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Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss: History of the Site Exhibition Guide

Prokasky Judith

ISBN: PB: 9783791358352, Prestel Publishing, March 2021
192 pp., 22x12 cm, 175 colour and black&white illus.

Monastery, royal palace, museum, parade ground, Palace of the Republic, archeological site, and cultural building – a lot has happened on this spot, in the middle of Berlin, on which the Humboldt Forum is located today. Where initially only a civil b...

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Evolution

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Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Brinkman Paul D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752167, ISBN: HB: 9780226074726, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
345 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 31 halftones

The so-called "Bone Wars" of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinos...

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Evolution

Standing between Life and Extinction Ethics and Ecology of Conserving Aquatic Species in North American Deserts

Propst David, Williams Jack, Bestgen Kevin, Hoagstrom Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226694474, ISBN: HB: 9780226694337, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 colour plates, 22 halftones

North American deserts – lands of little water – have long been home to a surprising diversity of aquatic life, from fish to insects and mollusks. But with European settlement, water extraction, resource exploitation, and invasive species set many of...

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Sherabad Oasis Tracing Historical Landscape in Southern Uzbekistan

Stanco Ladislav, Tuslova Petra

ISBN: PB: 9788024639024, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2020
495 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Sherabad Oasis: Tracing Historical Landscape in Southern Uzbekistan" is the second volume of the series examining the Czech-Uzbek archaeological expedition in southern Uzbekistan. While t...

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History of Art

Sahel Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara

LaGamma Alisa

ISBN: HB: 9781588396877, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2020
288 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 300 colour illus.

This groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the Sahel ("shore" in Arabic), a vast area on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert that includes present-day Senegal, Mauritania,...

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Ancient World

Studies of Homeric Greece

Bouzek Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024635613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
320 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 8 colour plates, 16 halftones, 109 line drawings, 30 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Studies of Homeric Greece" is a comprehensive companion to the archaeology and history of Late Mycenaean to Geometric Greece and the koine of Early Iron Age Geometric styles in Europe and...

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Sumerian Literary and Historical Inscriptions

Hallo William W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300230765, Yale University Press, July 2018
128 pp., 28.7x21.3 cm, 102 black&white illus.

The long-awaited twenty-second volume in the Yale Oriental Series provides reproductions of over one-hundred plates drawn from the Yale Babylonian Collection, one of the world's largest repositories of cuneiform inscriptions. An essential resource fo...

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Search for Takrur Archaeological Excavations and Reconnaissance Along the Middle Senegal Valley

McIntosh Roderick J., McIntosh Susan Keech, Bocoum Hamady

ISBN: PB: 9780913516294, Yale University Press, January 2017
600 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 348 black&white illus

An authoritative summary of the results of the archaeological excavations in the middle Senegal River valley, site of the ancient African Empire of Takrur. A summary of archaeological discoveries in the middle Senegal River valley, this authoritativ...

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Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record

Allmon Warren D., Yacobucci Margaret M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226377445, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones, 26 line drawings, 12 tables

Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-disciplines. The literature of paleobiology, in particular...

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Sagaholm North European Bronze Age Rock Art and Burial Ritual

Goldhahn Joachim

ISBN: PB: 9781785702648, Casemate, Oxbow Books, August 2016
192 pp., 24x17 cm, 8 illus.

This major new study by one of Europe's leading prehistorians presents and discusses a series of rock art engravings from a Bronze Age barrow in Ljungarum parish, Jonkoping Lan, situated in the central part of southern Sweden. Sagaholm contains the l...

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