, over 7000 years ago in Mesopotamia, the very first cities were created. This book reveals how life was lived in ten Mesopotamian cities: from Eridu, the Mesopotamian Eden, to that potent symbol of decadence, Babylon - the first true metropolis: multicultural, multi-ethnic, the last centre of a dying civilization.

The Oxford Paperback Dictionary
The Oxford Paperback Dictionary

Author: Elaine Pollard

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 962

ISBN-13: 9780192800121

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Now fully revised for its fourth edition, this is the most up-to-date and easy-to-use dictionary available in paperback. As well as clear definitions of everyday vocabulary, with helpful examples, there are encyclopedic entries for famous people, places and institutions. Selling over 1.5 million copies since it was first published, the dictionary contains over 60,000 entries (5,000 new to this edition), 74,000 definitions, and 4,000 encyclopedic entries. It also provides helpful usage notes with guidance on correct English and indicates difficult pronunciations through a simple system of respelling. Famous people covered in this new edition range from Bill Clinton and Desmond Tutu to Stephen Hawking, Steffi Graf, and Madonna; and with a lively new vocabulary covering such terms as bail bandit, hotting, love handle, and negative equity, The Oxford Paperback Dictionary is truly the most readable, reliable, and contemporary dictionary of its kind. New words include: awesome, cook chill, couch potato, crusty, gene therepy, gobsmacked, human shield, internal market, keyhole surgery, off-roading, ozone hole, pit bull terrier, ram-raider, spin doctor, and stonker. Famous people covered include: Maya Angelou, Kenneth Branagh, Clint Eastwood, Vaclav Havel, Michael Jackson, Carl Lewis, Robert Maxwell, Luciano Pavarotti, Salman Rushdie, Meryl Streep, Alice Walker, and Boris Yeltsin.