埃勒里•奎因（Ellery Queen）是曼弗雷德•班宁顿•李（Manfred Bennington Lee 1905～1971）和弗雷德里克•丹奈（Frederic Dannay 1905～1982）这对表兄弟合用的笔名，美国推理小说代名词，他们堪称侦探推理小说史上承前启后的经典作家，开创了合作撰写推理小说成功的先例。埃勒里•奎因也是其小说中的主人公，其角色本身就是一位侦探小说作家兼超级侦探。年轻英俊的侦探埃勒里•奎因和他的父亲——纽约警察局的警官理查德•奎因是其大多数作品中的主要角色。 从1929年到1971年，埃勒里•奎因发表了数十部推理小说。其中的9部“国名系列”作品和4部“悲剧系列”作品被认为是古典解谜推理小说最高水平的代表，是后人难以逾越的杰作。

The most important myth in Ancient Egypt is faithfully retold in glorious color! Horus, son of Isis, vows bloody revenge on his Uncle Set for the murder and usurpation of his Pharaoh father. Based on elements from various versions of the famous Osiris myth, Hamish Steele has resurrected this fantastic story in all its symbolic and humorous glory. Pantheon contains: incest, deca...(展开全部)

作者： 夏鼐，1910—1985年，浙江温州人。著名考古学家，新中国考古学和埃及学的奠基人之一。先后毕业于清华大学、伦敦大学学院，埃及考古学博士。中国科学院哲学社会学部委员、英国学术院通讯院士、德意志考古研究院通讯院士、瑞典皇家文学历史考古科学院外籍院士、美国全国科学院外籍院士、意大利中东和远东研究院通讯院士、第三世界科学院院士。 ********** 译者： 颜海英，北京大学历史学系教授，北京大学古代东方文明研究所所长，学术专长为埃及学，有《古埃及文明探研》等专著和多篇学术文章。 田天，伦敦大学学院（University College London）埃及考古学博士，研究领域包括埃及青铜时代早期丧葬文化 、丧葬考古学、仪式研究及埃及学史。 刘子信，本名刘瑞，北京大学考古文博学院博士， 修中外文化交流考古。

The collections of charms, formulas, hymns and spells designed to accompany the dead of Ancient Egypt on their journey to the afterlife have always exerted a powerful fascination on modern generations. Written on papyrus, inscribed on the walls of tombs and sarcophagi, or engraved on amulets, these texts with their vignette illustrations give us unparalleled insights into the i...(展开全部)

Although the first edition of the study appeared over seventy years ago, Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar remains the most comprehensive presentation of Middle Egyptian available, and is still an essential reference tool for all advanced work in the language. The latest, third, edition, appeared in 1957 and is now in its tenth reprinting. After each new element of grammar the learne...(展开全部)

The complex world of Egyptian myth is clearly illuminated in this fascinating new approach to ancient Egypt. Geraldine Pinch explores the cultural and historical background behind a wide variety of sources and objects, from Cleopatra's Needle and Tutankhamun's golden statue, to a story on papyrus of the gods misbehaving. What did they mean, and how have they been interpreted? ...(展开全部)

Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a no...(展开全部)