Автор: Downs Jonathan Название: Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt ISBN: 9774169263 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789774169267 Издательство: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES UK Рейтинг: Цена: 3588.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In 1798, young French general Napoleon Bonaparte entered Egypt with a veteran army and a specialist group of savants--scientists, engineers, and artists--his aim being not just conquest, but the rediscovery of the lost Nile kingdom. A year later, in the ruins of an old fort in the small port of Rosetta, the savants made a startling discovery: a large, flat stone, inscribed in Greek, demotic Egyptian, and ancient hieroglyphics. This was the Rosetta Stone, key to the two-thousand-year mystery of hieroglyphs, and to Egypt itself. Two years later, French forces retreated before the English and Ottoman armies, but would not give up the stone. Caught between the opposing generals at the siege of Alexandria, British special agents went in to find the Rosetta Stone, rescue the French savants, and secure a fragile peace treaty. Discovery at Rosetta uses French, Egyptian, and English eyewitness accounts to tell the complete story of the discovery, decipherment, and capture of the Rosetta Stone, investigating the rivalries and politics of the time, and the fate of the stone today.
Описание: An authentic guide to the festive, mouthwatering sweets of Southern Italy, including regional specialties that are virtually unknown in this country as well as variations on more popular desserts such as cannoli, biscotti, and gelato. In Southern Italian Desserts, author of the acclaimed My Calabria, Rosetta Costantino, collects seventy-five favorite recipes from the regions of Calabria, Campania, Basilicata, Puglia, and Sicily. These picturesque areas have a rich history of beautiful desserts, many of them tied to holidays and festivals. For example, Zeppole di San Giuseppe are doughnut-like pastries topped with cream and cherries, traditionally made in Campania for the celebration of Father's Day. And the Sicilian chilled watermelon pudding Gelo di Mellone is a refreshing dish served in summer for the festival of Palermo's patron saint, Rosalia. Other desserts such as persimmon gelato, chocolate-dipped figs stuffed with almonds and candied orange peel, and chocolate-hazelnut cake rolls celebrate Southern Italy's local bounty and traditional foods. With recipes for more familiar Italian desserts such as cannoli and gelato, as well as deliciously obscure sweets such as rich cassatas, almond-flecked cookies, and flaky cream-filled sfogliatelle pastries, Southern Italian Desserts features a treat for every occasion. In addition to explaining the regional history, symbolism, and lore behind the desserts, Costantino teaches you how to stock your dessert pantry and provides all of the foundational recipes you need to embark on a sweet tour of the Italian south from your kitchen. This delightful confection of a cookbook will expand your dessert repertoire and leave you dreaming of Italy. Buon appetito
Автор: Budge E. A. Wallis Название: The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum ISBN: 1169329977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781169329973 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Автор: Blanc Norris Название: The Rosetta Syndrome ISBN: 1072562162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781072562160 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3440.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "In the late afternoon light McAllister squinted in the direction of the wreck site several kilometers away, imagining he could see the large yellow buoy they'd laid only the day before, as a marker for the heavy mooring that would anchor the barge when it arrived. The Peruvian crew had been buzzing with excitement, and the anticipation of the next stage in the story of the Santa Lucia de Alcantara was almost intoxicating. Just yesterday, he thought. He wondered at how the safe, academic bubble of his archaeological life had been overtaken by this juggernaut. Global geo-politics were as febrile as they'd ever been since the Cold War, the flames fanned lustily by social media. Russians in Crimea and threatening eastern Europe, the Chinese militarizing the South China Sea, with North Korea and Iran stubbornly nursing their nuclear ambitions - and stampeding into this hair-triggered mix comes Rosetta." Dr. Philip McAllister, senior marine archaeologist at the British Museum, is leading the project to raise a 16th Century Spanish treasure ship from the ocean floor off Lima, Peru. But just before he returns to Peru for the final stages of the excavation, he finds himself accosted by shadowy elements of the British secret services, who accuse him of cyber-terrorism, while curious Russians have also been lurking near his home. Meanwhile, a Californian artificial intelligence expert seems to have lost control of his most advanced creation, which he'd hired out to a Japanese investment banker to fraudulently manipulate the international financial markets. All of these disparate events are on a violent collision course that will endanger the lives of everyone involved, and ultimately threaten the very foundations of modern existence Is the juggernaut unstoppable? Is native human ingenuity irrelevant, or is it now the only way ahead?
