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Archaeology & Paleontology

Letter and Report on the Discoveries at Herculaneum

Winckelmann Johann Joachim

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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Ecology

Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua'i A Scientist's Adventures in the Dark

Burney David A.

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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Archaeology & Paleontology

Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC - AD 1000

Cunliffe Barry

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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Archaeology & Paleontology

Herakleides A Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt

Corcoran Lorelei, Svoboda Marie

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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Architecture

Archaeology & Paleontology

Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt 300 BC - AD 700

McKenzie Judith

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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