Bøger af Don Nardo

This volume looks at Babylonian Mythology, drawing connections between ancient Babylonian culture and its myths, explaining how the beliefs, values, and experiences of that culture are represented in its treasured stories. Readers are treated to a map of ancient Mesopotamia, a family tree of the major gods, a table of major characters with name pronunciations with brief descriptions, sidebars, and fact boxes.

Author Don Nardo examines the ancient civilizations and peoples of Persian mythology. Origin / creation stories, early gods, mythical kings and heroes, and Zoroastrianism are all covered. This volume has a map of ancient Persia, a visual organizer grouping major characters, a table of major characters with name pronunciations and brief descriptions, a glossary, sidebars, fact boxes, and bibliography of sources for further study, and a subject index.

Introduce readers to the elaborate mythology of ancient Egypt. This book provides detailed discussion of the mythology's importance to its own culture and the impact it had on subsequent cultures. The numerous deities worshipped by the ancient Egyptians are described and their importance to different groups and in different regions within the empire are explained. Stories are retold along with explanation of how they reflect the values and concerns of Egyptian culture. Readers will also learn how the myths have made their way to Pop culture.

Author Don Nardo explores ancient Egyptian art and architecture by presenting unique combination of history, biography, and artistic techniques. Readers will discover the key components that define Egyptian styles, and are provided with the full story, from inception to the present state of art and architecture in Egypt. Palaces and pylons, the great pyramids, statues, music, painting, and reliefs are all explored in great detail.

Cloak of Destiny is a cosmic sci-fi mystery like no other. Leaping straight into the recurring debate over science-versus-religion, it reveals an astonishing alternate vision of one of the world's best-known and revered religious leaders. Pulp-fiction writer David Welles was once a scientist and visionary thinker, but in the last few years his only notable "achievement" seems to be his having fathered his brilliant and precocious son, Stuart. However, recently David began to be plagued by disturbing recurring dreams about a bearded man. In addition, he's started to notice that, for reasons he can't explain, he's acquiring enhanced mental and sensory abilities. Meanwhile, archaeologist Arthur MacKnight has been tracking and trying to document large-scale, strange, and unexplained natural events that have occurred in various parts of Europe and Africa over the past few decades. He thinks these events might be related somehow to an astounding discovery he made in the tomb of a first-century Greek inventor. Knowing full well it's the find of a lifetime, he wants to wait until he understands how it ties in with the miracle-like events he's been tracking before sharing it with the rest of the world. However, his assistant, Abdul-Samad Barrak, a devout Maronite Christian, disagrees. He strongly feels that such an earth-shaking discovery must be shared with the rest of humanity right away. With the help of Barrak, Welles and Stuart learn about the tomb and its incredible contents. And they are soon struggling to find the thread that connects that find with some fascinating predictions made by an obscure seventeenth-century author. As they try to solve this mystery, they are forced to tackle profound questions of faith, reason, and the very destiny of humanity. Weaving together artifacts and information from both past and present, all involved race to piece together the cosmic puzzle before the human race is devastated by a long-predicted, shattering final event.

This volume examines Greek mythology, drawing connections between ancient Greek culture and its myths. It explains how the beliefs, values, and experiences of that culture are represented in its treasured stories of gods, demi-gods, monsters, and heroes. This volume includes a map of ancient Greece, a family tree of the major gods, a table of major characters with name pronunciations and brief descriptions, a glossary, sidebars, fact boxes, a bibliography of sources for further study, and a subject index.