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Birth of the State Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China
ISBN: PB: 9788024622149, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2013
358 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 52 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Birth of the State" provides an overview of four of the most significant cultural centers in the ancient world, now in Egypt, the Persian Gulf region, India, and China. Petr Charvat a...
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£19,00
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Earth on Show Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856
ISBN: PB: 9780226103204, ISBN: HB: 9780226616681, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
542 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 89 halftones, 2 tables
At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology – and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history – was widely dismissed as dangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph...
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£39,00
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£47,50
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Image and Myth A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art
ISBN: HB: 9780226297651, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 87 halftones
On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece – but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In "Image and Myth", Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiq...
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£56,00
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In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
ISBN: PB: 9780300204995, Yale University Press, August 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
The stories behind the acquisition of ancient antiquities are often as important as those that tell of their creation. This fascinating book provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of classical archaeology, explaining how and...
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£23,00
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Lost World of Fossil Lake Snapshots from Deep Time
ISBN: HB: 9780226922966, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
432 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 3 tables, 243 colour plates, 3 line illus.
The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But during the early Eocene, more than...
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£34,00
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Finding Forgotten Cities How the Indus Civilization was Discovered
ISBN: PB: 9780857421128, Seagull Books, May 2013
410 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm, 50 halftones
In the autumn of 1924 the scholar-archaeologist John Marshall made an announcement that rewrote the history books: he proclaimed the discovery of the civilization of the Indus valley. Within weeks, Marshall's discovery was recognized as on the same s...
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£16,00
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Rediscovering the Ancient World on the Bay of Naples, 1710-1890
ISBN: HB: 9780300189216, Yale University Press, April 2013
292 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 97 colour, 78 black&white illus.
The ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., drew international attention when excavations commenced in the 1730s. As a result, the nearby city of Naples became a nexus of scholarship, cult...
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£50,00
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American Egyptologist The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
ISBN: PB: 9780226045344, ISBN: HB: 9780226001104, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
536 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 4 maps, 128 halftones
James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. Daring, handsome, and charismatic, he traveled on expeditions to remote and politically unstable corners of the Middle East, helped identify the tom...
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£24,00
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£39,00
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Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
ISBN: PB: 9780226570648, ISBN: HB: 9780226570631, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10 colour illus., 130 halftones, 12 line illus.
In the fifth century B. C. E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern...
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£37,00
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£65,00
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Archaeological Sites Conservation and Management
ISBN: PB: 9781606061244, Getty Publications, January 2013
736 pp., 25.5x17.8 cm, 29 colour illus., 21 black&white illus.
This title is an insightful collection of essays and reports examining key issues in the conservation and management of archaeological sites. The fifth volume in the Getty's "Readings in Conservation" series features more than seventy texts that have...
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£55,00
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