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Foundations of Paleoecology Classic Papers with Commentaries
ISBN: PB: 9780226618203, ISBN: HB: 9780226618173, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
800 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 halftones, 125 tables
Approximately 99% of all life that has ever existed is extinct. Fortunately, these long dead species have left traces of their lives and interactions with other species in the rock record that paleoecologists use to understand how species and ecosyst...
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£48,00
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£113,00
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Future Remains A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene
ISBN: PB: 9780226508795, ISBN: HB: 9780226508658, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 9 halftones
What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene – the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Finding Forgotten Cities How the Indus Civilization was Discovered
ISBN: PB: 9780857421128, Seagull Books, May 2013
410 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm, 50 halftones
In the autumn of 1924 the scholar-archaeologist John Marshall made an announcement that rewrote the history books: he proclaimed the discovery of the civilization of the Indus valley. Within weeks, Marshall's discovery was recognized as on the same s...
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£16,00
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Fiery Pool The Maya and the Mythic Sea
ISBN: HB: 9780300161373, Yale University Press, April 2010
328 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 174 black&white illus., 192 colour illus.
Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world's most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was oriented toward i...
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£60,00
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