Bøger af Tara Prakash

Pearl Starling, a grizzly bear, has a good life. She lives in Wyoming with her parents and younger brother, Shale. Then something tragic happens to her parents and Pearl's world shatters. She decides it's time to leave her home and move to the wild. A series of adventures follow, in which Pearl observes the outside world wasn't as easy and carefree as her parents had made it look. As Pearl heads into the wild with nothing but hope and determination pushing her on, she meets new animals and learns just how strong friendships can be. But just as she's getting used to the wild, she meets a wolf who seems set on hurting her and her friend. When he attacks them, Pearl is filled with anger, sadness and fear. Can Pearl find the courage deep inside of her to get back up and move forward?

During the Old Kingdom, the ancient Egyptians constructed elaborately decorated mortuary monuments for their pharaohs. By the late Old Kingdom (ca. 2435-2153 BCE), these pyramid complexes began to contain a new and unique type of statue, the so-called prisoner statues. Despite being known to Egyptologists for decades, these statues of kneeling, bound foreign captives have been only partially documented, and questions surrounding their use, treatment, and exact meaning have remained unanswered. Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues-the first comprehensive analysis of the prisoner statues-addresses this gap, demonstrating that the Egyptians conceived of and used the prisoner statues differently over time as a response to contemporary social, cultural, and historical changes. In the process, the author contributes new data and interpretations on topics as diverse as the purpose and function of the pyramid complex, the ways in which the Egyptians understood and depicted ethnicity, and the agency of artists in ancient Egypt. Ultimately, this volume provides a fuller understanding of not only the prisoner statues but also the Egyptian late Old Kingdom as a whole.