From hunter-gatherers to farmers. Human adaptations at the end of the Pleistocene and the first part of the Holocene. Papers in honour of Clive Bonsal

Reducere. It is with great joy that we present Clive Bonsall this volume, as a token of both our appreciation and friendship, for his contributions to the Ea...

This book expands a foundational definition of the institution, one which locates them as the basic building blocks of human societies - as structu...

Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil...

Reducere. Updating Tolkien's classic epic fantasy trilogy The Lord of the Rings with a fresh new package for Book 1, The Fellowship of the Ring In ancient ti...

Reducere. Part one of The Lord of the Rings, in a lavish hardcover edition illustrated in full color by Alan Lee.The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nilesh Nilkanth OakFrom the author of 'When did the Mahabharata War happen? The Mystery of Arundhati'.Employing tools of Ar...

This book is a story about a personal search for the 'natural' and for living 'in nature'. The author is an ethnobotanist who has studied foraging ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Levi RoachIllustration(s): 52 b/w illus. 4 tables. 3 maps.Number of pages: 360Publication date: 202...

Draws on a lifetime of research and thought to recreate the story of how a civilization which began with handfuls of semi-itinerant fishermen settl...

An archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, often perceived as a bridge between Europe and Asia, fro...

Presents 18 commissioned papers on the Neolithisation of Europe, with new insights into settlement, subsistence, mobility, monumentality, lifestyle...

Humanities studies on the Arabian Peninsular including anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, lin...

Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, th...

Dedicated to Martin Bell (University of Reading), this book outlines how wetland and inland environments can be related and investigated using mult...

Hunter-gatherer societies struggle with seemingly insurmountable problems: deforestation and encroachment, language loss, political domination by s...

Reducere. The ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers to the construction of...

From beginning to end, the Bible reveals the glory of Jesus. But for many Bible readers, it doesn't seem that simple. We're often unsure how the Bi...

In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza,...

Reducere. Written towards the end of 1937 during his Europe trip, after being nominated the President of the Indian National Congress, An Indian Pilgrim trac...

Reducere. At the extreme tip of South America, Staten Island has piercing Antarctic winds, lonely coasts assaulted by breakers, and sailors lost as their ves...

Reducere. An excellent addition to anyone's primary source collection, the documents presented in this edition serve to understand the Declaration and the Re...

DescriptionSurely America's greatest storyteller, no single author has been adapted more regularly than Stephen King. With 65 existing movies and 3...

Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various ways since the seventeenth century. This anthology brings together thirteen theatrica...

This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and arch...

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): William ShakespeareIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 262Publication date: 2010Dimensi...

A science fiction mystery about the final two surviving members of the human race. Features an inclusive cast of characters and advocacy of the val...

Reducere. This book reflects the mature judgment of an author with broad experience in and out of public life. It sets out in stark and unvarnished terms mos...

Part two of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five. Featuring additional material from the Adams archives, and an introduction from M...

Reducere. One summer, while exploring the town during their annual stay at Grandma's house, two siblings and their cousin come across a creepy old house. The...

If Daria Demarest didn't have ice water in her veins, like her coalminer father taught her, life might look bleak. She's divorcing successful but u...

Reducere. An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the pop...