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Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics by Marjorie J. Spruill
RRP: £10.99£8.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632863164Author Marjorie J. SpruillFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 482g -
The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts by R. O. Faulkner 9780856687549
£112.71Faulkner's authoritative English translation of Middle Kingdom coffin texts is essential for all Egyptologists. This new edition reprints his whole work in one volume. Filling the gap between the `Pyramid' texts and the New Kingdom Book of the Dead, ... -
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola
RRP: £25.00£20.18"A great read."-Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in... -
Outside Roman London: Roadside burials by the Walbrook stream by Serena Ranieri 9781907586446
RRP: £10.00£8.18This book describes the archaeological evidence from excavations at Crossrail's Broadgate ticket hall at Liverpool Street, from the Late Iron Age to the late Roman marsh formation. The site lay 120m north of the town defences in a landscape dominated by... -
Llanilltud - The Story of a Celtic Christian Community by Philip Morris
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784617530Author Philip MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400 by Rory MacLellan 9780367654818
RRP: £39.99£35.06Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400 is the first study of donations to the Knights Hospitaller throughout England and Ireland during the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The book demonstrates that patrons... -
Time After Time by Victor Watson
RRP: £7.99£5.79A young Anglo-Saxon woman is travelling across an empty East Anglian landscape. She's dressed as a man, for safety. But when her only companion is murdered, she knows she faces discovery, and almost certainly much worse. In the Napoleonic period, a... -
The Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames: Late Prehistory 1500 BC-AD 50 by George Lambrick 9780954962791
RRP: £30.00£25.77In common with other volumes in the Thames Through Time series, this account of the Thames Valley in the millennium and a half before the Roman conquest seeks to examine change in human society from a thematic point of view. The geographical and ... -
The Archaeology of Sutton Park by Michael Hodder 9780752468006
RRP: £17.99£13.33Sutton Park is a nationally important historic landscape. Its many visitors are often drawn by the rich ecology that this public open space of about 2,250 acres provides. However, the Park also contains extensive and well-preserved archaeological remains... -
The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland by Kenneth Brophy
RRP: £23.99£19.91What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000 BC? Where were people living? How did they treat their dead? Why did they spend so much time building extravagant ritual monuments? What was special about the relationship people had with trees and... -
Interpreting the English Village: Landscape and Community at Shapwick, Somerset by Mick Aston 9781905119455
RRP: £29.95£25.13An original and approachable account of how archaeology can tell the story of the English village. Shapwick lies in the middle of Somerset, next to the important monastic centre of Glastonbury: the abbey owned the manor for 800 years from the 8th to the... -
The Archaeology of Athens by John M. Camp 9780300101515
RRP: £35.00£34.31The definitive work on the monuments of ancient Athens and Attica In this book, a leading authority on the archaeology of ancient Greece presents a survey of the monuments-first chronologically and then site by site. John M. Camp begins with a... -
Living on the Edge of Empire: The Objects and People of Hadrian's Wall by Rob Collins 9781783463275
RRP: £25.00£17.62Dr Rob Collins and the curators of the remarkable collections from Hadrian's Wall present a striking new contribution to understanding the archaeology of a Roman frontier. This highly-illustrated volume showcases the artefacts recovered from... -
A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain: Trade Networks and the Importation of a Southern Scandinavian Silver Bullion Economy by Tom Horne 9781032197333
RRP: £39.99£35.06Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this... -
The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, c.1150-1450 by John Clark
RRP: £24.99£21.30Over 400 recent finds associated with horses and excavated in London, from the utilitarian to the highly decorated, illustrated and discussed. Whether knight's charger or beast of burden, horses played a vital role in medieval life. The wealth of... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: £18.99£14.79Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on... -
Rome Then and Now (R) by Federica D'Orazio
RRP: £20.00£14.34A visual historical tour through all the great tourist locations of Rome, with vintage images paired with their modern-day equivalent in this compelling bilingual edition. Rome is 'the eternal city' and was a stopping-off place on the Grand... -
Objects: Reluctant Witnesses to the Past by Chris Caple
RRP: £37.99£33.38An invaluable field textbook, Objects examines detailed case studies to provide a brilliantly clear and comprehensible guide to the different methods and approaches (cultural, forensic, and technical) which can and have been used to study ancient... -
The Science For Conservators Series: Volume 2: Cleaning by Conservation Unit Museums and Galleries Commission
RRP: £43.99£38.44For more than ten years, the Science for Conservators series has been the key basic texts for conservators throughout the world. Scientific concepts are basic ot the conservation of artefacts of every type, yet many conservators have little or no... -
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz 9780393652666
RRP: £21.99£18.15In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall... -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Science, Engineering and Technology by Michael Denis Higgins 9780197648148
RRP: £22.99£19.56Michael Higgins broadens our understanding of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by bringing science, engineering, and technology together with ancient documentation and archaeological findings. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Pyramids of... -
The Archaeology of Ancient Greece by James Whitley
£38.16The Archaeology of Ancient Greece provides a synthesis of research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods (1000-300 BC). The rich and diverse material culture of ancient Greece has always provoked admiration and even... -
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael A. Cremo 9780892132942
RRP: £39.99£33.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892132942Author Michael A. CremoFormat HardbackPage Count 914Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book TrustWeight(grams) 1545g -
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 by Benny Morris 9780674916456
£32.66A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian minorities.Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities,... -
Cyriac of Ancona: Later Travels by Edward W. Bodnar 9780674007581
RRP: £29.95£23.59Early Renaissance humanists discovered the culture of ancient Greece and Rome mostly through the study of classical manuscripts. Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli, 1391-1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to... -
Abandoned Ireland by Dominic Connolly 9781838863159
RRP: £19.99£14.94An ancient island with a romantic history and lush green landscape, Ireland's culture stretches back to the time of St Patrick and the first Christian monks and includes the Norman invasion, clan wars, mass emigration and partition in the early 20th... -
In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure by Henry Hardy
RRP: £10.99£8.15The compelling story of a decades-long collaboration between social and political theorist Isaiah Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, who made it his vocation to bring Berlin's huge body of work into print. Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest... -
The Precinct of Mut at South Karnak: An Archaeological Guide by Richard A Fazzini 9789774169731
RRP: £19.99£16.42Mut was an important deity perhaps best known as the consort of Amun-Re and the mother of Khonsu, but her earlier and far more independent role was as the daughter of the sun god, much akin to Hathor. Like Nekhbet and Wadjet and the other lioness... -
Rise of the Hyksos: Egypt and the Levant from the Middle Kingdom to the Early Second Intermediate Period by Anna-Latifa Mourad 9781784911331
RRP: £48.00£40.13Manetho's obscure reference to a race of invaders has been a constant source of debate and controversy. But who are these invaders? They are named the 'Hyksos' - a Greek modification of the Egyptian expression HqA xAs.wt 'ruler of foreign lands'. The... -
In the Darkest of Days: Exploring Human Sacrifice and Value in Southern Scandinavian Prehistory by Matthew J. Walsh 9781789258592
RRP: £38.00£31.20This book collects recent works on the subjects of sacrificial offerings, ritualised violence and the relative values thereof in the contexts of Scandinavian prehistory from the Neolithic to the Viking era. It provides a detailed re-appraisal of key... -
The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe by Maren Elisabeth Schwab
RRP: £28.00£21.36A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledgeIn the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a... -
Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' Units by Mark Chambers
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1938, the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, acting under the requirements issued by the Kaigun Koku Hombu for a Navy Experimental 13-Shi Carrier Borne specification for a dive-bomber to replace the venerable 'Val' aboard carriers. The resulting... -
Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity by Georgios Boudalis
RRP: £22.50£21.68The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity. The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity examines surviving evidence in order to better understand how this... -
From Brunel to British Rail: The Railway Heritage of the Crossrail Route by Andy Shelley 9780904220797
RRP: £10.00£8.58Trace a line across a map of London and one will encounter many historic railways. Railways are more dynamic than people may suppose; over time stations are reconfigured, bridges replaced, tracks re-aligned. Sometimes, whole lines or tracts of land,... -
The Origins of the World's Mythologies by E. J. Michael Witzel
£81.45In this comprehensive book Michael Witzel persuasively demonstrates the prehistoric origins of most of the mythologies of Eurasia and the Americas ('Laurasia'). By comparing these myths with others indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa, Melanesia, and... -
Cathedral Architecture by Martin S. Briggs
RRP: £6.99£4.90The landmark of many cities is the cathedral. Some had their beginnings as monastic buildings, have stood for nearly a thousand years, and remain essential icons, or even emblems, of a city's character. Yet not all cathedrals look alike, and indeed these... -
Underwater Archaeology: The NAS Guide to Principles and Practice by Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) 9781405175913
£56.61Underwater Archaeology: The NAS Guide to Principles and Practice provides a comprehensive summary of the archaeological process as applied in an underwater context. Long awaited second edition of what is popularly referred to as the NAS HandbookProvides... -
Iron Age and Romano-British Settlements and Landscapes of Salisbury Plain by Michael Fulford 9781874350422
£48.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874350422Author Michael FulfordFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Trust for Wessex Archaeology LtdPublisher Trust for Wessex Archaeology Ltd -
Hidden History: Ancient Aliens and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization by Jim Willis
RRP: £35.99£27.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578597109Author Jim WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press -
Growing Up in the Ice Age: Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene children by April Nowell 9781789252941
RRP: £38.00£31.20Winner of the 2023 European Association of Archaeology Book of the Year AwardIn prehistoric societies children comprised 40-65% of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools and make...