TITLE: In Search of the Immortals: Mummies, Death and the Afterlife AUTHOR: Howard Reid DATE PUBLISHED: 1999 FORMAT: Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780747275558 NOTE: Re-read _______________________________ DESCRIPTION: "Everyone knows that the ancient Egyptians were great mummifiers, and th...
Pretty darn entertaining for an intellectual history of a city I have to say. The second half of the book kind of dropped off for me. The history of science and reason in Alexandria is replaced by squabbles over religion in the later years of the Roman Empire and a lot of the esoteric arguments ma...
I've had this book for over twenty-years, mainly because around that time I started training in koryu bujutsu, and more specifically Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu. This book contains a fairly large section devoted to the classic martial arts, focusing entirely on Risuke Otake, headmaster of the T...