Books with author Ed A. Murray

Excerpt from Atoms and EnergiesThe author is not partisan; he seeks truth. He believes he has a helpful thought; he presents it. If it proves truly helpful and is accepted he will be jus tified in taking pleasure in that helpfulness and ac ceptation. Should his views be proved wrong he will be the first to welcome better and sounder views. In either event knowledge will have been advanced by his effort. For I feel sure that the book will stimulate thought. To that end it is sent forth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

In this book I have retold the legends of the Gods of ancient Egypt, legends, which were current in the "morning of the world," preserved to the present day engraved on stone and written on papyri. I have told them in my own way, adhering strictly to the story, but arranging the words and phrases according to the English method; retaining, however, as far as possible the expressions and metaphors of the Egyptian. In some cases I have inserted whole sentences in order to make the sense clear; these are in places where the story divides naturally into several parts, as in "The Battles of Horus," and "The Regions of Night and Thick Darkness"; where each incident, so like the one preceding and the one following, is kept distinct in the mind of the reader by this means. This repetition is quite in accordance with the style of Egyptian literature. The book is intended entirely for the general public, who are increasingly interested in the religion and civilisation of ancient Egypt, but whose only means of obtaining knowledge of that country is apparently through magazine stories in which a mummy is the principal character. It may be worth noting that in these legends of ancient Egypt mummies are not mentioned, except in the Duat, the home of the dead, where one naturally expects to find them. Though the book is intended for the unscientific reader, I have made some provision for the more serious student, in the Notes at the end. In these I have given the origin of the legend, the book or books in which that original is published, and the book where the translation into a modern language by one of the great scholars of the day can be found. Other translations there are in plenty, which can be seen in specialist libraries; many of these, however, are of use only to a student of Egyptian literature and language. I have arranged the sequence of the stories according to my own ideas: first, the legends of various, one might almost say miscellaneous, gods; then the legends of Osiris and the deities connected with him; lastly, the legends of Ra. At the very end are Notes on the legends, and a short index of all the gods mentioned.

In this hilarious sequel to Emmabella's Christmas Alphabet, ten-year-old Emmabella Murray's quest to live a neatly ordered and arranged life is thwarted again as a moment of fame throws her life into disarray, a family holiday to the Lake District turns into a nightmare and she finds herself stuck up a mountain with the last person on earth she'd want to be stuck up a mountain with.Emmabella's Easter Alphabet is a tale of protest, infamy and pencils for children and adults who want to be children again.

‘Yes, it was my birthday! Sound the trumpets and scatter rose petals at me feet!’Emmabella’s parents had said she could have a birthday party. They weren’t expecting her to want to have a disco and they weren’t expecting her to want to have it at home. As for the party itself, nobody could have anticipated what took place…Emmabella’s Birthday Alphabet, the third book in the Emmabella’s Alphabet series, is a story of friendship, chaos, magic and pies. If this doesn’t put you off wanting to host your own birthday party, nothing will.

‘Yes, it was my birthday! Sound the trumpets and scatter rose petals at me feet!’ Emmabella’s parents had said she could have a birthday party. They weren’t expecting her to want to have a disco and they weren’t expecting her to want to have it at home. As for the party itself, nobody could have anticipated what took place…Emmabella’s Birthday Alphabet, the third book in the Emmabella’s Alphabet series, is a story of friendship, chaos, magic and pies. If this doesn’t put you off wanting to host your own birthday party, nothing will.