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Archaeology & Paleontology

Paleobiological Revolution Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology

Sepkoski David, Ruse Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226275710, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
568 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 13 line drawings, 6 tables

"The Paleobiological Revolution" chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simps...

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Anthropology

Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization The Evolution of an Urban Landscape

Algaze Guillermo

ISBN: PB: 9780226142371, ISBN: HB: 9780226013770, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 9 maps, 6 line drawings, 1 figure, 1 table

The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the "cradle of civilization", owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millen...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Ancient World

Artifact and Artifice Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian

Hall Jonathan M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226096988, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
280 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 26 halftones, 29 line drawings, 10 tables

Is it possible to trace the footprints of the historical Sokrates in Athens? Was there really an individual named Romulus, and if so, when did he found Rome? Is the tomb beneath the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica home to the apostle Peter? To ans...

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Contemporary Art

Way of the Shovel On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art

Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: HB: 9780226094120, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
328 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 80 colour plates, 40 halftones

Contemporary art is often obsessed with the new, but it has recently begun to turn to projects centering on research and delving into archives, all in the name of seeking and questioning historical truth. From filmmakers to sculptors to conceptualist...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Birth of the State Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China

Charvat Petr

ISBN: PB: 9788024622149, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2013
358 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 52 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Birth of the State" provides an overview of four of the most significant cultural centers in the ancient world, now in Egypt, the Persian Gulf region, India, and China. Petr Charvat a...

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Earth Sciences

Earth on Show Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

O'Connor Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226103204, ISBN: HB: 9780226616681, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
542 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 89 halftones, 2 tables

At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology – and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history – was widely dismissed as dangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph...

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Ancient World

Image and Myth A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art

Giuliani Luca

ISBN: HB: 9780226297651, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 87 halftones

On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece – but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In "Image and Myth", Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiq...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Evolution

Lost World of Fossil Lake Snapshots from Deep Time

Grande Lance

ISBN: HB: 9780226922966, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
432 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 3 tables, 243 colour plates, 3 line illus.

The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But during the early Eocene, more than...

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Biography & Memoires

Archaeology & Paleontology

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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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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