From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories Tutankhamen has been buried in his rocky tomb But there is a plot to rob the grave of its vast wealth as soon as possible after the funeral A motley gang of villains have all the skills they need to undertake the crime
- the key member of the team is young Paneb who is small & lithe & the only one who can slip through the tunnel & into the funeral chamber It's a risky venture because if he's caught the punishment is slow torture & death Terry Deary's Egyptian Tales explore the world of Ancient Egypt through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time These stories feature real people & take place in some of the most recognisable Egyptian settings This new edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning & exploration of the historical period
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From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories This is a tale of Neria who works in the House of Death helping her father to make mummies Neria enjoys her work but when the pharaoh dies everyone is so busy that Neria is given the responsibility of mummifying the pharaoh's cat to accompany him to the afterlife The trouble is Neria doesn't want to kill & gut the cat! Can she find a way to save it
- without being caught & punished? Terry Deary's Egyptian Tales explore the world of Ancient Egypt through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time These stories feature real people & take place in some of the most recognisable Egyptian settings This new edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning & exploration of the historical period
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From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories The Great Pyramid is a lively place to work The only irritation is Antef the fussy bullying supervisor who makes everyone feel more like slaves than free workers So when Antef disappears the workers are blamed The only witness is young Dafia Can she come up with a plan to clear the men's names? Terry Deary's Egyptian Tales explore the world of Ancient Egypt through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time These stories feature real people & take place in some of the most recognisable Egyptian settings This new edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning & exploration of the historical period ...

Who were the ancient Egyptians? Why did they build pyramids & how were mummies made? These & other questions are answered with short informative text vivid full colour illustrations & photographs on every page ...

If you enjoyed Templar's extraordinary Dragonology (New York Times Bestseller & Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week) then just wait till you see Egyptology With a stunning gold foiled & embossed cover featuring three 'jewels' & with its creation overseen by TGH James ex keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum Egyptology is Emily Sands' lavish 1926 scrapbook journal of a lost expedition Full of novelties & recreations such as a piece of mummy cloth a booklet on hieroglyphs & a working board game the book brims with beautiful art & fascinating facts about Ancient Egypt & a has a final magnificent novelty in the back case ...

The Pyramids the Sphinx & the tombs of the Pharaohs are all fabulous monuments to Egypt past But according to one scientist Dr Sarah Parcak the astonishing antiquities already discovered could be just a tiny percentage of what was left behind by the Ancient Egyptians She believes that cutting edge satellite technology has the power to locate thousands of possible ancient sites including what might be lost tombs temples & cities buried beneath the shifting sands This breathtaking programme follows her journey & sets out to recreate lost monuments & landscapes last seen of thousands of years ago ...

What do you get when you cross a bloodthirsty universe-traveling carnival monkey with a time-displaced foul-mouthed kitten & his best friend? The epic second volume of Ehmm Theory! Gabriel Ehmm takes on incredible new freaked-up foes with the help of his talking cat Mr Whispers & the telekinetic werewoman Mindwolf in the brain-melting tale that has folks saying " Oh my macaroni nuts this is a wild treat!" Collects Ehmm Theory Everything & Small Doses 1-4 ...

Gabriel Ehmm was doing just fine until the morning he woke up dead! Now along with his talking kitten Mr Whispers the two begin the wildest ride of their un-lives Ehmm Theory Volume 1 collects the critically acclaimed mind-melting adventure that features all that plus pint-sized zombie clowns giant cybernetic crustaceans & a super-team of the bizarre! ...

Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves
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Hannah Arendt's portrayal of the terrible consequences of blind obedience Eichmann in Jerusalem A Report on the Banality of Evil contains an introduction by Amos Elon in Penguin Classics Sparking a flurry of heated debate Hannah Arendt's authoritative & stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963 This revised edition

Includes:: material that came to light after the trial as well as Arendt's postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative
- a meticulous & unflinching look at one of the most unsettling (and unsettled) issues of the twentieth century Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was for many years University Professor of Political Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research & a Visiting Fellow of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago She is also the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem On Revolution & Between Past & Future If you enjoyed Eichmann in Jerusalem you might like Elie Wiesel's Night available in Penguin Modern Classics' Deals with the greatest problem of our time the problem of the human being within a modern totalitarian system' Bruno Bettelheim The New Republic'A profound & documented analysis Bound to stir our minds & trouble our consciences' Chicago Tribune


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