Böcker av Jay Silverstein

Local, regional, and international conflict has become too complicated, too obtuse and abstract, for government-operated militaries to handle. Despite this, war has not ended. Instead, outcomes are decided by an experimental piece of semi-sentient technology developed by a small tech firm on America's western coast. NEON ORANGE ASSISTED SUICIDE, my 50,000 word, infectious, digestible, upmarket commercial fiction novel explores a world in which that most deeply rooted interpersonal phenomena - violence - has been voluntarily taken from humanity. In a narrative devoid of any specific protagonist, it is instead populated by many carefully rendered, complex beings whose lives unfold before, during, and after the transition to digital warfare. It tells a story tailored to the contemporary reader of literary fiction. I know this because I am a member of that demographic. Hence, I present to you a novel densely packed but trimmed of excess errata and tangential descriptions. Each word was chosen with purpose and with a desire to add to the non-linear, fractal organization of the narrative.NEON ORANGE ASSISTED SUICIDE stands on its own as the first in a wave of works to follow. Experiental but all-at-once approachable, the novel offers a vast spectrum of readers an opportunity to experience a narrative that encourages readers to search, reread, and voraciously pick apart. In this way, it captures minds that are used to constant updating and shattered attention.

This study documents the corpus of terracotta figurines that were found during excavations at Tell Timai between 2009 and 2013. The study assesses the locations in which terracotta figurines have been found both at Tell Timai and across Egypt, and discusses their usage within the settlements of Pharaonic and Ptolemaic-Roman Egypt. In addition, a chronological discussion of terracotta usage in Egypt from the Pharaonic to the Ptolemaic-Roman Period is presented to place the Tell Timai terracottas in chronological order to highlight themes of continuity and change. The figurine catalogue provides a detailed examination of the types and forms represented at Tell Timai and highlights the manufacturing techniques and decoration schemes used for specific types. This analysis also provides a clearer idea of the type of domestic religious activities that were practised at Tell Timai by the local population and the choice of terracotta styles used at specific periods. The study also provides date ranges based on associated ceramic assemblages to provide clearer dating for Egyptian terracotta types in Egypt.