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Archaeology – Why It Matters by AB Stahl
RRP: £9.99£8.95History lies beneath our feet and in the landscapes around us. In contrast to the history that comes from studying texts, archaeology is the study of history through objects, monuments, and other traces of past lives: history that extends beyond the... -
Logic and Theism: Arguments for and against Beliefs in God by Jordan Howard Sobel
RRP: £37.99£34.43This is a wide-ranging 2004 book about arguments for and against beliefs in God. The arguments for the belief are analysed in the first six chapters and include ontological arguments from Anselm to Goedel, the cosmological arguments of Aquinas and... -
Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man by Kenneth P. Oakley
RRP: £43.99£38.44This is the first book to appear which correlates within a single volume the relevant data for both archeological and geological dating of human fossil remains. The author was trained both as a geologist and as a prehistorian, and has written this book... -
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization by Michael D. Coe 9780500284421
£22.02The Classic-period kings ruled over the Khmer empire from AD 802 for more than five centuries, and this book, newly available in paperback, examines the massive architectural achievements of this period, including the huge capital city of Angkor, with... -
Prehistoric Britain by Professor Timothy C. Darvill 9780415490276
RRP: £39.99£35.46Britain has been inhabited by humans for over half a million years, during which time there were a great many changes in lifestyles and in the surrounding landscape. This book, now in its second edition, examines the development of human societies in... -
The Archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles by Ian Armit 9780748606405
RRP: £31.00£28.69From the Callanish stones and the great ritual monuments of the Neolithic, the broch towers and the wheelhouses of the Iron Age, through to the arrival of the Norse and the Lords of the Isles, this book explores the history of human settlement and... -
Digging for Hitler: The Nazi Archaeologists Search for an Aryan Past by David Barrowclough 9781781555002
RRP: £25.00£18.94* A band of Nazi archaeologists on a secret mission to Tibet* Others searching for Atlantis the 'home of the Nordic race'* Excavations in Czechoslovakia to find 'Germanic culture'* Sacred Sanskrit texts as keys to Nordic roots and Ancient Indian... -
Abu Simbel and the Nubian Temples: A New Traveler's Companion by Nigel Fletcher-Jones 9789774168789
RRP: £29.99£25.16The three-thousand-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 1960s are almost as familiar worldwide as the tale of the gold funerary mask and brief life of the boy king Tutankhamun... -
Abu Simbel: A Short Guide to the Temples by Nigel Fletcher-Jones
RRP: £9.99£8.17The three-thousand-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 1960s are almost as familiar worldwide as the tale of the gold funerary mask and brief life of the boy king Tutankhamun... -
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola 9780691210773
RRP: £15.99£12.91How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic... -
Subterranean Stockport by Emma Brown
RRP: £15.99£10.85Subterranean Stockport reveals a hidden world beneath the streets of Stockport - a Greater Manchester town with a rich industrial past. It includes water tunnels from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - excavated to supply water-powered corn and... -
Dilmun and its Gulf Neighbours by Harriet E. W. Crawford 9780521586795
RRP: £38.99£33.26Harriet Crawford presents a scholarly account of the archaeology of the Arabian Gulf from c.4500-1500 BC. It offers an interpretation of the structure of society in the Early Dilmun period (c.2000-1500 BC) using material from the excavated site of Saar... -
Paris Then and Now (R) by Peter Caine
RRP: £14.99£10.10Paris Then and Now captures the changes that have taken place in the French capital from the heady days of the Belle Epoque through to the 1940s. Matching classic archive images with the same viewpoint taken today the book provides a stunning... -
The Archaeology of Merseyside in 20 Digs by Vanessa Oakden
RRP: £15.99£10.85The archaeology of Merseyside is extremely rich and varied. Humans have been modifying the landscape for over 10,000 years. The river and coast have always been significant to Merseyside. From early village settlements to industrial and port activity in... -
Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming by Debby Banham
RRP: £41.49£34.39Anglo-Saxon farming made England so wealthy by the eleventh century that it attracted two full-scale invasions. In Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith explore how Anglo-Saxon farmers produced the food and other crops and animal... -
Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica: Animal Symbolism in the Postclassic Period by Susan Milbrath 9781646424603
RRP: £100.00£87.42Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica links Precolumbian animal imagery with scientific data related to animal morphology and behavior, providing in-depth studies of the symbolic importance of animals and birds in Postclassic period Mesoamerica. ... -
Biomolecular Archaeology: An Introduction by T. A. Brown 9781405179607
RRP: £35.95£32.07Illustrated thoroughly, Biomolecular Archaeology is the first book to clearly guide students through the study of ancient DNA: how to analyze biomolecular evidence (DNA, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates) to address important archaeological questions... -
Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era by Moira G. Simpson 9780415067850
RRP: £135.00£117.68Drawing upon material from Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Making Representations explores the ways in which museums and anthropologists are responding to pressures in the field by developing new policies and practices, and... -
Man Makes Himself by V. Gordon Childe 9780851246499
RRP: £16.00£15.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246499Author V. Gordon ChildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 408g -
Sethy I, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife by Aidan Dodson 9789774168864
RRP: £29.99£25.16King 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... -
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... -
The Significance of Monuments: On the Shaping of Human Experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe by Richard Bradley
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments - including Stonehenge - were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguities. Starting in the Mesolithic and carrying his analysis through to the Late Bronze Age, Richard... -
LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval by Kyle Longley
RRP: £18.99£16.051968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads... -
Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear by John Darlington
RRP: £25.00£20.36Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed under 3,000-year-old peat, others lost to rising seas... -
Oceans Rising - A Companion to "Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation" by Daniela Zyman
£23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796098Author Daniela ZymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 298mm * 232mm... -
The Swahili World by Stephanie Wynne-Jones
RRP: £45.99£41.13The Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, from the first settlement of... -
On the Primaeval Ocean by Mark Smith 9788772896465
£59.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772896465Author Mark SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 1368gDimensions(mm)... -
Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals by Norman H. Reid 9781910900222
RRP: £60.00£41.72Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 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... -
Nightmare at Scapa Flow: The Truth About the Sinking of HMS "Royal Oak" by H.J. Weaver
RRP: £7.99£5.69"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greatest naval base! It sounds incredible..." - William L Shirer, journalist, 18 October 1939 Sinking the battleship HMS... -
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth by Jodi Magness 9780691167107
RRP: £25.00£19.99A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman EmpireTwo thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children-the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of... -
Acropolis (English language edition): Visiting its Museum and its Monuments by Panos Valavanis
RRP: £9.00£7.4195 colour illustrations. The Athens Acropolis and its Museum constitute an integrated architectural and artistic unity, one of the most important in the history of global civilization. This informative and attractive guidebook is designed to be a... -
Stonehenge by Rosemary Hill
RRP: £10.99£7.77Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. By refusing to adopt one theoretical position, Rosemary Hill provides... -
Stone Tools & Society by Mark Edmonds
RRP: £41.99£36.75Stone tools are the most durable and, in some cases, the only category of material evidence that students of prehistory have at their disposal. Exploring the changing character and context of stone tools in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain, Mark Edmonds... -
In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power by Alfred W. McCoy
RRP: £10.99£7.77For a decade America's share of the global economy has been in decline. Its diplomatic alliances are under immense strain, and any claim of moral leadership has been abandoned. America is still a colossus, possessing half the world's manufacturing... -
Chedworth Roman Villa: Excavations and Re-Imaginings from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries by Professor Simon Esmonde Cleary
RRP: £100.00£93.51Ten years in the planning and with contributions by 27 expert authors, this is a comprehensive record of archaeological research at Chedworth Roman Villa, Gloucestershire (now in the care of the National Trust), from the nineteenth to the twenty-first... -
Defending Anglesey by Mark Dalton 9780956440587
£30.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956440587Author Mark DaltonFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Folly Books LtdPublisher Folly Books LtdWeight(grams) 1886gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm *... -
Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era by Dr Gabriel Moshenska 9781350335622
RRP: £24.99£20.44The tools and techniques of archaeology were designed for the study of past people and societies, but for more than a century a growing number of archaeologists have turned these same tools to the study of the modern world. This book offers an overview... -
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere 9780226289540
RRP: £18.00£15.40In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With... -
Iron Age and Roman Settlement in the Upper Thames Valley: Excavations at Claydon Pike and other sites within the Cotswold Water Park by A. Smith 9780947816742
£62.87The Cotswold Water Park Project is a landscape study centred upon parts of the Upper Thames Valley within what is now the Cotswold Water Park. The report is based upon four key excavated rural settlements, the most extensive being that at Claydon... -
Accidental Archaeologists: True Stories of Unexpected Discoveries by Albee Sarah
RRP: £9.99£8.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781338575781Author Albee SarahFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic US