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In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure by Henry Hardy
RRP: £10.99£8.38The 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... -
Cyriac of Ancona: Later Travels by Edward W. Bodnar 9780674007581
RRP: £29.95£24.06Early 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... -
Rise of the Hyksos: Egypt and the Levant from the Middle Kingdom to the Early Second Intermediate Period by Anna-Latifa Mourad 9781784911331
£48.91Manetho'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... -
The Origins of the World's Mythologies by E. J. Michael Witzel
RRP: £60.00£38.05In 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... -
Abandoned Ireland by Dominic Connolly 9781838863159
RRP: £19.99£15.25An 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... -
Tausret: Forgotten Queen & Pharaoh of Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson 9780199740116
£52.28One of only a few women who ruled ancient Egypt as a king during its thousands of years of history, Tausret was the last pharaoh of the 19th dynasty (c. 1200 BCE), the last ruling descendent of Ramesses the Great, and one of only two female monarchs... -
Underwater Archaeology: The NAS Guide to Principles and Practice by Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) 9781405175913
RRP: £35.95£32.07Underwater 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... -
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... -
Commemorating Conflict: Greek Monuments of the Persian Wars by Xavier Duffy 9781784918392
£50.29This study is concerned with how the Greek peoples, of primarily the classical period, collectively commemorated the Persian Wars. The data presented here are public monuments, which include both physical and behavioural commemorations. The aim of this... -
The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe by Maren Elisabeth Schwab
RRP: £28.00£21.80A 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... -
Wroxeter, the Cornovii and the Urban Process. Volume 2: Characterizing the City. Final Report of the Wroxeter Hinterland Project, 1994-1997 by R. H. White 9781905739615
£79.01In the mid 1990s, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum at Wroxeter, Shropshire, was subjected to one of the most intensive campaigns of geophysical survey ever carried out on a Roman town. The result was a complete plan of the city using... -
Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World by John Baines 9781800500266
£35.62Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in ancient civilizations across the world. The contributors are leading experts in Ancient Near Eastern... -
Cathedral Architecture by Martin S. Briggs
RRP: £6.99£5.07The 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... -
The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt by Justine Firnhaber-Baker 9780367143763
RRP: £45.99£40.53The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt charts the history of medieval rebellion from Spain to Bohemia and from Italy to England, and includes chapters spanning the centuries between Imperial Rome and the Reformation. Drawing together an... -
Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age, Part I: stratigraghy, spatial organisation and chronology by Mike Parker Pearson 9781789256932
RRP: £35.00£32.23This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500 BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cladh... -
The Medieval Stained Glass of Herefordshire & Shropshire by Robert Walker
RRP: £25.00£21.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839546Author Robert WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
The Egyptians by Sergio Donadoni 9780226155562
RRP: £27.00£26.47Providing an accessible introduction to the people who lived along the Nile for almost 35 centuries, this collection of essays presents studies of ancient Egyptians arranged by social type - slaves, craftsmen, priests, bureaucrats, pharaohs, peasants and... -
The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by Francois-Xavier Fauvelle 9780691181264
RRP: £25.00£19.99A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval AfricaFrom the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an... -
The Museum Experience Revisited by John H. Falk 9781611320459
RRP: £37.99£33.38The first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit when it was first published in 1992, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand their constituents. Falk and Dierking have updated this essential... -
Pitt Rivers: The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers by Mark Bowden 9780521106221
RRP: £30.99£19.04A flamboyant polymath, General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900) was influential in four fields during his lifetime: military training, anthropology, archaeology and public education. Yet very little is known about his career, character, or... -
Settlement in the Irish Neolithic: New Discoveries at the Edge of Europe by Jessica Smyth
RRP: £24.99£22.67The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last ten years. The... -
Early Ireland: An Introduction to Irish Prehistory by Michael J. O'Kelly 9780521336871
RRP: £54.99£47.08Engagingly written and packed with illustrations, Early Ireland offers an authoritative introduction to the riches of Irish prehistory - a span of eight thousand years from the end of the Ice Age to the first centuries of the Christian era. It provides a... -
Gilded City: Tour Medieval and Renaissance London by Duncan Smith 9781914414848
RRP: £25.00£17.70Throughout London's two-thousand-year history, architecture has expressed the identity of the city's diverse communities. From Franciscan friars to merchant bankers, royal dynasties to grocers and tailors, the ideals and wealth of these groups have been... -
The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire by Kent V. Flannery 9780674416772
RRP: £22.95£18.78Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 bce truly egalitarian societies were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality, Kent... -
The Elgin Marbles: The Case for Restitution by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £14.99£13.86The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government, had chunks of the... -
Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland by Ian Armit
RRP: £27.50£20.28The brochs are among the best-known ancient monuments in Scotland. However, despite a long and colourful history of research, it is only in the last 20 years that the results of field survey, excavation and radiocarbon dating have begun to flesh out a... -
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones
RRP: £58.00£26.34In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an ancient Greek gear-driven device, now known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Since its discovery, scholars relying on direct... -
The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume I: From the Beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad by Karen Radner
RRP: £122.50£111.56This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the emergence of complex states to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Written by a... -
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City by Andrew Lawler 9780593311769
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593311769Author Andrew LawlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval Churches by James Jerman 9780415151566
RRP: £37.99£33.38Sexually explicit sculptures may be found on a number of medieval churches in France and Spain. This fascinating study examines the origins and purposes of these sculptures, viewing them not as magical fertility symbols, nor even as idols of ancient... -
Decoding the Pictish Symbols by W. A. Cummins 9780752452395
RRP: £19.99£15.02The Picts, the most powerful nation in northern Britain for some 500 years, mysteriously disappeared from contemporary records in the ninth century. All that remains of the language they spoke are a few fragments in the names of places or people. Their... -
The Story of Silbury Hill by Jim Leary 9781848020467
RRP: £14.99£14.34The Story of Silbury Hill sets out the archaeological story of Silbury: from an early recognition of its importance to antiquarian and archaeological investigations of the hill. For the first time, the results of the recent work are set out in detail,... -
Fishes by Alwyne Wheeler 9780521105415
RRP: £26.99£21.89Fishes is a practical introduction to the study of fish remains from archaeological sites, designed for archaeologists and archaezoologists working in the field and in the laboratory. It provides clear guidelines for the identification of remains and how... -
Excavations at Knowth Volume 7: The Megalithic Art of the Passage Tombs at Knowth, Co. Meath by George Eogan
£85.78The complex of passage tombs at Knowth is dated c. 3200-2900 BC, and this volume deals with one of the most significant aspects of the site. It presents a complete catalogue of the 390 recorded carved stones at Knowth, through descriptions, drawings and... -
An Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Sobekmose by Paul F. O'Rourke
RRP: £24.95£17.35The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose, in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, is one of the most important surviving examples of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead genre. Such 'books' - papyrus scrolls - were composed of traditional... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £33.99£24.61Edited by Barry Cunliffe, one of the world's leading archaeologists, this book provides a comprehensive account of prehistoric Europe from the coming of the Stone Age to the fall of the Roman Empire. Unique in its approach, it is a history of both... -
Exploring Celtic Origins: New Ways Forward in Archaeology, Linguistics, and Genetics by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £32.00£29.56Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bronze Age... -
Farmers in Prehistoric Britain by Francis Pryor 9780752438672
RRP: £22.50£16.79Francis Pryor - regular contributor on Channel 4's Time Team and the man behind the Britain BC and Britain AD television series - maintains that early farming in Britain has been largely misunderstood, due to a loss of contact with the countryside and... -
Holyrood Park including Arthur’s Seat by Historic Scotland 9781849173063
RRP: £6.00£4.29Few capital cities contain a landmark as rugged and expansive as Edinburgh's Holyrood Park and Arthur's Seat. Not only does this space provide superb recreational opportunities; it also contains important habitats for a vast diversity of Scottish... -
When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics by Frank L. Holt
RRP: £31.49£27.58Coinage - it is one of the most successful and consistent technologies ever invented. Nothing else we still use in everyday life has a history quite like it. Look around at all the things that would bewilder a Greek, Roman, or Renaissance ancestor; then,...