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Letter and Report on the Discoveries at Herculaneum
ISBN: PB: 9781606060896, Getty Publications, September 2011
248 pp., 25x15 cm, 154 black&white illus.
This is a new translation of Wincklemann's controversial writings on the early study of Herculaneum & Pompeii. This new translation brings to light the early days of scientific archaeology and the unearthing and study of Herculaneum and Pompeii as ob...
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£40,00
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Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua'i A Scientist's Adventures in the Dark
ISBN: PB: 9780300172096, ISBN: HB: 9780300150940, Yale University Press, May 2011
216 pp., 22.6x14.8 cm, 39 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.
For two decades, paleoecologist David Burney and his wife, Lida Pigott Burney, have led an excavation of Makauwahi Cave on the island of Kaua'i, uncovering the fascinating variety of plants and animals that have inhabited Hawaii throughout its histor...
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£16,99
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£25,00
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Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC - AD 1000
ISBN: PB: 9780300170863, Yale University Press, March 2011
480 pp., 24.6x18.6 cm, 120 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.
Europe is, in world terms, a relatively minor peninsula attached to the Eurasian land mass, yet it became one of the most innovative regions on the planet, bearing restless adventurers who traversed the globe to trade and often to settle. By the fift...
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£19,99
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Herakleides A Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt
ISBN: PB: 9781606060360, Getty Publications, February 2011
104 pp., 23.6x18.8 cm, 50 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This is a fascinating multi-disciplinary study of the mummified remains of a young man who died nearly 2,000 years ago in Roman Egypt. Herakleides was a young man who lived and died in Roman Egypt almost two thousand years ago. This multidisciplinary...
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£18,99
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Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt 300 BC - AD 700
ISBN: PB: 9780300170948, Yale University Press, January 2011
416 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 350 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.
This masterful history of the monumental architecture of Alexandria, as well as of the rest of Egypt, encompasses an entire millennium – from the city's founding by Alexander the Great in 331 B. C. to the years just after the Islamic conquest of A. D...
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£50,00
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1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition Collections from Machu Picchu Human and Animal Remains
ISBN: PB: 9780913516218, Yale University Press, November 2010
198 pp., 24.5x17.2 cm, 12 charts, 60 black&white illus.
This second book in the Yale University Publications in Anthropology series dedicated to the Machu Picchu collections recovered early in the twentieth century from Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham and the Yale Peruvian Scientific Expeditions analyzes th...
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£15,00
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Protogaea
ISBN: PB: 9780226113012, ISBN: HB: 9780226112961, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
204 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones
"Protogaea", an ambitious account of terrestrial history, was central to the development of the earth sciences in the eighteenth century and provides key philosophical insights into the unity of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's thought and writings. In th...
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£34,50
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£56,00
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Star-Crossed Stone The Secret Life, Myths, and History of a Fascinating Fossil
ISBN: HB: 9780226514697, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 26 halftones
Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils, or echinoids, have continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when paleobiologi...
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£22,00
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Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtansgshan
ISBN: PB: 9780935573503, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2010
257 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 3 charts, 3 tables, 1 map, 160 colour illus.
Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily...
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£34,00
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Olmec Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico
ISBN: HB: 9780300166767, Yale University Press, September 2010
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 20 black&white illus., 180 colour illus.
Considered the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, the Olmec developed an iconic and sophisticated artistic style as early as the second millennium B. C. This pre-Columbian civilization, which flourished in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco bet...
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