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American Egyptologist The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute

Abt Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226045344, ISBN: HB: 9780226001104, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
536 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 4 maps, 128 halftones

James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. Daring, handsome, and charismatic, he traveled on expeditions to remote and politically unstable corners of the Middle East, helped identify the tom...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

Neer Richard T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226570648, ISBN: HB: 9780226570631, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10 colour illus., 130 halftones, 12 line illus.

In the fifth century B. C. E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern...

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Art Conservation

Archaeology & Paleontology

Archaeological Sites Conservation and Management

Sullivan Sharon, Mackay Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781606061244, Getty Publications, January 2013
736 pp., 25.5x17.8 cm, 29 colour illus., 21 black&white illus.

This title is an insightful collection of essays and reports examining key issues in the conservation and management of archaeological sites. The fifth volume in the Getty's "Readings in Conservation" series features more than seventy texts that have...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Visions of a Vanished World The Extraordinary Fossils of the Hunsrate

Kuhl Gabriele, Bartels Christoph, Briggs D. E. G., Rust Jes, Fortey Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300184600, Yale University Press, January 2013
128 pp., 29.5x25 cm, 127 colour illus.

About four hundred million years ago earthquake activity and possibly major storms caused sudden movements of large quantities of muddy sentiment along the seafloor. Animal communities in the path of these sediment-laden flows were instantly engulfed...

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