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The Roman Provinces, 300 BCE–300 CE: Using Coins as Sources Andrew Burnett 9781009420136
Booksplease Price: £102.50Provincial coinage gives us a unique insight into the Roman world, reflecting the values and concerns of the elites of the many hundreds of cities in the Roman empire. Coins offer a very different... -
The Athenian Empire: Using Coins as Sources by Lisa Kallet
Booksplease Price: £23.66Coinage played a central role in the history of the Athenian naval empire of the fifth century BC. It made possible the rise of the empire itself, which was financed through tribute in coinage... -
Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction by Christina Riggs
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73From Berlin to Boston, and St Petersburg to Sydney, ancient Egyptian art fills the galleries of some of the world's greatest museums, while the architecture of Egyptian temples and pyramids has... -
Threads of Empire Dorothy Armstrong 9781399614221
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.88Beautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow power. Emperors, shahs, sultans and samurai crave them as symbols of earthly domination. Shamans and priests desire them to evoke the... -
Plan B by Paul Muldoon 9781904634829
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.30An extraordinarily successful collaboration between the Irish poet, Paul Muldoon and the acclaimed Scottish photographer, Norman McBeath, in which there's an uncanny relationship between word and... -
John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning William Poole (Fellow, New College, Oxford) 9781851243198
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62John Aubrey (1626-97) was one of the best-connected scholars and antiquaries in the great decades of the British scientific revolution. Immersed in the intellectual fervour of the era, he is best... -
Digital Imaging of Artefacts: Developments in Methods and Aims by Kate Kelley 9781789690255
Booksplease Price: £46.59This volume brings together new lines of research across a range of disciplines from participants in a workshop held at Wolfson College, Oxford, on 23rd May 2017. In light of rapid technological... -
A Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story so Far: An Autobiography by Sir John Boardman
Booksplease Price: £26.91A Classical Archaeologists's Life: The Story so Far shows that a scholar's life is not all scholarship, though much of this book is devoted to the writing of books and, especially, travel to... -
The Athenian Empire: Using Coins as Sources by Lisa Kallet 9781107015371
Booksplease Price: £66.96Coinage played a central role in the history of the Athenian naval empire of the fifth century BC. It made possible the rise of the empire itself, which was financed through tribute in coinage... -
Enterprise, Money and Credit in England before the Black Death 1285-1349 by Pamela Nightingale 9783319902500
Booksplease Price: £112.42This book charts the contributions made to the development of the late medieval English economy by enterprise, money, and credit in a period which saw its major export trade in wool, which earned... -
Macedonian Treasures (English language edition): A Tour through the Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai by Angeliki Kottaridi 9789606878404
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £15.46The Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai was built especially to protect the monuments in the burial complex of King Philip II and to facilitate the public's access to their splendid murals, original... -
Cezanne: Drawings and Watercolours by Christopher Lloyd
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Drawing was central to Cezanne's indefatigable search for solutions to the problems posed by the depiction of reality. Many of his watercolours are equal to his paintings, and he himself made no real... -
Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Naomi Wolf 9780786716678
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.95Since their emergence as a journalistic force after the world wars, women have continued to break new ground in newspapers and magazines, redefining the world as we see it as well as the craft as it... -
The Arts of China, Sixth Edition, Revised and Expanded by Michael Sullivan 9780520294813
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.10Internationally renowned and a crucial classroom text, The Arts of China has been revised and expanded by the late Michael Sullivan, with Shelagh Vainker. This new, sixth, edition has an emphasis on... -
Gertrude Bell and Iraq: A life and legacy by Charles Tripp 9780197266076
Booksplease Price: £77.60This is a major re-evaluation of the life and legacy of Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868-1926), the renowned scholar, explorer, writer, archaeologist, and British civil servant. The book examines... -
The Cultivation of Art: Understanding Cultures in UK-China Exchange Programmes Joshua Gong 9781917458801
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.09The Cultivation of Art: Understanding Cultures in UK-China Exchange Programmes explores the evolving relationship between art, education, and cultural exchange between China and the United Kingdom in... -
Kindred Spirits: 100 Japanese Ceramics in Chinese Style. The Shen Zhai Collection Claire Pollard 9783897907195
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £51.58Kindred Spirits showcases the remarkable flowering of Chinese style ceramics that took place in Japan after the mid-19th century. For over a thousand years, Chinese ceramics have been admired and... -
The Arts of China, Sixth Edition, Revised and Expanded by Michael Sullivan 9780520294806
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89Internationally renowned and a crucial classroom text, The Arts of China has been revised and expanded by the late Michael Sullivan, with Shelagh Vainker. This new, sixth, edition has an emphasis on... -
The Companion Guide to London (new edn) by David Piper 9781900639361
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.52Has strong claims to be among the best guidebooks ever written. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH It is surely remarkable to write of a guidebook that it is difficult to put down. But it is certainly true of this... -
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities Caroline Campbell 9780349128498
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of different movements, periods and styles is essential to truly appreciate art... -
The Etchings of Wilfred Fairclough by Ian Lowe 9781138349452
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59First published 1990, this volume consists of an introductory essay by Ian Lowe and a comprehensive catalogue of all Wilfred Fairclough's prints, some 140, from 1932 to the present (1990). Al the... -
Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Today's Librarians by Robertson 9780081027295
RRP: £61.95Booksplease Price: £56.66Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Librarians presents a diverse range of observations, viewpoints and useful commentary on the current workplace experiences of librarians and their... -
Greek Art by John Boardman
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.06John Boardman has updated his classic account of one of the most popular historic artistic traditions among Western audiences. In the twenty years since the last edition was released, valuable... -
I Am Not a Tourist Daisy J. Hung 9780008603243
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79A fierce and urgent exploration of British Chinese identity and a rallying cry against anti-Southeast-Asian racism. It was during a trip to the Ashmolean Museum in 2012 that Daisy first... -
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings by Christopher Lloyd
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £20.75Manet, Pissarro, Morisot, Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the history of art. This book sets drawings by the Impressionists and... -
The Greeks in Asia by John Boardman 9780500252130
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £17.98This book, by Britain's most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art, recounts the influence of Greek communities and their culture through Central Asia, India and Western China, from the Bronze... -
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities by Caroline Campbell 9780349128481
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of different movements, periods and styles is essential to truly appreciate art... -
Alice's Adventures on the London Underground by Peter Lawrence 9781838463083
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78It's a cool July day. A young girl is tired of window-shopping in Oxford Street, when a white rabbit runs past her looking at his watch. "Oh dear! Oh dear! It's 3 o'clock already. I shall be too... -
The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity by John Boardman 9780691252834
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82From one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greek art, a groundbreaking account of how Greek images were understood and used by other ancient peoples, from Britain to ChinaIn this book,... -
Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past: Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism by Caroline van Eck 9780192845665
Booksplease Price: £95.90Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two of which are now... -
Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels by Christopher Lloyd
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was one of the outstanding draughtsmen of the 19th century: drawing was not only a central tenet of his art, but essential to his existence. Through an examination of the... -
Household Gods - Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome Alexandra Sofroniew 9781606064566
Booksplease Price: £22.92Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines... -
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Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo 9781784105549 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.44The Poetry Book Society Summer 2018 Choice. Shortlisted for The 2018 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Vahni Capildeo's Venus as a Bear collects poems on animals, art, language, the sea,... -
Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo 9781784105549
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The Poetry Book Society Summer 2018 Choice. Shortlisted for The 2018 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Vahni Capildeo's Venus as a Bear collects poems on animals, art, language, the sea,... -
Butrint: At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean Dr Richard Hodges 9781350548602
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.94Focusing on the archaeology and history of Butrint in southern Albania, this book begins by looking at its foundation in the Bronze Age period through to the contemporary era, where it is now a... -
A Royal Renaissance Treasure and its Afterlives: The Royal Clock Salt by Timothy Schroder 9780861592272
Booksplease Price: £61.71At centre stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, an exceptional national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance. Most probably made in Paris around 1530 by Pierre Mangot, the... -
Butrint: At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean Dr Richard Hodges 9781350548640
Booksplease Price: £65.97Focusing on the archaeology and history of Butrint in southern Albania, this book begins by looking at its foundation in the Bronze Age period through to the contemporary era, where it is now a... -
Two Cemeteries at Takhtidziri (Georgia): Late Achaemenid–Early Hellenistic and Late Hellenistic–Early Roman by Iulon Gagoshidze
Booksplease Price: £56.13Two Cemeteries at Takhtidziri (Georgia): Late Achaemenid-Early Hellenistic and Late Hellenistic-Early Roman publishes excavations at two cemeteries located near to the village of Takhtidziri in Shida... -
Ishiuchi Miyako: Traces Lena Fritsch 9780500028384
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £33.55A fifty-year career retrospective of Ishiuchi Miyako, Japan's most influential living female photographer. Through subjects as diverse as old apartment blocks, human scars, kimono fabrics, personal... -
Early Modern Merchants as Collectors Christina M. Anderson 9780367334109
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Early Modern Merchants as Collectors encourages the rethinking of collecting not as an elite, often aristocratic pursuit, but rather as a vital activity that has engaged many different groups within...