Sites of Antiquity, Hardcover

In the nineteenth century, teams of men began digging the earth like never before. Sometimes this digging--often for sewage, transport, or minerals...

DescriptionA comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematicsTales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renow...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of Ancient GreeceThe culture and events of Greece were so influential they have a significant effect on modern-day ...

Reducere. The Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity is a unique reference work that provides background cultural and technical infor...

Contributor(s): Author: Marie FordacqIllustrator: Olivier LatykAwesome, Amazing--and Magnetic Take a look at any busy playroom--it's a construction...

On the remote north-western Isle of Lewis stands one of the most spectacular megalithic monuments in the world, a stone circle forming part of a hu...

DescriptionWatch an abandoned building being demolished and a new one rise up in its place. Observe concrete cutters, bulldozers, excavators, concr...

Reducere. Everyone lucky enough to live on Long Island already knows that it s like nowhere else in the world. From lighthouses and a one-hundred-year-old ca...

The shrines, gardens, tea houses and sacred sites of Korea, as portrayed by architectural photographer Hélène BinetIn The Intimacy of Making, Londo...

A bright white temple as if carved from ice. Statues in candlelit caves. Massive red monastery walls in the midst of majestic mountains. In this be...

A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monot...

If you want to discover the captivating history of Classical Antiquity, then keep reading...From about the 9th to 5th centuries BCE, the population...

This searching account sheds new light on Christopher Wren's relationship with Eastern architecture.About the AuthorVaughan Hart is a professor of ...

Reducere. It was an age without GPS and the Internet, without high-tech monitoring and instantaneous reporting. And it was a time when women simply didn't do...

A new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this teaches us about the futureHistorical acc...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of England, then keep reading...There are few places that entice the imagination quite like England...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Maya Sites - Hidden Treasures of the Rain Forest A Traveler's Guide to the Maya Sites on the Yucat n Peninsula, in M xico and Guatem...

Reducere. This study of various female deities of Graeco-Roman antiquity is the first to provide evidence that primary goddesses were conceived of as virgin ...

Reducere. As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working t...

Reducere. For a Finn, the puukko is the most important tool and at the same time the most feared weapon. You could almost say the puukko has the same importa...

Reducere. Aristotle towers over Western philosophy and science as no other single person does. As they have come down to us, Aristotle's works comprise a ver...

"It's a nice tome for armchair travel, whisking you off around the country from where you sit--or time travel, taking you back to that life-changin...

DescriptionJapan's World Heritage Sites presents the exquisite temples, shrines, gardens, castles and natural wonders found throughout Japan which ...

In Great World Wonders, travel enthusiast and writer Michael Turtle offers a curated guide to the best UNESCO World Heritage sites around the globe...

Investigates the idea of beauty over time and space. This book offers a chronological account whose conceptual and historical paradigms have been r...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Europe, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one book: European History: A Captiv...

What is the significance and relevance of the concept of 'genocide' today? In this wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews, Adam Jones, on...

The last great war of antiquity was fought on an unprecedented scale along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier. James Howard-Johnston pie...

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Ancient Egypt has captivated visitors for centuries. This volume offers an intriguing insight into the religious and burial practices of the ancien...

A spectacular photographic tour of the greatest European pilgrimage sites, from Canterbury to Santiago de Compostela.Illustrations: 300 color photos

DescriptionSince antiquity, Roman architecture and planning have inspired architects and designers. In this volume, Diane Favro and Fikret Yeg l of...

The first exploration of Piranesi's work as a draughtsman, published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hugh KingeryFrom prairies to peaktops, Colorado attracts an intriguing mix of birds, from Mountain Plovers to Rosy-Finches ...

How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be s...

Reducere. The lands the United States claims sovereignty over by right of the Doctrine of Discovery are home to more than five hundred Indian nations, each w...

Reducere. A history that is equal parts science and mythology, Sacred Sites offers a rare and poetic vision of a world composed of dynamic natural forces and...

Reducere. November 22, 1963, is a date that will forever live in the minds and hearts of those who were witness to or touched by the assassination of Pres. J...

A literary critical book which is a toolkit for (peaceful) concerted activism on behalf of environment and issues of human rights and justice. -- ....

DescriptionThe Bauhaus is not to be found only in Berlin, Dessau, or Weimar; there are outstanding Bauhaus and modernist sites all over Germany--tr...

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The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300-600 AD) throughout the western and east...

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Reducere. Age as Disease explores the foundations of gerontology as a discipline to examine the ways contemporary society constructs old age as a disease-sta...

From deserts to hidden corners of busy cities, quiet mountain tops to caves submerged deep underground, Great Sites of the Ancient World is a tour ...

Reducere. Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation explores the reinterpretation and resituating of archives and special collections held by...

Stanley Cavell was one of the most distinguished and wide-ranging philosophers of his time. This posthumous volume assembles an array of writings t...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 48 bw illusNumber of pages: 232Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2021...