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Archaeology & Paleontology

Beyond the Nile Egypt and the Classical World

Spier Jeffrey, Potts Timothy, Cole Sarah E.

ISBN: HB: 9781606065518, Getty Publications, April 2018
360 pp., 29.9x24.7 cm, 322 colour illus., 16 black&white illus., 1 table

From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just wares but also new artistic techniques and styles. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen imitated one a...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity

Boudalis Georgios

ISBN: PB: 9781941792124, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, March 2018
200 pp., 22x17.7 cm, 32 colour plates, 80 halftones, 45 line drawings

The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity".The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity" examines surviving evidence in order to better understand how this t...

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Conservation Paleobiology Science and Practice

Dietl Gregory P., Flessa Karl W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226506722, ISBN: HB: 9780226506692, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 60 halftones

In conservation, perhaps no better example exists of the past informing the present than the return of the California condor to the Vermilion Cliffs of Arizona. Extinct in the region for nearly one hundred years, condors were successfully reintroduce...

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Architecture

Archaeology & Paleontology

Atlantikwall as Military Archaeological Landscape

Bassanelli Michela, Postiglione Gennaro

ISBN: PB: 9788862422635, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2017
188 pp., 22x17.1 cm, illustrations throughout

Not unlike so many other vestiges of war that have infiltrated our cities and landscapes, WWII bunkers and fortifications appear unwilling to be absorbed or erased. The signs of armed conflict that make up the 'Conflict archaeological landscape' cut...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

One Thousand and One Fossils Discoveries in the Desert at Al Gharbia, United Arab Emirates

Bibi Faysal, Hill Andrew, Beech Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781933789071, Yale University Press, June 2017
120 pp., 22.9x30.5 cm, 128 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.

A lavish volume in celebration of the astonishing fossils uncovered in Abu Dhabi's deserts, a region once lush, green, and teeming with now-extinct animals. This lavish volume celebrates the astonishing wealth of fossils uncovered in recent decades...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Pistiros VI The Pistiros Hoard

Bouzek Jan, Militky Jiri, Taneva Valentina, Domaradzka Ewa

ISBN: PB: 9788024633015, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2017
246 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, 57 colour plates, 12 maps, 46 line drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This sixth and final installment in the Pistiros series devoted to excavations in that former Greek emporium in inland Thrace (today Bulgaria) closes an extraordinary, three-decade-long co...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Search for Takrur Archaeological Excavations and Reconnaissance Along the Middle Senegal Valley

McIntosh Roderick J., McIntosh Susan Keech, Bocoum Hamady

ISBN: PB: 9780913516294, Yale University Press, January 2017
600 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 348 black&white illus

An authoritative summary of the results of the archaeological excavations in the middle Senegal River valley, site of the ancient African Empire of Takrur. A summary of archaeological discoveries in the middle Senegal River valley, this authoritativ...

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Buddhism

Amaravati The Art of an Early Buddhist Monument in Context

Shimada Akira, Willis Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780861592074, Casemate, British Museum Press, October 2016
152 pp., 29x21 cm, 170 illus.

Buddhism originated in north India and spread to other parts of the subcontinent in the third century BCE. The Andhra region, located along the south-east coast of India, welcomed Buddhism and a stupa, probably built to house a relic of the Buddha fr...

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Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

Ryholt Kim, Barjamovic Gojko

ISBN: HB: 9788763543729, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2016
357 pp., 23.5x14 cm, 1 colour plate, 11 halftones, 20 tables

The term "canonicity" implies the recognition that the domain of literature and of the library is also a cultural and political one, related to various forms of identity formation, maintenance, and change. From the very earliest days of writing, text...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record

Allmon Warren D., Yacobucci Margaret M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226377445, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones, 26 line drawings, 12 tables

Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-disciplines. The literature of paleobiology, in particular...

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