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The Roman Remains of Southern France: A Guide Book by James Bromwich 9780415143585
RRP: €45.21€40.20The Roman Remains of Southern France is the only specialist guidebook to this region available. It is the result of the most up-to-date research. Comprehensive in coverage, it provides depth and context while evoking the distinctive atmosphere of the... -
Medieval Masons by Malcolm Hislop 9780747804611
€8.03This book explains in detail the practice of masoncraft in the Middle Ages, using evidence from a number of sources. Monastic chronicles, building contracts and other contemporary documents have already revealed a good deal of information on the subject,... -
Castles of the Marches by John Kinross
RRP: €19.03€12.91In this stunning, full-colour book, John Kinross explores the fascinating history behind the castles of Herefordshire, Shropshire and the Welsh border. Areas characterised by their rural beauty and agricultural charm, it is no surprise that they are home... -
Digging Up Britain: A New History in Ten Extraordinary Discoveries by Mike Pitts
RRP: €15.46€10.23Britain has long been fascinated with its own history and identity, as an island nation besieged by invaders from beyond the seas: the Romans, Vikings and Normans. The long saga of prehistory is often forgotten - but our understanding of our past is... -
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard 9781861975966
RRP: €13.08€9.25WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an... -
Haltonchesters: Excavations Directed by J. P. Gillam at the Roman Fort, 1960-61 by J. N. Dore 9781842173602
RRP: €23.80€20.74This report presents the results of the excavations directed, in 1960 and 1961, by Mr J. P. Gillam within the fort at Haltonchesters. The work was carried out in the area to the south of the B6318 Newcastle to Carlisle road and to the west of the ... -
The Medieval Household - Daily Living c.1150-c.1450 by Geoff Egan
RRP: €47.60€41.16Catalogue of excavated household items from the middle ages provides an invaluable reference tool for experts and the general reader alike. This book brings together for the first time the astonishing diversity of excavated furnishings and artefacts... -
When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris
RRP: €13.08€8.81David Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories.Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of... -
Drawing the Greek Vase by Caspar Meyer
RRP: €98.77€89.65How have two-dimensional images of ancient Greek vases shaped modern perceptions of these artefacts and of the classical past? This is the first scholarly volume devoted to the exploration of drawings, prints, and photographs of Greek vases in modernity... -
Pompeii by Dr Alison E. Cooley 9781350125216
RRP: €23.79€19.68This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published 20 years ago. Italy's third most popular tourist... -
What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West by David Wengrow
RRP: €16.65€11.60The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the West. But what is our connection to the ancient Near East? In this updated edition of What Makes Civilization? archaeologist David Wengrow... -
Analyzing Collapse: The Rise and Fall of the Old Kingdom by Miroslav Barta 9789774168383
RRP: €59.49€48.43This book explores the long-term trends in the development of what was the first complex civilization in history, the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2650-2200 BC), the period that saw the construction of eternal monuments such as Djoser's Step Pyramid complex... -
In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn 9780691195964
RRP: €23.80€18.49Who were the ancient Phoenicians-and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were... -
The Economy of Roman Religion by Andrew Wilson
RRP: €98.77€89.65This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 BC to AD 350. The connection between Roman... -
Witchcraft: The Basics by Marion Gibson
RRP: €23.79€21.05Witchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through to its resonances in the modern world. Through the use... -
Life in Ancient Rome by Nigel Rodgers 9781844777457
RRP: €11.89€9.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844777457Author Rodgers NigelFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hermes HousePublisher Anness Publishing -
Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World: Palace and Province in the Late Bronze Age by Margaretha Kramer-Hajos
RRP: €36.88€26.05In this book, Kramer-Hajos examines the Euboean Gulf region in Central Greece to explain its flourishing during the post-palatial period. Providing a social and political history of the region in the Late Bronze Age, she focuses on the interactions... -
Prisse d'Avennes. Egyptian Art by Salima Ikram
RRP: €23.80€18.20A lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Theodore-Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) is famed as one of the most influential Egyptologists, long before the discipline was even... -
The Crossing Places: First in this beloved series - start the journey here by Elly Griffiths
RRP: €17.85€11.66Discover the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, one of the most popular crime series in Britain, with this beautiful special edition.START THE JOURNEY HERE AND YOU WILL BE HOOKEDDr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near the site of... -
Egypt and the Egyptians by Douglas J. Brewer
RRP: €45.21€41.21Surveying more than three thousand years of Egyptian civilization, Egypt and the Egyptians offers a comprehensive introduction to this most rich and complex of early societies. From high politics to the concerns of everyday Egyptians, the book explores... -
Megalith: Studies in Stone by John Martineau 9781907155277
RRP: €23.74€19.56How do you predict eclipses at Stonehenge? Why do the Carnac alignments follow geological fault lines? Was Avebury intentionally sited precisely one seventh of a circle down from the north pole? Why are so many stone circles egg-shaped or flattened? ... -
Museum Environment by Garry Thomson 9780750620413
RRP: €101.14€88.36The Museum Environment is in two parts; Part I: intended for conservators and museum curators and describes the principles and techniques of controlling the environment so that the potentially damaging effects of light, humidity and air pollution on... -
Silures: Resistance, Resilience, Revival by Ray Howell
RRP: €21.41€15.86'There are huge gaps in our understanding of the lives of the Silures ... Despite what is in many instances a glaring lack of evidence, I've increasingly become convinced that trying to tease out what we can about the social structure of these people... -
Living with the Dead in the Andes by Izumi Shimada
RRP: €89.25€72.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816529773Author Izumi ShimadaFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 640g -
Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid 9781032429977
RRP: €44.02€39.19Toxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue.Bringing together case studies, visual essays, and substantive chapters written by leading... -
A Short Guide to Hadrian's Wall by Andrew Tibbs
RRP: €20.22€13.41Andrew Tibbs, the man behind the popular @RomanScotland account, brings together an overview of the history and archaeology of this famous monument, along with a guide to the key Roman sites to visit in and around Hadrian's Wall. The history of the wall... -
Scotland: A History from Earliest Times by Alistair Moffat
RRP: €17.84€12.55In this book, Alistair Moffat brings vividly to life the story of this great nation, from the dawn of prehistory through to the twenty-first century. Ambitious, richly detailed and highly readable, Scotland: A History From Earliest Times skilfully... -
The Roman Shore Forts: Coastal Defences of Southern Britain by Andrew Pearson
RRP: €29.75€21.60The eleven forts constructed by the Romans along the British coast between Branchester in Norfolk and Portchester in Hampshire have traditionally been referred to as the 'Forts of the Saxon Shore'. However, recent research suggests that these sites may... -
Life in Early Medieval Wales by Prof Nancy Edwards 9780198733218
RRP: €119.00€107.70Research for and the writing of this book was funded by the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. The period c. AD300--1050, spanning the collapse of Roman rule to the coming of the Normans, was formative in the development of Wales... -
Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street by Kylie Message 9780367777814
RRP: €23.79€21.05Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street explores the material collections produced by participants of Occupy Wall Street in 2011 that bear witness to the experience and agency of 'the 99%'.Examining processes of collection development as a lens... -
The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: €35.70€26.76Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland... -
St Kilda: The Last and Outmost Isle by Angela Gannon
RRP: €22.60€16.65In 1527 Hector Boece, the first Principal of King's College Aberdeen, wrote in his extensive History of the Scottish People of an island of rocky crags and prehistoric sheep, which could only be reached through extreme danger to life. It was, he... -
The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World by Leszek Gardeła 9781789259537
RRP: €71.40€57.88Old Norse literature abounds with descriptions of magic acts that allow ritual specialists of various kinds to manipulate the world around them, see into the future or the distant past, change weather conditions, influence the outcomes of battles, and... -
The Archaeology of Roman York by Adam Parker
€23.93When soldiers of the Roman 9th Legion arrived in AD 70, they built a fortress and this huge military camp formed the foundation of the modern city of York. Roman legionaries were garrisoned in the city for over three centuries and a huge provincial town... -
1820: Scottish Rebellion: Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection by Gerard Carruthers
RRP: €119.00€82.07The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent decades. This collection of essays looks especially at local players on the ground across multiple regional centres in the west of Scotland, as well as the wider political circumstances... -
Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion by Andrew Robinson
RRP: €15.46€10.23An updated edition of this acclaimed book, now with a new preface and published to tie in with the bicentenary of Champollion's breakthrough in 1822. Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-Francois Champollion, the... -
The Memory Code: Unlocking the Secrets of the Lives of the Ancients and the Power of the Human Mind by Dr. Lynne Kelly
RRP: €23.80€17.48In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us... -
Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World: History, Myth and Archaeology by Linda Farrar 9781909686854
RRP: €35.69€33.52A beautifully illustrated book tracing the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic and Persian gardens right up to the Middle... -
Prehistoric Rock Art in Northumberland by Stan Beckensall
RRP: €26.78€19.55Northumberland is the most prolific, varied and important area of rock-art in Britain. This book, which includes every known site, relates the art to its landscape and monumental setting. This work follows naturally from the author's general work on rock... -
Paths to the Past: Encounters with Britain's Hidden Landscapes by Francis Pryor
RRP: €13.08€9.25Discover the hidden corners and forgotten crevices of Britain's landscapes, from lost rural treasures to unseen urban gems.Landscapes reflect and shape our behaviour. They make us who we are and bear witness to the shifting patterns of human life over...