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Searching for the Silures: An Iron Age Tribe in South-East Wales by Ray Howell 9780752440149
RRP: €23.80€17.50The Silures, the Iron Age tribe of south-east Wales, are described by Roman sources as among the most implacable foes of Roman expansion. The remarkable Silurian War, a protracted and surprisingly successful guerrilla campaign, saw the advancing legions... -
Black '47: A Story of Ireland's Great Famine: A Graphic Novel by Damien Goodfellow
RRP: €16.65€13.73A gritty graphic novel about Ireland's Great Hunger. Jack and his family have been evicted by their landlord and given one way tickets to the USA. They refuse to leave Ireland, unknowingly placing themselves in grave peril. When Jack falls in with a... -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison by Nicholas Guyatt
RRP: €29.75€21.44'Beguiling.' The Times 'Compelling.' Wall Street Journal 'A vivid portrait.' Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's 1812 - Britain and America are at war. British... -
Aleppo: A History by Ross Burns
RRP: €39.26€35.18Shortlisted for the 2018 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize Aleppo is one of the longest-surviving cities of the ancient and Islamic Middle East. Until recently it enjoyed a thriving urban life-in particular an active traditional suq, with a... -
The Anglo-Saxon Fenland by Susan Oosthuizen 9781911188087
RRP: €39.21€32.36Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England, continue to suggest, explicitly or by implication, that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European colonists in a largely empty landscape. Using existing... -
People of the Long Barrows: Life, Death and Burial in the Earlier Neolithic by Martin Smith 9780752447339
RRP: €29.75€21.60Human remains can answer all sorts of questions about our ancestors - what sort of diet they ate, what age they lived to, what sort of living conditions they experienced and how they died. The Neolithic is the earliest period from which significant... -
Patina: A Profane Archaeology by Shannon Lee Dawdy
RRP: €28.56€27.41When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the world reacted with shock on seeing residents of this distinctive city left abandoned to the floodwaters. After the last rescue was completed, a new worry arose-that New Orleans's unique historic fabric sat... -
The Lawn Road Flats - Spies, Writers and Artists by David Burke 9781783274703
RRP: €23.79€20.67The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers The Isokon building, also know as Lawn Road Flats, in London... -
Sethy I, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife by Aidan Dodson 9789774168864
RRP: €35.69€29.94King Sethy I (also transcribed as Seti, Sethi and Sethos) ruled for around a decade in the early thirteenth century BC. His lifetime coincided with a crucial point in Egyptian history, following the ill-starred religious revolution of Akhenaten, and... -
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Philip R. Davies 9780500283714
RRP: €17.79€12.11New in paperback, this is a fully illustrated volume on the discovery, meaning and significance of all the Dead Sea Scrolls by acknowledged experts in the field. Offering intriguing historical and religious insights into the period of authorship, from... -
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein
RRP: €15.46€9.73In the past three decades, archaeologists have made great strides in recovering the lost world of the Old Testament. Dozens of digs in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon have changed experts' understanding of ancient Israel and its neighbours- as well as... -
Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage' by William Logan 9780415454506
RRP: €45.21€39.72Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community's history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to... -
Early Humans (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 134) by Nicholas Ashton
RRP: €41.65€27.39Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure's A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume... -
Knoydart: A History by Denis Rixson
RRP: €13.08€9.09Knoydart - the northern edge of the 'Rough Bounds' is one of the most evocative names in Scotland. This text offers a history of Knoydart from the earliest times to the present day. A remote and desolate peninsula, its name derives from Viking settlers... -
Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations: Weaving Together Society by Anne Porter 9780521764438
€90.01In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of... -
The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion by Thorkild Jacobsen
RRP: €29.75€28.49A recreation of the spiritual life of ancient Mesopotamia demonstrating that the roots of Western civilization lie in the ancient Near East"A brilliant presentation of Mesopotamian religion from the inside, backed at every point by meticulous scholarship... -
Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain by D. F. Mackreth
RRP: €89.25€72.04The result of forty years of study, this book offers an overview of the most common find, after coins, on sites in Roman Britain – the brooch. Used basically to hold outer clothing together, it was always on view and was usually decorative. This... -
Prehistoric Belief: Shamans, Trance and the Afterlife by Mike Williams 9780752449210
RRP: €41.65€31.08Starting with the dawn of what we would recognise as modern human thought, this book journeys through 35,000 years of our human past. It shows how our earliest ancestors learnt to enter trance states and the revolutionary effect this had on the way they... -
The Road to Ruins by Ian Graham
RRP: €35.64€29.90For anyone who ever wanted to be an archaeologist, Ian Graham could be a hero. This lively memoir chronicles Graham's career as the ""last explorer"" and a fierce advocate for the protection and preservation of Maya sites and monuments across Mexico,... -
Zooarchaeology and Field Ecology: A Photographic Atlas by Jack M. Broughton 9781607814856
RRP: €58.25€47.93This photographic atlas, developed over twenty years of teaching in the field, expedites the work of the zooarchaeologist by integrating both osteology and wildlife ecology into a single volume. Zooarchaeology, the study of animal remains found at... -
Prehistoric Rock Art in Cumbria: Landscapes and Monuments by Stan Beckensall 9780752425269
RRP: €26.78€19.55Many exciting discoveries of prehistoric rock art have been made recently in Cumbria. They are included in this complete account of the earliest human communication, some 4-5000 years ago on outcrop rock, earthfast boulders, burials and other ritual... -
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian
RRP: €23.74€17.08George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year"A groundbreaking contribution...Intellectual history at its best."-Stephen Wertheim, Foreign AffairsNeoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the... -
Marine Archaeology: A Handbook by Virginia E. Dellino-Musgrave 9781902771915
RRP: €14.28€11.57Marine Archaeology: A Handbook aims to give easy access to a range of information about the marine historic environment. It provides a useful guide for all those involved in the marine environment, from local authorities to recreational divers and... -
Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England by Barbara Yorke 9780415166393
RRP: €52.35€45.74Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England provides a unique survey of the six major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms - Kent, the East Saxons, the East Angles, Northumbria, Mercia and Wessex - and their royal families, examining the most recent research in this... -
The Battle of Pinkie, 1547: The Last Battle Between the Independent Kingdoms of Scotland and England by David Caldwell
RRP: €41.65€34.30The Battle of Pinkie, fought between the English and the Scots in 1547, was the last great clash between the two as independent nations. It is a well-documented battle with several eyewitness accounts and contemporary illustrations. There is also... -
Before the Pharaohs: Exploring the Archaeology of Stone Age Egypt by Julian Maxwell Heath
RRP: €23.79€17.47The remarkable archaeology of pharaonic Egypt continues to captivate countless people worldwide but evidence for Egypt's prehistoric or Stone Age past has been relatively neglected. This is perhaps understandable, as the archaeology of Stone Age Egypt... -
Archaeology: A Beginner's Guide by Joe C. Flatman 9781780745039
RRP: €11.89€7.63Whether it's Tomb Raider or Roman coins, the conventional view of archaeology as a discipline solely preoccupied with long dead cultures is misleading. In fact, archaeology is better described as a mode of thought - one by which we can better understand... -
Scale and the Incas by Andrew James Hamilton 9780691172736
RRP: €69.02€52.80A groundbreaking work on how the topic of scale provides an entirely new understanding of Inca material cultureAlthough questions of form and style are fundamental to art history, the issue of scale has been surprisingly neglected. Yet, scale and scaled... -
A Landscape Revealed: 10,000 Years on a Chalkland Farm by Martin Green 9780752414904
RRP: €29.75€21.60The Down Farm Landscape (where the author's family has farmed for generations) is one of the most carefully studied areas in Western Europe. Much of this work has been carried out by the author himself - who in 1992 won the Pitt Rivers award for... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism by Louise D'Arcens
RRP: €27.36€23.79Medievalism - the creative interpretation or recreation of the European Middle Ages - has had a major presence in the cultural memory of the modern West, and has grown in scale to become a global phenomenon. Countless examples across aesthetic, material... -
Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic by Andy Secher
RRP: €41.65€34.28Trilobites were some of the most successful and versatile organisms ever to exist. Among the earliest forms of complex animal life, these hard-shelled marine invertebrates inhabited the primal seas of the Paleozoic Era. Their march through evolutionary... -
Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC by Robin Osborne
RRP: €52.35€46.22Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC is an accessible and comprehensive account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period. The first edition of this book broke new ground by acknowledging that, barring a small number of archaic... -
Reading Roman Inscriptions by John Rogan 9780752439525
RRP: €17.84€13.42The abundant Roman inscriptions to be found in British museums tell us much about the everyday life of the inhabitants of Roman Britain - about their hopes and fears, their work and their beliefs. Nor is a fluent command of Latin essential for... -
Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals by Norman H. Reid
RRP: €35.70€24.99Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2019 Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early and unexpected death... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial by Sarah Tarlow 9780198855255
€49.85The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which... -
Making One's Way in the World: The Footprints and Trackways of Prehistoric People by Martin Bell
RRP: €59.50€49.63The book draws on the evidence of landscape archaeology, palaeoenvironmental studies, ethnohistory and animal tracking to address the neglected topic of how we identify and interpret past patterns of movement in the landscape. It challenges the pessimism... -
Metal Sewing-Thimbles Found in Britain by Brian Read 9781784919450
RRP: €29.75€24.16This is the first reference book that deals specifically with all types of sewing-thimble made from copper-alloy or silver, or either of these metals combined with iron or steel, and found in Britain: also included is a seemingly rare gold specimen... -
The Viking Age: A Reader by Angus A. Somerville 9781487570477
RRP: €49.98€43.29In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking era is revealed through... -
Jingdezhen to the World: The Lurie Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Late Ming Dynasty by Teresa Canepa 9781912168095
RRP: €107.10€83.47This lavishly illustrated book celebrates one of the most comprehensive and meticulously assembled private collections of Chinese export porcelain from the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644) made at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province. The Lurie Collection,... -
The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston 9781538741221
RRP: €35.70€19.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538741221Author Douglas PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...