David Brown 2013 Summer Book News Catalog

METHOD & THEORY

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Geophysical Data in Archaeology: A Guide to Good Practice Armin Schmidt (Author) Anyone who has tried to archive archaeological geophysics data will have wondered what might be the most comprehensive and practical approach.This question is addressed by this Guide’s extensively revised 2nd edition, which systematically explores what should be included in an Archive, illustrated with relevant examples. A conceptual framework is developed that allows assembling data and meta-data so that they can be deposited with an Archiving Body.This framework is also mapped onto typical database structures, including OASIS and the English Heritage Geophysics Database. Examples show step-by step how an Archive can be compiled for deposition so that readers will be able to enhance their own archiving practice. Geophysical data are sometimes the only remaining record of buried archaeological features when these are destroyed during commercial developments (e.g. road schemes).To preserve them in an Archive can therefore be essential. However, it is important that data are made available in formats that can still be read in years to come, accompanied by documentation that gives meaningful archaeological context.This Guide covers the creation of the necessary metadata and data documentation.There is no point preserving data if they cannot be used again; therefore this Guide is essential for anyone using geophysical data.

Oxbow Books, Arts and Humanities Data Service Guides to Good Practice, March 2013, 9781782971443, PB, $29.95, Special Price $23.96

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METHOD & THEORY 1

The Archaeology of Household Gabriella Kovacs (Editor); Marco Madella (Editor); Ivan Briz i Godino (Editor); B. Kulcsarne-Berzsenyi (Editor) From the simplest hunter-gatherer society to the most powerful Empire, all societies are built on basic daily life, developed day to day with its specific material conditions. Household archaeology looks at the detail of the living domain, exploring the most essential elements of any social dynamic, the archaeology of the small scale.The Archaeology of Household looks at this important aspect of archaeological investigation in a variety of different ways using a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, deep thinking about the mathematical nature of household space, and how societies world view was reflected in domestic space. Case studies include hunter-gatherer societies in America, Neolithic and Bronze Age lakeside settlements in Switzerland and the Alpine region, Bronze Age sites in Hungary and northern Europe and Archaic period Sicily. 125 b/w + col illus, 248p.

Oxbow Books, July 2013, 9781842175170, HB, $ 100.00, Special Price $80.00

Preserving Archaeological Remains in Situ, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference David Gregory (Editor); Henning Matthiesen (Editor) The PARIS 4 conference, which took place at the National Museum of Denmark in 2011, attracted over 100 participants from 18 countries. Delegates presented and discussed the latest developments in the field of Preserving Archaeological Remains In Situ.These proceedings explore four major themes: rates of degradation in archaeological remains and the limits of acceptable change; the techniques and duration of monitoring on archaeological sites; the role of multinational standards when the sites and national legislations are so variable; reviewing the effectiveness of in situ preservation, after nearly two decades of research. A special issue of Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites (Vol 14 Nos 1-4). 489p.

Maney Publishing, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, 2012, 9781907975875, HB, $88.00, Special Price $70.40

NEW FROM McDONALD INSTITUTE FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things: shifting contexts of material culture through time and space Hans Peter Hahn (Editor); Hadas Weis (Editor) Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts.There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalization but since the beginning of time, as the earliest traces of long distance trading show.This book investigates the mobility of things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives.

Material Objects are characterized by temporal continuity, embodying a prior existence with lingering effects.Yet the material continuity disguises the transformations they may undergo, which only become evident upon closer examination. Objects are in perpetual flux, leaving visible traces of their age, usage, and previous life.

While travelling through time, objects also circulate through space, and their spatial mobility alters their meaning and use with respect to new cultural horizons. As objects transform through time and space, so does the value attributed to them. Mapping out itineraries of value in the realm of the material, allows us to grasp the nature of a given social formation through the shape and meaning taken on by its valued ‘stuff’. It also provides insights into the nature of materiality, through the value ascribed to objects at a given point in time and space.

This edited volume brings together studies of material culture, materiality and value, with regard to the mobility of objects, with the aim of tracing the ways in which societies constitute their valued objects and how the realm of the material reflects upon society. b/w illus, 176p.

Oxbow Books, March 2013, 9781842175255, PB, $70.00, Special Price $56.00

Bones for Tools – Tools for Bones, The Interplay Between Objects and Objectives Krish Seetah (Editor); Brad Gravina (Editor) Animal procurement and tool production form two of the most tightly connected components of human behavior.They are tied to our emergence as a genus, were fundamental to the dispersal of our species, and underpin the development of our societies.The interaction between these fundamental activities has been a subject of archaeological inference from the earliest days of the discipline, yet the pursuit of each has tended to encourage and entrench specialist study. As a result, our understanding of them has developed in general isolation of one from the other.This volume begins the process of integrating what have all too often become isolated archaeological and interpretative domains. Exposing and exploring contexts spanning much of prehistory, the book covers both sides of the complex inter-relationship between animals, the technologies used to procure them and those arising from them. In taking a more inclusive approach to the material, technological and social dynamics of early human subsistence we have returned to the earliest of those archaeological associations: that between stone tools and animal bones. In revealing the interdependence of their relationship, this volume takes what we hope will be a first step towards a revitalized understanding of the scope of past interactions between humans and the world around them. 99 b/w figs, 26 tables, 164p.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, December 2012 9781902937595, HB, $90.00, Special Price $72.00

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Present Past: An Introduction to Anthropology for Archaeologists Ian Hodder (Author) A reprint of Hodder’s classic 1982 work which aimed to introduce the archaeologist to ethnographical and anthropological methods and concepts, exploring the proper use of analogy in archaeological theory. A new preface offers thoughts on the development of ethnoarchaeology, on new methodological and ethical dimensions and on how material culture and ethnoarchaeological approaches can continue to profitably interact. 2nd edition.

Pen & Sword Books Ltd, August 2012, 9781781591727, PB, $19.95,

Special Price $15.96 The Value of an Archaeological Open-Air Museum is in its Use: Understanding Archaeological Open-Air Museums and their Visitors Roeland Paardekooper (Author) There are about 300 archaeological open-air museums in Europe and they do more than simply present (re)constructed outdoor sceneries based on archaeology.They have an important role in education and showcase archaeology in a variety of ways.This is the first study to assess the value of archaeological open-air museums, their management and their visitors in such breadth and detail. Following a literature study and general data collection among 199 museums in Europe, eight archaeological open-air museums from different countries were selected as case studies.These vary in their levels of private and public funding as well as the proportion of individuals versus educational groups who visit.The issue of ‘quality’ was investigated from different perspectives. Separate surveys for both museum management and visitors were used and on-site observations were recorded. Management and visitors have different perspectives leading to different priorities and appreciation levels.The studies conclude with recommendations, ideas and strategies which are applicable not just to the eight archaeological open-air museums featured here, but to any museum in general.The recommendations are divided into the six categories of management, staff, collections, marketing, interpretation and the visitors.They are designed to be informative statements of use to managers across the sector.

109 col, 29 b/w illus, 300p.

Sidestone Press, January 2013, 9789088901034, PB, $96.00, Special Price $76.80 9789088901232, eBook, $25.00

LANDSCAPES & GARDENS 2

Somerset’s Peatland Archaeology: Managing and Investigating a Fragile Resource Richard Brunning (Author) The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary.These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discrete monuments.The importance of Somerset’s prehistoric wetland heritage is shown by the fact that twenty-five percent of all the prehistoric waterlogged sites thought still to exist in England are from the Somerset moors, the County Museum in Taunton Castle holds the largest collection of conserved prehistoric worked wood in the UK, possibly in the whole of Europe, the Sweet Track (the oldest known wooden trackway in the UK) and Glastonbury Lake Village have produced the most complete record of Neolithic and Iron Age material culture in the UK and Glastonbury Lake Village was the best preserved prehistoric settlement ever discovered in the UK.This substantial monograph presents the results of the MARISP project ( Monuments at Risk in Somerset Peatlands) which thoroughly assessed the condition of the wetland monuments and the ongoing threats to their survival and aimed to answer key research questions about the sites through the use of minimally invasive excavation and to inform the development of future national and county wetland strategies. b/w & col illus, 352p.

Oxbow Books, June 2013, 9781842174883, HB, $80.00,

Special Price $64.00 The Historic Landscape of Devon: A Study in Change and Continuity Lucy Ryder (Author) The 19th century historic landscape of Devon developed from earlier patterns of landholdings and settlement that are, today, not always easily discernible on the ground. The study of Tithe Survey landholdings, field-names, and associated documentary evidence, together with the physical evidence of change and development through field and settlement pattern can be used to elucidate the relationship between field and settlement morphologies and patterns of 19thcentury landholding. The combined evidence for three case-study areas – the Blackdown Hills, Hartland Moors, and the South Hams – is examined in detail though the creation, manipulation, and querying of a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) database. Key issues addressed include: how far back patterns of 19th century landholding can be traced, or projected, back into the medieval period; the occurrence and extent of open field farming in Devon; and the spread of nucleated and dispersed settlements. Looking beyond the physical aspects of landscapes, the idea of landscape pays and the identification of regional differences in the study of the historic landscape are investigating revealing how closely entwined are the physical and social landscapes of this historic county. col illus, 256p.

Windgather Press, May 2013, 9781905119387, PB, $76.00,

Special Price $60.80 Giardini reali di Svezia: Un viaggio incantato fra arte e natura Santella Sonia (Author) The love of Swedish People for nature and gardens is directly proportional to the length of their winter, and as intense as their brief but dazzling summer. Swedish Kings, from Gustave III to Carl XVI Gustaf with his family, have shared this love, and they have adorned their own residences with magnificent gardens and parks. Our journey starts from Drottningholm, the Versailles of the North, with its sumptuous geometrical parterre, and the spectacular perspectives and suggestions of the landscape park.Then there is Solliden, with the elegant giardino all’italiana and the graceful Dutch garden, both in dialog with the lonely atmospheres of the surrounding park.Then comes the palette of Sofiero, where the majesty of the azaleas has no competitors except the beauty of the rhododendrons and the humble grace of the daisies. After the garden of Ulriksdal, where the blazes of a Baroque dream still live in the harmonies of the 18th century, the journey ends up in Rosendal, where the refinement of the architectures has no rival but the glory of the efflorescence, dream garden and at the same time school of biodynamic horticulture. In the appendix some vegetable cooking recipes can be found, in order to continue the journey in one’s own kitchen. Italian text. col illus, 120p.

Edizioni Polistampa, December 2012, 9788859612032, HB, $39.00,

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The English Seaside Peter Williams (Author) There is a powerful sense of place at the seaside.You know what to expect. Fishing villages usually have a pier, boats, lobster pots, and masses of seagulls while resort towns have esplanades, piers, grand hotels and gardens. Certain seaside towns have just about everything: Weymouth, for example, has a grand parade of hotels, a wide esplanade and a small fishing village. Blackpool has more of everything - three piers, miles of hotels, the Tower, Winter Gardens, trams, illuminations - but no fishing and no castle! There is something about the seaside that brings out the beating heart of John Bull in the English: doggedly erecting our wind-breaks to capture every vestige of a watery sun; wrestling with deckchairs; wrapping up against the determined wind on the verandas of our beach huts; accepting that ‘sand’ in ‘sandwich’ means just that! But we still love it and nowhere else in the world can match its myriad charms and eccentricities. For too long the English seaside has suffered from bad press, accused of being tatty, cold grey and windswept. Peter Williams’ evocative photographs in this fully revised edition of his acclaimed book will make you want to rediscover what a fantastic place the seaside is – full of character, charm and ‘Englishness’. 616 illus, 208p, 2nd edition.

English Heritage, May 2013, 9781848021259, PB, $30.00,

Special Price $24.00 Kulturlandschaftskataster in der Raumplanung: Informationssysteme zur Erfassung, Bewertung und Pflege urbaner Kulturlandschaft Johannes M. B. Broermann (Author) Cultural landscapes can exhibit strong dynamics.To recognize cultural historical value and to adequately consider it in the work of planning represents a constant challenge. A cultural landscape information system therefore appears as a useful tool for planned urban spaces. “Kulturlandschaft in der Raumplanung” demonstrates avenues of approach and methodological developments, shows how they are useful for the construction of an urban cultural landscape and how they enhance the city planning process. Numerous institutions can benefit from it: from space planning, historic preservation and researchers for example as well as private investors, visitors and residents. Knowledge of cultural and historical value strengthens typical regional landscape design and location based identities and offers an important contribution to the quality of life of an area. Current research in cultural landscape management shows that the nurturing and profiling of cultural landscapes is also possible from an economic standpoint.This book offers case studies from city of Hamburg. German text. 332p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Mitteilungen der Geographischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg (MGGH) 104, June 2013, 9783515103664, PB, $89.00,

Special Price $71.20 Landschaft(en): Begriffe – Formen – Implikationen Franz J. Felten (Editor); Harald Müller (Editor); Heidrun Ochs (Editor) Landscape is formed, perceived and represented in four aspects, which indicate the ambiguity of the concept of “landscape,” its natural and cultural sides. Only rarely is it understood, which aspects of the application of “landscape” is in focus, how landscape in each context is defined and constructed. Derived from these perceptions, the present book undertakes the attempt to concretize the “historical landscape” as a central concept of comparative regional history and therefore to bring spatial research into the field of interdisciplinary approaches to the concept.This work combines the research of two regional history conferences, in which the concept of “landscape” is critically analyzed from multiple perspectives and its potential value for research is discussed. Furthermore, in a second step, the payload of these discussions is tested though the select and detailed example of “cloister landscapes.” German text. 53 b/w illus 3 tab 405p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Geschichtliche Landeskunde (GL) 68, June 2013, 9783515087605, HB, $88.00, Special Price $70.40

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De Nederlandse Landschapsstijl in de Achttiende Eeuw Heimerick Tromp (Author), This richly illustrated book deals with Dutch landscape and garden architecture in the 18th century. After exploring the developments in adjacent countries, the Dutch developments are described using famous manorial estates like Biljoen en Beekhuizen, Het Loo en Elswout as well as some lesser known sites.The research has a strong focus on the owners of these estates since knowledge on their background, education and interests can support the interpretation of the revolutionary changes that took place in garden design. Dutch text.

100 col, 80 b/w illus, 400p.

Sidestone Press, May 2013, 9789088901003, PB, $130.00,

Special Price $104.00 Lake Dwellings after Robert Munro.

Proceedings from the Munro International Seminar: The Lake Dwellings of Europe 22nd and 23rd October 2010, University of Edinburgh Magdalena S. Midgley (Editor); Jeff Sanders (Editor) Dr Robert Munro (1835-1920) was a distinguished medical practitioner who became a keen archaeologist. His particular interests lay in the lake-dwelling settlements of his native Scotland, known as crannogs, as well as those across Europe. In 1885 Robert Munro undertook a review of all lacustrian research in Europe, traveling widely to study collections and visit sites.The results of this work formed the basis for the prestigious Rhind Lectures at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1888.These were then published as The Lake-Dwellings of Europe, a landmark publication for archaeology and one that cemented Munro’s archaeological reputation. In 1910 Robert Munro offered the University of Edinburgh a financial gift with which to fund lectures in Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology which became the Munro Trust.To celebrate the centenary, the University of Edinburgh and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland held an international seminar and the papers presented in this publication are the results of this.

This book will engage all those interested in European lake dwellings, wetland archaeology and the history of archaeology in the 19th century.The collected papers explore the historical context of Munro’s work, as well as introducing current research from across Europe. 29 col 43 b/w illus, 190p.

Sidestone Press, June 2013, 9789088900921, PB, $74.00,

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Denken wie ein Neandertaler Thomas Wynn (Author); Frederick L. Coolidge (Author) The Neanderthal was more similar to modern man than we think; he was not a primitive Caveman. He had his own language and a large, if not sophisticated, vocabulary. Archeological findings show that a Neanderthal was capable of complex technical process and that most of his life was spent in a small family group. In this book the authors Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge give a fascinating insight into the real life and culture of the Neanderthal. German text. 14 b/w illus, 288p.

Philipp von Zabern, June 2013, 9783805346047, HB, $45.00, Special Price $36.00

From Primitives to Primates: A History of Ethnographic and Primatological Analogies in the Study of Prehistory David Van Reybrouck (Author) Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography and primatology has deeply influenced our visions about the past from the 19th century to this day – often far beyond the available evidence.Victorian scholars were keen to look at contemporary Australian and Tasmanian aboriginals to understand the enigmatic Neanderthal fossils. Likewise, today’s primatologists debate to what extent bonobos, baboons or chimps may be regarded as stand-ins for early human ancestors.The belief that the contemporary world provides ‘living links’ still goes strong. Such primate models,Van Reybrouck argues, continue the highly problematic ‘comparative method’ of the Victorian times. He goes on to show how the field of ethnoarchaeology has succeeded in circumventing the major pitfalls of such analogical reasoning. A truly interdisciplinary study, this work shows how scholars working in different fields can effectively improve their methods for interpreting the deep past by understanding the historical challenges of adjacent disciplines.

Overviewing two centuries of intellectual debate in fields as diverse as archaeology, ethnography and primatology,Van Reybrouck’s book is one long plea for trying to understand the past on its own terms, rather than as facile projections from the present. 384p.

WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY

World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization Dan Hicks (Editor); Alice Stevenson (Editor) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization introduces the range, history and significance of the archaeological collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. In 29 newly-commissioned essays written by a specialist team, the volume explores more than 136,000 artifacts from 145 countries, from the Stone Age to the modern period, and from England to Easter Island. Pioneering a new approach in museum studies, this landmark volume is an essential reference work for archaeologists around the world, and a unique introduction to the archaeological collections of one of the world’s most famous museums. b/w & col illus, 572p.

Archaeopress, March 2013, 9781905739585, PB, $79.00, Special Price $63.20

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Sidestone Press, June 2013, 9789088900952, PB, $80.00, Special Price $64.00

The Beginnings of Chinese Civilization Li Chi (Author) After almost 60 years, first as the father and later as dean of Chinese archaeology, Li Chi has left indelible contributions to the science of humankind and of history, and his thinking still dominates his discipline in China. Born in Hupei, he grew up at home and in Peking at a time when the the old country, forced by encounters with the West, was taking its initial steps on the long road to modernization. Li Chi studied in the USA and gained a Phd from Harvard University in 1923. In 1949 he founded the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Taiwan University in Taipei, the first university program in China to train professional archaeologists. In the early 1960’s he was instrumental in the organization, under Academia Sinica, of a committee on the ancient history of China to launch the preparation of a multi-authored, interdisciplinary volume on ancient Chinese history, the first draft of such effort in Chinese historiography. By the time of his death the first drafts of this volume were beginning to appear. 225p.

ATF Asia, March 2013, 9781921816130, PB, $23.00, Special Price $18.40

WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY

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The Chinese Experience: A Survey of Pilot Projects on Criminal Justice Reform Guo Zhiyuan (Author) Experiments are one of the most important empirical research methods. Empirical research based on the experimental method is becoming a principal approach to—as well as prominent characteristic of —Chinese legal reform.This book describes the application of the experimental method to criminal justice reform. It analyses pilot projects conducted by Chinese criminal procedure researches over the past decade to illustrate the steps and methods of using pilot projects to advance criminal justice reforms, the successes and the limitations of this approach to promoting reform, and many other lessons that can be learned from these projects.This book, which is written in both Chinese and English, can serve not only as a resource for conducting empirical legal research, but also as a window for understanding criminal justice reform in China. 365p.

ATF Asia, March 2013, 9781921816154, PB, $23.00,

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The History of Ancient Chinese Measures and Weights Qiu Guangming (Author) Qiu Guangming, the author of this book, is a researcher on the measuring and weighing systems in China for more thirty years. he has been collecting historical data and examining actual objects, which resulted in in numerous research papers and books.This books examines these systems she has researched. 192p.

ATF Asia, March 2013, 9781921816031, HB, $95.00, Special Price $76.00

The Magic of the White Snake Helmut Matt (Author); Linda Marie Matt (Author) The world of Chinese sagas and legend seen through the eyes of a German author. One of the four great Chinese love dramas, the ever-lasting classic myths of passion and devotion and respect. A casual stroll along the banks of the West Lake, an admiring gaze of the Leifeng Pagoda shrouded in the mist. Only he who knows the secret of the white snake can appreciate the true magic of the West Lake and its people. 175p.

ATF Asia, March 2013, 9781921816147, PB, $23.00,

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A Noble Noose of Methods: The Lotus Garland Synopsis: A Mahayoga Tantra and its Commentary Cathy Cantwell (Author); Robert Mayer (Author) The inspiration for this volume is one of the most celebrated documents retrieved from the ancient cave library in Dunhuang: a tantric commentary in 85 folios together with its root text, and prolific marginal annotations that are not found elsewhere.

It provides our most reliable and comprehensive window into the ritual and doctrinal world of the early Nyingmapa. It offers an unparalleled early representation of Padmasambhava, a detailed presentation of fundamental Nyingma tantric views later endorsed by Rongzom and Longchenpa, and citations attributed to numerous other Nyingma tantras. A good half of the book is devoted to editorial efforts, including a discussion of how they can be applied to Tibetan literature.The Dunhuang manuscript itself is shown to be defective in several respects, including accidental loss of chapters, while centuries of scribal mishaps have deprived the commentary as traditionally transmitted of a third of its contents. Even the root text has become distorted in most popular canonical editions. By collating all twenty-one extant witnesses drawn from Dunhuang, the Tenjurs, Kanjurs both mainstream and local, and the various Ancient Tantra Collections, stemmatic analysis establishes their sometimes unexpected historical relationships. Armed with that understanding, an accurate reconstruction of the contours of both texts becomes possible for the first time in many centuries, and numerous readings of the root text earlier even than the Dunhuang ms can be recovered, 375p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, August 2012, 9783700172734, PB, $158.00,

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Abhayakaragupta’s Abhayapaddhati Chapters 9 to 14 Luo Hong (Translator) The volumes of the series “Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region (SSTAR)” which have appeared until now have made contributions to our knowledge of Indian Buddhism which are of such importance that they may be called revolutionary.The volumes which we are introducing here, however, mark an important new phase in the long-term project of incorporating the treasures preserved in Sanskrit manuscripts in Tibet into the intellectual and spriritual history of mankind.They present, critically edited and translated with annotation, the texts of a scripture, the BuddhakapÇlatantra, belonging to what was commonly regarded by followers of tantric Buddhism as the highest category of esoteric scriptures, the yogin¥tantras, and of a commentary thereon by one of the most learned and most influential of Indian Buddhist masters of the early second millenium: AbhayÇkaragupta. 130p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Sanskrit Texts fromt the Tibetan Autonomous Region 14, February 2013, 9783700173892, PB, $49.00,

The Year Book of China’s Cultural Industries, 2011: Editorial Board of the Yearbook of Chinas Cultural Industries Huang Lin (Author); Zheng Hong (Author); Chen Hu Yangyu (Author); Cui Xuan (Author) The Yearbook of China’s Cultural Industries is a large comprehensive, authoritative and informative annual which accurately records and reflects the annual development of cultural industries in China. It is also a large reference book with abundant information on cultural industries in China and a complex index, which could be kept for a long time and read for many years. A must for libraries. It deals with Radio and TV, the film industry, Press and Publishing Industries, the Entertainment Industry, Online Game Industry, Audio Visual New Media Industry,Advertisement Industry, and the Cultural Tourism Industry. It examines the figures nationally and by region. 583p.

ATF Asia, March 2013, 9781921816048, PB, $110.00,

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Camels in Asia and North Africa: Interdisciplinary perspectives on their significance in past and present.

Eva-Maria Knoll (Editor); Pamela Burger (Editor) The history of humanity is closely linked to camels, for without these remarkable animals we would never have occupied the arid regions of Asia and North Africa, and would be unable to cope with the challenges of increasing desertification today. For this reason, research into the unique interaction between man and camels has been on-going since the foundation of the Austrian Academy of Sciences some 160 years ago.This current conference and publication project is committed to this tradition of research and places he historical and contemporary interaction between humans and this beast of burden at the center of its research.

The publication on the camel has both an international and interdisciplinary focus, and is intended to encourage an exchange of expertise between the natural and the human sciences.The discussion on the old World camelids (dromedary, Bactrian and wild camel) covers the topics origins and domestication, breeding, the keeping of and trading in camels, as well as their importance from social-cultural and economic perspectives, in music, in traditional and veterinary medicine, and the conservation of the last remaining wild camel populations.With an afterword by Richard W. Bulliet (New York). German text.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, December 2012 9783700172444, PB, $67.00,

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Re-exploring Canadian Space. Redécouvrir L’Espace canadien Jeanette den Toonder (Editor); Bettina van Hoven (Editor) A variety of productions and representations of Canadian identities are the central theme that runs through this book.The different contributions explore imagined spaces by considering Canadian music, poetry and novels; they engage with political space by addressing various ways in which the people of Canada have made claims to different regions in the distant and recent past; and they address lived spaces, and their actual and symbolic meanings. It is an unusual book as it encompasses the writings by those studying the arts and literature as well as writings by social scientists, and it includes both English and French-speaking scholars.The richness that can be found in this multitude of perspectives and approaches to exploring Canadian space is characteristic of the way in which Canadian Studies is practiced nowadays. It is therefore an appropriate volume to celebrate 20 years of Canadian Studies in the Netherlands. French text. 260p.

PREHISTORY

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Barkhuis, Canada Cahiers 14, July 2012, 9789491431050, PB, $38.00, Special Price

$30.40 Amotopoan Trails: A recent archaeology of Trio movements Jimmy Mans (Author) In this book the concept of mobility is explored for the archaeology of the Amazonian and Caribbean region. As a result of technological and methodological progress in archaeology, mobility has become increasingly visible on the level of the individual. However, as a concept it does not seem to fit with current approaches in Amazonian archaeology, which favor a move away from viewing small mobile groups as models for the deeper past.

Instead of ignoring such ethnographic tyrannies, in this book they are considered to be essential for arriving at a different past.Viewing archaeological mobility as the sum of movements of both people and objects, the empirical part of Amotopoan Trails focuses on Amotopo, a small contemporary Trio village in the interior of Suriname.The movements of the Amotopoans are tracked and positioned in a century of Trio dynamics, ultimately yielding a recent archaeology of SurinameseTrio movements for the Sipaliwini River basin (1907-2008). Alongside the construction of this archaeology, novel mobility concepts are introduced.They provide the conceptual footholds which enable the envisioning of mobility at various temporal scales, from a decade up to a century, the sequence of which has remained a blind spot in Caribbean and Amazonian archaeology. 43 b/w & 71 col illus, 330p.

Sidestone Press, December 2012, 9789088900983, PB, $84.00, Special Price $67.20 9789088901836, eBook, $23.00

Celtic from the West 2: Rethinking the Bronze Age and the Arrival of Indo-European in Atlantic Europe John T. Koch (Editor); Barry Cunliffe (Editor), Europe’s Atlantic façade has long been treated as marginal to the formation of the European Bronze Age and the puzzle of the origin and early spread of the Indo-European languages. Until recently the idea that Atlantic Europe was a wholly pre-Indo-European world throughout the Bronze Age remained plausible.

Rapidly expanding evidence for the later prehistory and the pre-Roman languages of the West increasingly exclude that possibility. It is therefore time to refocus on a narrowing list of ‘suspects’ as possible archaeological proxies for the arrival of this great language family and emergence of its Celtic branch.This reconsideration inevitably throws penetrating new light on the formation of later prehistoric Atlantic Europe and the implications of new evidence for interregional connections.

In 2014 our calendar again shows a selection of the best motifs of antiquity.The outstanding pictures give a vivid and impressive picture of artworks from Greece, Rome and many other regions. 28 col illus, 28p.

Celtic from the West 2 continues the series launched with Celtic from the West: Alternative Perspectives from Archaeology, Genetics, Language and Literature (2010; 2012) in exploring the new idea that the Celtic languages emerged in the Atlantic Zone during the Bronze Age.This Celtic Atlantic hypothesis represents a major departure from the long-established, but increasingly problematical scenario in which the Ancient Celtic languages and peoples called Keltoi (Celts) are closely bound up with the archaeology of the Hallstatt and La Tène cultures of Iron Age west-central Europe. 237p.

Philipp von Zabern, June 2013, 9783805345965,Spiralbound, $30.00

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Archäologischer Kalender 2014

Special Price $24.00 Seeing Lithics, A Middle-Range Theory for Testing for Cultural Transmission in the Pleistocene Gilbert B.Tostevin (Author) There is substantial debate over the extent to which the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and the dispersal of anatomically modern humans from Africa into Eurasia at the end of the Pleistocene were the result of the same process, related processes, or unrelated but coincident processes.The current debate shows a gap in archaeological method and theory for understanding how different cultural transmission processes create patterning in the material culture of foragers at the resolution of Paleolithic palimpsests.This research project attempts to bridge this gap with a middle-range theory connecting cultural transmission and dual inheritance theory with the archaeological study of flintknappers’ flake-by-flake choices in the production of lithic assemblages.The project thus combines a new middle-range theory as well as a new approach to characterizing Paleolithic assemblages for systematic comparison of units of analysis appropriate to distinguishing forces of change in cultural evolution. 608p.

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Brandbestattungen von der mitteleren Donau bis zur Ägäis zwischen 1300 und 750 v. Chr.

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Die Schilde der Bronzezeit in Nord-, West- und Zentraleuropa

Michaela Lochner (Editor); Florian Ruppenstein (Editor) A change in burial customs took place in large parts of central Europe during the 13th century BC. The dead were no longer buried in inhumation graves –as was customary until then– but were burned and laid to rest in urns. This characteristic burial practice gave the name to the Urnfield culture that performed this rite. This transformation of burial customs is probably connected to far reaching changes in society and religious beliefs, which cannot, however, be determined in detail. In these conference proceedings particular attention is paid to the performance of burials and burial rites. Bioarchaeologists in addition to archaeologists participate to enhance the understanding of these procedures. These important aspects were not hitherto in the focus of research. Supra-regional commonalities as well as local peculiarities are discussed to clarify the question of contacts and mutual influences between various regions in central and southeast Europe. The geographical frame of the contributions that are collected in this volume comprises Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Greece, German text. 283p.

Marion Uckelmann (Author) After a new record of the pieces in the original, the 101 previously known shields of the Bronze Age in Northern, Western and Central Europe are introduced. 85 of these are bronze plate, five are from either wood or leather material with a bronze plate hanger and ten are organic shields with a bronze trim. After a detailed study of the types of structured shields and the circumstances of their discovery, their dating and their dispersion, this volume focuses on the interpretation and of this corpus of shields as well as the analysis of their function. This is based on a close examination of the technical characteristics and new analysis of the metal alloys and metallographic examinations. The volume draws comparisons between contemporaneous accounts from other parts of Europe as well as exemplary pieces from the eastern Mediterranean, the Near East and Egypt. Finally, the role of the shields and other Bronze Age weapons (armor, helmets, greaves) in Bronze Age battles is investigated. German text. 28 b/w illus 12 tab. 169 b/w plates, 243p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, April 2013, 9783700172604, PB, $147.00,

Franz Steiner Verlag, Prähistorische Bronzefunde 3.4, June 2013, 9783515103787, HB, $147.00,

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Special Price $117.60 Rituale – Identitätsstiftende Handlungskomplexe: 2. Tagung des Zentrums Archäologie und Altertumswissenschaften an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2./3. November 2009 Irmtraud Hellerschmid (Editor); Georg Danek (Editor) Since 2006, Ancient World studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences are united in the “Zentrum Archäologie und Altertumswissenschaften (ZAA)”, organising workshops and symposia, in which scholars of all partaking institutions reunite to discuss aspects of their research projects. The topic of the second Symposium, “Rituals – Providers of Cultural Identity” was chosen in order to show how, in the course of several millennia, various societies defined their cultural identity through ritual behaviour. The chapters of this book represent the broad spectrum of research topics included in the ZAA. Geographically, they span from Central Europe through the Mediterranean to Egypt; chronologically, from the Early Bronze Age through the end of antiquity. Rituals are discussed as documented in literature, inscriptions, coins, pictures and material culture. Apart from in-depth studies of specific rituals, contributions deal with pictorial representations of rituals in preliterate societies as well as the process of recording previously unwritten laws with a background of ritualistic codification. Several articles cover aspects of funeral cult, where rituals help to adjust to the loss of members of the family or cultural group. German text. 247p.

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Die Lanzenspitzen in Niedersachsen Friedrich Laux (Author) Bronze Age spearheads form a group of findings which have only a few standardized forms and rather are characterized by a strong tendency for individual design. The classification of the material from the Early Bronze Age to the Earlier Bronze Age presented here uses a specially developed typology by the author for the Lower Saxony material. The typology is based on the national system for the Nordic spearheads by Jacob-Friesen. 704 Lower Saxony and 76 Westphalian spearheads and a lance shoe, including 99 previously unpublished pieces are included. Detailed images and X-ray images of several Westphalian spearheads provide an important impetus for the evaluation of the production technology and the function of these weapons group. Spearheads have appeared from the late phase of the Early Bronze Age in the Lower Saxon grave finds, where they are with male grave offerings; often a dagger or short sword. A change in burial rites can be observed at the transition from the older to the Middle Bronze Age, and this change is accompanied by a spatial shift in the distribution of the center of gravity of the spearheads in Lower Saxony. German text. 208p.

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The Early and Middle Bronze Age Spearheads of Britain: With a contribution by Jeremy Peter Northover Richard Davis (Author) Work on British early and middle Bronze Age spearheads includes the early tanged and socketed forms. Formal aspects, origin, context, distribution and chronology are discussed in detail at the level of individual groups or types. An article by J. Peter Northover on the metallurgical aspects of the material contains information about the origin of the raw material or imported spearheads. 114 plates, 223p.

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The Iron Age and Roman landscape of Marston Vale, Bedfordshire: Investigations along the A421 Improvements, M1 Junction 13 to Bedford Andrew Simmonds (Author); Ken Welsh (Author) A program of improvements to the A421 south-west of Bedford afforded Oxford Archaeology an opportunity to investigate early settlement along a corridor of the clay landscape of Marston Vale, within the catchment of the River Great Ouse. The investigations comprised nine areas of excavation supplemented by watching briefs and earthwork surveys of three historic boundaries, as well as geophysical survey and field evaluation at a site that was not ultimately excavated. The Vale appears to have been visited only occasionally during the early prehistoric period, the evidence being limited to a sparse distribution of worked flint and a single cremation burial dated by radiocarbon to the early Iron Age. The majority of the remains uncovered dated from between the middle Iron Age and the late Roman period, and were consistently rural in character, consisting of a series of small farming settlements. The report describes the evolution of settlement within the Vale as evidenced by the changes to settlement forms, landscape organisation, economic strategies and material culture, brought about by the effects of an increasing population and the imposition of Roman rule. The level of activity declined during the late Roman period, and the remaining settlements were abandoned during the early part of the 4th century. 204 illus, 57 tables, 330p.

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A Road Through the Past: Archaeological discoveries on the A2 Pepperhill to Cobham road-scheme in Kent

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Tim Allen (Author); Michael Donnelly (Author); Alan Hardy (Author); Kelly Powell (Author) Excavations along the new road line have revealed nearly 6000 years of human activity, from a massive marker post erected by early Neolithic farmers at the head of a dry valley to a bizarre burial of several different animals dating to the sixteenth century AD. Prehistoric discoveries include two enclosures of the middle Bronze Age, both associated with some of the earliest cobbled roads in Kent, a collection of Iron Age storage pits rich in diverse deliberate offerings, and the emergence of a nucleated hamlet in the middle Iron Age. Most exciting were rich cremation burials of the late Iron Age and early Roman periods, probably successive generations of a local family, whose rise to prominence coincides with the growth of the cult centre at Springhead nearby.The metal vessels include types new to Britain, the pottery stamps suggest the movement of continental potters to Kent, and one grave has the clearest evidence of furniture yet found from early Roman Britain. Medieval settlements of the late 11th-14th centuries mirror the renewed importance of Watling Street after the Norman conquest, and its eventual return to obscurity due to competition from the ferry from London to Gravesend. 267 col & b/w illus & 91 col & b/w plates, 620p.

Oxford Archaeology, OA Monograph Series 16, June 2013, 9780904220681, HB, $64.00,

Special Price $51.20 From Mesolithic to Motorway: The Archaeology of the M1 (Junction 6a-10) Widening Scheme, Hertfordshire Dan Stansbie (Editor); Paul Booth (Editor); Andrew Simmonds (Editor); Valerie Diez (Editor) Excavation in advance of engineering works along the M1 from Junctions 6a to 10 (between Hemel Hempstead and Luton) revealed significant archaeological remains of wide-ranging date.

Important evidence for late Mesolithic and early Neolithic activity, including pits, was found at Junction 9, while later prehistoric features were more widely distributed but less concentrated. Late Iron Age and Roman features were most common, with significant rural settlements at Junctions 8 and 9, and further evidence for trackways and enclosures elsewhere.These sites were of fairly low status and concerned with mixed agriculture, though incidental activities included manufacture of puddingstone querns. Occupation was most intensive in the 1st-2nd centuries AD and on a reduced scale in the late Roman period. At Junction 8, however, an east-west trackway apparently survived as a landscape feature and in the 12th and 13th centuries was adjoined by a ditched enclosure containing structures belonging to a substantial farmstead. 110 illus, 230p.

Oxford Archaeology, Oxford Archaeology Monographs 14, June 2013, 9780904220650, PB, $40.00,

Special Price $32.00 Cultural landscapes, social networks and historical trajectories: A data-rich synthesis of Early Bronze Age networks (c.

2200-1700 BC) in Abruzzo and Lazio (Central Italy) Erik van Rossenberg (Author) It’s about time that Central Italy claims its place in Bronze Age studies.This study aims to fill this gap and make a crossover between landscape and network approaches in archaeology. It starts from a methodological consideration of archaeological synthesis in Bronze Age studies. Approaching landscapes as networks of places, this study advocates a data-rich form of synthesis of Bronze Age trajectories, one that avoids a selective focus on particular places.What Central Italy offers to Bronze Age studies, is the emergence of metallurgical spheres based on regional copper sources at the transition from copper to bronze metallurgy.Therefore the focus lies on metalwork-related network changes that can be situated in the historical context of late Bell Beaker networks and, subsequently, the introduction of true bronze metallurgy in the form of Vollgriffdolche in the context of Early Bronze Age networks.The latter highlight the integration of distinctive metallurgical spheres into a single, larger Central Italian sphere, in the overall context of network changes at the Early-Middle Bronze Age transition. Early Bronze Age trajectories paved the way for the full integration of Central Italy in supra-regional connectivity in the Middle Bronze Age, fulfilling the condition of possibility of its strategic position between Europe and the Mediterranean. 350p Sidestone Press, June 2013, 9789088900990, PB, $110.00,

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Beyond Barrows: Current research on the structuration and perception of the Prehistoric Landscape through Monuments David R Fontijn (Editor); Arjan J. Louwen (Editor); Sasja van der Vaart (Editor); Karsten Wentink (Editor) Europe is dotted with thousands of prehistoric barrows. In spite of their ubiquity, little is known on the role they had in pre- and protohistoric landscapes. In 2010, an international group of archaeologists came together at the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague to discuss and review current research on this topic.This book presents the proceedings of that session.

The focus is on the prehistory of Scandinavia and the Low Countries, but also includes some prehistoric mounds in the southeast of North America. One contribution presents new evidence on how the immediate environment of Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture megaliths was ordered, another discusses the role of remarkable single and double post alignments around Bronze and Iron Age burial mounds. Several chapters consider the place of barrows in the broader landscape.The significance of humanly-managed heath in relation to barrow groups is discussed, and one contribution emphasizes how barrow orderings not only reflect spatial organization, but are also important as conceptual anchors structuring prehistoric perception. Other authors, dealing with Early Neolithic persistent places and with Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age urn-fields, argue that we should also look beyond monumentality in order to understand long-term use of “ritual landscapes”.

The book contains an important contribution by the well-known Swedish archaeologist Tore Artelius on how Bronze Age barrows were structurally reused by pre-Christian Vikings.This is his last article, written shortly before his death.This book is dedicated to his memory. 50 col, 100 b/w illus, 280p.

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Het handgevormde aardewerk uit de ijzertijd en de Romeinse tijd van Oss-Ussen: Studies naar typochronologie, technologie en herkomst P.W. van den Broeke (Author) Peter van de Broeke has studied the pottery from the late prehistoric settlement at Oss-Ussen, where habitation was (more or less) continuous for over a thousand years (800 BC 250 AD). A typochronoly consisting of 14 phases is introduced, stretching from the late bronze age into the Roman period.

Furthermore, the pottery from Oss-Ussen is studied using several different approaches including chemical and technological analyses and diatom analysis.

Dutch text. 10 col, 125 b/w illus, 452p.

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NEW FROM SIDESTONE PRESS Monuments on the Horizon: The formation of the barrow landscape throughout the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC Quentin Bourgeois (Author)

Barrows, as burial markers, are ubiquitous throughout North-Western Europe.

In some regions dense concentrations of monuments form peculiar configurations such as long alignments while in others they are spread out extensively, dotting vast areas with hundreds of mounds.These barrow landscapes came about through thousands of years of additions by several successive prehistoric and historic communities.Yet little is known about how these landscapes developed.That is what this research set out to do. By unravelling the histories of specific barrow landscapes in the Low Countries, several distinct activity phases of intense barrow construction could be recognised. Each of these phases contributed in a particular fashion to how the barrow landscape developed and reveals shifting attitudes to these landscape monuments. By creating new monuments in a specific place and in a particular fashion, prehistoric communities purposefully transformed the form and shape of the barrow landscape. Using several GIS-techniques such as a skyline-analysis, this research was able to demonstrate how each barrow took up a specific (and different) position within such a social landscape.While the majority of the barrows were only visible from relatively close by, specific monuments took up a dominating position, cresting the horizon, and they were visible from much further away. 78 col, 74 b/w illus, 252p.

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Well Built Mycenae Fascicule 34.1: Technical Reports. The Results of Neutron Activation Analysis of Mycenaean Pottery E B French (Author); J.E.Tomlinson (Author) Since 1890, when Sir Flinders Petrie first realized the importance of the Aegean pottery he had found in Egypt, further discoveries of these wares have been noted with more than superficial interest. Early studies, however, had to be based on stylistic, and thus often subjective, criteria. It is only more recently with the development of a range of scientific techniques that it has become possible to make serious attempts to ascertain the exact sources of this imported pottery. A key factor in this work has been the establishment of data banks by which to define the various possible sites of origin. Samples from Mycenae, as one of the key nodes of Late Bronze Age trade, were taken both as part of the initial programme of research and in the wider projects then carried out.Though the results of these studies have been made public, the full details pertaining to the core area of the Argo-Corinthia have never been published.This fascicule of the Well Built Mycenae series presents this raw data as well as the statistical analyses based on it and assesses the impact of the various methods on the archaeological value of the research. Includes a DVD with accompanying material for 34.1 and all previous fascicules.

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Transformation through Destruction: A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen David Fontijn, Sasja van der Vaart and Richard Jansen (Editors) Based on the meticulous excavation and a range of specialist and comprehensive studies of finds, a prehistoric burial ritual now can be brought to life in surprising detail.This book discusses how lavishly decorated items were dismantled and taken apart to be connected with the body of the deceased, all to be destroyed by fire. In what appears to be a meaningful pars pro toto ritual, the remains of his body, the pyre, and the objects were searched through and moved about, with various elements being manipulated, intentionally broken, and interred or removed.

The book shows how the mourners carefully, almost lovingly covered the funeral remains with a barrow. Attention is also given to another remarkable monument, long mound 6, located immediately adjacent to mound 7. Excavations show how mound 7 was part of an age-old ritual heath landscape that was entirely restructured during the Early Iron Age, when it became the setting for the building of no less than three huge Hallstatt C barrows.Thousands of years later, during the Late Middle Ages, this landscape underwent a complete transformation of meaning when the prehistoric barrows became the scenery for a macabre display of the cadavers of executed criminals. 189 col & 39 b/w illus, 348p.

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Volgens Kapitein Bellen: Archeologie, folklore en wichelarij op de Veluwe en in Drenthe Henk M. Luning (Author) Captain Bellen is a remarkable person in the history of Dutch prehistoric research who was active in the first half of the 20th century.This amateur archaeologist did a number of important discoveries and corresponded with the leading professionals of his time. In later years, Bellen became interested in folklore, the dowsing rod and ley lines as well, endangering his reputation as archaeologist. Dutch text. 30 col. 23 b/w, 182p.

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The Settlement and Architecture of Lerna IV Elizabeth C. Banks (Author) In 1995, Jeremy B. Rutter presented the pottery of the Fourth Settlement at Lerna in Lerna III:The Pottery of Lerna IV.The present volume is the companion to the Rutter volume, outlining the architectural sequence of the EH III period at the site with descriptions of the major building types and other features, such as hearths, ovens and bothroi. Careful examination of the individual buildings and their contents constitutes the core of the text.The changing settlement patterns of the site through time are considered and sources of influences are suggested.

14 figs, 50 pls, 5 tbls. 400p.

American School of Classical Studies at Athens, LERNA VI, May 2013, 9780876613061, HB, $150.00, Special Price $120.00 9781621390121, eBook, $75.00

Die Synchronisierung der minoischen Alt- und Neupalastzeit mit der ägyptischen Chronologie Felix Höflmayer (Author) Absolute dates for the Minoan Old- and New Palace Period are still under discussion.While the ‘traditional’ chronology favored a date for the Santorini eruption at the end of the chronological phase Late Minoan IA around 1500 BC based on archaeological evidence and the historical chronology of Egypt, adherents of the ‘high’ chronology placed the eruption in second half of the 17th century BC based on radiocarbon evidence.The present volume discusses for the first time critically all archaeological evidence from the Aegean, Egypt and the Levant for the chronological synchronization between the Minoan Old- and New Palace Period with the historical Chronology of Egypt. Furthermore, all evidence from scientific dating techniques, especially from radiocarbon dating is being discussed and compared to dating evidence derived from archaeology. German text.

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Intermezzo: Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete

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Colin F. Macdonald (Editor); Carl Knappett (Editor) The Middle Minoan III period on Crete was initially identified and studied in detail at Knossos by Sir Arthur Evans. Subsequent scholarly attention focused on the preceding Old Palace period and the apparent floruit of the New Palaces at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age. In consequence one of the critical transitions in Minoan culture has been virtually overlooked, giving rise to confused and ill-informed judgements concerning developments in Crete and further afield.With numerous innovations in art, architecture and material culture — notably an entirely new palace at Galatas — the changes in Middle Minoan III are striking, and appear to herald a new political organization of the island, centered on Knossos.The papers in this volume, presented at the first colloquium to be held in the Villa Ariadne at Knossos, now restore the period to its rightful position.The specialist contributions cover most key sites where Middle Minoan III occupation has been identified.The aim has been to rehabilitate Middle Minoan III as a dynamic period in Crete and also on Thera, in order to provide a better understanding of socio-political change across the island and beyond in the latter part of the Middle Bronze Age. 198 figs, 8 tabs, 227p.

British School at Athens, BSA Studies 21, May 2013, 9780904887679, HB, $158.00,

Special Price $126.40 Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus Gerald Cadogan (Author); M. Iacovou (Author); Katerina Kopaka (Author); James Whitley (Author) How do the cultures of Crete and Cyprus compare in their history and development from the 3rd millennium to the 1st millennium BC? What was similar and what was different in their social and political, economic and technological, and religious and mortuary practices and behaviors, and in the natural settings and choices of places for settlements? And why, and how, did convergences and divergences come about? These are among the important questions that a leading group of experts on the two islands addressed at Parallel Lives, a pioneering conference in Nicosia organised by the British School at Athens, the University of Crete and the University of Cyprus, to compare and discuss the islands’ cultural trajectories diachronically from c. 3000 BC through their Bronze Ages and down to their loss of independence in 300 BC for Cyprus and 67 BC for Crete. Papers given then are now presented in fully revised form as chapters in this book, which is the first to bring together the study of Crete and Cyprus in this way, while starting with their insular geo-cultural identities. It will be a valuable resource for students of both islands, for all who are interested in ancient material cultures and mentalities in the Mediterranean, as well as those engaged in island studies across the world. b/w illus, 382p.

British School at Athens, BSA Studies 20, August 2012, 9780904887662, HB, $196.00,

Special Price $156.80 Aphrodite’s Kephali: An Early Minoan I Defensive Site in Eastern Crete Philip P. Betancourt (Author) The small site of Aphrodite’s Kephali, among several other Minoan and later sites, took advantage of the valley topography in the Isthmus of Ierapetra in eastern Crete by establishing themselves along the nearby hills, resulting in easy access to the natural trade route between the Aegean and the Libyan Seas. A discussion of the architecture, artifacts, and ecofacts are presented from the excavation of this Early Minoan I watchtower.The conclusions challenge some of the commonly held views about Crete in the third millennium B.C. It is suggested that rather than being a precursor to a socially complex state that would arise later, early polities involving several communities probably already existed in the isthmus during the EM I period. Social and economic differentiation existed on a regional, not just a local level, and decisions for mutual defense could involve collaboration by groups of workers, including the building of the watchtower that is the focus of this volume.

30 tables, 97 b/w figs, 272p.

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Kavousi IIB: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda.

The Buildings on the Periphery Leslie Preston Day (Author); Kevin T. Glowacki (Author) This is the second of three planned volumes in the final report on the cleaning and excavations at the Late Bronze Age site of Vronda near Kavousi in eastern Crete. It describes the excavation, stratigraphy, and architecture of the buildings on the slopes of the Vronda ridge: Building Complexes E, I-O-N, and L-M, Building F, and the pottery kiln, as well as areas excavated on the periphery that did not belong to any of these buildings. It also presents lists, catalogs, and images of artifacts and ecofacts that were uncovered at the site. 70 b/w charts, 136 b/w figures, 30 b/w plates, 444p.

INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), Prehistory Monographs 39, June 2013, 9781931534697, HB, $80.00, Special Price $64.00

The Prehistory of the Paximadi Peninsula, Euboea Tracey Cullen (Author); Lauren E.Talalay (Author); Donald R. Keller (Author); Lia Karamali (Author) The results of two related fieldwork projects are presented: a brief salvage excavation at Plakari (a Final Neolithic site near the modern town of Karystos) and a survey of prehistoric sites on the Paximadi peninsula (the western arm of the Karystos bay), both located in southern Euboea.These ventures were part of the larger mission of the Southern Euboea Exploration Project (SEEP), a multidisciplinary research program dedicated to the study of the Karystian past and which maintained a presence in southern Euboea for over 25 years.These projects have found that, contrary to what archaeologists once believed, southern Euboea was hardly an uninhabited and isolated region in prehistory.The inhabitants actively participated in the expanded maritime and social landscape that characterised the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in the Aegean, taking part in exchange networks of stone, ceramics, marble figurines and vessels, and possibly agricultural goods and metalwork. 22 tables, 37 b/w figs, 47 b/w plates, 280p.

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TRAC 2012: Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Frankfurt 2012 Annabel Bokern (Editor); Marion Bolder-Boos (Editor); Stefan Krmnicek (Editor); Dominik Maschek (Editor) The twenty-second Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) was held at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main in spring 2012. During the three-day conference fifty papers were delivered, discussing issues from a wide range of geographical regions of the Roman Empire, and applying various theoretical and methodological approaches. Papers in this volume include: Marks of Imitation or Signs of Originality? An Approach to Structural Supports in Marble Statuary; Equites and Senators as Agents of Change: Urban Culture and Elite Self-Representation in Thamugadi and Lepcis Magna (Second-Third Centuries AD); Sacra Volsiniensia. Civic Religion in Volsinii after the Roman Conquest;The Internal Frontier. An African Model for Cultural Change in South Central Italy (Fourth-Third Centuries BC); Street Activity, Dwellings and Wall Inscriptions in Ancient Pompeii; A Holistic Study of Neighborhood Relations; Understanding Neighborhood Relations Through Shared Structures: Reappraising the Value of Insula-Based Studies; Secondary Doors in Entranceways at Pompeii: Reconsidering Acces and the ‘View from the Street’ and more. 220p.

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Roman Building Techniques Tony Rook (Author) Writing from the view of a building engineer as well as an archaeologist,Tony Rook takes a practical approach in this introductory guide to the building types, techniques and methodology of the Romans. After a survey of the main building types and their features, military, public and private, he analyses Roman building technology from the bottom up, starting with the foundations, and covering materials such as masonry, brick, mud and wood, as well as architectural features such as walls, roofs, pipes, drains and heating. Final chapters cover grander and more monumental techniques such as arches and domes.The book is illustrated throughout with photographs of surviving structures, plans and reconstructions. 176p.

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The Story of Roman Bath Patricia Southern (Author) In this highly readable study Patricia Southern turns her attention to Bath, one of Roman Britain’s most unusual and successful settlements, founded to take advantage of the natural hot springs. She synthesizes the excavations of Barry Cunliffe and the Bath Archaeological trust, building a picture of the development of the town and its hinterland from the first traces of human activity in the Mesolithic to post-Roman decline and rebirth in the later medieval and modern age.The focus, however is on the Roman period, and on the baths themselves in particular. Southern outlines the main phases of building and renovation, and explores the religious aspects of the springs and the Temple of Sulis Minerva. She also uses epigraphic evidence to shed light on the lives of those who came to use the baths, and explores the daily lives of the town’s residents and its administration. b/w and col illus, 224p.

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The Romano-British Peasant: Towards a Study of People, Landscapes and Work during the Roman Occupation of Britain Mike McCarthy (Author) This important and significant volume examines, for the first time, the ordinary people of Roman Britain.This overlooked group – the farmers, shopkeepers, laborers and others – fed the country, made the clothes, mined the ores, built the villas and towns and got their hands dirty in the fields and at the potter’s wheel.The book aims to rebalance our view of Roman Britain from its current preoccupation with – archaeologically visible – elite social classes and the institutions of power, towards a recognition that the ordinary person mattered. It looks at how people earned a living, family size and structure, social behavior, customs and taboos and the impact of the presence of non-locals and foreigners, using archaeology, texts and ethnography. It also explores how the natural forces which underlay the use of agricultural land and regional variation in agricultural practice impacted upon the size, health and nutrition of the population.The Romano-British Peasant leads the way towards a greater understanding of ordinary men and women and their role in the history and landscape of Roman Britain. 160p.

The Ancient Mediterranean Trade in Ceramic Building Materials: A Case Study in Carthage and Beirut

Patricia Southern (Author) In contrast to many recent offerings where cultural matters and Romanization are to the fore, this history of Roman Britain adopts a narrative approach, with an overwhelming focus on military and administrative matters.The big events, such as Caesars invasion, Boudicca’s revolt and the construction of Hadrian’s Wall are covered in the greatest depth, but there is still plenty of room for less well known developments in the 3rd and 4th centuries. b/w illus, col pls, 432p.

Philip Mills (Author) This study (the second volume in the Archaeopress series devoted to the publication of ceramics in the Roman Mediterranean and outlying territories from the late Republic to late Antiquity) addresses the level of interregional trade of ceramic building material (CBM), traditionally seen as a high bulk low value commodity, within the ancient Mediterranean between the third century BC and the seventh century AD. It examines the impact of different modes of production, distribution and consumption of CBM and how archaeological assemblages differ from what is predicted by current models of the ancient economy. It also explores how CBM can be used to investigate cultural identity and urban form. CBM has great potential in investigating these topics. It survives in large quantities in the archaeological record; it is transported as a commodity in its own right, not as a container for other products like amphorae.The amount of CBM used in a building can be estimated, and this can be extrapolated to urban centers to model consumption in ways that are not possible for other goods.This allows the potential derivation of economic information to a higher level of precision than is the case for other materials.The material used in this study derives from stratified assemblages from two major ports of the ancient Mediterranean: Carthage and Beirut. b/w & col illus, 132p.

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Wroxeter, the Cornovii and the Urban Process, Volume 2: Characterizing the City. Final Report of the Wroxeter Hinterland Project, 1994-1997 R. H. White (Author); C. Gaffney (Author); V. L. Gaffney (Author); A. Baker (Author) In the mid 1990s, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum at Wroxeter, Shropshire, was subjected to one of the most intensive campaigns of geophysical survey ever carried out on a Roman town. The result was a complete plan of the city using magnetometry but also significant deployment of other technologies including resistance, GPR and more experimental technologies.

Since that time, geophysical survey has continued intermittently, using the site as a geophysical laboratory. This volume reports on the archaeological interpretation of this work, marrying the extensive and nuanced geophysical data with a detailed analysis of the existing aerial photographic record created by Arnold Baker during the 1950s to 1980s. The resulting work is the first insula by insula description of all the visible buildings in the town, the first time that this has been attempted for a Romano-British town, and one of the few attempted anywhere in the Empire. The analysis has enabled a complete reinterpretation of the historical development of the town that links it to its surrounding hinterland and to wider concerns about Roman Urban development. The volume also contains detail of small-scale excavations that have been carried out since 1999 on the site, many in previously unexplored areas, and completes the publication of all outstanding archaeological work on the monument.

German and French text. b/w & col illus, 227p.

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Kulte - Riten - religiöse Vorstellungen bei den Etruskern und ihr Verhältnis zu Politik und Gesellschaft: Akten der 1. internationalen Tagung der Sektion Wien/Österreich des Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici (Wien, 4.-6.12.2008) Petra Amann (Editor) Corresponding to Etruscan belief the supernatural-divine sphere took great influence on the life of both the single and the whole community.The interpretation of divine will and the accurate execution of cult activities played an important role. It is not surprising that the Etruscans were considered as very religious people in ancient opinion.The 26 articles of these international proceedings address the many aspects of a theme that deals with the widespread interactions between religious and public-social spheres.The chronological frame ranges from the Villanovan period, the early phase of Etruscan culture, down to the Roman Empire. Linguistically oriented articles stand next to those of archaeological, epigraphical and/or more historical approach illustrating the broadness of research interests. Special interest is given to the Etruscan pantheon (as a whole or with regard to single gods), structure and range of duties of priesthoods as well as the literary (especially the Liber Linteus and the ‘brontoscopic calendar’), archaeological and iconographical manifestations of rituals and religious beliefs. Analyses with specific Etruscan focus are complemented by articles treating questions concerning the Etrusco-Greek, Etrusco-Italic and Etrusco-Roman network of relationships or concentrating on testimonies of other peoples of preRoman Italy. German text. 446p.

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Special Price $99.20 The Meroë Head of Augustus

Das Isisgrab von Vulci: Eine Fundgruppe der Orientalisierenden Periode Etruriens Friederike Bubenheimer-Erhart (Author), In February 1839 in a part of the Etruscan necropolis of Vulci known as the Polledrara was discovered. The most striking feature was the presence of several Egyptian and Egyptianizing objects, which had left a deep mark on the sepulcher. The tomb was refilled with earth soon after the finds had been recovered and is now lost. However the finds, which are the only remains of this monument, soon fell into new hands. While some material went to enrich other collections, the nucleus of finds was sold to the British Museum. This volume contains the first comprehensive catalog of the objects in London. Based upon these finds a cultural phase at the end of the Orientalizing Period in Etruria was defined. Thus the academic publication of these objects fills a gap in archaeological literature. Furthermore the volume presents a full account of the Isis-Tomb, including details of the architecture and the other parts of the tomb-group, which have never reached the British Museum. The Isis-Tomb of Vulci gives evidence of the intensive cultural contacts between the Etruscans and the peoples of the Aegean and the East Mediterranean, especially the Ionians, Phoenicians and Egyptians in the later part of the seventh century BCE. German text. 264p.

Thorsten Opper (Author) Made from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the ‘Meroe Head’ is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesar’s great nephew and adopted heir Augustus (63 BC-AD 14). Once forming part of a statue of Rome’s revered first true emperor – one of many such statues that were erected in Egyptian towns – the head was violently separated from the body and carried away in triumph by ancient Meroitic tribesman shortly after its creation. For nearly two millennia it remained buried in front of a temple in their capital city of Meroe (modern Sudan), so that worshippers ritually had to trample the face of the supreme leader of Rome.The head was recovered in 1910 and, remarkably well preserved, is one of the British Museum’s most treasured objects.This book reveals the significance of the head in light of Augustus’ rise to power and the role of portraits in the Roman world.

Accompanied by a series of new photographs that highlight the wonderful, dramatic qualities of the head, this is an absorbing introduction about a portrait which was made as a continuous reminder of the all-embracing power of Rome, yet whose fate is a graphic illustration of resistance to its rule. 30 col illus.

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Götterdarstellungen: Kult- und Weihedarstellungen aus Carnuntum Gabriele Kremer (Author) The first supplementary volume to the Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani Carnuntum deals with statues of gods, cult and votive monuments from the area of the settlement of the Roman provincial capital city of Pannonia Superior. A total of 772 stone monuments from various private and public collections were presented and documented in accordance with current standards of research. A comprehensive evaluation section sets these monuments in the context of their research history, historical and art historical background. The mapping and detailed interpretation and description of the sites where they were discovered allows us to create the first “sacral typography” of Carnuntum. German text. 696p.

Veii. The Historical Topography of the Ancient City: A Restudy of John Ward-Perkins’s Survey Roberta Cascino (Editor); Helga Di Giuseppe (Editor); Helen Patterson (Editor) During the nineteenth century, antiquarians such as William Gell and George Dennis visited the ancient city of Veii, some 15 km north of Rome, and noted the rapid destruction of its archaeology.The city continued to be under threat, and in the 1950s was the subject of ground-breaking survey and excavation

by John Ward-Perkins. However, the results of his fieldwork were never published fully. Knowledge and understanding of material culture (especially pottery, votive objects and architectural terracottas) has increased dramatically over the past fifty years, so allowing the authors to reveal the full potential of the data.This publication reaffirms many of Ward-Perkins’s original insights, and contextualizes his research within the new discoveries of the past fifty years; whilst an important contribution to our knowledge, it is also a spur to further work. 142 illus, 2 col pls, 432p.

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Rome, Portus and the Mediterranean Simon Keay (Editor)

One of the greatest consequences of Rome’s expansion across the Mediterranean world in the course of the Republic and the earliest years of the Empire was an exponential growth in the population and extent of the city itself.

The emperors of the first three centuries AD faced major strategic challenges in ensuring a regular annual supply of food to the city, as well as other goods.This volume brings together various contributions, to assess how far Portus, as the maritime port of Imperial Rome from the mid-first century AD, was the principal conduit for supplying Rome and the extent to which the commercial links that fed Portus were part of a single overarching network or a series of interlinked networks that extended across the Mediterranean.The volume begins with a detailed reconsideration of Portus and its relationship to Ostia and Rome, which is complemented by studies considering aspects of the commercial roles of Portus and Ostia, and of transport up the Tiber to Rome. It continues with studies that deal with a range of broader issues concerning the relationship of Mediterranean ports to Rome, Portus and Ostia, routes of commerce, and the archaeological evidence for commercial activity at a selection of ports (in Italy, Sicily, Hispaniae, Africa and the East); before returning to more general considerations of connectivity, networks, coastal geo-archaeology and computational methods. 158 illus, 14 col pls, 454p.

British School at Rome, Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 21, June 2013, 9780904152654, HB, $180.00, Special Price $144.00

Vesuvian Sigillata at Pompeii Jaye McKenzie-Clark (Author) The destruction of Pompeii in AD 79 provides a unique opportunity to explore the use of everyday items. It allows us to identify the source and variety of products available within the city, and enables us to track changes in the consumption of goods over time. In this volume, Jaye McKenzie-Clark presents the far-reaching results of her examination of the red slip tableware within three regions of the city. It pinpoints the initial supply and use of Vesuvian Sigillata, and investigates factors that may have led to the popularity of this style of pottery.The investigation maps the on-going manufacture of these ceramics and identifies changes in production and consumption up to the time of the eruption. Examination of the distribution within contexts of different social use also reveals distinct patterns of consumer demands and consumption within Pompeian society. Such research helps us to explore and understand the use of goods within the city of Pompeii and throughout the Roman world, and also has the potential to shed light on patterns of behavior in modern consumer societies.

32 illus, 4 col pls, 162p.

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Gemeinsinn und Gemeinwohl in der römischen Antike Martin Jehne (Editor); Christoph Lundgreen (Editor) Although the willingness of the ancient elite to finance the interests of the community, especially in regard to Greece, has been explored, this volume places Roman Antiquity at the center of its investigation. Here the author takes the practice carried out in Rome itself as representative of the practice in the Roman provinces. Public spiritedness serves not only as an explanation for a strong commitment, but above all as a discursive measurement.

Questions asked include how was public spiritedness successfully appealed to?

Conversely, how was a political opponent be disavowed through an alleged defect?

Was there a limit to spending or problems with the acceptance of euergetism? This volume concludes two investigations into the composition of sensus communis and civil religion and in both cases it allows us to prove the ancient beginnings of the chimera. German text. 220p.

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Imperial Cult and Imperial Representation in Roman Cyprus Takashi Fujii (Author) Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean, came under Roman domination during the late Republican Civil War. Due to its position outside of the political and strategic centers of the Empire, Roman Cyprus was something of a terra incognita among ancient historians.This book investigates communication between this “quiescent” province and the Roman emperor through the exploration of fascinating epigraphic evidence concerning the imperial cult and imperial representation on the island (dedications, statues, oaths, priests, calendars etc.).The central themes of the book are the religious status of the emperor embedded in the Cypriot religious milieu, political relationships between Cyprus and the Empire and their influences on the imperial cult performed on the island, and the part played by imperial representation in the life cycle of the Cypriots.The appendix catalogs the relevant inscriptions, with translations and other related information. 248p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien 53, June 2013, 9783515102575, PB, $66.00, Special Price $52.80

Religiöses in der politischen Argumentation der späten römischen Republik: Ciceros Erste Catilinarische Rede – eine Fallstudie Vera Sauer (Author) Religion played a role in many different contexts in Rome.The “embedding” of religion into different contexts, for example social, political, economic or cultural, has been illuminated by different scholarly perspectives in recent years but every day and casual argumentation about religious substance has only been addressed on the periphery up until now.This book is a case study and is concerned with Cicero’s First Catiline oration.The study covers which linguistic base has the argumentation about religious substance in this speech, and it investigates the motives which Cicero uses his argumentation about religion substance.

After covering the content and the locations, the study also questions the value of the religious arguments. In addition, this study to investigates such diverse questions as the style of the political confrontation and the degree, type and manner of the rootedness of religion in politics and society of the late Roman Republic. Finally it makes a contribution to the understanding of the First Catilinian speech itself. German text. 299p.

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Zwischen Kaisern und Aposteln: Das Akakianische Schisma (484–519) als kirchlicher Ordnungskonflikt der Spätantike Jan-Markus Kötter (Author) The boundary of the church and world spheres was a conflictridden topic within the Late Antique church and it formed the central issue of the Acacian Schism; the first split between the Church at Rome and the Church at Constantinople.This split was the first in a sequence of structurally similar conflicts.

Notions about a separation between Church and States are by no means uncontroversial: in fact different Bishops agonized over it and how far ecclesiastical thinking ought to be open to political reason in the context of a Christian state. In this book Jan-Markus Kötter does not cover the well-documented problem of the Relationship between the bishops and the Pope, but rather considers the dispute between the bishops as representative of conflict within the church. He places it in the aftermath of this first split and within the context of previous analysis of the Acacian Schism. German text. 361p.

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Roman Conquests: Egypt and Judaea

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London Gateway: Iron Age and Roman salt making in the Thames Estuary, Excavation at Stanford Wharf Nature Reserve, Essex Edward Biddulph (Editor); Stuart Foreman (Editor); Elizabeth Stafford (Editor); Dan Stansbie (Editor) Excavation by Oxford Archaeology in 2009 during construction of the Stanford Wharf Nature Reserve, funded and supported by the developer, DP World London Gateway, uncovered remarkable evidence for Iron Age and Romanperiod salt making and associated activities. Structures included a probable boathouse, unique in Roman Britain.The excavations shed new and important light on evolving methods of salt production, which reflect wider changes in economy and society in the Thames Estuary between c. 400 BC and AD 400. Salt had a particular economic importance in the ancient world as a food preservative – changing scale and methods of production provide an essential background for understanding processes such as urbanisation, civilian trade and military supply. Salt also had a wide range of dietary, social and symbolic functions, from flavouring food to forming an ingredient in medicines and religious rituals. In the words of the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, ‘civilised life cannot proceed without salt’.This monograph presents the internationally important findings of three years of fieldwork and post-excavation analysis.The large scale of investigation and extensive scientific analysis of the remains has transformed our understanding of the important Iron Age and Roman salt making industry in Essex. A companion volume on the marine investigations conducted by Wessex Archaeology is presented in: London Gateway: Maritime Archaeology in the Thames Estuary. 178 illus, 209p.

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The Roman Villa at Brading, Isle of Wight: The Excavations of 2008-10 Barry Cunliffe (Author) Brading Roman Villa is a fine example of a maritime courtyard villa with in situ mosaics of the third and fourth centuries which rank amongst the best of their kind in northern Europe.This highly illustrated volume presents the results of excavations led

by Barry Cunliffe between 2008-2010. b/w & col illus, 291p.

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Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul Bob Carruthers (Author) The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes.

They lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expansion of the Roman Republic over the whole of Gaul.Although Caesar portrayed this invasion as being a preemptive and defensive action, most historians agree that the wars were fought primarily to boost Caesar’s political career and to pay off his massive debts. Still, Gaul was of significant military importance to the Romans, as these had been attacked several times by native tribes both indigenous to Gaul and further to the north. Conquering Gaul allowed Rome to secure the natural border of the river Rhine.The Gallic Wars are described by Julius Caesar as himself in this book, which was originally titled Commentarii de Bello Gallico, it is a pertinent and only slightly tendentious and altogether the most important historical source regarding the conflict.This updated edition contains the translated text and various illustrations depicting Roman warfare and key moments in Caesar’s journey. 256p.

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John D. Grainger (Author) Egypt was the last of the Macedonian Successor states to be swallowed up by Roman expansion. The Ptolemaic rulers had allied themselves to Rome while their rivals went down fighting. However, Cleopatra’s famous love affair with Mark Antony ensured she was on the wrong side of the Roman civil war between him and Octavian. After the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, Octavian swiftly brought Egypt under direct Roman control, though it took several campaigns to fully subjugate the country. These campaigns have previously been largely neglected. Judaea was a constant source of trouble for the Romans, as it had been for the Seleucids, the previous overlords of the region. The Romans at first were content to rule through client kings like the infamous Herod but were increasingly sucked in to direct military involvement to suppress religiously inspired revolts. Like the other volumes in this series, this book gives a clear narrative of the course of these campaigns, explaining how the Roman war machine coped with formidable new foes and the challenges of unfamiliar terrain and climate. Specially commissioned color plates by the renowned Graham Sumner bring the main troop types vividly to life in meticulously researched detail. 8pp col pls, 256p.

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Special Price $31.96 Roman Invasion of Britain: Archaeology versus History Birgitta Hoffmann (Author) The purpose of this book is to take what we think we know about the Roman Conquest of Britain from historical sources, and compare it with the archaeological evidence, which is often contradictory. Archaeologists and historians all too often work in complete isolation from each other and this book hopes to show the dangers of neglecting either form of evidence. In the process, it challenges much received wisdom about the history of Roman Britain.

Birgitta Hoffmann tackles the subject by taking a number of major events or episodes (such as Caesar’s incursions, Claudius’ invasion, and Boudicca’s revolt), presenting the accepted narrative as derived from historical sources, and then presenting the archaeological evidence for the same.The result of this innovative approach is a book full of surprising and controversial conclusions that will appeal to the general reader as well as those studying or teaching courses on ancient history or archaeology. 16pp col pls,b/w maps and diagrams, 208p.

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Special Price $26.36 Caracalla: Kaiser Feldherr Tyrann Martin Kemkes (Author) Together with Caracalla’s reputation as a tyrant and murderer of his brother, his grim portrait dominates the picture of this important Roman Emperor. But Caracalla cannot only be connected to tyranny, fratricide and brutality, he also has to be seen in context with the Severan heyday, the bestowal of citizenship to all residents of the Roman Empire in 212 AD and the victorious campaign against the germanic tribes exactly 1800 years ago.

German text. 155 b/w & col illus, 144p.

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Special Price $36.00 Die Wohltaten der Götter: König Eumenes II und die Figuren am großen Fries des Pergamonaltars verrätselt – enträtselt Barbara Demandt (Author) The Pergamon Altar is one of the largest ancient artworks. Its builder, King Eumenes II, erected it to thank the gods for their blessings after he survived several attempts on his life and returned from numerous wars. In her book the author, Barbara Demandt, tells the story of this ancient statesman and explains how his biography is reflected in the pictures of the altar. German text. 20 b/w illus, 144p.

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Rom: Der archäologische Führer Filippo Coarelli (Author) In this book by Filippo Coarelli Ancient Rome rises again: He leads the reader from the Forum Romanum, to the valley with the Colosseum, to the Palatine into the Capitol. Beside the historical relationship and the urban development, the reader can expect detailed descriptions of the monuments, numerous plans, reconstruction drawings and illustrations. German text. b/w illus, 208p.

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Special Price $29.60 Römische Kaiser in Deutschland: Der archäologische Führer Holger Dietrich (Author) Trier, Mainz and Cologne – these are fascinating German cities with an even more exciting Roman past. But not only in large cities traces of the Roman Emperors can be found, often even the most remote places are full of historical mysteries.The author, Holger Dietrich, presents the well known as well as the lesser known places of the Roman presence in Germany.

German text. 25 col illus, 112p.

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Archaeological Survey and the City Paul Johnson (Editor); Martin Millett (Editor) In the past 30 years archaeological field survey has become central to the practice of Classical Archaeology. During this time, approaches have developed from the systematic collection of artifacts to include the routine deployment of various geophysical and remote sensing techniques.The ability of archaeologists to reveal the topography of buried urban sites without excavation has now been demonstrated through a wide range of projects across the ancient world.

Archaeological Survey and the City reviews the results of such projects and in particular discusses the ways in which the subject might develop in the future, with an emphasis on the integration of different strands of evidence and issues of archaeological interpretation rather than on the technicalities of particular methodologies. Several themes emerge from the fourteen papers.The first is the increasing number of large-area surveys providing data at a sufficient scale to make a significant contribution to our understanding of classical cities both in the Mediterranean and beyond (eg Baelo Claudia, Caistor-by-Norwich, Xanten, Ammaia).The second theme is the generation of new types of data through the application of specific techniques to address particular questions pertaining to urban life.The techniques involved in identifying these phenomena complement the use of geochemical survey to characterize particular soil properties related to animal husbandry, cultivation or the creation of domestic waste deposits. A third theme lies in the application and integration of multiple techniques to provide new dimensions to the information available.The data from a number of survey projects have demonstrated that a single survey technique will rarely, if ever, reveal all of the potential information so there is a significant benefit to be derived from applying multiple survey-strategies to the questions being asked of a site.These themes emphasize the dynamism of research in this area, which continues to revolutionize the study of ancient cities. 275 illus, 288p.

Oxbow Books, University of Cambridge Museim of Classical Archaeology Monographs 2, December 2012, 9781842175095, PB, $72.00, Special Price $57.60

Rough Cilicia: New Historical and Archaeological Approaches Michael C Hoff (Editor); Rhys F Townsend (Editor) The region of Rough Cilicia (modern area the south-western coastal area of Turkey), known in antiquity as Cilicia Tracheia, constitutes the western part of the larger area of Cilicia. It is characterized by the ruggedness of its territory and the protection afforded by the high mountains combined with the rugged seacoast fostered the prolific piracy that developed in the late Hellenistic period, bringing much notoriety to the area. It was also known as a source of timber, primarily for shipbuilding.The twenty-two papers presented here give a useful overview on current research on Rough Cilicia, from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period, with a variety of methods, from surveys to excavations.The first two articles deal with the Bronze and Iron Ages, and refer to the questions of colonisation, influences, and relations.The following four articles concern the pirates of Cilicia and Isauria who were a big problem, not only for the region but throughout the Mediterranean and Aegean during the late Hellenistic and especially Roman periods.The subject of Roman Architecture is covered with Antiochus IV of Commagene, a king with good relations to Rome. Six papers publish work on Roman architecture: architectural decoration, council houses, Roman temples, bath architecture, cenotaph, and public buildings. Ceramics is not neglected a special emphasis on ceramics is provided to demonstrate how pottery can be used as evidence for connections between Rough Cilicia and northwestern Cyprus. Six contributions deal with the Early Christian and Byzantine periods and cover rural habitat, trade, the Kilise Tepe settlement, late Roman churches, Seleucia, and the miracles of Thekla.The final article gives insight into methods applied to the study of architectural monuments. 260 col illus, 320p.

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Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World 3000 BCE–500CE: Equipment, Combat Skills and Tactics

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Mittel- und Spätbronzezeitliche Keramik Griechenlands: Sammlung Fritz Schachermeyr Faszikel III

Simon Anglim (Author) et al.

Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in Europe and the Middle East in an age before gunpowder.The book explores the unique tactics required to win battles with the technology available, and points out how little has changed in some respects in the art of war.

Using specially commissioned color and black-and-white artworks to illustrate the battles, equipment and tactics of the era, Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World shows in detail the methods by which armies, including Assyrians and Roman forces, prevailed over their foes, and why other armies were far less successful.The book is an essential companion for any reader in warfare in the classical age. 20 color maps, 25 photographs and 100 artworks, 256p.

Peter Pavuk (Author); Barbara Horejs (Author) The volume intends to be not only a straightforward presentation of the Middle and Late Bronze Age pottery from Mainland Greece, including the islands of Aegina and Paros, stored in the Schachermeyr Collection at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, but also to offer an in-depth discussino on a selection of ralated topics.The presentation of a collection such as this is even nowadays justified not only by Schachermeyr´s high degree of connoisseurship and thus selection of highly representative pieces for a given region and period, but also by the fact that the site of origin is recorded for almosst all of the pieces. Collections organised in this way make it possible to study certain phenomena, such as the distribution of wares, fabrics or decorative motives across wider research areas, without the otherwise necessary travels over wide distances, German text. 201p.

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Special Price $71.20 Architektonische Tonreliefs aus den Grabungen der Basilika am Staatsmarkt in Ephesos Claudia Lang-Auinger (Author) This publication introduces two so far unpublished friezes (A1 and A2) from the excavations in the Basilica on the so called Staatsmarkt in Ephesos in the sixties and seventies of the 20th century.These two friezes are made up of terracotta plaques which belong to second half of the 1st BC. On top of both friezes are ionic Kymatia. A1 shows alternating palmettes with Gorgoneia and busts, while frieze A2 shows only Shield Gorgoneia and palmettes.

From A1 the red color of the background is still preserved as well as two busts in archaic style.The fragments of A1 offer many possible arrangements how the frieze may have originally looked.The most plausible variants have been shown by computer aid.The two friezes differ very much in their production levels. A2 is very careless manufactured in contrast to the carefully A1 manufactured.The Gorgoneia from A1 are in dependence on those of A2.With the evidence available, we may imagine how and where the friezes were fixed. German text. 118p.

Symposion 2011: Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Paris, 7.-10.

September 2011) Gerhard Thür (Editor); Bernard Legras (Editor) The 18th Symposium of the International Society for Greek and Hellenistic Legal History took place in Paris, September 7–10, 2011.

15 papers were presented, and respondents opened the discussion about every paper. Starting with a historical overview of French scholars’ contribution on ancient Greek law the papers and responses are collected in this volume: archaic Cretan law, law of classical Athens, epigraphic evidence from other poleis of Hellenistic and Roman times, legal papyri, parallels to cuneiform legal documents.The Symposium supports the cooperation of legal historians with those studying all aspects of Classical Antiquity allowing the participants a free choice of topics from their current areas of research. German and French text. 434p.

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Special Price $53.60 Gli epiteti ufficiali dei re ellenistici Keramik aus klassischen Kontexten im ApollonHeiligtum von Ägina-Kolonna Gudrun Klebinder-Gauß (Author) During the late Archaic and Classical periods the island of Aegina was an important center in the central Aegean. Its power and prosperity resulted from the intense trade activities of its fleet in the Saronic Gulf and up to the Black Sea, North-Africa and Italy.This volume presents pottery from the Classical period excavated in the area of the “Kolonna-hill”; the acropolis of the island’s ancient capital.The contexts discussed here contain imported pottery, such as from Attica, Corinth, Laconia, Eastern Greece and from the Northern Aegean, and numerous vessels of local origin.The main emphasis of this volume is the careful analysis of the local pottery-production that has been thus far neglected.

Supplementary scientific analysis and the interpretation of written sources on pottery production at Aegina creates a picture of an important production center of cooking pottery.The production flourished in the Classical period and a wide range of shapes was developed and exported to distant regions. Beyond the study of stylistic developments of the pottery of this period and the interpretation of the contexts in terms of chronology and function, the pottery is also analyzed within the context of the political and economic situation of Aegina. German text. 440p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, January 2013, 9783700169499, PB, $168.00, Special Price $134.40

Federicomaria Muccioli (Author) The author explores one of the most important topics of Hellenism: the official epithets of kings and relatives (with reference to the whole royal titulature and to unofficial epithets and nicknames), in the wider context of political and religious changes during the Hellenistic times.The book is divided mainly in three parts, with an introduction which explains various methodological issues and provides the reader with some parallel examples in Greek archaic and classical periods.The first part offers a historical overview of the development of the use of the epithets for Alexander the Great and his successors.The second part sheds light on each title used in every single dynasty (in some cases, down into Roman imperial times).The third part examines the interconnection between epithets and royal multicultural propaganda under the Hellenistic kingdom, and the construction of an ideal figure of the king in ancient authors.The book includes conclusions, two appendices, chronological tables, an extended bibliography and two indexes. Italian text. 560p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Historia - Einzelschriften 224, June 2013, 9783515101264, HB, $126.00, Special Price $100.80

Ruthenia Classica Aetatis Novae: A Collection of Works by Russian Scholars in Ancient Greek and Roman History Andreas Mehl; Alexander V. Makhlayuk; Oleg Gabelko (Editors) The book presents research mostly done by younger Russian scholars of ancient history to a readership that does not speak and read the Russian language.The articles cover a wide range of time and topics: Greek history from the archaic far into the Hellenistic period and Roman history from the republic to the empire – politics, finance, ideology, constitution, society with prosopography, and population. By sketching the peculiarities of research in antiquity in pre-revolutionary and socialist Russia and the conditions under which post-socialist classicists and historians work, an introductory article helps readers to understand the achievement of today’s Russian studies in antiquity. Altogether the volume demonstrates that the actual Russian scholarship in ancient history has joined the international research and in which way this has been achieved. 235p.

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The Inscriptions of Dodona and a New History of Molossia Elizabeth A. Meyer (Author) Molossia is perhaps most famous as the kingdom of the thirdcentury warlord Pyrrhus.The Inscriptions of Dodona and A New History of Molossia re-examines the non-oracular stone and bronze inscriptions, re-dating some of the most important to the third century BC rather than the fourth.This re-dating in turn forms the basis of the new history presented here. In this history are stressed the primacy of the king, who ruled a kingdom rather than a federal league; the minimal extent of Molossian “expansion” in the fourth century BC; the likelihood that there was indeed no federal league, only a type of amphictyony administering the sanctuary of Dodona, before 232 BC; the continuing relationship of allied association rather than incorporation between the Molossians with their neighbors; the interference of the Macedonians as a catalyst for the coalescence of Molossian identity; and the way events of the third century paved the way for the establishment of a federal league after the death of the last monarch in 232 BC.This history substantially reshapes our understanding of this part of the Hellenistic world, and of the early history of federal leagues in Greece.

15 b/w-photos, 29 illus 6 plans, 201p.

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Alexander der Grosse: Herrscher der Welt Rupert Gebhard (Author); Ellen Rehm (Author) During his lifetime Alexander the Great was already considered a “superstar”.Without apparent effort he reached the unattainable and moved with his army to the end of the known world.

Who was this man, who came from a small kingdom and became ruler of the entire ancient world? This book accompanies an exhibition in Rosenheim, Germany. German text. 150 col illus, 272p.

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Special Price $29.60 Athene an der Spree: Berliner Spaziergänge in die Antike Susanne Weiss (Author) An unusual guide: Susanne Weiss leads her readers to numerous locations in Berlin, where the antiquity is still alive. Pillars in the government district, obelisks on the top of theaters, superb staircases, atlases, putti and corinthian capitals - the capital city is full of ancient references, aesthetic thefts, and epochal and stylistic confusion. German text. 20 col illus, 100p.

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Unveiling Emotions: Sources and Methods for the Study of Emotions in the Greek World Angelos Chaniotis (Editor) This volume presents the first results of research conducted on ‘The Social and Cultural Construction of Emotions:The Greek Paradigm’ by a research group in Oxford funded by the European Research Council.The project aims at contributing to a better understanding of the social and cultural factors that determine the manifestation of emotions in texts (papyri, inscriptions, literary sources) and in the material evidence from the Greek and Greek-speaking world (c. 800 BCE – c. 600 CE).The four introductory chapters address problems in the study of emotions in antiquity.They are followed by ten case-studies in which the manifestation and arousal of emotions (fear, anger, envy, grief, hope) are studied in various contexts (religion, litigation, political life, art, private life) and in connection with a variety of media (narratives of miracles, dedications, curses, acclamations, petitions, condolence letters, forensic oratory, architecture, images). 25 b/w illus 490p.

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Andreas Scholl (Editor); Martin Maischberger (Editor); Agnes Schwarzmaier (Editor) Due to its unique art the Pergamon Museum is the most visited museum in Berlin. Beside the highlights of the Old Museum and the Pergamon Museum this catalog shows many ancient sculptures, which are to be seen again for the first time since the Second World War. Almost all objects of this catalog have been newly photographed and the catalog texts have been updated to the current state of research. German text. 267 col & 14 b/w illus, 380p.

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Special Price $36.00 Die Kunst vom Wahn- und Wahrsagen, Orakelheiligtümer in der antiken Welt Wiebke Friese (Author) In antiquity oracles were not only part of everyday life of every citizen, but they also influenced the politics of an entire state.

Oracles were always adapted to the individual needs of the worshiping community.Their architectural manifestations and the central rites of the sanctuaries developed over time.

German text. 20 b/w illus, 144p.

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Beyond the Gates of Fire: New Perspectives on the Battle of Thermopylae Christopher Matthew (Author) The Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC is one of the most famous battles in history.The heroism of the 300 Spartans who opted to remain behind to face the full might of the Persian host while their Greek allies made good their escape has become the stuff of legend.The story still inspires novelists and film-makers today but what is the truth behind the legends? Beyond the Gates of Fire brings together experts on the classical period to take a fresh look at various aspects of the battle. A substantial introduction by the editors outlines the background to the conflict.The following chapters discuss such questions as whether the defense of the pass really was a suicide mission; the exact topography of the battlefield itself in 480 BC, using the latest geological research and core samples; the impact of the battle on the Greek psyche; commemoration of the war dead; the impact of the original battle on the conduct of later battles in the pass, right up to the German invasion of 1941. For the classical scholar or the general reader whose interest has been piqued by the popular books and films, this book is sure to shed refreshing new light on the most famous last stand in history. 192p.

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Special Price $29.60 Geographie in der antiken Welt Daniela Dueck (Author) In ancient times, there were few and simple technical tools which could be used for navigation. Nevertheless, people have discovered that the earth is round. How could they estimate their size? How could military leaders like Alexander the Great lead their armies over thousands of kilometers in completely unknown parts of the world? Or how could merchants and settlers find new places? With her book Daniela Dueck provides the reader with an overview of the geographical knowledge of this period.

German text. 10 b/w illus, 176p.

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Halikarnassos und das Maussolleion: Die modernste Stadtanlage der späten Klassik und der als Weltwunder gefeierte Grabtempel des karischen Königs Maussollos

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Wolfram Hoepfner (Author) The Carian King Mausolus was one of the great builders of the ancient world: His tomb, the Maussolleion is one the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and his planned residence Halicarnassus is considered to be the most modern city of that time. Many of the great classical authors describe these architectural masterpieces. For over a hundred years archaeologists dealt with their exploration and attempted to reconstruct these buildings. German text. 120 b/w illus, 160p.

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Special Price $36.00 Aeschylus: Suppliant Women Katastrophen in der Antike Holger Sonnabend (Author) Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, famines and epidemics - life in the ancient world was characterized by severe disasters of any kind.These disasters were existential threats to life and so were often understood as a punishment from the gods.With this book the author Holger Sonnabend gives a detailed compendium of the most important ancient types of disaster and their manifestations. German text. 20 b/w illus, 168p.

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Special Price $24.00 Tiefenwärts, Archäologische Imaginationen von Dichtern Eva Kocziszky (Author); Jörn Lang (Author); Francoise Lartillot (Author) Archaeology seen by the view of a poet - Poems by famous authors such as Gottfried Benn, Rose Ausländer or Durs Grünbein in context with essays and magnificent photos by renowned Magnum-Photographers offer new perspectives and fascinating approaches to the archaeology of Ancient Greece.

German text. 70 illus, 172p.

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A. J. Bowen (Author) Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women begins with a procession of girls, dressed in foreign costume and carrying boughs – tokens of supplication – arriving in Argos.

Fugitives from Egypt they are in flight from their cousins, the sons of Aegyptus, who want them as wives and they seek asylum from King Pelasgus. Accepting the girls’ claim to Argive ancestry as decendants of Io, the king perceives that if he grants the petition there will be war. It is only after much discussion and the threat that, if rejected, they will hang themselves from the gods’ statues, that the king is pursuaded to put their case to his people, who unanimously vote in favour of granting asylum.The sighting of an Egyptian fleet leads the girl’s father Danaus to abandon his daughters and go in search of help, leaving the girls to exchange threats and insults with the Egyptians before the king arrives in the nick of time. He pursuades the Egyptians to yield and withdraw, which they do with the warning that, when they hear the news, the sons of Aegyptus will wage war. Assured of sanctuary the girls’ rejoice and pray to Artemis to protect them from forced marriage.This vibrant and lyrical new translation of one of the lesser known of Aeschylus’ plays is accompanied a full commentary on the text and substantial introduction.

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Euripides: Electra M. J. Cropp (Author) King Agamemnon is long dead and his killers rule at Argos.

Orestes returns from exile to avenge his father by killing his mother Clytemnestra and her seducer Aegisthus. His vengeance will release his sister Electra from oppression and restore Orestes to his home and kingdom.This is the only episode from Greek legend treated in surviving plays by all three of the great Athenian tragedians of the fifth century B.C. — Aeschylus in his Libation-bearers (part of the Oresteia trilogy), Sophocles and Euripides each in plays named Electra.The three plays provide a unique record of development and divergence in the content and style of Athenian tragic drama. In Euripides’ hands the story becomes a tragedy of all too human emotions and illusions. Orestes’ revenge is subordinated to Electra’s hatred and resentment of her mother and the usurper.

Clytemnestra’s death brings brings not joy and restoration but revulsion, separation and renewed exile. Unwarned by the gods, Electra and Orestes recognise too late the human costs of executing Apollo’s justice.This edition of Euripides’ play was first published in 1988.The second edition is extensively revised to reflect more recent work on the text of the play and its interpretation. 256p. 2nd edition.

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Price $27.20 Menander: Eleven Plays, Colin Austin (Editor) Colin Austin, Professor of Greek at Cambridge University 1998–2008, was one of the world’s foremost experts in the reconstruction and interpretation of Greek comedy.When he died in August 2010, he was working towards a new edition of Menander for the series Oxford Classical Texts, for which he had completed only the shorter pieces: Dis Exapaton, Encheiridion, Georgos, Heros, Karchedonios, Kitharistes, Koneiazomenai, Leukadia, Perinthia, Phasma and Theophoroumene.The present volume contains the papyri and book fragments of these eleven plays, edited by Colin Austin. It has been prepared for publication by Richard Hunter and Peter Parsons. 84p.

Cambridge Philological Society, Cambridge Classical Journal Supplementary 37, June 2013, 9780956838124, PB, $70.00, Special Price $56.00

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Aristotle’s de Caelo III: Introduction, Translation and Commentary

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Theokritos Kouremenos (Author) This is the first full-scale commentary on Aristotle’s de Caelo III to appear in recent decades. de Caelo III can serve as a good introduction to Aristotle’s physics and its character. In it he answers some very general questions about the elements of all material things except celestial objects: how many these elements are, why they cannot be infinitely many but must be more than one, whether they are eternal or can be generated and decay, and, if the second, how. His discussion is often framed as a critique of rival theories, and he argues systematically against the geometrical theory of the elements in Plato’s Timaeus, which adds greatly to the interest of the work.The commentary adduces many parallel passages from Aristotle’s other works to round off the readers understanding, and the introduction offers a brief but comprehensive overview of the Aristotelian theory of the elements, which de Caelo III often takes for granted.

121p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Palingenesia. Schriftenreihe für Klassische Altertumswissenschaft 100, January 2013, 9783515103367, HB, $53.00,

Special Price $42.40 Ethik des antiken Platonismus: Der platonische Weg zum Glück in Systematik, Entstehung und historischem Kontext. Akten der 12. Tagung der Karl und Gertrud Abel-Stiftung vom 15.–18.

Oktober 2009 in Münster Christian Pietsch (Editor) Plato (429/8-349-8 BCE) founded a philosophy which has greatly impacted European intellectual history. ‘Platonism’ was especially influential during the Roman Empire. However, a comprehensive account of the methodological, genetic, and historical aspects of its Ethics has been lacking up to this point. Stemming from an International Conference at the University of Münster, this volume fills this lacuna. Numerous experts introduced the Ethics of Platonists of the Roman Empire in chronological sequence.The themes range from questions about basic principles to the intellectual classification of ethics within the philosophy (M. Bonazzi); the psychological premises (F. Drews); the action theory (M. Perkams); and the political effect of Platonic ethics (O’Meara).

These and other articles represent current research in the field as well as present the sum of the ethical problems to a wider audience in a straightforward manner.

German text. 333p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Philosophie der Antike 32, June 2013, 9783515101585, HB, $84.00,

Special Price $67.20 Eunapios aus Sardes: Biographien über Philosophen und Sophisten. Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar Matthias Becker (Author) Eunapios’ Lives of the Sophists was written around 400AD and is a collection of biographies of Neo-Platonist philosophers of the third and fourth centuries AD as well as Rhetoricians and Doctors of the fourth century AD. Eunapios was a fierce opponent of Christianity and at the center of this important source for the intellectual history of Late Antiquity he lays out an impassioned speech for pagan culture, religion and art.This speech is intended to contribute to the protection of the cultural identity of the pagan intellectual elite. Matthias Becker’s book offers not only the first German translation of this linguistically complex text but also an extensive introduction in the form of the first German language commentary. It takes into consideration both the literary and religious aspects as well as the philosophical and historical context of the work. In so doing it interprets Eunapios’ Lives of the Sophists as a pagan Hagiography. As a central proponent of this non-Christian form of holy writing, Eunapios creates his protagonists as Holy Men and Messengers from God, who are represented as the antithesis of Christian Holy Men and martyrs.This book is published with the help of a grant from the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Tübingen. German text. 667p.

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Palladius: Opus Agriculturae John G Fitch (Author) Palladius wrote in the 5th century AD. His is the latest of Roman agricultural texts and perhaps for that reason was the treatise most widely distributed in the medieval world, being translated into Italian, Catalan and Middle English, among other languages. Later, Palladius fell into neglect as the Renaissance preferred more classical authors (Cato,Varro, Columella) and although he was translated into English about 200 years ago (not entirely satisfactorily) his achievements are little known. Palladius is therefore an important guide to agricultural practice at the end of the Empire, and his significance is redoubled because of the sources he relied upon, including Gargilius Martialis, a major text which has not come down to us. Palladius wrote from personal experience of several parts of the Empire; his style is concise and his methods less elaborate than, for instance, Columella’s. John Fitch’s translation is based on the Rodgers edition of the Latin.This means it includes Book 14, on veterinary medicine, which was not discovered until the 20th century. He provides an introduction placing the work in context; some explicatory drawings, for instance of a reaping machine described by Palladius, and of a wine-pressing room; footnotes elucidating the text itself; and a full index. As the authoritative Latin edition is still available, there is no parallel Latin text in this version.John G. Fitch is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies, the University of Victoria, British Columbia. His research and publications have been much concerned with the work of Seneca, however his interest in Palladius was stimulated by his own life as a small farmer (sheep and fruit trees) on the island of Victoria in Canada. 368p.

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Current Research in Egyptology 2012: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Symposium Luke McGarrity (Editor); Carl Graves (Editor); Emily Millward (Editor); Marsia Sfakianou Bealby (Editor) The thirteenth Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference was held from the 27th – 30th March 2012 at the University of Birmingham and once again provided a platform for postgraduates and early career Egyptologists, as well as independent researchers, to present their research.These proceedings for CREXIII represent the wide-range of themes that were offered by delegates during the conference, and cover all periods of Egyptian history; from Predynastic skeletal analysis through to Egyptology during the Islamic Middle Ages.These twelve papers include gender studies, analysis of Egyptian festivals, revisiting of chronological models, archaeological reanalysis of ancient landscapes, as well as social, historical and linguistic studies allowing a new appraisal of many aspects of Egyptian culture and history.

Oxbow Books,March 2013, 9781782971566, PB, $76.00,

Special Price $60.80 Living with the Dead:Ancestor Worship and Mortuary Ritual in Ancient Egypt Nicola Harrington (Author) Living with the Dead presents a detailed analysis of ancestor worship in Egypt, using a diverse range of material, both archaeological and anthropological, to examine the relationship between the living and the dead. Iconography and terminology associated with the deceased reveal indistinct differences between the blessedness and malevolence and that the potent spirit of the dead required constant propitiation in the form of worship and offerings. A range of evidence is presented for mortuary cults that were in operation throughout Egyptian history and for the various places, such as the house, shrines, chapels and tomb doorways, where the living could interact with the dead.The private statue cult, where images of individuals were venerated as intermediaries between people and the Gods is also discussed. Collective gatherings and ritual feasting accompanied the burial rites with separate, mortuary banquets serving to maintain ongoing ritual practices focusing on the deceased. Something of a contradiction in attitudes is expressed in the evidence for tomb robbery, the reuse of tombs and funerary equipment and the ways in which communities dealt with the death and burial of children and others on the fringe of society.This significant study furthers our understanding of the complex relationship the ancient Egyptians had with death and with their ancestors; both recently departed and those in the distant past. 75 col & b/w illus, 208p.

Oxbow Books, Studies in Funerary Archaeology 6, December 2012, 9781842174937, PB, $76.00,

Special Price $60.80 The Oasis Papers 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project Roger S. Bagnall (Editor); Paola Davoli (Editor); Colin A. Hope (Editor) The Dakhleh Oasis Project is a long-term holistic investigation of the evolution of human populations in the changing environmental conditions of this isolated region in the Western Desert of Egypt.The Project began in 1978 and has combined survey and excavation to collect an extensive range of geological, environmental and archaeological data which covers the last 350,000 years of human occupation.This latest volume in the Monograph series publishing the results of the Project contains 41 papers with a wealth of new research and significant discoveries, from Prehistory, through Pharaonic and Roman times to the Christian period. 512p.

Oxbow Books, Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 15, January 2013, 9781842175248, HB, $180.00,

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Radiocarbon and the Chronologies of Ancient Egypt C. Bronk Ramsey (Editor); Andrew J. Shortland (Editor) This volume presents the findings of a major international project on the application of radiocarbon dating to the Egyptian historical chronology.

Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Cranfield in the UK, along with a team from France, Austria and Israel, radiocarbon dated more than 200 Egyptian objects made from plant material from museum collections from all over the world.The results comprise an accurate scientifically based chronology of the kings of ancient Egypt obtained by the radiocarbon analysis of short-lived plant remains.The research sheds light on one of the most important periods of Egyptian history documenting the various rulers of Egypt’s Old, Middle and New Kingdoms. Despite Egypt’s historical significance, in the past the dating of events has been a contentious undertaking with Egyptologists relying on various chronologies made up from archaeological and historical records.The radiocarbon dates nail down a chronology that is broadly in line with previous estimates. However, they do rule out some chronologies that have been put forward particularly in the Old Kingdom, which is shown to be older than some scholars thought.The research has implications for the whole region because the Egyptian chronology anchors the timing of historical events in neighboring areas tied to the reign of particular Egyptian kings.The results will allow for more historical comparisons to be made in countries like Libya and Sudan, which have conducted radiocarbon dating techniques on places of archaeological interest in the past. 80 b/w & col illus, 192p.

Oxbow Books, May 2013, 9781842175224, PB, $96.00, Special Price $72.00

Women in Ancient Egypt Barbara Watterson (Author) Women in Ancient Egypt is a detailed study of the often overlooked contributions made by women of all classes to the social, and sometimes the political, history of ancient Egypt. Using evidence gleaned from written records, monuments, sculpture, tomb-paintings and the material found in tombs, including objects and human remains, Barbara Watterson has been able to build up an intriguing picture of the lives led by ancient Egyptian women, lives that were free of the restraints normally placed upon women in the rest of the ancient world, allowing them to exercise a full part in society, recognized as equal with men under the law.The types of occupations and careers open to women are described, as are their domestic and personal lives - marriage, health and childbirth; family life; running a home; clothing, jewelry and beauty preparations.The women whose lives are fleshed out in this book are largely the ‘little people’ of history, women who rarely exercised any power outside the domestic sphere. In contrast, however, the final chapter deals with those women, surprisingly few in number, whose influence on the political affairs of their country was considerable and, in some cases, legendary, with a small number of royal women able to ascend the throne of Egypt and rule as female kings. 35 illus, 160p.

Amberley Publishing, July 2013, 9781445610207, PB, $22.95, Special Price $18.36

Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall Rodney Ast (Editor); Hélène Cuvigny (Editor);Todd Hickey (Editor); Julia Lougovaya (Editor) Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall contains 70 new or substantially revised editions of documentary and nondocumentary papyri and ostraca from Egypt edited by an international team of specialists.Texts span the 7th century B.C.E. to the 9th century C.E.They are written mainly in Greek but also in Latin, Egyptian, and Arabic. Each text is accompanied by a translation, line-by-line commentary, and photo.The volume includes the standard indices found in papyrological text editions. 392p.

American Society of Papyrologists, American Studies in Papyrology 53, February 2013, 9780979975868, HB, $69.95, Special Price $55.96

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Behind the Scenes: Daily Life in Old Kingdom Egypt A. McFarlane (Editor); A. L. Mourad (Editor) Scenes from the Old Kingdom tombs represent our main sources for the study of daily life of private individuals.Written by a number of specialists with years of research, this monograph deals with various aspects of life in ancient Egypt, presented in an accessible manner to the scholar and lay-person alike. Richly illustrated with an excellent selection of photographs and drawings, the book aims to bring the reader as close as possible to the Egyptian sources, allowing them to delve into the world behind the scenes.

59 col plates, 167 b/w drawings, 196p.

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Egyptian Stelae in the British Museum from the 13th - 17th Dynasties: Volume I, Fascicule I: Descriptions M. Marée (Author); D. Franke (Author) The British Museum holds the largest collection of Middle Kingdom stelae outside Egypt.This is the first full publication of the collection: the scenes and inscriptions of each of the 42 stelae are described in detail, with textual notes and explanatory diagrams.This is an outstanding work of scholarship by unrivalled authorities in the field. 48 b/w pls, 6 col. pls, 288p.

British Museum Press, September 2013, 9780714119878, HB, $120.00,

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Australian Centre for Egyptology, Australian Centre for Egyptology: Studies 10, June 2013, 9780856688607, PB, $100.00, Special Price $80.00

Handbook of Pottery of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom: Volume I: The Corpus Volume Volume II: The Regional Volume Robert Schiestl (Author) The Handbook of Pottery of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom is a comprehensive typological study of Egyptian pottery produced in the period of the Middle Kingdom (mid 11th to mid 13th Dynasty, appr. 2000–1700 BC) found in Egypt, Nubia and the Levant.The Handbook is arranged in two volumes:Volume I, the Corpus Volumes, is a typological study based on pottery shapes.Volume II, the Regional Volume, discusses pottery in its site specific contexts.The focus of the Handbook is chronology. It is attempted to establish as fine dates as possible for pottery shape groups.The material presented in these volumes derives not only from published sources, but also from unpublished excavation reports and studies by numerous scholars. In addition, large amounts of pottery stored in museums were analysed and drawn in order to be presented in the Handbook. 1539p.

Dossiers of Ancient Egyptians: The Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period Addition to Franke’s ‘Personendaten’ Wolfram Grajetzki (Author); Danijela Stefanovic (Author) The book collects more than 200 dossiers of Middle Kingdom officials.This is an addition and update to ‘D. Franke’s Personendaten’, published in 1984. 169p.

Golden House Publications, GHP Egyptology 19, December 2012, 9781906137298, PB, $50.00, Special Price $40.00

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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, August 2012, 9783700166078, HB, $435.00,

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Tell el-Daba XXIII: Levantine Painted Ware from Egypt & the Levant Tine Bagh (Author) Levantine Painted Ware is one of the most distinctive types of pottery from the Middle Bronze Age and a hallmark of the beginning of this period as it appears almost exclusively in early Middle Bronze Age contexts at sites in the Levant.

Examples are found from northern Syria along the eastern Mediterranean coast and somewhat inland down to Tell el-Dabca in the eastern Nile Delta and at other sites in Egypt even as far south as Elephantine on the southern border.

Through the dating of the strata there LPW may be tied to the beginning of the 2nd Millennium and thus be a tool for dating of the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age in the Levant.The earliest reliably datable examples of LPW from Egypt are from below the Middle Kingdom temple at cEzbet Rushdi in the Tell el-Dabca area.The Tell el-Dabca material is the basis for an investigation of the entire corpus of Levantine Painted Ware from all other sites in Egypt and in particular the extensive material from the Levant.This volume offers a typology and a collection of all known and published examples of LPW in the Levant and Egypt as well as examples of other contemporary and related painted wares, especially Syro-Cilician Ware and Khabur Ware, together with an evaluation of this material and the chronological significance.The present Tell el-Dabca volume is a contribution to the understanding of the early phase of the Middle Bronze Age Culture as well as one of the many pieces that constitute the Tell el-Dabca puzzle. 338p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Untersuchungen der Zweigstelle Kairo des Österre ichischen Archäologischen Instituts 37, June 2013, 9783700170617, PB, $164.00,

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Going out in Daylight – prt m hrw, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead – translation, sources, meanings Stephen Quirke (Author) First full illustrated translation with Egyptian transliteration, aiming to present with their individual histories all the compositions on prt m hrw “Book of the Dead” papyri from the New Kingdom to Ptolemaic Period.The volume gives at least one version of every written composition, together with one or more images for the essential pictorial component of all writings for which illustrations are known.Writings at the margins or outside the prt m hrw corpus, including all ascribed “Book of the Dead” numbers in Egyptological publications, are included in the final section.The translations are supported by a thematic and historical introduction and closing glossary. Recommended for study in Egyptology and history of religions. 641p.

Golden House Publications, GHP Egyptology 20, June 2013, 9781906137311, PB, $140.00, Special Price $112.00

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Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer (Editor) Issued in conjunction with an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago, this is the first comprehensive study of birds in ancient Egyptian society, economy, art, and religion. Essays address the role of birds in the religious landscape, their use in hieroglyphic and Coptic scripts, birds as protective symbols, as decorative motifs, and as food. A group of essays on “Egyptian Birds and Modern Science” presents the newest forensic research on bird mummies. Other articles address bird behavior as shown in Egyptian art and the present state of avifauna in the Nile Valley.The catalog describes forty artifacts, many of which are previously unpublished. An index of bird species makes this volume useful for naturalists as well as for Egyptologists and art historians. 210 illus, 232p.

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Museum Publications 35, October 2012, 9781885923929, PB, $29.95,

Special Price $23.96 Am Anfang war Ägypten Michael Hoveler-Muller (Author) Egyptian history belongs the oldest and most fascinating periods of mankind: For more than four millennia an advanced civilization developed, which fascinates people until today.

Understandable, exciting but also well-founded the author Michael Höveler-Müller tells the whole history of Ancient Egypt.

German text. 40 col illus, 224p.

Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts: Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, VIII Objects of Provenance Not Known, part 4: (Dynasty XVIII to the Roman Period) Bertha Porter (Author) This volume, which is the fourth part of Topographical Bibliography VIII, Objects of Provenance Not Known, presents accessible references for unprovenanced stelae dating from Dynasty XVIII to the end of the Roman Period.The coverage includes monuments in museums and private collections, as well as those which have surfaced in sales and auctions only to disappear from sight once again.

Volume VIII, Parts 3 and 4, provide the first comprehensive survey of unprovenanced stelae ever undertaken.The classification and dating is the product of original research by Jaromir Malek, with assistance from Elizabeth Fleming, Alison Hobby, and Diana Magee, as well as input from specialists in many institutions.

The number and range of the stelae open up many new areas for further research, making possible an altogether fuller coverage of the material than has been possible hitherto.This volume contains extensive indices.The first seven volumes of the Topographical Bibliography list ancient Egyptian monuments still in situ, those found in controlled excavations, or those for which the original location can be established with certainty.There are, however, enormous numbers of objects of unknown provenance, including some of the greatest importance. Systematic records of excavations in Egypt began in the 1860s, but digging for monuments had been going on for at least half a century before that.

Volume VIII complements Volumes I-VII by providing access to this unprovenanced material. Parts 1-2, published in 1999, cover statues of all periods. Part 3, published in 2007, covers stelae of the Early Dynastic Period to the end of Dynasty XVIII. Griffith Institute, August 2012, 9780900416903, HB, $170.00,

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Philipp von Zabern, June 2013, 9783805346078, HB, $45.00,

Special Price $36.00 Leatherwork from Qasr Ibrim (Egypt). Part I: Footwear from the Ottoman Period Andre J Veldmeijer (Author) Throughout its long history, stretching from the 25th Dynasty (c. 752-656 BC) to the Ottoman Period (c. 1500-1811 AD), Qasr Ibrim was one of the most important settlements in Egyptian Nubia.The site has produced an unprecedented wealth of material and due to the – even for Egypt – extraordinary preservation circumstances, includes objects that are made of perishable organic materials, such as wood, leather, and flax.The present volume focuses on one of these groups: footwear that is made from leather and dated to the Ottoman Period.The footwear, recovered during the years that the Egypt Exploration Society worked at the site, is described in detail, including a pictorial record consisting of photographs and drawings (both technical and artist’s impressions).This is the first time that Ottoman footwear from Egypt (and outside of Egypt) has been analyzed in detail.The preliminary analysis focuses on footwear technology, within the framework of the Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project (AEFP; see www.leatherandshoes.nl). A broader interpretation will be combined with the results of the analyses of the finds from the other epochs of Qasr Ibrim’s history, such as the age of Christianity and the Meroitic Period. 500 col, 20 b/w illus, 462p.

Sidestone Press, June 2013, 9789088900969, PB, $130.00, Special Price $104.00, 9789088901720, eBook, $52.00

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B. V. Adrianov (Author); Simone Mantellini (Editor) Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Sea Area, is the English translation of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov’s work, Drevnie orositelnye sistemy priaralya, concerning the study of ancient irrigation systems and the settlement pattern in the historical region of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan).This work holds a special place within the Soviet archaeological school because of the results obtained through a multidisciplinary approach combining aerial survey and fieldwork, surveys, and excavations.This translation has been enriched by the addition of introductions written by several eminent scholars from the region regarding the importance of the Khorezm Archaeological-Ethnographic Expedition and the figure of Boris V. Andrianov and his landmark study almost 50 years after the original publication. 300p.

Oxbow Books, American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph, July 2013, 9781842173848, HB, $35.00, Special Price $26.00

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Painting Practices in White Painted and White Slip Wares Louise C. Maguire (Author) The regional development of Cyprus and the on-going changes on the island are highly interesting topics, which were investigated in several studies in recent years by the SCIEM 2000 Cyprus project.This book by Louise Maguire represents a new departure from the traditional analysis of material culture; she has analysed pottery decoration by looking at traces of painting practices.This very meticulous and detailed study is a fresh approach which may help to disentangle some crucial technological developments and expand our knowledge of social behaviour on the island during the Middle Cypriot and Late Cypriot periods.The painting practices of White Painted Wares (WP II – VI and their variants), Proto White Slip and White Slip Ware have been painstakingly deconstructed. It is evident from this study, that the discovery of different brushstroke behaviour across the ware groups, has an impact on current regional and chronological interpretations.The book consists of 4 sections describing individual items from each ware group, conclusions and contains 72 figures and 15 colour plates. 130p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean 33, October 2012, 9783700169963, PB, $74.00,

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Preise, Löhne und Lebensstandard im safavidischen Iran: Eine Untersuchung zu den Rechnungsbüchern Wollebrand Geleynssen de Jonghs (1641-1643) Roman Siebertz (Author) The Safavid era (1501-1722) is regarded as one of the most thoroughly explored periods of Iranian history. In the past, however research has concentrated on the political history and the macroeconomics of the Safavid state, while until now its social history has only been investigated on a rudimentary level. A deep and instructive insight in the daily life of ordinary people, both rural and urban, are offered by a number of accounts from the bequest of Wollebrandt Geleynssen de Jongh, who, as a servant of the Dutch East India Company, had been active in Isfahan and Bandar ?AbbÇs in 1641-43 and 1645-47.The data on wages, prices and running expenses recorded in these accounts not only enable us to reconstruct the daily life and living standard of the ordinary people, but also to in a global perspective. German text. 143p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, March 2013, 9783700172635, PB, $56.00,

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Ivories from Rooms SW11/12 and T10 Fort Shalmaneser Coins of the Holy Land: The Abraham and Marian Sofaer Collection at the American Numismatic Society and the Israel Museum Ya’akov Meshorer (Author); Gabriela Bijovsky (Author); Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert (Author); David Hendin (Editor) The Abraham and Marian Sofaer collection consists of 4,000 coins and related objects produced by the peoples who inhabited the Holy Land from the Persian period in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE through the Crusader Kingdom in the 13th century of the modern era. Assembled over more than 30 years, the collection contains gold, silver and bronze coins of the Persians, Greeks, Samarians, Jews, Nabataeans, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, and Crusaders.

Highlights of the collection include a rich selection of the fractional silver coinage of Samaria; a comprehensive assemblage of the coins of the Hasmonaean and Herodian Jewish dynasties; superb examples of coinage issued during the Jewish revolts from Rome; fully representative runs of the coinages of the cities of Galilee, Samaria, Judaea, Idumaea and the Decapolis under Roman rule; and rare examples of the Umayyad and Abassid coinages produced in Jerusalem and elsewhere.

All coins are fully described and illustrated on 238 plates.These volumes will serve as standard reference works for archaeologists, historians and numismatists studying two millennia of the history of the Holy Land. 238 pls, 588p.

American Numismatic Society, Ancient Coins in North American Collections 8, June 2013, 9780897222839, HB, $190.00, Special Price $152.00

Georgina Hermann (Author); Stuart Laidlaw (Author) Fifty years have passed since the British School of Archaeology in Iraq raised the last ivory from the soil of Fort Shalmaneser. Literally thousands were found, many of which have already been published. With the primary publication completed, it is now possible to look at these remarkable ivories as a whole rather than studying them by provenance, as is discussed in detail in the Commentary. It immediately becomes apparent that the majority can be assigned to the Phoenician tradition. There are at least twice as many Phoenician ivories than the other Levantine and Assyrian ivories. They form therefore an incredible archive, recording the lost art of the Phoenicians, long famed as master craftsmen. The Phoenician ivories can be divided into two; the finest, the Classic Phoenician, often embellished with delicate, jewel-like inlays, and the other examples still clearly Phoenician in style and subject. While the Classic pieces were probably carved in a single center, possibly Tyre or Sidon, the others would have been carved in a variety of different Phoenician centers, located along the Mediterranean seaboard. The ivories found at Nimrud present a unique resource for studying the minor arts of the Levantine world. 1384p.

British Institute for the Study of Iraq, Ivories from Nimrud VII, June 2013, 9780903472296, HB, $180.00,

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The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning for the Middle East John Curtis (Author); Neil MacGregor (Author); Irving Finkel (Translator) The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects to have survived from the ancient world.The Cylinder was inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform on the orders of the Persian King Cyrus the Great (559?530BC) after he captured Babylon in 539BC. It is often referred to as the first bill of human rights as it appears to permit freedom of worship throughout the Persian Empire and to allow deported people to return to their homelands. It is valued by people all around the world as a symbol of tolerance and respect for different peoples and different faiths, so much so that a copy of the cylinder is on display in the United Nations building in New York.This catalog is being published in conjunction with the first ever tour of the object to the United States, along with sixteen other objects from the British Museum’s collection.The book discusses how these objects demonstrate the innovations initiated by Persian rule in the Ancient Near East (550 BC?331 BC), a prime example being a gold plaque from the Oxus Treasure with the representation of a priest that shows the spread of the Zoroastrian religion.The book offers a new authoritative translation of the Cyrus Cylinder by Irving Finkel and the publication of two fragments of a cuneiform tablet that show how the Cyrus Cylinder was most probably a proclamation and not just a foundation deposit. 110 col, 144p.

British Museum Press, April 2013, 9780714111872, HB, $40.00,

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Later Prehistory of the Badia: Excavation and Surveys in Eastern Jordan, Volume 2 A. V. G. Betts (Author); D. Cropper (Author); L. Martin (Author); C. McCartney (Author) The Jordanian badia is an arid region that has been largely protected from modern development by its extreme climate and has preserved a remarkably rich record of its prehistoric past.This is the second of two volumes to document extensive surveys and excavations in the region from Al-Azraq to the Iraqi border over the period 1979-1996. Broadly, it covers the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the eastern badia. Over time, an outline prehistory of the region has emerged. Late Epipaleolithic campsites have been found in the northwest of the harra in the foothills of Jebel Druze, while the central basalt region saw a floruit of activity in the late Aceramic Neolithic, when it was used extensively for hunting.This volume covers the following period, which witnessed a further spread of campsites and short-term occupation out around the edges of the harra and across the hamad as far as the lands bordering the Euphrates to the north and east.This period was marked by the first appearance of sheep and goat as one element of the steppic economy alongside traditional practices of hunting and foraging.The concluding chapter discusses these changes and proposes models for the introduction of domesticated animals into the steppe as a precursor to a full nomadic pastoral economy. 240p.

Council for British Research in the Levant, Levant Supplementary Series 11, June 2013, 9781842174739, HB, $96.00, Special Price $76.80

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Hatra, Politics, Culture and Religion between Parthia and Rome Lucinda Dirven (Editor) Hatra is the richest archaeological site in the Parthian Empire known to date and has great potential for a better understanding of this enigmatic empire and its relationship with Rome. After an introduction to this little known site, seventeen contributions written by leading experts in the field provide the reader with the latest insights into this important late-Parthian settlement.They touch upon three themes.The first section, “Between Parthia and Rome” contains three articles that discuss the relationship between Parthia and Rome on the one hand, and Parthia and its vassal states on the other.The seven contributions in “The City and its Remains” take the rich archaeological evidence from Hatra as a starting point and use this to reconstruct the city’s history.The third and final section “Culture and Religion on the Crossroads” contains seven articles that are related to Hatra’s position between the two great empires.

Although most scholars agree that politically this city belonged to the east, this by no means holds true for all aspects of its culture and religion.

40 b/w-photos. 38 b/w illus 363p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Oriens et Occidens 21, June 2013, 9783515104128, HB, $89.00,

Special Price $71.20 Aramaic Documents from Ancient Bactria Joseph Naveh (Author); Shaul Shaked (Author) First publication of a group of thirty documents on leather in Imperial Aramaic, dating to the fourth century B.C.E. and reflecting the practice of the Achaemenian administration in Bactria and Sogdiana. Eighteen inscribed wooden sticks, for use as tallies, dated to the third year of King Darius Ill, are also included.They are considered to be the second most important discovery of its type known.Two of the leather documents relate to the fall of the Persian Empire: one mentions Bessus, the usurper of the Persian throne, travelling to Warnu (Greek Aornos); the other is a long list of supplies in the year 7 of King Alexander. In addition to their valuable historical contents, the documents enrich our knowledge of Aramaic and its lexicon.The documents are given in Aramaic with translation, introduction, commentary and glossary.The volume is lavishly illustrated. 224p.

Khalili Collections, Studies in the Khalili Collection, May 2013, 9781874780748, HB, $70.00, Special Price $56.00

Early Megiddo on the East Slope (The “Megiddo Stages”): A Report on the Early Occupation of the East Slope of Megiddo.

Result of the Oriental Institute’s Excavations, 1925-1933 Eliot Braun (Author); David Ilan (Author); Ofer Marder (Author);Yael Braun (Author) This report completes prior publications by Clarence S. Fisher (1929), P. L. O. Guy (1931), Robert M. Engberg and Geoffrey M. Shipton (1934a), and P. L. O. Guy and Robert M. Engberg (1938) on the earliest utilization and occupation of the slope at the southeast base of the high mound of Megiddo (Tell el-Mutesellim).That area, labeled by the excavators the “East Slope,” and identified by them in their notations as “ES,” was excavated by the Oriental Institute between the years 1925, when work commenced, and 1933, when the last of it was apparently cleared down to bedrock.While the primary focus of this report is on Square U16 (an area of 25 ? 25 m), where most of the early remains (i.e. of the Early Bronze Age and earlier) excluding tombs were encountered, this work also deals with the later remains within that same, limited precinct. 138 figs, 120 pls, 21 tabs, 156p.

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Publications 139, June 2013, 9781885923981, HB, $75.00, Special Price $60.00

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NEW FROM ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Language and Nature: Papers Presented to John Huehnergard on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday Rebecca Hasselbach (Editor); Na’ama Pat-El (Editor)

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Heaven on Earth: Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World Deena Ragavan (Editor) The volume is the result of the eighth Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar, held on March 2-3, 2012.

Seventeen speakers, from both the US and abroad, examined the interconnections between temples, ritual, and cosmology from a variety of regional specializations and theoretical perspectives.

The seminar revisited a classic topic, one with a long history among scholars of the ancient world: the cosmic symbolism of sacred architecture.

Archaeologists, art historians, and philologists working not only in the ancient Near East, but also Mesoamerica, Greece, South Asia, and China, re-evaluated the significance of this topic across the ancient world. 189 illus, 460p.

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Seminars 9, June 2013, 9781885923967, PB, $24.95,

This book includes thirty contributions - twenty-nine papers and one artistic contribution - by John’s colleagues, former students, and friends, on a variety of topics that represent John’s versatility and many interests, including philology, history, natural history, and art.

Many of the papers concentrate on the Akkadian speaking world, reflecting one of the major languages John Huehnergard has worked on throughout the years. Eran Cohen reviews and discusses the functional value of Akkadian iprus in conditional clauses in epistolary and legal texts. Lutz Edzard discusses the Akkadian injunctive umma, used in oath formulae. Daniel Fleming asks who were the ‘Apiru people mentioned in Egyptian texts in the Late Bronze Age and what was their social standing as is reflected in the Amarna letters. Shlomo Izre’el offers a revised and improved version of his important study of the language of the Amarna letters.

Leonid Kogan offers a comparative etymological study of botanical terminology in Akkadian, while Josef Tropper argues that Akkadian poetry, as well as Northwest Semitic poetry, are based on certain metric principles.Wilfred von Soldt lists and discusses personal names ending in -ayu from Amarna.

A number of papers deal with Arabic grammarians and their concepts of language. Gideon Goldenberg discusses the concept of vocalic length in Arabic grammatical tradition and in the medieval Hebrew tradition that was its product.

Wolfhart Heinrichs’s contribution shows that Ibn Khaldun held innovative views of language and its evolution.

Several other papers deal with Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible. Steven Fassberg deals with verbal t-forms that do not exhibit the expected metathesis in Hebrew and Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Randall Garr studies one class of denominal hiphil verbs and asks why these verbs are assigned to the causative stem despite their non-causative semantic content. Ed Greenstein suggests that the roots of biblical wisdom can be located in second-millennium Canaanite literature by identifying wisdom sayings and themes in the Ugaritic corpus. Jeremy Hutton sheds more light on tG forms in Biblical Hebrew. Paul Korchin explains occurrences of the cohortative in Biblical Hebrew that do not conform to the normative volitive function. Dennis Pardee provides a detailed study of the Hebrew verbal system as primarily expressing aspect, not tense. Gary A. Rendsburg argues in favor of Late Biblical Hebrew features in the book of Haggai.

Four papers deal with linguistic aspects of non-Classical Semitic languages.

Charles Häberl looks into predicates of verbless sentences in Semitic and particularly in Neo-Mandaic. Geoffrey Khan discusses the functional differences between the preterite and the perfect in NENA.Aaron D. Rubin provides Semitic etymologies of two Modern South Arabian words. Ofra Tirosh-Becker discusses the language of the Judeo-Arabic translation of the books of Prophets.

Papers on comparative Semitics are likewise numerous. Jo Ann Hackett takes another look at Ugaritic yaqtul and argues for the existence of a preterite yaqtul on comparative grounds, among others. Rebecca Hasselbach tackles the evasive origin of the Semitic verbal endings -u and -a. Na’ama Pat-El continues the discussion of the origin of the Hebrew relative particle seC- from a syntactic and comparative perspective. Richard C. Steiner proposes a new vowel syncope rule for Proto Semitic.

David Testen argues for a different reconstruction of the Semitic case system.Tamar Zewi shows that prepositional phrases can function as subjects in a variety of Semitic languages.Andrzej Zaborski suggests that Berber and Cushitic preserve archaic features that have been lost for the most part in the Semitic languages.

There is one paper on an Indo-European language with important ties to Semitic languages in P. Oktor Skjaervo discussion of the Pahlavi verb *awas ‘to dry.’

Finally, Richard Walton contributes a paper about the jumping spiders of Concord, Massachusetts, a project he labored on with John Huehnergard.

The book is beautifully decorated by the drawings of the artist X Bonnie Woods, who prepared special illustration for this volume, based on cuneiform. (frontispiece John Huehnergard); 3 tabs, 30 illus, 30 linked mp4 videos, 476p.

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilisation 67, October 2012, 9781885923912, PB, $54.95, Special Price $43.96

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Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden, Teil 11: Die Katalognummern 4363–5799 Klaus Wille (Editor) This eleventh volume of the Sanskrit manuscripts from the Turfan discovery presents the manuscript finds of the German Turfan expeditions which were made available to the public beginning of the last century.This catalog contains 1437 catalog numbers in which fragmentary manuscripts are described and reproduced for the most part in full.The text fragments from the northern Silk Road described here are mostly from Vinaya and Sutra of Sravakayana.The Mahayana texts dominate the fragments of the southern Silk Road (Khotan).The identification of the fragments leads to new insights in several areas for example some catalog numbers not previously included in Sanskrit texts or passages of text are included.Through the development of the Sanskrit text material from the Turfan discovery our knowledge of the Central Asian Buddhist literature tradition is broadened. German text. 479p.

Franz Steiner Verlag,Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD) 10.11, November 2012, 9783515102773, HB, $123.00,

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The Oriental Institute 2011-2012 Annual Report Gil Stein (Editor) Reports on the work of the Oriental Institute during the academic year (July 2011-June 2012), including twenty project, seven research support, eleven museum, seven public education and volunteer, and five development and membership reports.

30 b/w & 207 col illus, 328p.

Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, November 2012, 9781885923936, PB, $27.95,

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26 ISLAMIC WORLD Chirugia

Abu’L Qasim Halaf Ibn Abbas Al-Zahraui Chirugia (Author) The textbook of surgery written by the Arab physician Abu alQasim Khalaf Ibn Abbas az-Zahrawi stood for nearly 500 years as the leading handbook in this field of medicine. It constitutes the oldest and also most important link between Greek classical and late classical medicine and the European medicine of the high Middle Ages. His writings were widely acknowledged and preferred even to the teachings of the Greek medical authority Galen. In all, 68 miniatures form the decorative apparatus of this bibliophile manuscript, illustrating individual methods of medical treatment and instruments in all their details. Besides these miniatures, which might have been derived from Arab models, numerous gilded initials (in total 227) bear testimony to the flawless quality and great significance of the manuscript, both in medical history and in the history of art. Chirurgia is composed of three books and decorated with numerous miniatures to illustrate diverse methods of medical treatment, 403p.

ADEVA, Glanzlichter of Book Art 21, June 2013, 9783201019651, HB, $137.00,

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A History of Ottoman Poetry Volumes I-VI E. J. W. Gibb (Author) The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print.The remainder was almost complete and was seen through the press by Gibb’s friend and literary executor, the Persian scholar E. G. Browne.The History was designed to provide the first extended account in English of Ottoman literature.The first four volumes cover four developmental phases, largely under the influence of Persian literature, from around 1300 to the middle of the nineteenth century.The fifth volume introduces the ‘New School’ of Ottoman poetry produced in Gibb’s own era and inspired by French models.The sixth volume contains in Ottoman printed script the texts of all works quoted in English translation in the previous volumes. No comparable study has appeared in English since Gibb’s magnum opus. His History of Ottoman Poetry has become a classic work which is still widely referred to and valuable for students, scholars and anyone with a general interest in Middle Eastern literature and culture.

Volume I (originally published 1900, during Gibb’s lifetime) begins with an introduction on the origin, character and scope of Ottoman poetry, and provides an explanation of its principal verse forms and rhyme schemes. Gibb then discusses poets of the period 1300 to around 1450, considering this a formative era in which poetry was generally more ‘West-Turkish’ in style and strongly influenced by local dialect than Ottoman later became. Foremost among the poets discussed are Sultan Veled (d. 1312), son of the revered mystic Celaleddin Rumi;Yunus Emre (fl. early 1300s), a master of ‘rugged’ mystical verse in the Turkish syllabic metre; and Süleyman Çelebi (d. 1422) author of the Mevlid, a ‘Hymn on the Prophet’s Nativity’ which acquired a central place in Turkish culture through its recital annually during celebrations on the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.

Gibb’s method in all volumes is to supply biographical information on each writer, drawn primarily from Ottoman biographical dictionaries of poets, followed by English translations of some of their more significant poems and synopses of longer texts. For all these elements, a wealth of explanatory footnotes provides extra cultural depth. 472p.

Gibb Memorial Trust, July 2013, 9780906094181, PB, $40.00, Special Price $32.00

The Principles of Arab Navigation William Facey (Editor); Anthony R. Constable (Editor) Throughout History, the Indian Ocean has been a zone of interaction between far-flung civilizations served by ports, and connected with the Mediterranean by the Gulf and Red Sea.The shows that were the vehicles of commercial and cultural exchange over this vast expanse of ocean ranged from small craft rarely venturing out of sight of land, to cargo vessels carrying navigators skilled in the art of deep sea sailing.These Arab, Persian and Indian seamen used the seasonal monsoon winds, and applied navigational techniques that relied on their ability to read the stars in the night sky – skills that had developed down the generations from time immemorial. Bringing together six scholars specializing in the maritime history and culture of the Arabs (Anthony R. Constable,William Facey,Yacoub Al-Hijji, Paul Lunde, Hassan Salih Shihab and Eric Staples), this book makes a new and vital contribution to the study of a nautical culture that has hitherto not received its due share of attention, and which is vital to an understanding of Indian Ocean history. Drawing on source material the volume covers the principal ideas, techniques, instruments and calculations used, deploying astronomy, geometry and mathematics to explain their methods. It includes an account of a practical attempt to apply these methods in 2010, on an adventurous voyage from Muscat to Singapore in a reconstructed early medieval dhow, and concludes with an analysis of sailing conditions in the Red Sea. col illus, 11 maps.

Arabian Publishing Ltd, February 2013, 9780957106017, HB, $70.00,

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Volume II (originally published 1902) covers the period 1450 to 1520, the early ‘classical age’. For Gibb, the reign of Mehmed II (1451-81) was ‘the true starting point of Ottoman poetry’, when more verse was written in the increasingly Persianized literary idiom of the Ottoman court, in contrast to the relatively provincial Turkish style of most poets of the first period. Among the leading poets of this era are Cem Sultan (d. 1495), the brother of Bayezid II (1481-1512) held captive for many years in France and Italy; the judge and courtier Ahmed Pasha (d.c. 1496) and Necati, the son of a slave (d. 1509). Also discussed is the work of Mihri Hatun of Amasya (d. after 1512), one of the few known Ottoman women poets. Gibb provides extended summaries of the stories of Yusuf and Zuleika, and Leyla and Mecnun, both composed by Hamdi (d. 1509), as early Ottoman examples of traditional romances in the mesnevi style of rhymed couplets.Volume II contains two prefaces.The first is an obituary of Gibb by E. G. Browne, followed by a list of the Persian and Turkish manuscripts in Gibb’s library at the time of his death.The second is Gibb’s intended preface, countering criticisms of the first volume with a robust defense of his decision to use an archaic form of English in his translations.

Gibb Memorial Trust, 7/31/2013, 9780906094198, PB, $40.00, Special Price $32.00 Volume III (originally published 1904) covers both the second part of the ‘classical age’ of Ottoman poetry, from 1520 to the early seventeenth century, and the subsequent ‘late classical age’ to c. 1700. In Gibb’s understanding, this was the era of greatest Persian influence upon Ottoman poetry, and was at its most brilliant in the reign of Süleyman (1520-66).The majority of the most well known Ottoman poets flourished in these two centuries, drawn from all walks of life and many parts of the empire, from the chief jurisconsult Yahya Efendi (d. 1644) and the chief judge Baki (d. 1600), to the Nakshbandi sufi Lami’i Çelebi of Bursa (d. 1531), Fuzuli of Baghdad (d. 1556), the Albanian-born soldier Yahya Bey (d. 1575), the satirist Nef’i from Erzurum (executed c. 1635), and the man of letters from Urfa, Nabi Efendi (d. 1712). In addition, eight of the most popular verse romances written in this period are summarised in an appendix. 400p.

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Volume IV (originally published 1905) covers Ottoman poets of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a period regarded

by Gibb as one of transition between the classical age of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and that of the modern school beginning around 1860. Persian influences upon Ottoman verse began to give way to more Turkish styles, the Ottomans having grown weary of being, according to Gibb, ‘the parrots of the Persians’.The two trends nevertheless continued side by side for some time, a contest between the new, more sprightly Romanticism, glowing ‘with a brightness of local color’, as represented by Nedim (d. 1730), Sheykh Ghalib (d. 1799), and Sunbulzade Vehbi (d.

1809), and the remaining Persianist tradition exemplified by the poetry of the grand vezir Mehmed Raghib Pasha (d. 1763). 376p.

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Special Price $32.00 Volume V (originally published 1907) concludes Gibb’s study of Ottoman poetry. It contains three chapters on the ‘modern school of Ottoman poetry’ drafted by him and edited by Browne. Emerging around 1860, this modern school was a product of the Ottoman tanzimat reform era and was strongly influenced by the ‘inspiring genius’ of western, particularly French, literary models.To Gibb, it signified ‘a great awakening’.

Chapter I provides a general introduction to the poets of the period and their literary and political circumstances. Chapter II is devoted to fiinasi Efendi (d. 1871), ‘the master who laid the foundation of the new learning’; chapter III presents Ziya Bey, later Pasha (d. 1880), a prolific writer in both prose and verse and translator of many French literary works into Ottoman. Gibb died before he could begin an intended study of the person he considered the greatest poet of this new school, Namik Kemal (d. 1888).

Volume V contains over 100 pages of indices to all five volumes: of persons and places; of books, journals and poems; of ‘technical terms and Oriental words’, and of subjects.The indices were compiled by R. A. Nicholson. 258p.

Gibb Memorial Trust, 7/31/2013, 9780906094594, PB, $40.00,

Special Price $32.00 Volume VI (originally published 1909) completes Gibb’s History of Ottoman Poetry. In 378 pages, it contains in printed Ottoman script the texts of all the poems translated by Gibb in the previous five volumes, transcribed from originals recovered by Browne from Gibb’s manuscripts and research papers. A photograph of Gibb, taken probably in the late 1890s, forms the frontispiece of this final volume.

Gibb Memorial Trust, July 2013, 9780906094624, PB, $40.00,

Special Price $32.00 Vartan of Nazareth: Missionary and Medical Pioneer in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East Malcolm Billings (Author) Vartan of Nazareth: Missionary and Medical Pioneer in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East relates the little-known story of a medical hero who founded a hospital in Nazareth 150 years ago and records the remarkable achievements of Pacarooni Kaloost Vartan, the son of a poor Armenian tailor in Constantinople.

Rich in descriptions of nineteenth-century Nazareth, the book tells of the plight of people whose remedies amounted to old wives’ tales, village bone-menders and leeches – the doctor’s struggle to overcome local prejudice and aversion to Evangelical missionaries. The Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society sponsored Vartan’s work in Nazareth and his quarterly reports to their headquarters preserve a vivid picture of his hard work to establish the hospital. Lavishly illustrated,Vartan of Nazareth features contemporary photographs taken by the Royal Engineers on their Survey of Palestine. The book also tells of Vartan’s legacy after his death in 1908 and follows the development of the hospital through the turbulent times of the First World War, the British Mandate and the birth of modern Israel. Against all odds, the hospital survived. It is still registered in Scotland and, as a remarkable element of continuity, the founder’s great grandson, John Vartan, is actively involved. This book is published in celebration the 150th anniversary of the founding of Nazareth Hospital. 200p.

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New Light on Old Glass: Recent Research on Byzantine Glass and Mosaics Liz James (Editor); Chris Entwistle (Editor) This new publication brings together a range of leading scholars from Europe, America and the Middle East to discuss the most recent research in the field of Byzantine glass and mosaics in an interdisciplinary context. New Light on Old Glass explores how mosaics are perhaps the most outstanding examples of Byzantine art which survive; revealing changing aesthetics and issues surrounding the technical production of glass in medieval artistic practices.This is the first time that so many diverse papers, ranging from art history, archaeology, chemistry, physics and Byzantine studies have been assembled in one volume, and is the culmination of a five-year research program on the Composition of Byzantine Glass Mosaic Tesserae, conducted by the University of Sussex in conjunction with the British Museum and sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust.

500 col. & b/w illus, 250p.

British Museum Press, British Museum Research Publication 179, July 2013, 9780861591794, PB, $90.00, Special Price $72.00

Byzantinisches Kappadokien Rainer Warland (Author) In the highlands of Anatolia among deep canyons and vast valleys amazing testimonies of the byzantine world remained. In this book Cappadocia, which is known for its cave churches, for the first time, is extensively appreciated as a historic landscape.

Fascinating pictures show the uniqueness of this area. German text. 100 col illus, 144p.

Philipp von Zabern, AW- Sonderband, June 2013, 9783805345804, HB, $45.00,

Special Price $36.00 The Georgian Churches of Oski and Iskhani: Architecture and Ornament Dora Piquet-Panayatova (Author) This study deals with the churches of Oski and Iskhani, in the ancient Georgian province of Tao-Klardeti, now in eastern Turkey. Each church is examined separately, with a focus on the architecture and carved decoration.The architectural sculpture includes the decorative layout of the facades, and the ornamentation of the windows, portals, gallery and porch.This reveals the fusion of antique elements, inherited from the East Byzantine provinces, with Sassanian and Islamic motifs penetrating through contact with the Abbasid world.These churches were erected by the Bagratid princes in the early years of the 11th century and their construction reflects a fascinating blend of the influence of the Macedonian ‘Renaissance’ from the Byzantine empire and the Abbasid fashions that had spread through the Mediterranean world at this period. 236 illus, 260p.

Pindar Press, June 2013, 9781899828913, HB, $240.00, Special Price $192.00

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The Anglo-Saxon Church of All Saints, Brixworth, Northamptonshire: Survey, Excavation and Analysis, 1972-2010 David Parsons (Author); Diana Sutherland (Author) All Saints’ Church, Brixworth lies in Northamptonshire.The core of the church is Anglo-Saxon and the research published here provides an unprecedented account of one of the most important buildings of its period surviving in England.The building of the main body of the church was towards the end of the 8th century, with a western tower, stair turret and polygonal apse added before the end of the 9th. Major modifications were made during the early and later medieval periods.The Brixworth Archaeological Research Committee embarked on an in-depth archaeological and historical study of All Saints’. Limited excavation revealed evidence for the former extent of the cemetery and examined remains of the early structures to the north of the church.The later 8th-century date for the foundation of the church was confirmed by radiocarbon dates from charcoal extracted from construction mortar in the church fabric. A complete stone-bystone survey of the standing fabric, accompanied by petrological identifications, has led to a refined appraisal of the construction sequence and the identification of ‘exotic’ stone types and Roman bricks reused from earlier buildings up to 40 km distant.The archaeological, geological and laboratory findings presented here have been amplified by contextual studies placing the church against its archaeological, architectural, liturgical and historical background, with detailed comparisons with standing and excavated buildings of similar age in north Europe and Italy. col illus, inc. foldouts, 336p.

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British Museum Anglo-Saxon Coins I: Early Anglo-Saxon Gold and Continental Silver Coinage of of the North Sea Area, c. 600-760, Anna Gannon (Author); Marion Archibald (Author); Duncan R. Hook (Author); Gareth Williams (Author) This volume is dedicated to the British Museum’s collection of early Anglo-Saxon gold coinage as well as the Anglo-Saxon and Continental silver coinage of the North Sea area, dating from the early seventh to the mid-eighth centuries.This was the coinage which circulated during the age of Bede, the Lindisfarne Gospels and Sutton Hoo, and which is widely celebrated for its historical significance and artistic accomplishment. Both these features are well illustrated in this volume by more than 850 coins, which together form one of the largest, oldest and most representative collections of this complex coinage.The last catalog of this part of the British Museum’s collection was published in 1887 and since then the collection has more than tripled in size.This new catalog includes comprehensive coverage of all new acquisitions, among them material from several significant hoards, as well as full details on the provenance and identification of individual coins. A major introduction sets the coins in context and reassesses their classification. New metallurgical analyses of the gold coinage and authoritative interpretation of the results, as well as a survey of the history of the collection, constitute further valuable supplements to the catalog. 37 b/w plates, 304p.

British Museum Press, Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 63, July 2013, 9780714118239, HB, $100.00,

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Learn Old English with Leofwin Matt Love (Author) This is a new approach to learning old English – as a living language. Leofwin and his family are your guides through six lively, entertaining, topic-based units. New vocabulary and grammar are presented in context, step by step, so that younger readers and non-language specialists can feel engaged rather than intimidated.

The author has complemented the text with a wealth of illustrations throughout.This volume is the first part of the course. Illustrated in colour throughout, 158p.

Anglo-Saxon Books, January 2013, 9781898281672, PB, $34.00,

Special Price $27.20 Lexikon zur keltischen Archäologie Susanne Sievers (Editor); Otto H Urban (Editor); Peter Ramsl (Editor) The aim of this work is to present an overview of the material remains of the La Tène culture, which in many areas can be assigned to Celtic archaeology. Compiling all existing objects and remains provides an overview of the most important sites and types of finds and findings.To this is added an explanation of those terms and techniques which are closely associated with Celtic archaeology. Under the leadership of the Iron Age working group of the Austrian Academy of Sciences‘ prehistoric Commission and the European Archaeological Centre at Bibract, a large research team from many European countries, in which twenty archaeologists were responsible for coordinating the work of 300 individual authors, have ensured a balanced regional distribution in the articles and a wide variety of themes.The Lexicon of Celtic Archaeology is also available in an online version with a comprehensive search function. German text.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, November 2012, 9783700167655, HB, $225.00,

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A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon & Viking Sites: County Durham & Northumberland Guy Points (Author) A Gazetteer Of Anglo-Saxon & Viking Sites: County Durham & Northumberland aims to be a comprehensive guide to places, artefacts and material of Anglo-Saxon and Viking interest in County Durham and Northumberland (pre 1974 borders). Four sites in Roxburghshire are included because of their proximity to the Northumberland border. PART 1 provides background material to put the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings into their historical context, plus a glossary of terms, plans and features of Anglo-Saxon churches, and features relating to crossheads, cross-shafts, grave covers and grave markers. PART 2 identifies 123 “sites” with the aim of enabling the reader to know exactly what they are looking for and where exactly to look: there is a site index. In alphabetical order and divided into County Durham, Northumberland and The Borders (Roxburghshire), each entry is: Star rated to indicate the quality of what there is to see and how easy it is to find. Precisely located and described, including measurements and descriptions of decoration where appropriate. 52 b/w illus & 58 col photos, 490p.

Guy Points, June 2013, 9780955767913, PB, $60.00,

Special Price $48.00 An Alternative History of Britain: The AngloSaxon Age Timothy Venning (Author) Taking a similar approach to his successful If Rome Hadn’t Fallen, Timothy Venning explores the various decision points in a fascinating period of British history and the alternative paths that it might have taken. Dr. Timothy Venning starts within an outline of the process by which much of Britain came to be settled by Germanic tribes after the end of Roman rule, as far as it can be determined from the sparse and fragmentary sources. He then moves on to discuss a series of scenarios, which might have altered the course of subsequent history dramatically. For example, was a reconquest by the native British ever a possibility (under ‘Arthur’ or someone else)? Which of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms might have united England sooner and would this have kept the Danes out? And, of course, what if Harold Godwinson had won at Hastings? While necessarily speculative, all the scenarios are discussed within the framework of a deep understanding of the major driving forces, tensions and trends that shaped British history and help to shed light upon them. In so doing they help the reader to understand why things panned out as they did, as well as what might have been. 256p.

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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Illustrated and Annotated Bob Carruthers (Author) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important sets of historical documents concerning the history of the British Isles.Without these vital accounts, we would have virtually no knowledge of some of the key events in the history of these islands during the dark ages and it would be impossible to write the history of the English from the Romans to the Norman Conquest.The history it tells is not only that witnessed by its compilers, but also that recorded by earlier analysts, whose work is in many cases preserved nowhere else. At present, there are nine known versions or fragments of the original ‘Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’ in existence. All of the extant versions vary (sometimes greatly) in content and quality, and crucially all of the surviving manuscripts are copies, so it is not known where or when the first version of the Chronicle was composed.The translation that has been used for this edition is not a translation of any one Chronicle; rather, it is a conflation of readings from many different versions containing primarily the translation of Rev. James Ingram from 1828.The footnotes are all those of Rev. Ingram and are supplied for the sake of completeness.This edition also includes the complete Parker Manuscript.The book is illustrated throughout with paintings and engravings. 384p.

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Pen & Sword Books Ltd, July 2013, 9781781591482, PB, $24.95, Special Price $19.96

Wege zu den Kelten: 100 Reisen in die Vergangenheit Thomas F. Klein (Author) The Celts fascinate like no other culture.Their art and places of worship use to impress with a strange beauty and still attract people today. Countless archaeological museums and parks reflect the enthusiasm for the celts in modern times.They invite the visitors to take a look at the mysterious world of Celtic culture.This guide by Thomas F. Klein invites to 100 journeys in this exciting past. German text. 150 coloured, 240p.

Philipp von Zabern, 6/30/2013, 9783805345538, HB, $37.00, Special Price $29.60

Design and Techniques in Early Medieval Celtic Metalwork Niamh Whitfield Author, Niamh Whitfield is a leading authority on the metalwork of early Medieval Ireland and Scotland. Celtic metalwork of the seventh to twelfth centuries is extremely accomplished technically, and she has aimed at a thorough understanding of its manufacture. She has also been concerned to place Early Medieval Celtic design in its European context, and to analyZe its relationship with Anglo-Saxon and continental work, as well as its debt to traditions which ultimately originated in the Classical world. Dr Whitfield has written about subjects as diverse as the origins of the gold used in early Medieval Ireland and Scotland, the development of animal ornament and geometrical principles of design. Her archival studies have succeeded in identifying the find-spot of the celebrated ‘Tara’ brooch and in documenting panels of ornament which are now missing. In addition, she has explored early Irish texts for attitudes to jewellery and clothing, considered the brooch as an emblem of status, looked at how brooches were worn, and whether descriptions of clothing and accessories in an early Irish saga provide an accurate description of contemporary finery. 243 illus, 580p.

Pindar Press, June 2013, 9781904597339, HB, $300.00, Special Price $240.00

Tartessian: Celtic in the South-West at the Dawn of History John T. Koch (Author) Beyond the Aegean, some of the earliest written records of Europe come from the south-west, what is now southern Portugal and south-west Spain.

Herodotus, the ‘Father of History’, locates the Keltoi or ‘Celts’ in this region, as neighbours of the Kunetes of the Algarve. He calls the latter the ‘westernmost people of Europe’. However, modern scholars have been disinclined - until recently - to consider the possibility that the south-western inscriptions and other early linguistic evidence from the kingdom of Tartessos were Celtic.This book shows how much of this material closely resembles the attested Celtic languages: Celtiberian (spoken in east-central Spain) and Gaulish, as well as the longer surviving langiages of Ireland, Britain and Brittany. In many cases, the 85 Tartessian inscriptions of the period c. 750-c. 450 BC can now be read as complete statements written in an Ancient Celtic language. 344p.

Celtic Studies Publications, March 2013, 9781891271199, PB, $39.95,

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The Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone Warwick Rodwell (Author) Constructed in 1297–1300 for King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranks amongst the most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from the Middle Ages. It incorporated in its seat a block of sandstone, which the king seized at Scone, following his victory over the Scots in 1296. For centuries, Scottish kings had been inaugurated on this symbolic ‘Stone of Scone’, to which a copious mythology had also become attached. Edward I presented the Chair, as a holy relic, to the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey, and most English monarchs since the fourteenth century have been crowned in it, the last being HM Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953.

The Chair and the Stone have had eventful histories: in addition to physical alterations, they suffered abuse in the eighteenth century, suffragettes attached a bomb to them in 1914, they were hidden underground during the Second World War, and both were damaged by the gang that sacrilegiously broke into Westminster Abbey and stole the Stone in 1950. It was recovered and restored to the Chair, but since 1996 the Stone has been exhibited on loan in Edinburgh Castle.

Now somewhat battered through age, the Chair was once highly ornate, being embellished with gilding, painting and coloured glass.Yet, despite its profound historical significance, until now it has never been the subject of detailed archaeological recording. Moreover, the remaining fragile decoration was in need of urgent conservation, which was carried out in 2010–12, accompanied by the first holistic study of the Chair and Stone. In 2013 the Chair was redisplayed to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the Coronation of HM The Queen.

The latest investigations have revealed and documented the complex history of the Chair: it has been modified on several occasions, and the Stone has been reshaped and much altered since it left Scone.This volume assembles, for the first time, the complementary evidence derived from history, archaeology and conservation, and presents a factual account of the Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone, not as separate artefacts, but as the entity that they have been for seven centuries.Their combined significance to the British Monarchy and State – and to the history and archaeology of the English and Scottish nations – is greater than the sum of their parts.

Also published here for the first time is the second Coronation Chair, made for Queen Mary II in 1689. Finally, accounts are given of the various full-size replica chairs in Britain and Canada, along with a selection of the many models in metal and ceramic which have been made during the last two centuries. 320p.

Oxbow Books, June 2013, 9781782971528, HB, $39.95, Special Price $29.95

Psautier des Saint Louis Marcel Thomas (Author); Patricia Stirnemann (Author) The Psautier des Saint Louis manuscript, which is held in the National Library in Paris, holds an outstanding place even amongst an immensely rich array of codices. Manufactured for one of the most important rulers of the Middle Ages, whose reign in France was known as the “”Golden Age“, the manuscript almost approaches the status of a relic. Saint Louis IX embodied the ideal Christian ruler, whose deepest religious beliefs determined his behavior as a man and a king. From a number of different sources, we know that the king dedicated himself to daily religious readings.The assumption that between the years 1253 and 1270, he prayed directly out of this Psautier, which was both artfully created and written for him, is well justified.The Latin text of psalms is preceded by a magnificent cycle of pictures, with 78 full-page miniatures from the Old Testament and represents the highpoint of Gothic French Book Art. German and French text. 264p.

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Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World 500–1500: Equipment, Combat Skills and Tactics Matthew Bennett (Author) et al.

This book describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in what has been characterized as the ‘age of chivalry’. The book explores the tactics and strategy required to win battles with the technology available, and points out how the development of such weapons technology changed the face of the battlefield. Divided into five sections, the text first examines the individual components of the medieval army, the foot soldier and the mounted soldier, the equipment they wore and used, and how they fought together as a unit. It describes why certain types of unit were more effective than others. The third section discusses how these units were used together on the battlefield, and the importance of a general correctly disposing his troops before the battle began. It also examines the contrasting tactics of both sides during the crusades, and points out the various shortcomings of the crusaders and their leaders. The fourth part of the book looks at the specialist techniques and equipment developed for siege warfare. Finally, the last section covers naval warfare, from the ships in which the men fought to the weapons they carried and the major battles of the period. 20 col maps, 25 photos, 100 illus, 256p.

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Special Price $14.38 Grazer Nuntiatur 5. Band, Nuntiatur des Girolamo Portia 1599-1602 The nunciature in the city of Graz, the residence of the Inner Austrian line of the Habsburgs, was founded in 1580 and existed through 1622. Apart from the imperial nunciature it was the only diplomatic representation of the Holy See in the Habsburg hereditary lands in the early modern period.The critical edition comprising the entire, mostly Italian-language correspondence of the Graz nunciature reflects the main political, economic, confessional and social problems and the transformation of cultural patterns at the local, regional and supra-regional levels.These events were formative for the young sovereign, Archduke Ferdinand, and also influenced his later reign as Emperor Ferdinand II.The fifth volume of the edition presented here encompasses the correspondence between the nuncio Portia and the secretariat of state of Pope Clemens VIII in the years 1599-1602. It gives insight into the reCatholicization and inner clerical reform in Inner Austria, the Ottoman threat and the problem of financing the defense of the borders, the conflict between Inner Austria and the Republic of Venice due to the Uscocs, as well as aspects of daily life. German text. 885p.

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Special Price $240.00 Grazer Nuntiatur, 4. Band, Nuntiatur des Girolamo Portia 1595-1598 The territorial complex of Inner Austria, with Graz as the seat of the ruling prince, consisted of Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Gorizia and Gradisca, the town of Trieste, parts of Istria including Rijeka, as well as Habsburg Friuli, and was a product of a division of the Habsburg hereditary lands enacted by testamentary provision. Apart from the Ottoman threat, the inner political and confessional solidarity was endangered by the spread of the Reformation from the German-, Slovenian- and Italian-speaking parts of Inner Austria to Italy and the Slavic territories.Therefore, Pope Gregory XIII founded a permanent nunciature in Graz to support the Catholic sovereign, Archduke Karl.This fourth volume of diplomatic correspondence between Rome and Graz, comprising the years 1595-1598, focuses on the defense against the Ottomans, the fight against the Reformation, and the beginning of the Catholic reform. In addition, it offers insight into the marriage policy of the court of Graz that was approved and supported by the Pope: Inner Austrian princesses were married to Polish,Transylvanian, and Spanish princes. Nuncio Girolamo Portia accompanied the young sovereign Archduke Ferdinand on his journey through Italy in 1598, which had important influence on the confessional and cultural policy of his later reign as Emperor Ferdinand II. German text. 505p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, October 2012, 9783700171393, PB, $283.00,

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Medieval Brewing Barbara S. Bowers (Editor) A special topic issue of AVISTA Forum Journal. Contents include: an Epistemology of Medieval Brewing: Evidence, inference, and the educated guess; Exploring the St. Paul’s Domesday Ale Recipe: Medieval brewing praxis and modern recreation;The Alewife: Changing images and bad brews;The Role of Drinking Horns in Medieval England; Gruit and the Preservation of Beer in the Middle Ages; Monastic Asceticism and the Rationalization of Beer Making in the Middle Ages; Ale Production and Consumption in Late Medieval England, c.1250–1530: Evidence from manorial estates; Beer: Necessity or luxury? col illus, 87p.

Association Villard de Honnecourt for Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science and Art, October 2011, PB, $32.50 Special Price $26.00

Extraordinary Inundations of the Sea: Excavations at Market Mews, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Mark Hinman (Author); Elizabeth Shepherd Popescu (Author) This publication describes a relatively small excavation whose size belies its significance.This is the first properly documented archaeological excavation in the core of Wisbech. It fills a gaping void in previous knowledge of the character and quality of the archaeological remains in the town and represents an important first step in redressing the regional imbalance in published medieval port sequences, such as those of King’s Lynn and Great Yarmouth.The site lies within the confines of the New Market. An impressive sequence of deeply stratified medieval to early post-medieval deposits was revealed, demonstrating at least thirteen building phases, the earliest of which dates to the 13th century. One structure contained evidence for in-situ metalworking during the mid 14th to mid 15th century. Detailed recording was achieved through micromorphological analysis and the use of high resolution thin sections.While the alternate sequence of occupation and flooding found at Wisbech is broadly comparable to deposits in other regional port towns, it is almost without parallel in terms of its completeness, depth and state of preservation. A wealth of organic remains and subtle features are present, which rarely survive elsewhere in East Anglia.The discovery of this important archaeological resource highlights the requirement for consideration of its future management. 56 illus, 100p.

East Anglian Archaeology, East Anglian Archaeology Monograph 142, December 2012, 9781907588044, PB, $24.00, Special Price $19.20

Hedingham Ware: A Medieval Pottery Industry in North Essex; its Production and Distribution Helen Walker (Author) Between the 12th and 14th centuries, the Hedingham pottery industry produced decorated and glazed finewares, mainly jugs, and grey-firing coarsewares.This study provides a synthesis of Hedingham Ware production and explores its distribution within East Anglia. A gazetteer of the fourteen known production sites is provided, and the pottery is used to create a typology of fabric types, vessel forms and decoration for both fine and coarse wares.The industry appears to have evolved from the early medieval tradition, although it has similarities with Late Saxon Thetford-type ware.The coarsewares are most similar to those produced near Colchester and show some similarities to coarsewares produced in Suffolk.The Hedingham industry did not die out in the 14th century but became subsumed into the sandy orange ware tradition and lost its identity as Hedingham Ware. 96 illus, 200p.

East Anglian Archaeology, East Anglian Archaeology 148, June 2013, 9781841940977, PB, $40.00, Special Price $32.00

Gli inventari della sagrestia della Cattedrale senese e degli altri beni sottoposti alla tutela dell’operaio del Duomo, (1389-1546) Butzek Monika (Editor) The publication, outcome of the project Die kirchen von Siena and produced with the support of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, contains 28 inventories written between 1389 and 1547, that describe the movable properties kept in the Cathedral of Siena.The indexes of the toponyms, the anthroponyms and of the objects preserved make the consultation easier. Italian text. 728p.

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Le opere di Dante: Testi critici a cura di F. Brambilla Ageno, G. Contini, D. De Robertis, G. Gorni, F. Mazzoni, R. Migliorini Fissi, P.V. Mengaldo, G. Petrocchi, E. Pistelli, P. Shaw riveduti da Domenico De Robertis e Giancarlo Breschi Dante Alighieri (Author) After almost 90 years since its first edition, the Italian Dante Society presents the traditional collection of Dante’s works in a volume. It had already appeared in Florence, with the same name, edited by Bemporad, in 1921. The texts were revised by new co-operators, also in their critical apparatus, which have been updated and made easier to consult. The volume, together with Vita nova, Rime, Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, Monarchia, Epistole, Egloghe, Questio de aqua et terra and the Divine Comedy, also contains Fiore and Detto d’amore. As for the refinement of the texts, they represent the most updated versions. The analytic index of names and subjects, updated and integrated, helps “surfing” in the wide sea of Dante’s production.

Besides the analytic index of names, the edition is provided with a list of rhymes and the integral concordances of all the vernacular and Latin works, on CDRom. Almost a century after the first edition (Bemporad 1921) and in the VII centenary of Dante’s birth, the Italian Dante Society re-proposes the most challenging edition, meant for the scholar, the student, the enthusiast of Dante’s works. In a single volume the collection of Dante’s works in the most authoritative version, provided with indexes, settings, CD-Rom. Italian text. with CDROM, 1222p.

Edizioni Polistampa, December 2012, 9788859607991, HB, $180.00,

Special Price $144.00 Die hagiographischen Werke Hildeberts von Lavardin, Baudris von Bourgueil und Marbods von Rennes: Heiligkeit im Zeichen der Kirchenreform und der Réécriture Daniel Nuß (Author) What are the qualities that make a man a saint? Extraordinary talents, a virtuous way of life or the power to work miracles? In the late antique Martyr Passions and the medieval Holy Lives this question was answered countless times, but often not definitively. Again and again, these literary texts were revised in order to update them in line with the tastes and needs of a new era. Also Hildebert of Lavardin, Baudri of Bourgueil and Maroboduus of Rennes, whose fame rests more on their ancient models of orientated literature than on the often neglected hagiographical works, revised the old lives of the saints several times.They took advantage of these opportunities to help restore the old style templates to their former glory. But beyond that, they had to find a contemporary answer to the question of what constitutes the ideal Christian holiness in the age of Gregorian reform. German text. 257p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Beiträge zur Hagiographie 12, March 2013, 9783515103381, PB, $69.00, Special Price $55.20

Katalog der Sammlung Leichenpredigten im Schlossmuseum Sondershausen Eva-Maria Dickhaut (Editor); Daniel Geissler (Editor); Birthe zur Nieden (Editor); Avraham Siluk (Editor) The Castle Museum Sonderhausen has a separate funeral sermons collection from the holdings of the City and County Library. But nothing is known about the provenance of this collection of funeral sermons. It is striking that the more than fifteen hundred prints are usually not complete, but only consist of the first sheet with the title page and the arches, which include the personal histories of the deceased. Almost 97% of the 1,561 gathered in this catalog are attributed to the bourgeoisie. Leipzig, the early modern center of printing and trade, appears as the most frequent funeral and/or death location and so Leipzig theologians feature particularly frequently.The percentage of the deceased who were active in trade and commerce is significantly higher than in the previous catalogs of the Thuringen series of the Marburg research. Many of the honorees lived in the 17th Century: some funeral sermons reported meaningfully about war and its impact on the population.The Age of Confessionalization also left traces in the texts. German text. 804p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Marburger Personalschriften-Forschungen 35, January 2013, 9783515103190, PB, $134.00,

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Kommunikationsnetze des Ritteradels im Reich um 1500

An Alternative History of Britain: The Hundred Years War

Joachim Schneider (Editor) This volume looks at the noble knight in the kingdom in 1500.

These were elite men with mostly regional ranges of coverage who are still relatively minimally researched. It examines both the internal communication of the smaller nobility as well as that between princely courts, cities and the emperor. Subjects of communication are the exchange of material and symbolic goods, the dispute over the right to justice and the feud or communication about the history and the social status of the nobility at tournaments.The collective term of the communication network makes it clear that individuals or groups produce stable social relationships only through common understanding in communicative action, which, in turn, are influenced by the network-like connections of their communication participants. German text. 6 b/w illus 232p.

Timothy Venning (Author) Continuing his exploration of the alternative paths that British history might so easily have taken,Timothy Venning turns his attention to the Hundred Years War between England and France. Could the English have won in the long term, or, conversely, have been decisively defeated sooner? Among the many scenarios discussed are what would have happened if the Black Prince had not died prematurely of the Black Death, leaving the 10-year-old Richard to inherit Edward III’s crown.What if Henry V had recovered from the dysentery that killed him at 35, giving time for his son Henry VI to inherit the combined crowns of France and England as a mature man rather than an infant controlled by others? And what if Joan of Arc had not emerged to galvanize French resistance at Orleans? While necessarily speculative, all the scenarios are discussed within the framework of a deep understanding of the major driving forces, tensions and trends that shaped British history and help to shed light upon them. In so doing they help the reader to understand why things panned out as they did, as well as what might have been in this fascinating period that still arouses such strong passions on both sides of the Channel. 1 map, 256p

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Special Price $31.96 An Alternative History of Britain: The War of the Roses Timothy Venning (Author) Timothy Venning’s exploration of the alternative paths that British history might easily have taken moves on to the Wars of the Roses.What if Richard of York had not given battle in vain?

How would a victory for Warwick the Kingmaker at the Battle of Barnet changed the course of the struggle for power? What if the Princes had escaped from the tower or the Stanleys had not betrayed their king at Bosworth? These are just a few of the fascinating questions posed by this book. As always, while necessarily speculative, Dr.Venning discusses all the scenarios within the benefit of a deep understanding of the major driving forces, tensions and trends that shaped British history. In so doing, he helps the reader to understand why things panned out as they did, as well as what might have been in this tumultuous period. 1 map, 224p.

Medieval to early post-medieval tenements and Middle Eastern imports: Excavations at Plantation Place, City of London, 1997–2003 Ken Pitt (Author); Lyn Blackmore (Author);Tony Dyson (Author); Rachel Tyson (Author) Excavations at Plantation Place provided evidence for medieval and early postmedieval occupation of an entire block in the eastern part of the City of London near the Thames waterfront. Contemporary ground surfaces and buildings did not survive, but associated pits and wells have been related by documentary and cartographic research to identified tenements in this thriving area of shops, warehouses and merchants’ residences. Important assemblages from pits and wells include vessels used in refining gold, crucibles and molds from bronze casting, and the largest assemblage of late medieval Islamic-style glass yet found in Britain, alongside Middle Eastern ceramics. col illus, 140p.

Museum of London Archaeology, Monograph Series 66, June 2013, 9781907586163, HB, $44.00, Special Price $35.20

Under the Oracle, Excavations at the Oracle Shopping Centre site 1996-8: the medieval and post-medieval urban development of the Kennet floodplain in Reading Ben M. Ford (Author); Daniel Poore (Author); Ruth Shaffrey (Author); David R. P. Wilkinson (Author) Excavations carried out by Oxford Archaeology in advance of the building of the Oracle shopping center revealed a long sequence of development of the Kennet floodplain at Reading.

This volume reports on the substantial evidence recovered for medieval and postmedieval water management, milling at the Minster Mill and St Giles Mill, the tanning, leather working and dyeing industries, and an unusual building interpreted as the 12th- to 13th-century cookhouse of Reading Abbey.The stories of two wellknown Reading sites, the Oracle Workhouse and the Yield Hall, are followed from the medieval period up to the 19th century. Substantial specialist reports include pottery, glass, leather-working, dendrochronology and clay pipes. 98 figs, 105 pls, 8 tabs, CD, 340p.

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Special Price $31.96 The Battle of Hastings 1066 - The Uncomfortable Truth: Revealing the True Location of England’s Most Famous Battle John Grehan (Author) The Battle of Hastings is the most defining event in English history. As such, its every detail has been analyzed by scholars and interpreted by historians.Yet one of the most fundamental aspect of the battle – the place upon which it was fought – has never been seriously questioned, until now. Could it really be the case that for almost 1,000 years everyone has been studying the wrong location? In this in-depth study, the authors examine the early sources and the modern interpretations to unravel the compulsive evidence that historians have chosen to ignore because it does not fit the traditional view of where the battle was fought. Most importantly, the authors investigate the terrain of the battlefield and the archaeological data to reveal exactly where history was made. 30 b/w illus, 192p.

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$31.96, 9781781599853, eBook, $10.99 Ritter im Heiligen Land: Kreuzfahrerstätten in Israel Hans Wolfram Kessler (Author); Konrad Kessler (Author) The crusades are a central event of the European Middle Ages. From all regions people departed to conquer the holy land. Phases of hostility were followed by phases of coexistence, which were marked by tolerance and cultural exchange. Even today, Israel still has many buildings of the occupiers from the occident. German text. 160 col illus, 168p.

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Skriptorium: Die mittelalterliche Buchwerkstatt Stephanie Hauschild (Author) Books were among the most artistically valuable and beautiful works of the middle Ages.The constant changes in production and their developing function over many centuries are extremely interesting for science.This includes the design of the codices, the working conditions and the role of the paper manufacturers, their working conditions as well as the readers’ needs.

All this aspects influenced the development of the book in various ways. Starting from late ancient codices up towards the Gutenberg Bible, Stephanie Hauschild gives a comprehensive insight into the practice of book production. German text.

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Medieval Image-Concepts and the Meaning of Visual Programs Beat Brenk (Author) This volume presents a selection of 25 studies which are grouped into a number of topics that clarify Professor Brenk’s approach.The art of the Middle Ages is treated not as a succession of styles, but is analyzed as an unstable value system, which seeks to prove its own legitimacy by claims and ideologies. Although works of art are not legal documents, they evoke frequently a religious or political selfconception.The author tries to show how the medieval artist brought into the world new creations under constant pressure, which he expresses with the resort to established models. In successive chapters the rhetoric of the demands made by Popes, bishops, Abbotts, priests, monks, kings, dukes, counts, aristocrats, buyers and municipalities is examined.What rhetorical models were at the disposal of the medieval artist, if he was concerned to articulate the needs and requirements of his clients? The analysis of the Carolingian, Norman-Sicilian and Capetian picture programs shows that not only the program, but also the artistic form and style, was used conceptually, i.e. style proves a freely selectable rhetorical form. As in the earlier volume, a considerable number of studies previously published in German and Italian are presented here in English translation. 272 illus, 560p.

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Medieval Rome: A History in Art John Osborne (Author) For over twenty years, Professor Osborne has worked on the medieval wall paintings of Rome. His papers cover the period from the Byzantine art of the early Middle Ages to the flowering of monumental painting and mosaic in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.The twenty-two studies reprinted here deal with the paintings of varying date in San Clemente, the medieval work in the catacombs, and Santa Maria Antiqua, among many others.The author has updated the earlier studies, and there is a comprehensive index. 218 illus, 620p.

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Studies in Late Medieval Illumination and Art Robert G. Calkins (Author) This volume brings together eighteen of his papers, concentrating on late medieval manuscript illumination.The first section has seven studies examining the process of compiling an illuminated manuscript, as revealed by indications in the manuscripts themselves.The following section deals with the sequence and emphasis of text and image in the manuscripts.A final group offers detailed interpretations of a number of important later manuscripts. 250 illus, 538p.

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Studies in the Art and Imagery of the Middle Ages Richard Marks (Author) Professor Marks has been a curator at the British Museum, Keeper of the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, and Director of the Royal Pavilion and Museums in Brighton. Subsequently he held a Personal Chair in the History of Art Department at the University of York, and is now Emeritus Professor; he also currently has an Honorary Professorship in the History of Art at Cambridge University. He has held honorary posts as Vice-President of The Society of Antiquaries of London and International President of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi project. Professor Marks’ main interest is the religious imagery of medieval Europe, in all the visual arts. Much of his research has been on English stained glass, and, more recently, on the function and reception of devotional images. His works here include Stained Glass in England during the Middle Ages (1993),The Medieval Stained Glass of Northamptonshire (1998),The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting 1200–1500 (1981) and Image and Devotion in Late Medieval England (2004).This volume brings together thirty-one of Professor Marks’ studies, encompassing historiography, stained glass, manuscript illumination, screen and wall painting, sculpture and funerary monuments. 456 illus, 830p.

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Island - Fremdes Land: Das Reisebuch des Dithmar Blefken 1563–1565. Lateinischer Text der Erstausgabe von 1607, Übersetzung mit Anmerkungen und Anhang zur historischen Kartographie Islands Georg Holzer (Author); Robert Wallisch (Author) For the modern reader, the reading of Blefkens Islandia (1607) gives an impression of the ferocity of a author who is positively impressed by the ferocity of the remote island.

Reports of miracles keep far from the usual for the time limits and are always presented by the author with a critical distance. Few things in Blefkens report, such as the Greenland Adventure or the search for the Northeast Passage, may – be transferred from other accounts for the increase in data density – in today unklärbarem extent. Essentially, however, reveals Blefken even as particularly honest and addiction of fame untouched author when he describes in the last chapter of his report about the failure of the Hekla Expedition of youthful irresponsibility and of themselves distinguished anything but a heroic image. At the end of the book is in any case an experience of the author, which links the magical atmosphere of the country with reference to a personal friendship Blefkens a Islänger. Blefken, the German scholar who leaves the Icelandic friends his books and this ties the knot in the handkerchief magic stranger that will give him the right by the sea wind to return home. In agonizing lull Blefken solves the pagan node and the magic of Iceland brings him back to Europe. German and Latin text. 105p.

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La prima corsa del mondo: Campioni e velocipedi nella Firenze Capitale Ciampi Paolo (Author) September 2013:Tuscany is getting ready to host the World Championships of Cycling, the greatest sporting event after the World Cup and the Olympics. February 1870: another two wheels international competition takes place in Tuscany.The route, between Florence and Pistoia, is the same, but this is really the first time. It is the debut day for the pioneers of the bicycle, a vehicle that smells of progress, reckless speed, and future. A match that is also the last major event of Florence as the Capital, able to attract the first bold sportsmen, but also a crowd of nobles and poor fellows, indeed an entire curious, troubled, fascinated town. Beyond the sporting event, a history of emotions, funny and touching as those of the past. Because with that frozen morning, with those rides through fog and mud, we took leave of an era and greeted a new one, which lasts until our days. Preface by Riccardo Nencini.

Italian text. b/w illus, 88p.

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Die Leipziger Professorenfamilien im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert: Eine Studie über Herkunft, Vernetzung und Alltagsleben Theresa Schmotz (Author) Household names such as Alberti, Börner, Gottsched Carpzov, Hebenstreit, Hommel or Rivinus (to name a few) belong to families of Leipzig professors in 17th and 18th Centuries. Up until now, research devoted to Leipzig professors has only been in connection to their respective disciplines.This book aims to expand the view of the university teachers to cover their family situation and is therefore devoted to the details of their families and everyday life.This volume presents for the first time what circles the professors moved in, how their children were taught, and how the relationship between the married couple was portrayed.

The appendix presents the detailed content of wills, inventories and contains over 90 detailed family trees of the families of Leipzig professors including naming the godparents. German text. 554p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Quellen und Forschungen zur sächsischen Geschichte 35, June 2013, 9783515102551, HB, $134.00,

Special Price $107.20 Nordamerika aus süddeutscher Perspektive: Die Neue Welt in der gelehrten Kommunikation des 18. Jahrhunderts Rainald Becker (Author) Were there South German images of America? Rainald Becker looks into the (North) American perceptions in southern Germany of the “long” 18th Century from 1648 to 1776.

Although there was no colonial base, they played a dominant role in the contemporary consciousness. In particular, the communication medium of the scholarly culture – Jesuits and Pietists, rich urban elites and officials in the Princely State – dealt with America and awarded the New World its own contours: both as a haven of salvation history and as a scenario for global political dynamics of conflict or scholarly revolutions.The author champions a regionalized approach to global History interaction, transfer and appropriation processes. Beyond the exotic topos in humanism, long before the freedom utopia of the Enlightenment, the differentiated approach to the New World in the southern German Baroque was developed:Westernization and North Americanization. In the 18th Century these two already gathered underlying trends in south German environments and they developed original interpretive approaches in a backcountry of the Atlantic world far from the sea. German text. 2 col & b/w illus, 9 tab. 424p.

Franz Steiner Verlag,Transatlantische Historische Studien (THS) 47, June 2013, 9783515101851, HB, $93.00,

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Travel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent: Volume II

The Hope Playhouse, Animal Baiting and Later Industrial Activity at Bear Gardens on Bankside: Excavations at Riverside House and New Globe Walk, Southwark, 1999–2000 Anthony Mackinder (Author); Lyn Blackmore (Author); Julian Bowsher (Author); Christopher Phillpotts (Author) Southwark’s famous Bankside was long known as an entertainment area up to the 17th century.This volume provides evidence for the Barge, one of the medieval stewhouses (tavern/brothel) and the later Hope, a dual purpose building hosting animal baiting as well as play performances.The next phase in Bankside’s history was industrial and its glass and pottery products of the 17th and 18th centuries were much sought after. Evidence for their production was found on the sites.The remains of 19th-century brick buildings relate to a known iron foundry in the area. col illus, 94p.

Museum of London Archaeology, MoLA Archaeology Studies Series 25, June 2013, 9781907586200, PB, $24.00,

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The English Civil Wars 1642-1649 Bob Carruthers (Author) This is the definitive military history of the Civil Wars, which swept the British Isles from 1642 to 1649.The martial aspects of the wars are covered in detail along with a comprehensive overview of the religious and political dimensions, which shaped the armies involved in the conflict.This excellent single volume history is the perfect introduction to the military history of this turbulent decade, which shaped the destiny of the British Isles.

This book is part of the ‘Military History From Primary Sources’ series, a new military history range compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers.The series draws on primary sources and contemporary documents to provide a new insight into the true nature of warfare.The series consultant is David Mcwhinnie, creator of the award winning PBS series ‘Battlefield’.

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Gerald Brisch (Author) “At last we reached a circular enclosure among the grass and scanty trees.We rushed in and it was like getting into a tropical greenhouse with the roof off.

There were tall trees and long creepers making monkey ropes, large flowers hanging, great cactus trees, aloes and all sorts of beautiful things crowded together, so that one could hardly squeeze through.” [M.V.A. Bent, 4 June 1891] Thus a few lines from Mabel (Mrs J.Theodore) Bent’s 1891 African travel diary on her arrival at ‘Great Zimbabwe’, written for her family, serve to evoke the romance and hardships of colonial exploration for a Victorian audience. Of particular importance are Mabel’s previously unpublished notebooks covering the couple’s arduous wagon trek to these famous ruins, in part sponsored by the ambitious Cecil Rhodes.Theodore Bent’s interpretations of these wonderful monuments sparked a controversy that still divides scholars today. Mabel Bent was probably the first woman to visit there and help document this major site.As tourists in Egypt and explorers in the Sudan, Ethiopia, and Southern Africa, anyone interested in 19th-century travel will want to follow the wagon tracks and horse trails of the Bents across hundreds of miles of untouched African landscape.

Contents: Personal diaries, travel accounts and letters relating to the Bents’ travels and explorations in: Egypt (1885); Zimbabwe (1891); Ethiopia (1893); Sudan (1896); Egypt (1898). Includes extended contributions on the archaeological background to ‘Great Zimbabwe’ by Innocent Pikirayi, and ‘The Stone Birds of Great Zimbabwe’ by William J. Dewey.Additional documents, maps, and Mabel Bent’s own photographs contribute to this important insight into the lives of two of the great British travellers of the nineteenth century. 344p.

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Tote Grenze oder lebendige Nachbarschaft? Österreichisch-slowakische Beziehungen 19451968 David Schriffl (Author) This work investigates the Austro-Slovak relations between the end of World War II and the “Prague Spring.” These border regions are highlighted against the background of the communist takeover and the intensification of the Cold War, which might otherwise remain obscure on account of the fixity of the classical bilateral narrative. The historical connections, especially at the economic and familial level, were placed under considerable strain after 1945 in consequence of coercive actions that were initially nationalistically and, in later developments, ideologically motivated.

Thus developed the image of a Slovakia whose political elites met the Austrian demand for the protection of their native-born citizens with kind words but at the same time accelerated the implementation of evacuation.The reduction of the transborder exchanges is also noticeable, either in terms of travel or in cultural aspects, at the beginning of the ideological confrontation in the Cold War.There survived a surprising number of contacts, which were exchanged through the Austrian General Consulate. Since 1951, this was the only representation of a western state in Slovakia, which intensified in times of political thaw despite great reluctance of the Ballhausplatz.The technical closing of the borders at the “Green Border” into Slovakia in periods of review were closed for over five years, and offers particularly interesting insights in light of the reactions of Slovakian politics on the perforation of its monopoly on information on the side of the ORF. In the course of the political thaws of the early 1960s, multiple contacts of a personal and cultural nature went along with a changed image of Austria as a neighbor.The confrontation of the post-war years had already given way at this time to a view of Austria as political and economic role model though this development and began to decline with the military conclusion of the “Prague Spring” and the renewal of the Iron Curtain. German text. 543p.

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Mafie al Nord: Spunti di riflessione da un Seminario di studio. Focus sugli obiettivi raggiunti e sulle sfide da affrontare Giannangeli Emanuela (Author) The aim of the essay is to enhance the knowledge of mafias, especially the Calabrian one, which is today the most aggressive and dangerous in Northern Italy, describing it with a practical slant, in its most “realistic” emergence.The inspiration has been given by the contributions presented during the seminar organized by the association “Libera” in Turin, the 7th and the 8th October 2011 (“Libera. Associations, names and numbers against mafias” was born in 1995 with the purpose of involving and supporting all those who are interested in the fight against mafias and organized crime).Tracing, after a year, a complete profile of achieved targets and new challenges, the essay offers many levels of reflection and research, with the support of a normative appendix and of a bibliographic index, both complete and up to the date with the measures of the Minister of Justice Paola Severino Di Benedetto.The volume is integrated by an index of organs and agencies of the European Union, and an index of useful web addresses, which make this text a reliable database and a reference point for those who are interested in the subject. Italian text. 144p.

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Erinnerungskultur – Kulturgeschichte – Geschichtsregion, Ostmitteleuropa in Europa Stefan Troebst (Author) The memory boom, the cultural turn and the spatial turn have given innovative impulses to historical studies of Eastern Europe.The eastern European historiography of memoryculture studies has also given an additional boost to “new” cultural studies as well as the revival of historiographic interest in the category of space.This applies both to the study of postdictatorial collective memory in all of Europe, the study of visual and literary memory culture, and the sub discipline of regional “types,” such as “southern European,” “eastern European” and “northern European” that developed in Eastern European historical studies.There was a research discourse that was applied in the meantime also by ethnological, literary and art historians and those historians who deal with other parts of Europe.This book assembles articles on memory culture and historical politics, historical visual culture, of a broadly defined cultural history and the research approach of historical regions which appeared between 2006 and 2012. German text. 2 col & 5 b/w illus 440p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mitteleuropa 43, March 2013, 9783515103848, HB, $96.00, Special Price $76.80

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Special Price $19.20 Toscana in Età Moderna tra Medici e Lorena: Studi e ricerche Ivano Tognarini (Author) The process of formation of the State of Tuscany and the role played by important personalities, such as Cosimo I dei Medici is reviewed, through three centuries of Tuscan history, during the period when Italy was composed of many little states.

Starting from the crucial period of the war of Siena and Maremma, the author analyzes some strategic and military elements, such as the control over the sea and the navigation flows in the Tyrrhenian Sea, as well as economic elements, such as the monopoly over iron extraction, as the Elba Isle (belonging to the Appiani family, Lords of Piombino), held the most extraordinary iron deposit of the Mediterranean Europe.The author also analyses some other crucial aspects of the society of the time: Pauperism, in the city of Prato, and the riots broken out in the time of reforms introduced by Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Habsburg-Lorraine. As a result of several years of work and research, conducted also on experimental fields, the essays of this collection contain the profiles of people and scholars which have been mostly neglected until now. Italian text. 600p.

Edizioni Polistampa, Nuove ricerche di storia, December 2012, 9788859607793, PB, $68.00, Special Price $54.40

Vicini a una terra lontana: Sulle strade dell’Afghanistan con il contingente italiano Settimo Caputo (Editor); Elena Croci (Editor) This title emphasizes the fact that, despite the geographical distance, the work of the Italian Armed Forces has always been close in the maintenance of security and in the contribute to reconstruction. A different descriptive mode, a new communication to strengthen and bring the general public closer to the concrete contribution the Country has given to Afghanistan in the context of the international missions. The comments quoted are those of the population and of the soldiers directly involved in the events. An imaginary road to be the visual and historical common thread of a story begun in 2003, whose chapters have witnessed hard times as well as positive results, an unpaved path made of dust, sand and stones but also of wonderful views that recall Alexander the Great and its passage into Afghanistan in 330 BC. Great publication about the experience of the Italian contingent in Afghanistan, promoted and supported by the IOC (top Inter-agency Operating Command) and the heads of Defense, will be the subject of extensive media interest. The proceeds will go to charity. The book will be presented in Florence in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, in the presence of military and political city and national authorities. Italian text. 192p.

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Kampfzeit unter französischen Bajonetten:Die NSDAP in Rheinhessen in der Weimarer Republik Markus Würz (Author) The ascendency of the Nazi Party following World War I took place in the region of the left-bank of the Rhine against the allied occupation of the Rhineland.The occupation politics of the allies presented particular challenges for the Nazis, which were fundamentally different from those in the unoccupied regions of Germany.They used the case study on the development of Hitler’s Party in the Rheinhessen region of the People’s State of Hesse, which between 1918 and 1930 was occupied by French troops.This work investigates for the first time the development of the Nazi Party “under French bayonets.” This work describes how National-socialism developed and took hold between the policing and repression of the French occupational authorities on the one side and the favorable effects of the occupation itself on the other. German text. 3 b/w illus 6 b/w-tab. 270p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Geschichtliche Landeskunde (GL) 70, December 2012, 9783515102889, HB, $73.00, Special Price $58.40

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Pieces of Ease and Grace

The Abduction of Dinah: Genesis 28:10-35:15 as a Votive Narrative

Alan Cadwallader (Editor) The success of the ATF publication Five Uneasy Pieces, edited by Nigel Wright, has prompted the desire to take the biblical hermeneutical exercise a step further.The book demonstrated clearly that the texts that have been used to slam gay and lesbian are in fact misused, with little or no regard either for ancient context or for contemporary hermeneutics. However, as all biblical liberationist projects have demonstrated, it is not enough to invalidate oppressive uses of selected texts.The obligation is to establish Scripture’s hospitable inclusion of those who have been subjected to such oppression. Accordingly, a follow-up volume is being published Pieces of Ease and Grace. It is to contain creditable expositions of passages of Scripture that can be read as specifically welcoming of gays and lesbians in their own self-defined identities. is more than a generalized divine invitation to the world; it requires a retrieval of those texts that actively embrace gays and lesbians. 264p.

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Daniel Hankore (Author) The process of understanding a text from the narrator’s point of view is crucial for the tasks of interpreting and translating the Bible. If the translator’s understanding of a narrative from the narrator’s point of view is erroneous, then the whole process of translating the message into another language may also fall into error.This poses Bible translators a difficult challenge: “How can we understand the narrator’s point of view of the biblical stories which are culturally, geographically, and historically remote from our own?” Understanding a text from the narrator’s point of view must precede the translation process. In this work Hankore presents an argument for the intended utterance of Genesis 28:10— 35:15 before proposing in brief how to translate it. By following this process, Hankore shows that a correct understanding of the concept of the ancient Israelite vow in the framework of a social institution is fundamental to reading and translating Genesis 28:10—35:15, and goes on to show how this same votive framework assist an explanation of the relevance of Genesis 34 to the Jacob story. 270p.

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Wahrhaft Neues: Zu einer Grundfigur christlichen Glaubens Hartmut von Sass (Editor) Although the Book of Ecclesiastics states that there is nothing new under the sun, the Bible nevertheless refers to the unexpected, surprising, and unprecedented in other prominent passages. A »New Jerusalem«, even a »New Creation«, a »New Covenant« or simply the »New« are traditional figures of the scriptures – and of theology. But the new gets old.Therefore the concept of the »truly New«, the new that will never pass away was spoken of.

But how to think this figure and not get involved in self-contradiction? The concept of the »truly New«, is it not just an illusion? To these and other related questions Hartmut von Sass, Konrad Schmid, Hans Weder, Andrea Anker, Christian Danz, Günter Thomas and Ralph Kunz provide profound and most interesting answers.

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Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, Volume 2: Codices 106-200 and Magic Scrolls 135-284 Veronika Six (Editor); Steve Delamarter (Editor); Getatchew Haile (Editor); Kesis Melaku Terefe (Editor) The Catalog of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project (EMIP), volume 2, provides a full catalog for EMIP codex numbers 106 through 200, and magic scrolls 135 through 284. Each catalog entry for the codices provides a full physical description, a listing of contents (with incipits), illuminations, varia (known works added later), notes on codicology and scribal practice, as well as a full quire map. Opening articles provide an introduction to the collection and its codicology, and an introduction to this set of Ethiopian scrolls of spiritual healing. Seven indices (general, works in the codices, names in the codices, miniatures in the codices, scribal practices, works in the scrolls, and names in the scrolls) provide quick access for researchers. 530p.

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Special Price $52.80 Zion, Symbol des Lebens in Judentum und Christentum. Beiträge der 13. ChristlichJüdischen Sommeruniversität in Berlin vom 17.–20. Juli 2011 Tanja Pilger (Editor); Markus Witte (Editor) In Jewish and Christian traditions Mount Zion is associated with ideas of salvation according to which this place is to be understood as the spatially fixed source of life. In biblical tradition it is considered as the Mountain of God resp. the World Mountain – a site of God’s instructions for the whole world and the place of the gigantic battles of the nations, which will herald the end of history.The contributions of internationally renowned scientists from Europe, Israel and the USA collected here present images of Zion to be found in Isaiah and in the Psalms, in early Jewish, New Testament and rabbinical texts as well as in medieval Jewish literature and in Martin Luther’s works. German text. 192p.

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Jeremiah among the Prophets Jack R. Lundbom (Author) This book seeks to place before beginning students and general readers a representative discussion of material contained in the biblical book of Jeremiah. It is written for those who may never look into a Jeremiah commentary or read a scholarly work on one who arguably stands as the greatest of ancient Israel’s prophets.These twenty essays can be read with profit by beginning students, adults in Bible-study classes, and people anywhere who simply want an introduction to Jeremiah and the book bearing his name. Hopefully this will generate interest, not only in Jeremiah, but in all the Hebrew prophets, who are without parallel in the ancient world, and who define the office of prophet up to the present day. 166p.

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Perspective Criticism: Point of View and Evaluative Guidance in Biblical Narrative Gary Yamasaki (Author) Countless times in the Bible readers are presented with a report of a character engaged in some action, but no explicit indication from the storyteller on how the action is to be evaluated. At first glance, it would appear the readers are being left to fend for themselves in making an evaluation. Fortunately, according to Yamasaki, that is not the case, for, he argues, though the readers are not receiving explicit evaluative guidance, they may be receiving guidance in a less-obvious fashion through the way in which point of view is being used in the passage. Gary Yamasaki’s bold new work sets out a new biblical methodology called Perspective Criticism, an approach designed to uncover evaluative guidance that may be encoded in the point-of-view crafting of biblical narratives. 170p.

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$29.60 Perspectives of Jesus in the Writings of Paul: An Historical Examination of Shared Core Commitments with a View to Determining the Extent of Paul’s Dependence on Jesus Gerry Schoberg (Author) The critical question of the relationship between Jesus and Paul has been well established in New Testament studies for over 150 years and needs to be addressed with all the tools of historical criticism that scholarship has developed. So states Gerry Schoberg at the beginning of this new and important work that carries out that important task. By coupling comparative instances in the gospels and the works attributed to Paul, Schoberg invites the reader to inquire more profoundly than in past studies as to the nature of the relationship between Jesus and the most dramatic of Christian converts. At the heart of this study is not only the question of whether the New Testament truly gives a unified vision of the Christian movement, but also how the early followers of Jesus felt able to draw such insightful conclusions about him. Answering such questions through the study of Jesus and Paul offers an insight into the way one can make theological sense everyday life, and thereby live a life in Christ. 432p.

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The Story of the Bodmer Papyri: From the First Monaster’s Library in Upper Egypt to Geneva and Dublin James M. Robinson (Author) The United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) entrusted author James Robinson with tracking down the place where the Nag Hammadi Codices had been discovered. Priests whom the author interviewed in the region told Robinson that the codices had once been in the possession of a priest in the town of Dishna, a bit further upstream than Nag Hammadi itself.

Robinson found that this priest had not had the Nag Hammadi Codices but rather the Bodmer Papyri. For Dishna is where the monastery headquarters of the first monastic order was located.The Bodmer Papyri discovery consisted of all that was left of the library of the Pachomian monastic order: Coptic letters of Pachomius and very early Greek copies of Luke and John, perhaps donated when Athanasius was in hiding at the monastery.These treasures were preserved in a jar hidden in the mountain where monks were buried.This book traces the story of the Bodmer Papyri from beginning to end. 224p.

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Translating the English Bible: From Relevance to Deconstruction Philip Goodwin (Author) In his detailed and thought-provoking work, Philip Goodwin conducts a thorough analysis of the challenges facing the Biblical translator, with particular focus on the problematic dominance of the King James Version of the Bible in our imaginations – a dominance which has had a deleterious effect upon the accuracy and originality of the translator’s work. Goodwin considers the first two chapters of the Lukan narratives in depth, comparing and contrasting a breadth of widely disparate translations and drawing on a rich body of Biblical scholarship to support his thesis. A wide-ranging discussion of other linguistic issues is also conducted, touching on such vital matters as incorporating the contextual implications of the original text, and the attempt to challenge the reader’s pre-existing encyclopaedic knowledge. Goodwin evolves a fresh and comprehensive answer to the difficulties of the translator’s task, and concludes by providing his own original and charming translation of the first two chapters of Luke’s Gospel. ‘Translating the English Bible’ provides a fascinating insight into the processes of translation and will interest anyone seeking accuracy and fidelity to the Scriptural message. It will also enlighten readers seeking a challenging translation of Luke that casts off the shackles of the ‘Holy Marriage’ tradition of Biblical translation. 256p.

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Special Price $40.00 Ephesians: A New Covenant Commentary Lynn H. Cohick (Author) Ephesians speaks to our deepest questions about God: the redemptive plan of God written from ages past now revealed; the work of Christ complete and effective now and for eternity; the power of the Holy Spirit to change lives and build a community.The clear message of God’s unfathomable grace establishes the believer’s hope and underlies the call for faithful living. Down through the centuries, the clarion call to unity that permeates Ephesians has inspired and challenged the faithful to live out the promises found in Christ.This short letter speaks to the twenty-first century’s longing for friendship and wholeness. 190p.

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Huldah: The Prophet Who Wrote Hebrew Scripture Preston Kavanagh (Author) This book reveals – for the first time ever – the extraordinary impact of Huldah the prophet on our Bible. She was both a leader of exilic Jews and a principal author of Hebrew Scripture.

She penned the Shema: the ardent, prayerful praise that millions of worshipers repeat twice daily. Moreover, Jesus quoted as his own last words the ones that Huldah had written centuries before – “Into your hand I commit my spirit”. Huldah was an extraordinary writer – arguably she ranks among the best in Hebrew Scripture. As such, she added to God’s Word a feminine aspect that has inspired numberless believers – men and women alike.This book’s new techniques reveal that though subjected to extreme verbal abuse, Huldah surmounted her era’s high barriers to women. As elder, queen mother, and war leader during the sixth century BCE, she helped shape Israel’s history. And what, then, can this book mean to scholars – both women and men?

Feminists need a rallying point and a heroine, and Huldah makes a superb one. In years ahead, experts might well place Huldah alongside the very greatest women of antiquity; indeed, they may even conclude that she is among the most influential people in human history. 1 map, 1 table, 220p.

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Have Life Abundantly Frank Gil (Author) The world we know has been irrevocably shaped by certain major movements of massive significance: among them, the Enlightenment and Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, and the American Revolution—to say nothing of lengthened life, heightened education, and awareness of women’s rights. Largely untouched by the fundamental attitude of much of these changes is the Roman Catholic Church. It is probably the only major global institution where the emphasis on a central monarchy has been steadily growing. Change will inevitably come to the Church and that change will include the Roman Catholic Church.What is proposed in this book is an exible shape that opens the way to such change, implemented at grass roots. Gatherings of the grass roots folk for clergy-free small-group Eucharist’s and more rarely for small group clergy-free celebrations of reconciliation; the equivalent of current priests would focus above all on leadership in faith communities.Very basically, reality needs to be given to the priesthood of the faithful and emphasis given to the importance of leadership in faith communities.

The shape that this reality and this emphasis will be given will vary enormously in each culture and society.The need for some basic underlying direction is not difficult to discern. 161p.

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Revelation: A New Covenant Commentary Gordon D. Fee (Author) Revelation is a book that many Christians find confusing due to the foreign nature of its apocalyptic imagery. It is a book that has prompted endless discussions about the “end times” with theological divisions forming around epicenters such as the rapture and the millennium. In this book, award winning author Gordon Fee attempts to excavate the layers of symbolic imagery and provide an exposition of Revelation that is clear, easy to follow, convincing, and engaging. Fee shows us how John’s message confronts the world with the Revelation of Jesus Christ so that Christians might see themselves as caught up in the drama of God’s triumph over sin, evil, and death. Fee draws us into the world of John and invites us to see the world through John’s eyes as the morbid realities of this world have the joyous realities of heaven cast over them. In this latest installment in the New Covenant Commentary Series we see one of North America’s best evangelical exegetes at his very best. 354p.

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Special Price $47.96 Centro Internazionale di Studi sul Religioso Contemporaneo - Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Libera Chiesa in Libero Stato Maria Eugenia Olavarria (Editor); Veronica Roldan (Editor) Through the process of analysis of the relationships between religious and political powers, and then the role of religion in public area in Italy and other countries, this work considers different fields, such as politics, culture, and public institutions. In these sectors, differences in the fields of religion, laity models, and secularism of different social parts can be noticed. It is evident that the concept of laity, in the various countries, is to be considered mainly in relation to the ways of interaction between State and civil society.The deepening of these intertwining processes, composed of original and eccentric elements, can be inserted in international studies on the different forms of secularization and of the crisis of the State in continental Europe and in the regions outside Europe. By reviewing the role of religion in the public area and the relationship between State and Church in the first years of the new century, the volume holds the considerations on some points of the scientific debate, which offer an opportunity to notice the present features of the relationship between political and religious powers, in Italy and abroad. Italian text. 296p.

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Special Price $31.60 Amt, Ordination, Episkopé und theologische Ausbildung // Ministry and ministries, episkopé and theological education Michael Bünker (Editor); Martin Friedrich (Editor) The volume documents two sets of findings by the CPCE which were presented to the 2012 General Assembly.The report of the doctrinal conversation on »Ministry, Ordination, Episkope« defines the Protestant position on these issues, which are of vital ecumenical interest. At the same time, it seeks to deepen the church fellowship of CPCE member churches.This is also the aim of the study »Training for the ordained ministry in the CPCE«. It outlines a common understanding of good training that the member churches can take as a guideline.

German text. 160p.

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Gerhard von Rads frühe Predigten: Eine historisch-homiletische Untersuchung

Beste Freunde: Als Deutscher in Israel Sebastian Engelbrecht (Author) The debate about the critical poem by Günther Grass »Was gesagt warden muß« (»What needs to be said«) and the discussion about circumcision have brought the circumstances of the relationship of Jews and Non-Jews in Germany to light.

Misunderstandings, complexes and anti-Semite undertones affect it.The mutual bias is still great, 68 years after the Shoah.The better place for the German-Jewish encounter is Israel. Here, Jews and Non-Jews, Isreali and Germans live together in a much less complicated way. In Jewish everyday life many things can be alienating but Germans and Israeli depend on each other in a special way.The mutual curiosity, even attraction within the human encounters is highly visible and accompanied by a unique diversity and depth of public and social relationships. Sebastian Engelbrecht describes the fascinating vicinity as well as open problems from the point of view of a German in Israel. German text. 180p.

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$19.20 Frei für die Zukunft – Evangelische Kirchen in Europa. Free for the Future – Protestant Churches in Europe: Dokumentationsband der 7. Vollversammlung der Gemeinschaft Evangelischer Kirchen in Europa (GEKE) in Florenz, Italien, 20.-26. September 2012 Documents of the 7th General Assembly of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) Florence, Italy, September 20-26, 2012 Michael Bünker (Editor); Bernd Jaeger (Editor) The 7th General Assembly of the CPCE took place in September 2012 in Florence.

A volume of proceedings is published containing its central documents in English and German. It contains the reports by the Presidium and General Secretary, the keynote lectures, the outlines of CPCE projects on the fields of work from 2012 onwards and the final report including the decisions of the General Assembly, as well as greetings, sermons and other documents. Authorized by the Council of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe. German text. 272p.

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Martin Hauger (Author) At the beginning of the 20th century outstanding preachers such as F. Rittelmeyer, C. Geyer and W. Stählin who were oriented towards theological liberalism worked in the hometown of Gerhard von Rad, Nuremberg.Von Rad was a member of the youth movement, which was influenced by Stählin, where, in a circle of friends (W.Trillhaas,W. v.

Loewenich), he became familiar with the theology of Karl Barth. In this context in 1921 he began to work as an assistant pastor in Franconia.The extant sermons from this period show how he attempted to mediate between the formative Nuremberg influences and the theology of Karl Barth.The homiletic analysis of Martin Hauger not only traces a fascinating chapter of the history of preaching, but also brings light to the origins of the theological work of this eminent Old Testament theologian. German text. 512p.

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Gesundheit, Erkundungen zu einem menschenangemessenen Konzept Hans-Martin Rieger (Author) »Above all Health!« This motive connects people of different backgrounds; beyond that, it is a central topic for the future of 21st century society.The »healthcare community« is characterized by the fact that, firstly, health is considered to be the greatest good, that, secondly, health is seen as increasingly feasible, and that, thirdly, the run for that good »health« is considered as a growth engine in particular for an aging society. But what is »health«? In a highly competent way, Hans-Martin Rieger joins the discussion on social, medical, psychological and philosophical ideas of health. ((In this connection he reflects on the ethics of anthropological principles and the fundamental characteristics of a humanly adequate concept of health.)) The proposal of a transdisciplinary model and a theological reflection are intended to stimulate further critical discussions. German text. 240p.

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From Conflict to Communion, Lutheran-Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017. Report of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Joint Commission for Unity.

Lutheran World Foundation In 2017, Catholics and Lutherans will jointly look back on events of the Reformation 500 years ago. At the same time, they will also reflect on 50 years of official ecumenical dialogue on the worldwide level. During this time, the communion they share anew has continued to grow.This encourages Lutherans and Catholics to celebrate together the common witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who is the center of their common faith.Yet, amidst this celebration, they will also have reason to experience the suffering caused by the division of the Church, and to look self-critically at themselves, not only throughout history, but also through today’s realities. »From Conflict to Communion« develops a basis for an ecumenical commemoration that stands in contrast to earlier centenaries.

The Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity invites all Christians to study its report both open-mindedly and critically, and to walk along the path towards the full, visible unity of the Church. 96p.

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Gregor Etzelmüller (Editor); Heike Springhart (Editor) The ever-new creative presence of God in His Spirit has been ignored long-time in theology, due to the confusion of God’s Spirit with the self-referential spirit in the Metaphysics of Aristotle and in the philosophy of Hegel. In discussing classical philosophical and theological positions, the findings of the natural and social sciences as well as recent ecumenical statements, the contributions of this volume address above all the polyphonic action of the Holy Spirit. In doing so ecclesiastical and ecumenical contexts are reflected as much as civil-society, political, economic, and natural contexts.The volume contains contributions by 37 theologians from 13 different countries and from different denominations (e. g. from Orthodox Churches and the Pentecostal Movement). It gives a documentation of a conference held in Heidelberg on the occasion of the forthcoming retirement of Michael Welker.

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$48.80 Kirche im Aufbruch: Schlüsseltexte zum Reformprozess The 2006 EKD discussion paper »Kirche der Freiheit (Church of Freedom) – 21st Century Perspectives for the EKD« launched an intensive reform discussion within the Protestant Churches, but also beyond it. It strengthened the various processes which intend to deal in an open and forward-looking way with the questions of the development of the Church’s work.This volume offers for the first time a collection of central EKD key texts from the last six years and thus documents the inner development and the intermediate results of the reform process »Kirche im Aufbruch« (Renewal in the Church). It invites to further theological work on these topics and opens up new perspectives in view of the Anniversary of the Reformation in 2017. German text. 432p.

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Konkordie reformatorischer Kirchen in Europa (Leuenberger Konkordie) // Agreement between Reformation Churches in Europe (Leuenberg Agreement) // Concorde entre Eglises issues de la Réforme en Europe (Concorde de Leuenberg) Michael Bünker (Editor); Martin Friedrich (Editor) The Leuenberg Agreement of 1973 describes the preconditions and aims of Protestant church fellowship on the basis of a common understanding of the gospel. It forms the basis of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE). German text.64p.

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$12.80 Leidenschaft für die Theologie Heinrich Assel (Editor) In this publication internationally renowned representatives of the principal disciplines of theology – drawing from the wealth of their experience – each give, introductions into their respective subjects on the basis of one current research topic.

Thoughtfully and argumentatively, competently and straightforwardly, an overview of theology is created out of authentic passion for theology within the Humboldtian university.These Greifswald University Speeches were held to first-year students on occasion of the opening of the semester.They are eminently suitable as a basic guide to the study of theology. German text. 194p.

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$24.00 Luther aktuell – Reformation heute Eberhard Winkler (Author) Luther is understood out of his time and related with problems of our time. So his actuality for today’s protestant piety shall be shown. For example: How can Luther’s “Freedom of a Christian” in the pluralistic society be connected with conscientious action? How is his faith meaningful to our secularized world? Is the devil only an imagination of the Middle Ages? In which way is the Holy Scripture fundamental of our faith? How are church and congregation understood by Luther, and how are they to be built today? How belong faith, love, education, and culture together? Even critical questions as to Luther’s controversy with the Jews are disputed. Quoting the reformer out of the sources gives a contribution to Luther-Decade. German text. 296p.

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Special Price $24.00 Recht und Frieden: Beiträge zur politischen Ethik Hans Richard Reuter (Author) According to Protestant doctrine, providing justice and peace by means of the threat and exercise of force is a primary and ethically justifiable task of the State (Barmen V). At the beginning of the 21st century the lines of conflict between justice and law, peace and violence, religion and politics have sharpened.They are the subjects of controversial discussions that point out basic problems of political ethics.The contributions of this volume contain analyses of the traditional Protestant understanding of law and peace and develop the vision of a just peace based on the notion of human rights.They address controversial issues concerning the legitimate use of military force and a liberal legal order of the relationship between state and religion. German text. 368p.

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Warum Gott? Für Menschen, die mehr wissen wollen Wilfried Harle (Author) Being able to talk to others about the belief in God in a simple, clear and well thought-out way is the wish of many people.The book by the renowned theologian Wilfried Härle offers concrete help in this respect. In eight chapters, Härle explains in a simple and precise manner what »belief in God« stands for, how it originates and what it means. In his presentation he focuses on the doctrine of the Trinity, that is the doctrine of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, which is the epitome of Christian understanding of God. Each chapter ends with a collection of important texts from various fields: Bible, church history, history of theology, philosophy, and literature.These text selections can also serve as a basis for discussions when working with groups.

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Was mir Luther bedeutet: Katholische Lutherforscher berichten Theodor Dieter (Editor); Wolfgang Thonissen (Editor) With some justification one could claim the 20th century to be a century of research in the history of the Reformation, a truth, which applies both to Protestant and to Catholic theology. After centuries of disputes in controversial theology, a certain understanding of the reformation and the reformers on the part of catholic research on the history of Christianity began to become apparent.The Institute for Ecumenical Research of the Lutheran World Federation in Strasbourg and the Johann-Adam-Möhler-Institute for Ecumenics in Paderborn have asked leading representatives of catholic Luther research – Johannes Brosseder, Otto Hermann Pesch, Jos Vercruysse and Jared Wicks – to describe, what Luther means to them.The contributors adress and describe their personal attitudes towards Luther, their own way to Luther, but also important findings of their individual research and finally highlights of the debate with protestant researchers. In this way, the contributing catholic researchers give a general view of their personal research, their personal insights and their self-image. German text. 224p.

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Zwischen Himmel und Erde: Körperliche Zeichen der Heiligkeit Waltraud Pulz (Editor) Sanctity is mostly associated with a morally ideal way of life and its construction through physical signs is rare.Within the framework of concepts, in which physical and spiritual conditions form a unity, somatic phenomena can be understood as acts of grace and manifestations of holiness. Nowhere is this idea more clear than in cases of stigmata, in which one experiences a similar reenactment of the interior and exterior sufferings of Christ in their historical reality. Internal events and physical processes were intimately connected in the early modern period, which only rational analysis separated in order to be recombined in their entanglements.Women made their bodies into a place of the incarnation of the divine through self-modeling, especially within the context of historic, masculine cultures, which conceived the body in specific material ways.Through this deification of the flesh, spiritualization of the material, and materialization of the spirit, the close interweaving of body and word finds expression, even in its political dimension. German text. 23 b/w illus 227p.

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Attending to the Wounds on Christ’s Body: Teresa’s Scriptural Vision Elizabeth Newman (Author) The disunity of the church is a social and theological scandal for it betrays the prayer of Jesus that we ‘will be one . . . so that the world will believe’ (John 17:21). As a Baptist whose academic background focused on the Orthodox Church and whose teaching has included Catholic and Protestant contexts, this division is for Elizabeth Newman personal and professional.

Attending to the Wounds on Christ’s Body rests on the conviction that the broad tradition of Christianity already contains resources to heal the church, namely the saints of the church. Newman examines especially how Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) speaks to the whole church today in the midst of political, economic, and ecclesial brokenness.Teresa’s reliance upon three scriptural figures — dwellings, marriage, and pilgrimage— helps make sense of an ecclesial way of life that is inherently unitive, a unity that stands in contrast to that of the nation-state or the global market.Teresa’s scriptural journey offers an alternative at once liturgical, political, and economic.This Doctor of the Church provides “medicine” that can repair wounds of division that separate brothers and sisters in Christ. 230p.

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Denuded Devotion to Christ: The Ascetic Piety of Protestant True Religion in the Reformation Larry D. Harwood (Author) Much of the emerging protestantism of the sixteenth century produced a Reformation in conscious opposition to formal philosophy. Nevertheless, sectors of the Reformation produced a spiritualizing form of Platonism in the drive for correct devotion. Out of an understandable fear of idolatry or displacement of the uniquely redemptive place of Christ, Christian piety moved away from the senses and the material world - freshly uncovered in the Reformation.This volume argues, however, that in the quest for restoring “”true religion””, sectors of the Protestant tradition impugned too severely the material components of prior Christian devotion. Larry Harwood argues that a similar spiritualizing tendency can be found in other Christian traditions, but that its applicability to the particulars of the Christian religion is nevertheless questionable.

Moreover, in that quest of a spiritualizing Protestant “”true religion””, the Christian God could shade toward the conceptual god of the philosophers, with devotees construed as rationalist philosophers. Part of the paradoxical result was to propel the Protestant devotee toward a denuded worship for material worshipers of the Christian God who became flesh. 170p.

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Divine Essence and Divine Energies: Ecumenical Reflections on the Presence of God in Eastern Orthodoxy C. Athanasopoulos (Editor); C. Schneider (Editor) A composite book of essays from ten scholars, Divine Essence and Divine Energies provides a rich repository of diverse opinion about the essence-energy distinction in Orthodox Christianity – a doctrine which lies at the heart of the oftenfraught fault line between East and West, and which, in this book, inspires a lively dialogue between the contributors.The contents of the book revolve around several key questions: In what way were the Aristotelian concepts of ousia and energeia used by the Church Fathers, and to what extent were their meanings modified in the light of the Christological and Trinitarian doctrines? What theological function does the essence-energy distinction fulfill in Eastern Orthodoxy with respect to theology, anthropology, and the doctrine of creation?

What are the differences and similarities between the notions of divine presence and participation in seminal Christian writings, and what is the relationship between the essence-energy distinction and Western ideas of divine presence? A valuable addition to the dialogue between Eastern and Western Christianity, this book will be of great interest to any reader seeking a rigorously academic insight into the wealth of scholarly opinion regarding the essence-energy distinction. 302p.

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Jean Daniélou’s Doxological Humanism: Trinitarian Contemplation and Humanity’s True Vocation Marc C. Nicholas (Author) Both Ephesians 4:11 and I Corinthians 12:29 attest to the distinctiveness of the roles of pastor and teacher; and Nicholas claims that for the majority of recent history, since the rise of Scholasticism, this distinction has been strictly adhered to.The rise of the Scholastic method within theological discourse radically transformed the way theology was envisioned, from its bases and method to its purpose and sources.This change had a far-reaching effect on theology which would contribute to the discipline’s self-understanding.Whereas theology was initially more of a meditation on and exposition of God’s self-disclosure in the Word, in the new style of theological discourse practiced by the schoolmen, theology increasingly became the methodical parsing of abstract truth which was dissociated from the concrete realities of an embodied Christianity. However, one need not maintain the possibility of distinct roles to the detriment of seeing both offices in a single individual. Indeed the New Testament and the early Fathers consistently exhibit a complete naiveté concerning such a divide.The writers of the New Testament and the early Fathers were seen as “complete personalities,” who were unable to envisage the separation of theology and spirituality. Jean Daniélou’s Doxological Humanism is primarily a discussion of the ways in which academic theology can reacquaint itself with spirituality and the reasons it should. Nicholas turns to the writings of Jesuit theologian, historian and cardinal Jean Daniélou and finds an understanding of who we are that necessitates this union. Further, for Daniélou, an essential aspect of this unified view of the human person is its doxological nature.To attain the fullest expression of humanity is to participate in the adoration, worship and contemplation involved in the life of prayer. 206p.

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The Real Church: An Ecclesiology of the Visible Harald Hegstad (Author) What does it mean to believe in the church? What is the relationship between the church we believe in and the church we experience? Is there an invisible church that is different from the visible? This book is an argument for an ecclesiology of the visible.The only church, the real church, is a concrete reality made up of people, just like any other fellowship.What distinguishes it as church is the presence of the triune God among those who gather in the name of Jesus, making it a sign and anticipation of the fellowship of the kingdom of God. From this premise Dr. Hegstad analyzes such issues as the relationship between church and world, mission and diakoni, church as fellowship and organization, ministries in the church, worship, and the unity of the church, as well as discussing the relationship between a sociological and a theological understanding of the church. 258p.

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The Apologetics of Joy: A Case for the Existence of God from C. S. Lewis’s Argument from Desire Joe Puckett Jr. (Author) Among all the arguments for the existence of God there may be none more personal and intimate than C. S. Lewis’ Argument from Desire.This book attempts to explain what the Argument from Desire is and why we believe that the argument is an inductively strong one. In the spirit of C. S. Lewis, Augustine, and Pascal, this book invites both the head and the heart of the reader to consider the case for God’s existence.While many arguments look out to the external world for evidence of God’s existence, this book calls the reader to look inward to the human heart.While learning from classical thinkers (particularly C. S. Lewis) The Apologetics of Joy will bring both intuition and experience together to demonstrate the truth of divine presence in the world.The reader will walk away with either a newfound faith or a reinforced conviction that has a strong intellectual and experiential dimension. 178p.

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Atheism for Beginners: A Course Book For Schools and Colleges Michael Palmer (Author) The word ‘atheism’ is derived from the Greek: a meaning ‘not’ is conjoined with theos meaning ‘god’. So atheism may be defined as follows: it is the belief that there is no God. Unfortunately definition of terms is rarely this straightforward.

In this educational book, Michael Palmer undertakes to analyze, develop and discuss the complex and too often reduced notion of atheism. In spite of the consciously atheist point of view adopted by the author, the volume remains critical and objective, making religious, philosophical and political concepts around atheism understandable. Even though the book clearly addresses a young audience, any kind of reader will find food for thought in this vivid and detailed work. 101 b/w illus, 224p.

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Returning to Reality: Thomas Merton’s Wisdom for a Technological Age Phillip Thompson (Author) We are becoming a nation of superficial and distracted consumers of instant messages and images, a state of being which does not aid engagement in religious and other deep commitments that require a sustained level of reflection and contemplation. In his thought-provoking work, Phillip M. Thompson analyses the shadow elements of technology nuclear armaments, the bio-engineering of humans, and the distancing of humanity from the natural world - through the fascinating insights of the spiritual writer and monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968). Merton’s work offers an important critique and healing resource for contemporary, technology-saturated culture through constructive recommendations which include a balanced approach to work, the careful management of technology, and an appreciation of the recuperative aspects of nature.While understanding the positive influences of technology, Merton urges us not be naively optimistic about its benefits, but to consider the threat it poses to a life of humanity and spiritual connection. A consideration of the profound issues discussed in this book will interest any reader concerned with the intersection between spirituality and technology, and how to maintain spiritual integrity in a technological world. 132p.

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Gods and Arms: On Religion and Armed Conflict Kjell-Åke Nordquist (Editor) This book brings together a variety of perspectives on how religion can be related to violence and war - both in a destructive and constructive way. Religion can justify and mobilize violence - even terrorism or guerilla wars - just like political ideology. But how is such a link between religion and violent behavior established in the first place? How can we go further in understanding this possible connection between religion and war? Is religious peace work just the flip side of religious support of war? Or can peace work be informed by knowing about how religion promotes violence and war? In the search for answers to the puzzle of religion and war, it is easy to focus on conflict and war situations, but maybe there is as much to learn from peace work as from war studies? Therefore, this book also analyses religious peace work from different contexts.The multifaceted presence of religion in conflict situations whether justifying violence or promoting peace - is illustrated in this book using a variety of situations, in an enlightening panorama of one of today’s must puzzling social connections: religion and armed conflict. 174p.

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Heresies and Heretics: Memories of the Twentieth Century

Rock of Ages? The Changing Faces of the Christian God John Butler (Author) Far from being the immutable ‘Rock of Ages’ He is often assumed to be, the God of Christian history and tradition has had many different and often conflicting faces. Rock of Ages? opens with the emergence of the Biblical God from the pantheon of deities in bronze age Canaan, and culminates in the radical images of God that were appearing at the end of the twentieth-century, providing a historical overview of the different and sometimes conflicting ways in which He has been understood. By examining the ideas of key writers down the ages, whose ecclesiastical or intellectual power has allowed their insights to become embedded in the mainstream traditions of the Christian churches, Butler seeks to answer one central question:Why is it that people across the ages have claimed to have seen so many different and sometimes contradictory faces of the Christian God? Or more specifically: If there is one true God, and if He is known to those who believe in him through the revelation of Himself in history, why hasn’t a consistent and unified understanding of Him emerged in the witness and testimony of those who claim to have seen his face? In the best of scholarly traditions, Butler presents his work as a clear account of his own quest for an answer; but although suggesting possibilities, he leaves others to come to their own judgements using the evidence available.Written in a clear and attractive style, this is a book for anyone without any prior knowledge of history, theology or philosophy, be they atheists, Christians looking to explore their faith, students or simply anyone interested in the history of religion.

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George Watson (Author) In this enjoyably iconoclastic book, George Watson discusses some of the great heresies of the twentieth century, and the cultural heretics who espoused them, often with surprising results.Watson provides us with examples of ‘true’, original heretics, from Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who asserted that his study of the remote past had made a radical of him, rather than any influence of modernism, to others such as Douglas Adams, whom Watson knew as an undergraduate.Watson forces us to question various long-cherished political and intellectual assumptions in his witty and conversational style. Is snobbery really such a bad thing? Have we ignored the links between socialism and genocide? He touches entertainingly upon subjects as diverse as literary theory (experimental fiction is often the last resort of those who have nothing to say), and the unoriginal conformism of teenage Marxists (incapable of actually reading Marx, as he is too boring).This is a work which will delight any reader seeking a uniquely personal perspective on the culture, history, and personalities of the twentieth century. 198p.

Robin A. Parry (Author) If worship is God centered, and God is the Trinity, then worship should be Trinity centered. ‘Worshipping Trinity’ explores the meaning and implications of that simple claim.Written for church leaders, worship leaders, and songwriters, as well as for those interested in theology, this volume explains why the Trinity matters so much and explores practical ways our worship can be made more Trinitarian.This second edition is fully updated and expanded. 224p.

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Diaconia against Poverty and Exclusion in Europe: Challenges – Contexts – Perspectives Johannes Eurich (Editor); Ingolf Hübner (Editor) Poverty and exclusion are rising challenges in all European countries. Christian welfare organizations such as Diaconia have been committed to working against poverty and marginalization since many years. However, a change of the structures which cause poverty is often not accomplished. Poor people remain in dependent situations and do not really participate in society.

What are the main challenges to diaconal institutions combating poverty and exclusion? Which innovations are necessary within diaconia and civil society in order to meet future challenges? With contributions from all over Europe, this volume tries to answer these questions by applying a multi-perspective angle to the main challenges, by examining new concepts and by developing new perspectives for the future of Christian social practice. 288p.

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Special Price $48.80 Diakonie im sozialstaatlichen Wandel: Analysen – Optionen – Perspektiven Johannes Eurich (Author); Wolfgang Maaser (Author) Since the 1990s, Christian welfare organizations have been undergoing a continuous process of change.This volume assesses the contexts and current challenges by analyzing the tension between Christian identity, concepts of service delivery, organizational change, and social advocacy.The entanglement of church involvement, lobbying associations, and individual diaconal organizations is examined with reference to management processes, ethics as well as specific issues like the labor law of the churches. How Christian orientation and leadership can be uphold in this complex situation is one the questions this volume tries to answer. German text. 380p.

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Die berufene Zeugin des Kreuzes Christi, Studien zur Grundlegung der evangelischen Theorie der Kirche Henning Theißen (Author) This Greifswald habilitation thesis delineates an ecclesiology from the perspective of a critical self-differentiation of the church, relying for the first time on church documents such as memoranda and reform programs.Witness is the key concept of this study. Using this concept the church invokes its foundation in the cross of Jesus Christ, entering at the same time into community with different forms of this call.Analyses on F. Schleiermacher,A Ritschl and K. Barth prove the importance of this understanding of the church for the Protestant Churches since the 19th century. In the 20th century, this understanding of the church becomes important for inter-church relationships as well as for the relationships to society in general and to non-Christian religions.The Author was awarded the Hanns Lilje Prize for this book by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 2012. German text. 832p.

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Erziehung in den Pastoralbriefen: Ein Konzept zur Konsolidierung der Gemeinden Friedemann Krumbiegel (Author) The Pastoral Epistles with their development of an own concept of education are an important contribution to the consolidation of the Christian church. For this reason they compensate for the loss of continuity, identity and integration, which threatens the parish in growing distance to Paul.The letters are characterized by strong semantic domains, central to which is the idea of paideia (education).This demonstrates a comprehensive view of education, which affects the structure of the text with reference to social communication. From this three relevant levels of educational phenomena: domestic, parish and divine education. An outlook onto the theologians of the second century illustrates the development of the Christian paideia into a clear and often used model, German text. 384p.

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Konstruktion von Geschichte: Jubelrede – Predigt – protestantische Historiographie Klaus Tanner (Editor) The manner in which the memory of the Reformation is presented and the history of the Reformation is constructed, is up to this day a reflection of the »spirit of the times«.An anniversary is not only a means to pass on tradition but also a means to reshape it: as affirmation of one’s own history, as futureoriented approach or as a counter-balance to the present age.

And this also applies to Protestant scientific historiography.The volume is divided into the sections »Confessional Age«, »Enlightenment and Pietism«, and »Modernity«; its 16 contributions range from issues such as »Reformation as Revolution of Memory« to the »the Protestant Revolution of 1989«. German text. 384p.

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Special Price $61.60 Spurenlese ((2)): Kulturelle Wirkungen der Reformation Reformationsgeschichtliche Sozietät der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg The Reformation, initiated by Luther’s so called posting of the 95 theses on 31 October 1517, ranks among the most influential events in European history.Although it was first of all religiously motivated and aimed at changes in theology, church and practices of faith, it had in addition unintended effects, which extended far beyond the religious sphere. Precisely this is the focus of the present collection of essays. In 23 contributions, Scholars of various disciplines critically analyze how the Reformation has affected in varying intensity all sectors of society.They address political structures, cultural patterns of perception, and habitual dispositions as well as economic behavior, legal forms, artistic means of expression, and finally cultural identities. German text. 608p.

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Has man a Future? Dialogues with the Last Confucian Guy S Allito in conversation with Mr Liang Shuming.

I became interested in Mr Liang’s life and career as a graduate student at Harvard University and took it as a subject of my Phd dissertation. I gathered materials in Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as sought out and interviewed many of his old friends and acquaintances. Because of Sino-American politics I could not go to mainland China until 1973. However, I did not meet Mr Liang until a visit in 1980 where I interviewed him every morning for two weeks.

This interview brings together the special characteristic ability of the Chinese intellectuals to blend mutually contradictory thought. In this instance it is the blending of the thoughts of Buddhism and Confucianism and also identify with MarxistLeninist thought and approve of Christianity.

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Luthers Wittenberg ‘Send Back the Money!’ The Free Church of Scotland and American Slavery Iain Whyte (Author) ‘Send Back the Money!’ is a thorough and gripping examination of a fascinating and forgotten aspect of Scottish and American relations and Church history. A seminal period of Abolition activity is exposed by Iain Whyte through a study of the fiery campaign ‘Send back the Money!’ named after ‘the hue and cry of the day’ that encapsulated the argument that divided families, communities, and the Free Church itself.This examination of the Free Church’s involvement with American Presbyterianism in the nineteenth century reveals the ethical furore caused by a Church wishing to emancipate itself from the religious and civil domination supported by the established religion of the state.The Free Church therefore found an affinity with those oppressed elsewhere, but subsequently found itself financially supported by the Southern slave states of America.Whyte sensitively handles this inherent contradiction in the political, ecclesiastical, and theological institutions, while informing the reader of the roles of charismatic characters such as Thomas Chalmers and Frederick Douglass.These key individuals shaped contemporary culture with action, great oratory, and rhetoric.

The author adroitly draws parallels from the twentieth century onwards, bringing the reader to a fuller understanding of the historic and topical issues within global Christianity, and the contentious topic of slavery. ‘Send back the Money!’ throws light upon nineteenth-century culture, British and American Abolitionists, and ecclesiastical politics, and is written in a clear and engaging style that makes the book ideal for scholars and general readers. 11 illus, 176p.

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Special Price $31.20 They Who Give from Evil: The Response of the Eastern Church to Moneylending in the Early Christian Era Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen (Author) The purpose of They Who Give from Evil is to consider the financial and salvific implications of usury on the community and the individual soul as it is addressed within the sermons of a selection of early Christian Greek authors, in the historical context of the fourth century Roman Empire. Although focusing on two Greek texts, St. Basil’s Homily on Psalm Fourteen and Against Those Who Practice Usury by St. Gregory of Nyssa, Ihssen is able to shed fascinating insight on Roman life and illustrate the rich social justice theologies of the patristic world.

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Elke Strauchenbruch (Author) With a special literary tour of the city, the author takes us back to the Wittenberg of Martin Luther.The reader is invited to take a walk to see the world cultural heritage of Wittenberg that has been preserved over 500 years. At the same time the book communicates background knowledge about the spiritual climate of the city in which the Reformation started based on Luther’s famous theses. It recounts vividly the spiritual and everyday life of the city of Luther so that one can feel how people lived, suffered, loved, laughed and thought over 500 years ago.The book is a rich source for everyone who wants to know about how the roots of a revolution grow. It exposes a wealth of new and surprising details and makes them accessible to a broad audience. German text. col & b/w illus, 216p.

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$19.20 Paul von Schanz (1841–1905): Zur sozial- und theologiegeschichtlichen Verortung eines katholischen Theologen im langen 19.

Jahrhundert Markus Thurau (Author) The life and work of the Catholic Tubingen theologian Paul von Schanz is at the center of this volume. Alongside the social historical context of the biography a piece of German theological history is reconstructed through the opening up of the work. In his work as professor of mathematics and natural sciences, of New Testament exegesis and of dogmatic theology and apologetics, Schanz produced a work that tried to show that science and the Christian faith are compatible and was a specification of the provisions of the First Vatican Council. Schanz proved himself as a representative of “Catholic science” which tries to reconcile Catholicism with modern culture and science. Markus Thurau shows the possibilities and limitations of this experiment, by making clear the complex act of an explicitly “Catholic scientist”. He also elucidates the advance of the Catholic modernist crisis of the early 20th Century. German text. 21 illus, 511p.

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Special Price $91.20 Alcuin: Theology and Thought Douglas Dales (Author) Scholar, ecclesiastic, teacher and poet of the eighth century, Alcuin can be seen as a true hidden saint of the Church, of the same stature and significance as his predecessor Bede. His love of God and his grasp of Christian theology were rendered original in their creative impact by his gifts as a teacher and poet. In his hands, the very traditional theology that he inherited, and to which he felt bound, took new wings. In that respect, he must rank as one of the most notable and influential of Anglo-Saxon Christians, uniting English and continental Christianity in a unique manner, which left a lasting legacy within the Catholic Church of Western Europe.This book is intended for the general reader as well as for those studying, teaching or researching this period of early medieval history and theology in schools and universities. 360p.

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Alcuin: His Life and Legacy Douglas Dales (Author) Douglas Dales provides a comprehensive study of the life of one of the most underrated figures of the early medieval Western Church. Alcuin left behind him a varied selection of correspondence and other documents which attest to his prominence as a statesman, theologian, poet, friend, and teacher. In this, the first study to fully examine the full span of Alcuin’s life and the lasting effect of his actions, the author deftly weaves together the primary manuscript evidence to record Alcuin’s transition from a precocious schoolboy of noble lineage in York to his involvement with Charlemagne, Offa, and the papacy in Rome.Alcuin was a conscious heir to the rich traditions of the English Church, and his skill as a poet of prayer, as well as an educator, marks him out as a seminal influence upon his own generation and those that came after him.This book examines his life and career in England and on the continent, and considers his legacy as a churchman and a leading political figure.While Dales places Alcuin firmly within his Christian cultural inheritance and historical context, he also traces from the surviving evidence the subtle and nuanced elements of Alcuin’s personality and relationships. 12 b/w illus, 226p.

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Hindiyya, Mystic and Criminal, 1720-1798: A Political and Religious Crisis in Lebanon Bernard Heyberger (Author); Renée Champion (Translator) In this compelling narrative, Bernard Heyberger relates the fascinating history of Hindiyya ‘Ujaymi, a highly charismatic eighteenth-century mystic of sinister repute. Heyberger makes a careful study of Hindiyya’s life from earliest childhood, with a detailed picture of her formative years in the eighteenth century Christian community of Aleppo, the domestic reality of which is little known, exploring the influences she would have experienced. He leads us through her spiritual development under the direction of the Jesuits, her determination to found a new religious order, and the tragic history of its collapse in a welter of paranoia and persecution. Heyberger also reveals the tensions and complex rivalries at play around Hindiyya between Rome, the Jesuits, and Eastern tribes, which were also beset by feuds and alliances. He makes extensive use of a wide variety of sources, from Hindiyya’s own writings to reports from her confessors and Roman inquisitors, to shed light upon the Hindiyya affair.‘Hindiyya, Mystic and Criminal’ relates the history of a woman of inflexible power of will and great charisma, who managed to move beyond the circumscribed world of her girlhood and realise what she believed to be her destiny. It will be of great interest to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of an affair which has been long obscured by contradictory reports, or to those interested in eighteenth-century Maronite Christianity and its complex interactions with the authority of Rome. 300p.

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Special Price $32.00 Herbert Hensley Henson: Life and Letters John Peart-Binns (Author) In this new biography, John Peart-Binns alleges that Herbert Hensley Henson, eighty-sixth Bishop of Durham, was one of the most distinctive and distinguished bishops of the Church of England in the 20th century. By exploring in some detail the life of Hensley Henson's father before addressing his primary subject's own eighty-four years, Peart-Binns is able to provide a background to Hensley Henson’s childhood and assess the effect it had upon the development of the Bishop's character. It is this richness of psychological insight that allows this new work to convey Henson’s magnetic personality and thus shed light on his preaching style as well as and his controversial views on the political and theological issues of his day - divorce, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, and the anti-Semitic policies of Nazi Germany.

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Dunstan: Saint and Statesman Douglas Dales (Author) St Dunstan of Canterbury (909-88) was the central figure in the development of English church and society after the death of King Alfred. Douglas Dales traces Dunstan’s life beginning with his education at the great monastery of Glastonbury of which he became abbot. He was a central figure at the court of the kings of Wessex but was banished, partly because of his hostility to the king’s mistresses, and went to exile in Flanders. After his return he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. During the twenty-eight years of his primacy he carried out one of the major developments of the century, the reformation of the monasteries.The millennium of Dunstan’s death provides an opportunity to examine him not merely as a prelate and royal advisor, but to see other aspects of his life: his skills as a craftsman caused him to be adopted as the patron saint of goldsmiths; some of his work as calligrapher and artist survives to this day; the coronation service which he drew up still lies at the heart of this service for English monarchs today; he was famed for his musical skills; above all, the sanctity of his name and the fame of his miracles kept Dunstan’s memory alive. Douglas Dales’ re-examination of the life and times of Dunstan sets his achievements against the social and religious background of the day, at a time when new forces were emerging that would shape the future of England and the English Church for centuries to come. 200p.

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John Toman (Author) Kilvert’s World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countryside.Though a countryman and lover of country ways, here the well known diarist is shown to be deeply stirred by what he saw as a society being changed and improved by science, technology, and by the liberal, enlightened ideas that were starting to circulate.The social changes seen by Kilvert resonated with the vision of progress that was imbued in him by his Victorian upbringing, and his diaries can be seen as a response to these changes.Toman’s new work goes beyond the biographical and social realities of Kilvert’s family to show common factors in the familial experience of a rapidly changing society. At the heart of this re-evaluation of Kilvert’s life and times is the theme of Wonder, various aspects of which are explored throughout.Away from the rapidly growing urban centers the effects of industrialization are seen in a surprisingly positive light by Francis Kilvert, a fervent Christian coming to terms with the encroachments that science, scepticism and secularism were making upon religious faith and yet seeing all around him a ‘world of wonders’. 16 b&w illus, 326p.

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Understanding Jacques Ellul

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Jeffrey P. Greenman (Author); Read M. Schuchardt (Author); Noah J. Toly (Author) Even the authors of this work admit that Jacques Ellul did not know everything, that he did not interpret everything accurately, but, they argue, he was one of the world’s last great polymaths and one of the most salient Christian thinkers of his era.With the goal of offering a comprehensive appraisal of the modern world, and of the place of Christian faith in it, Ellul wrote over fifty books and a thousand articles. He addressed almost every major facet and institution of modern society and many more from previous ages and engaged his material with simplicity, sincerity, courage, and a passion that few have matched. In spite of this there has never before been a single volume introduction to his ideas and their significance. Jeffrey P. Greenman, Read M. Schuchardt and Noah J.Toly address this lack with Understanding Jacques Ellul, an interdisciplinary exploration of the different branches of Ellul’s work.This essential new study illuminates is a fuller, more robust and more realistic Ellul, a man whose voice is well worth listening to, and whose mind well worth examining. 179p.

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Richard Hooker and the Vision of God: Exploring the Origins of ‘Anglicanism’ Charles Miller (Author) Finally filling the gap between specialist volumes and ‘companion texts’, Charles Miller’s rigorous and well written exploration of the works and theology of Richard Hooker is a comprehensive and critical testament to one of the most important founders of Anglican thought. Miller introduces the main theological topics in Hooker’s writings and identifies his distinctive contribution to the emergence of Anglicanism via discussion of such themes as Hooker’s conception of God, of Mankind and of the place of Scripture in the Church.These discussions are deeply founded on Hooker’s own works and Miller makes good use of the yet untranslated work L’Anglicanisme de Richard Hooker by Olivier Loyer, which has not been frequently cited in English language scholarship until now. Richard Hooker and the Vision of God is a groundbreaking new text that serves as both an introduction to, and substantive analysis of, this hugely influential sixteenth-century theologian.

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The Roots of William Tyndale’s Theology Ralph S Werrell (Author) William Tyndale is one of the most important of the early reformers and has had a formative influence on the development of the English language and religious thought.The sources of his theology are, however, not immediately clear, and historians have often seen him as influenced chiefly by continental ideas. In his important new book, Ralph Werrell shows that the most important influences were to be found closer to home, and that the home-grown Wycliffite tradition was of far greater importance.Werrell shows that the apparent differences between Tyndale’s writings from the period before 1530 and his later writings are spurious, and that a simpler explanation is that his ideas were formed as a result of an upbringing in a household in which Wycliffite ideas were accepted. He also shows how far Tyndale’s theology, fully developed by 1525, was from that of the continental reformers. He then examines in detail some of the main strands of Tyndale’s thought in doctrines such as the Fall, Salvation, the Sacraments and the Blood of Christ showing how different they are from Luther and most other contemporary reformers.While Tyndale, in his early writings, used some of Luther’s writings, he made theological changes and additions to Luther’s text.The influences of John Trevisa,Wyclif and the later Wycliffite writers were far more important.

Werrell shows that without accepting the huge influence of the Wycliffite ideas, Tyndale’s significance as a theologian, and the development of the English Reformation cannot be fully understood.

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Marianne Jehle-Wildberger (Author); Mark Kyburz (Translator); John Peck (Translator) The Swiss theologian Adolf Keller was the leading ecumenist on the European continent between the two world wars. In this book the historian Marianne Jehle-Wildberger delineates his life and its achievements. Based on research in forty archives in Europe and the United States, a picture emerges that shows a wonderful man who was a personal friend of Karl Barth, C. G.Jung,Thomas Mann, and Albert Schweitzer – and thus who was influenced by the spiritual tendencies of the twentieth century. Keller cooperated closely with the National Council of Churches. His Central Bureau of Relief in Geneva (Inter-Church Aid) was supported by American churches. His lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary on “Religion and Revolution” (1933) – in which he was one of the first commentators to denounce National Socialism in Germany – set a new standard of political discussion and are unsurpassed. Marianne Jehle-Wildbergers’s book is an important contribution to twentieth-century church history and to the history of the twentieth century in general. 300p.

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Can the Veda speak? Dharmakirti against Mimamsa Exegetics and Vedic authority. An Annotated Translation of PVSV 164, 24–176,16.

Vincent Eltschinger (Author); Helmut Krasser (Author) The present volume provides an annotated English translation of the last section of Dharmakirti’s Pramanavarttikasvavrtti (PVSV 164,24–176,16, ad stanzas 1.312–340), which includes his final assault on the Mimamsa doctrine of the authorlessness (apauruseyatva) of the Veda. Dharmakirti draws out the apparently fatal consequences of this doctrine: If the Vedic scriptures are without an author, hence without an underlying intention, they can only be meaningless. Even if they have a meaning, it must be supersensible. But then, claiming that the leading Mimamsaka authorities – Jaimini, Sabara – possessed privileged cognitive access to its supersensible meaning is not an option, since the Mimamsaka denies that humans have any supernatural form of knowledge. In short, Dharmakirti forces his opponent to admit that the Veda is nothing but a mutus liber, a “mute book.”

Besides questioning the very possibility of Vedic hermeneutics under Mimamsaka presuppositions, the passage translated contains interesting allusions to Dharmakirti’s linguistic theory, his views on scriptural authority, his critique of the Veda’s reliability, and his understanding of the transmission of the Veda and Vedic sakhas (“schools”, “recensions”). 195p.

PHILOSOPHY

Grundvertrauen, Hermeneutik eines Grenzphänomens Ingolf U. Dalferth (Editor); Simon Peng-Keller (Editor) To talk about basic trust is easy. It is more difficult, however, to describe what it means to have basic trust. So far we have succeeded only rudimentarily to verify this phenomenon empirically and to grasp it conceptually. Despite this vagueness we have become used to talking about basic trust both in everyday life and in scholarly discourse. But what does it mean?

Don’t we have to distinguish between different forms of basic trust? Between confidence in the world and in life on the one hand and a child’s universal trust on the other, or the basal trust that we grant each other in our daily communication?

And what is the relationship between basic trust and trust in God? This study addresses these questions from different angles. It launches an illuminating discourse between philosophical, theological, sociological and psychological perspectives.Terminological and hermeneutical approaches are complemented by the attempt to describe basic trust empirically. Documented in the present volume, this research project of the Swiss National Science Foundation (Zurich University, 2009–2012) closes a significant gap in the field. German text. 248p.

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Special Price $46.40 300 Jahre Essais de Théodicée – Rezeption und Transformation Self, No-Self, and Salvation: Dharmakirti’s Critique of the Notions of Self and Person Vincent Eltschinger (Author); Isabelle Ratié (Author) From very early times, Buddhist intellectuals have made the notion of a self-existing over and above the bodily and mental constituent’s one of their main targets.Their critique first culminates in Vasubandhu’s treatise against the Buddhist personalists (5th century CE).The eighth-century philosophers Santaraksita and Kamalasila provide another milestone in the history of the mainstream Buddhists’ critique of the self and the person: their Tattvasangraha (pañjika) contains the most learned and elaborate treatment of the subject. But how have Dignaga and Dharmakirti contributed to this debate? The present study attempts to answer at least in part this question by offering an account of Dharmakirti’s position regarding the self.The book’s introduction deals with Dharmakirti’s view of the self as the paramount expression of nescience.

Chapter 1 is devoted to his critique of the two main expressions of Buddhist substantialism; the Buddha-nature teachings and Personalism (pudgalavada). Chapter 2 presents his way of undermining the non-Buddhists’ arguments in favor of the self.

Finally, Chapter 3 provides a detailed account of Dharmakirti’s most original contribution on the subject; his demonstration that the (belief in the) existence of a self makes salvation impossible. 382p.

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Doctrinal Backgrounds of VipassanaMeditation: Insight in Current Methods and According to Canonical Sources R.C. Van Oosterwijk (Author) Vipassana-meditation (or practice) has become popular in South East Asia and the West. However, these practices aiming at reaching insight are taught in many varieties.The focus of this book is on the doctrinal sources of a number of vipassanapractices. Part one considers a number of methods by modern teachers and scholar-monks about vipassana-meditation, and compares these with the canonical Pali discourses they refer to. In Part two the author analyses which principles related to insight and practices to develop insight have been widely accepted in the Pali discourses. Futhermore, a comparison with some discourses available in English from Chinese versions is offered.This study is written for those who have a practical or theoretical interest in meditation techniques such as mindfulness and vipassana. In particular participants in retreats, who note that many different methods are taught, will find this a useful book. 161p.

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Wenchao Li (Editor); Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (Editor) Why evil? With no less a question than the justification of God as an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent being in contrast to the undeniable existence of evil in the world, GW Leibniz translated and published the popular but controversial Essais de theodicy sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l’homme et l’origine du mal one after the other in 1700.Therefore, the title 300 years Essais de theodicy does not suggest a false continuity, especially as the basis of what Leibniz’s theodicy means with its Christian theological and rational philosophical implications. Nevertheless, the question remains:Why Evil?

This book goes back to an international symposium, held on the 300th anniversary of the publication of Leibniz’s theodicy in Berlin. Key themes are reception and performance history, particularly the criticism of the theodicy in the philosophical, theological and political thinking of the 18th and 19th Centuries in Europe, criticisms which affect philosophical and political discourse up to the present day, German text. 476p.

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Leibniz und die Ökumene Wenchao Li (Editor); Hans Poser (Editor); Rudolph, Hartmut (Editor) This title describes a subject that not gone unnoticed in research. Its importance for both the understanding of Leibniz’ canon and the history of ecumenism (the centuries-long quest for the unification of separate denominations and churches in Christianity) has been significantly underestimated in the past. In preceding editions of correspondence and the philosophical and political writings in the Leibniz-Akademie Editon, the great importance which Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) placed on the unification of the divided Christian churches during his life is always apparent. And so in 2009, in the Berlin Schloss Charlottenburg, the first international conference covering Leibniz’s ecumenical concerns was held and the conference proceedings are summarized in this volume. German text. 314p.

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Monaden im Diskurs: Monas, Monaden, Monadologien (1600 bis 1770) Hanns-Peter Neumann (Author) Instead of trying to prove the origin of Leibniz’s concept of Monads within a historical perspective, this study presents the obvious presence and virulence of ideas about monads in the 17th and 18th centuries as itself an object of study. It reconstructs the early modern canon formation of Pythagoreanism, in which ideas about monads have been handed down, and the monadological philosophies of Gottfried Leibniz, Christian Wolff, and Andreas Clavius are analyzed against this background. Using rich source material, it shows how the ahistorical argumentative monadologies of Leibniz and Wolff (whom contemporaries re-historicized and re-Pythagoreanized) are situated in the mesh of Ancient-Modern relationships and their work is evaluated in this way.This book summarizes the results and selectively points out the ways of the Monads in the modern world. German text. 559p.

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Cervantes: The Complete Exemplary Novels B.W. Ife (Author); Jonathan Thacker (Author) Originally published in four separate volumes, this publication sees all 12 Novelas Ejemplares as a single volume for the first time in English. Each story has an individual introduction, the original Spanish text with facing English translation and notes.

Barry Ife’s re-written authoritative general introduction explores specific issues raised by the Exemplary Novels as a collection, Cervantes’s interest in the mixing of genre and in the virtuoso aspects of storytelling. Ife calls the Exemplary Novels “one of the most original, entertaining, and provocative collections of short novels in any language. 960p.

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Practices of Wonder: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives Sophia Vasalou (Editor) Wonder has been claimed as the beginning of philosophy by both Plato and Aristotle. Although an apparently similar claim, the essays in this collection represent a closer inspection of the difference in both location and content that define these two eminent thinkers’ kinds of wonder.While Aristotle’s understanding was outward-looking, directed to natural phenomena, and positioned at the beginning of inquiry with the assumption that explanation should purge it, Plato’s before him was inward-looking, toward conceptual phenomena, and positioned not only at the beginning of inquiry but also as its pursued end. Such different understandings are ones that have continued to be elaborated and developed throughout the history of philosophical conversation and so on to affect our feelings, understanding of and reactions to wonder. 264p.

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Special Price $32.00 Philosophy and Salvation: An Essay on Wisdom, Beauty, and Love as the Goal of Life Carlos Blanco (Author) We all seek salvation, claims Blanco, because we all become prisoners of negativity. Humanity wants to be saved, we want to overcome the negativity that so often enslaves us. But, where is the savior to be found, and where is the source of salvation? In Philosophy and Salvation Blanco argues that salvation may only come from the infinite springs of the word. ‘The word saves us: the word of science, the word manifested in art, the word of a society which promises something for itself . . . Humanity understands itself through language: human beings use words in order to know each other and to cooperate in the edification of something that may transcend them.The word invites us, and in fact leads us to transcendence.This is salvation: to inaugurate a new world in which the former negativity may be overcome’. Blanco looks back over the history of philosophical and theological thought to bring his argument to life for all seeking salvation today. 294p.

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Valle-Inclán: The Dead Man’s Finery and The Captain’s Daughter Laura Lonsdale (Translator) Las galas del difunto/ The Dead Man’s Finery (1926) and La hija del capitán/ The Captain’s Daughter (1927) are two of four tragic farces written by Ramón del Valle-Inclán for the theater.Translated here for the first time into English, the plays demonstrate the dramatist’s evolving theory of the esperpento as a satirical genre.The Dead Man’s Finery is a short dramatic incursion into the life of Juanito Ventolera/Johnny Bluster, a decommissioned veteran of the SpanishAmerican War who steals a dead man’s clothes in order to woo a prostitute. A recreation of the Don Juan legend, the play takes the problematic, protean and devilish Don Juan and sets his outrageous behavior in a very particular social and historical context.The Captain’s Daughter is the most historically and politically oriented of Valle-Inclán’s works for the theater. A man is killed and the accident of his death sets off a chain of events in which exploitation and self-interest are the orchestrating forces, concluding in a military coup that topples the government. An overt satire of the rise to power of General Primo de Rivera in 1923, the play dispenses with the individual protagonist and portrays a society in crisis. Notorious for his recondite use of language, in these plays Valle-Inclán emphasizes the popular idiom without ever falling into picturesque realism.The plays are accompanied by a critical introduction and notes to guide the reader or director of these plays, both fine examples of Valle-Inclán’s expressionistic and experimental theater. 160p.

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Special Price $80.00, 9781908343246, PB, $25.00, Special Price $20.00 Dalle starne ai cinghiali: Memorie di un cacciatore Piero Cilotti (Author) The world of hunting has no secrets for Piero Cilotti, who spent his entire life learning its tricks and traditions.After traveling throughout Italy and meeting many important landowners, he collected his memories in this book where, starting from his experiences as a hunter, describes with a genuine and captivating style the economic, social and cultural changes occurred in our country from the 50s onwards. Reading his story we enter into a forgotten past, and discover traditions and customs of a long gone culture, where many characters the author had the chance to meet, and often became close friends with stand out. So in the story of a life spent “between partridges and wild boars”, we can find the unique record of an epoch.With many references to the aristocratic families, it will impress the constant public of the hunters, and not only the Tuscan ones. Coming out is also a new release of an interesting essay on the evolution of rural culture from the beginning of the Twentieth century, with some good recipes. Italian text. 192p.

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Oriana Fallaci: Cercami dov’è il dolore Umberto Cecchi (Author) The journalist and writer Umberto Cecchi, long-standing friend of Oriana Fallaci, gives us with his book a recollection, a long interview, a novel.The protagonist is the “private” Oriana, away from the reflectors and the myths of public life: she speaks about pain and passions, pleasure in little things, the impossible pursuit of happiness, grief retrieved by memory but still painful; she speaks about life and death, war and peace, love, illusions, angers and betrayals of life, men’s folly, anxieties, depressions.The portrait of an exceptional, extremely strong and sensitive woman emerges: a determined person, with a deep inner strength, attracted by solitude but aware of the impossibility of living on her own. A woman in search of herself and of the Others, and in fact very shy, whose difficult character is a defense from life’s and world’s hostilities.

Italian text. 320p.

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Poemario Montero Luis García (Author); Anna Maria Cocozza (Editor) E niente è neutro, neppure le ombre delle case antiche che chiedono il loro paesaggio perso sui marciapiedi, neppure la gru che lontana, bella come un cigno, tende il suo lungo collo e lo riposa sulla gronda grigia dell’orizzonte.These lines by Luis García Montero reveal the distinctive features of his poetry, able to transform elements of everyday life in vivid and pounding images. So the crane – made of iron, among bricks, concrete, and cement that we often refuse to look at – becomes a throbbing being in need of affection and tenderness. Montero makes it possible for the reader to replace him, to watch with his own eyes the landscapes that the poet is watching and describing, to experience the same emotions he is experiencing. So that we can become in turn, poets of those images. Italian text. 420p.

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Special Price $28.00 Scienza e coscienza Spina Giovanni (Author) A professional is charged with murder. He struggles against the incriminating evidence only with the lapse of his memory and the weight of his thoughts. His conscience, full of questions, clashes against the scientific facts that condemn him. A hard fight rises between the myth of the infallibility of science and the claimed innocence of a gentle soul, which seem to collapse in unison.The plot, written in the modern prose of legal thrillers, doesn’t make room for fantasy, and wraps the reader in a never ending cobweb, until the suspicion of an awful double truth. But in the end every clash has its winner, and every truth its master…, Italian text. 184p.

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Special Price $18.00 Rigmaroles and Ragamuffins: Unpicking Words we Derive from Textiles Elinor Kapp (Author) The English language has developed over many centuries from many diverse languages and cultures. If we want to bring to life something of its impressive history, we might use the metaphor of a great river into which streams and rivulets constantly flow.

Elinor Kapp prefers to think of English as a wonderful piece of embroidery, stitched with a multitude of varied threads onto a base of primitive communication.The upper surface dazzles us with its range of colors, tones and textures. But to understand its construction, we need to take a look at the underside of the work.When we unpick the English language, it is quite startling to find how many of our common words, sayings, folklore, myths, nursery rhymes and stories come from thread and all the processes it goes through to create textiles. Rigmaroles and Ragamuffins is the result the author’s long involvement with textiles as an embroiderer and her recognition of the therapeutic potential in textile crafts. Elinor is also fascinated by the way English weaves the threads of our past into today’s figures of speech, bringing richly layered meaning to our lives.This second edition of this popular book includes a brand new introduction by the author. 160p.2nd edition.

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LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Erscheinungsformen rheinischer Alltagssprache: Untersuchungen zu Variation und Kookkurrenzregularitäten im “mittleren Bereich” zwischen Dialekt und Standardsprache Robert Möller (Author) In the Rhineland, just as in a large part of the German speaking area, the language used in informal communication in everyday life is mostly neither dialect nor standard German, but rather something in between.The question how is this “middle range” organized; whether an intermediate (or more) variety has formed; whether the choices of the speakers are restricted in other ways; or whether it is essentially a fluctuating mixture of dialect and standard elements have been answered differently by speakers and researchers.This work uses a previously neglected approach: the focus is the investigation of co-occurrence regularities.Within a corpus of family discussions, the combinations of dialect and standard language elements within words and sentences which occur or do not occur are examined.This results in an overall picture in which the apparent contradictions resolve themselves (Continuum vs. Dialect of High German dichotomy). German text. 50 b/w illus 42 tab. 372p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik - Beihefte (ZDL-B) 153, June 2013, 9783515101226, PB, $90.00, Special Price $72.00

Konstruktivismus und Roman: Erkenntnistheoretische Aspekte in Alain Robbe-Grillets Theorie und Praxis des Erzählens Christina Schaefer (Author) What caused Alain Robbe-Grillet to design a ‘new novel’ at the beginning of the 1950s as well as new, nascent epistemology that turns from today’s perspective as a constructivist? With constructivism Robbe-Grillet shares a decidedly anti-realist world view, which assumes that reality is only a cognitive construct and man can never know the world and how it ‘really’ is. In his first novel, Les Gommes (1953), RobbeGrillet already constructs the nature of reality in an impressive scene. In the 60s/70s he focused on the constructiveness of the text especially, and from the 80s he especially focused on the ego.This volume is the first to examine systematically the remuneration of Robbe-Grillet’s narrative aesthetics to constructivist epistemology and it demonstrates their importance for his overall work. German text.

303p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur - Beihefte. Neue Folge (ZFSL-B) 39, June 2013, 9783515102780, PB, $75.00, Special Price $60.00

Language Attitudes in England and Austria: A Sociolinguistic Investigation into Perceptions of High and Low-Prestige Varieties in Manchester and Vienna John Bellamy (Author) In both Manchester and Vienna, there is much anecdotal evidence about the social implications of one’s spoken language variety. However, the evaluation of a person’s character based on the way they speak might not necessarily be the same in different countries with different languages. If evaluations of a speaker’s social class, professional status and general character change according to the country and language, then in which ways? By applying a very similar methodological framework in each of these cities, this study sets out to examine the extent to which perceptions of a speaker may vary with the social and linguistic context of each urban environment. Many sociolinguistic studies have already investigated how the way we talk influences the perceptions others have of us.The research presented in this book expands on this idea by directly comparing data across two nations with two different languages. 2 b/w illus 78 tab. 60 graph. 245p.

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Zu Pest und AIDS in der englischen Literatur Christa Jansohn (Author) The plague spread fear and terror for centuries - whole continents have been hit; even in the Bible or Homer’s “Iliad” there are descriptions of the disease. Personal accounts, historical and fictional narratives as well as numerous artistic treatments from ancient to modern times show to what extent the Black Death is burned into cultural memory. Christa Jansohn elucidates how the plague was understood in a literary context in various eras using a number of lesser known, partly unpublished, English texts.What were the different meanings attributed to this disease? What additional research questions arise from it? Finally, the plague is still further reused and recoded as a metaphor in descriptions of the immune deficiency disease.Thus, the author shows how heterogeneous the representations of these diseases are in the English literature. German text. 103p.

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Childhood as Memory, Myth and Metaphor: Proust, Beckett, and Bourgeois Catherine Crimp (Author) A fascination with childhood unites the artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) and the writers Samuel Beckett (1906-89) and Marcel Proust (1871-1922). But while many commentators have traced their childhood images back to memories of lived experiences, there is more to their mythologies of childhood that waits to be explored.They invite us to move away from familiar ideas — whether psychological or biographical — about what a child can represent, and even what a child is.The haunting child figures of Bourgeois, Beckett and Proust echo each other as they show how imagining origins — for a life, for a work of art — involves paradoxes that test the limits of our forms of expression.

Art meets literature, profusion meets concision, French meets English, and images of childhood reveal new insights in this encounter between three great figures of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. 204p.

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The Ideal of Kingship in the Writings of Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkein: Divine Kingship is reflected in Middle-Earth Christopher Scarf (Author) Whilst much has been written about Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien both individually and collectively, Scarf claims that the quintessential ideals of Kingship common to their work have never by themselves been studied. In exploring the ideals of kingship – divine, human and mythological– in the work of the three writers, Scarf discovers a variety of ideas, some overlapping, of a Creator-King. Scarf explores the concept seeking out evidence for His attributes, His perceived purpose in creating, and whether any such purpose is reflected in His creations.The book considers whether the Creator involved demiurges, or simply created ex nihilo. Scarf also considers the entry of evil into a perfect creation, a question at the heart of Christian theology.As well as drawing on the works of the three authors, Scarf looks to their influences – Old English poetry such as Beowulf, the Arthurian Legends and Greek history, and scholarly exegesis of Old and New Testament ideas of Ancient Hebrew kingship, and its ultimate fulfillment in Christ the King.This new work forms an inter-disciplinary approach to Kingship – literary, theological and historic– that offers the reader a key to a deeper understanding of the work of all three Oxford ‘Inklings’. Scarf ultimately claims that these ideas are important in the light of today’s Christian belief (or lack of it) in contemporary Britain, and that it is only in understanding these ideas and ideals that the three men’s true contributions to English Life and Literature can be fully appreciated. 1 b&w image, 200p.

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Dissonance in the Republic of Letters: The Querelle des Gluckistes et des Piccinnistes Mark Darlow (Author) Eighteenth-century French cultural life was often characterized by quarrels, and the arrival of Viennese composer Christoph Willibald Gluck in Paris in 1774 was no exception, sparking a five-year pamphlet and press controversy which featured a rival Neapolitan composer, Niccolò Piccinni. However, as this study shows, the Gluck-Piccinni controversy was about far more than which composer was better suited to lead French operatic reform. A consideration of cultural politics in 1770s Paris shows that a range of issues were at stake: court versus urban taste as the proper judge of music, whether amateurs or specialists should have the right to speak of opera, whether the epic or the tragic mode is more suited for drama reform, and even: why should the public argue about opera at all? 240p.

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Special Price $71.60 Dream Cities: Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-Century France Greg Kerr (Author) Against a backdrop of dizzying urbanization, French utopian thinkers of the nineteenth century set out to explore the transformative possibilities of the modern metropolis. Linking literary analyses with diverse strands of cultural and intellectual history, this study considers how the utopian vision of the city in turn came to impinge on prose writing by poets: in Saint-Simonian literature, and in texts by Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud. At points steeped in the hyperbolic rhetoric of utopian projects, these texts nonetheless wear away at the internal coherence of that rhetoric and the idealizing meanings it supports.What emerges from Greg Kerr’s analysis is a hitherto unfamiliar dimension of these writings, revealing the alertness of some of the greatest exponents of nineteenth-century poetry to the dynamic possibilities of utopian writing, and suggesting new ways to understand the evolution of poetic discourse across the century. 260p.

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Chicago of the Balkans: Budapest in Hungarian Literature 1900-1939 Gwen Jones (Author) At the point of its creation in 1873, Budapest was intended to be a pleasant rallying point of orderliness, high culture and elevated social principles: the jewel in the national crown. From the turn of the century to World War II, however, the Hungarian capital was described, variously, as: Judapest, the sinful city, not in Hungary, and the Chicago of the Balkans.This is the first Englishlanguage study of competing metropolitan narratives in Hungarian literature that spans both the liberal late Habsburg and post-liberal,‘Christian-national’ eras, at the same time as the ‘Jewish Question’ became increasingly inseparable from representations of the city.Works by writers from a wide variety of backgrounds are discussed, from Jewish satirists to icons of the radical Right, representatives of conservative national schools, and modernist, avant-garde and ‘peasantist’ authors. 168p.

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Form and Feeling in Modern Literature: Essays in Honour of Barbara Hardy

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Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile

William Baker (Editor); Isobel Armstrong (Editor) Essays, short stories and poems by eminent creative writers, critics and scholars from three continents celebrate the literary achievements of Barbara Hardy, the foremost exponent of close critical reading in the latter half of the twentieth century and today. Her work, as the essays in the volume bear witness, encompasses 19th and 20th century British fiction, poetry, and Shakespeare. In addition to an introduction outlining and assessing Hardy’s career and writing, there is an extensive bibliography of her work. Comparatively short, concise essays, stories and poems by twenty distinguished hands express the eclectic nature of Barbara Hardy’s work and themselves form a many-faceted critical/creative gathering. Form and Feeling moves away from the traditional festschrift to create an innovative critical genre that reflects the variety and nature of its subject’s work. In addition to Barbara Hardy’s own writing, authors and subjects treated include Anglo-Welsh poetry, nineteenth century fiction, Margaret Atwood,Wilkie Collins, Ivy Compton Burnet, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, G. M. Hopkins,Wyndham Lewis, George Meredith, Alice Meynell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Shakespeare, and W. B. Yeats, amongst others. 226p.

Carmen Bugan (Author) Poetry born of historical upheaval bears witness both to actual historical events and considerations of poetics. Under the duress of history the poet, who is torn between lamentation and celebration, seeks to achieve distance from his troubled times. Add to this a deep love for and commitment to the Irish and English poetic traditions, and a strong desire to search for models outside his culture, and you have the poetry of the Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney (1939-). In this study, Carmen Bugan looks at how the poetry of Seamus Heaney, born of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, has encountered the ‘historically-tested imaginations’ of Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, and Zbigniew Herbert, as he aimed to fulfill a Horatian poetics, a poetry meant to both instruct and delight its readers. 214p.

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Klaus Vieweg (Editor); James Vigus (Editor); Kathleen M. Wheeler (Editor) One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory.The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humor functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. In tracing its hitherto under-recognized impact both on literary writers, such as Jean Paul and Herman Melville, and on philosophers, including Hegel and Marx, the collection reveals that Shandean humor is a Grenzgänger - a point of commerce not only between Anglophone and German discourses, but also between literature and philosophy. 200p.

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Special Price $71.60 Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr Dora Osborne (Author) Both W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr (1954-) were born too late to know directly the violence of the Second World War and the Holocaust, but these traumatic events are a persistent presence in their work. In a series of close readings of key prose texts, Dora Osborne examines the different ways in which the traces of a traumatic past mark their narratives. By focusing on the authors’ use of visual and topographical tropes, she shows how blind spots and inhospitable places configure signs of past violence, but, ultimately, resist our understanding.Whilst links between the two authors are well-documented, this book offers the first fulllength study of Sebald and Ransmayr and their complicated relation to the traumatic traces of National Socialism. 198p.

Renaissance Keywords Ita Mac Carthy (Editor) Certain words played a crucial role in the making of the European Renaissance, and still recur today in our shifting understanding of it. Discretion and grace, to take two examples studied here, express how individuals thought about themselves, each other and their experience of the world, yet they are as hard to define as they are ever-present in Renaissance discourse. In this collection of essays, scholars from across the Humanities offer new interpretations of these and other ‘keywords’, to adopt Raymond Williams’ term, and investigate the vocabulary that not only accompanied, but also produced, the cultural transformations that made the Renaissance so distinctive. A keywords approach to Renaissance Europe provides a rich contextual framework for the exploration of its central ideas. It also highlights the need for fresh thinking on current histories of the age. Renaissance Keywords engages with the ongoing debate about the term ‘Renaissance’ itself, perhaps more our keyword than theirs, and seeks alternative ways to understand a culture and society which produced conceptions of the self as much as it did art and science.The result is an exploration at the cutting edge of contemporary research. 158p.

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Special Price $71.60 Method and Variation: Narrative in Early Modern French Thought Emma Gilby (Editor); Paul White (Editor) French philosophical and scientific writers of the early modern period made various use of forms of narrative — language that aims to tell a story — in their texts. Equally, authors of fiction often sought to appropriate the language and tools of philosophical and scientific investigation.The contributions in this collection, from some of the most distinguished and exciting scholars working in French Studies today, aim to bring into question oppositional relationships between terms such as ‘philosophy’ and ‘fiction’ when these are applied to early modern texts.They consider authors as diverse as Montaigne, Descartes, La Rochefoucauld, Mme de Villedieu and Mme de Lafayette. If we are to be true to the early modern period, they argue, we have to acknowledge it as a time when the figurative, anecdotal and fictive on the one hand, and the truthseeking on the other, influence each other mutually. 130p.

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Transformative Change in Western Thought: A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood Ingo Gildenhard (Editor); Andrew Zissos (Editor) This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day. Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation, alchemy, and mutation recur and echo throughout ancient and modern writing and thinking and continue in science fiction today as tales of gene-splicing and hybridization.The idea of metamorphosis lies in uneasy coexistence with orderly world views and it is often cast out, or attributed to enemies. Augustine and the church fathers consider shapeshifting ungodly; Enlightenment thinkers suppress alchemy as unscientific; genetically-modified wheat and stem-cell research are stigmatized as unnatural.

Yet the very possibility of radical transformation inspires hope just as it frightens. A provocative, theorizing, trans-historical history, this book ranges across classics, literature, history, philosophy, theology and anthropology. From Homer and Ovid to Proust and H. P. Lovecraft and through figures from Proteus to Kafka’s Fly and to Spiderman, four historical surveys are combined with nine case studies to show the malleable, yet persistent, presence of transformation throughout Western cultural history. 520p.

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Special Price $71.60 Goethe’s Visual World Pamela Currie (Author) Goethe’s ideas on color and imagery crossed many borderlines: those of artistic processes and philosophical aesthetics, art history and color theory, together with the science of perception.This investigation into his writings ranges across art from Antiquity, the Renaissance and the eighteenth century, as well as exploring the centrality of these issues to Goethe’s literary work. Questions find answers, but also raise new questions.This systematic sequence of essays, originally written between 1999 and 2011, appeals to readers in all these separate areas, while drawing together their essential coherence.

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Special Price $71.60 Edoardo Sanguineti: Literature, Ideology and the Avant-Garde John Picchione (Editor); Paolo Chirumbolo (Editor) Poet, novelist, theorist, playwright, translator, politician, and teacher, Edoardo Sanguineti (1930-2010) is one of the most original and influential Italian intellectuals of the second post-war period.An ardent and unremitting historical materialist, he investigated the links between language and ideology, literature and the other arts, together with their functions within the logic of late capitalism.The extraordinary range of his creative work persistently defies conventional aesthetic notions.With their variety of topics and critical perspectives, the essays assembled in this volume explore both the relevance of his theoretical postures and the ideological and formal fabric of his literary production.They highlight his subversive objectives, the complexity of the language, the astonishing linguistic ingenuity, metaliterary significance, whimsical disposition, and provocative social critique.Testimonials by Sanguineti’s colleagues and students, presented here in English translation, offer a portrait of the man, his temperament and his distinctiveness, and provide a personal view of the life and work of a brilliant intellectual. 244p.

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Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment George Corbett (Author) Dante and Epicurus seem poles apart. Dante, a committed Christian, depicted in the Commedia a vision of the afterlife and God’s divine justice. Epicurus, a pagan philosopher, taught that the soul is mortal and that all religion is vain superstition. And yet Epicurus is, for Dante, not only the quintessential heretic but an ethical ally.The key to this apparent paradox lies in the heterodox dualism – between man’s two goals of secular felicity and spiritual beatitude – at the heart of Dante’s ethical, political and theological thought. Corbett’s full-length treatment of Dante’s reception and polemical representation of Epicurus addresses a major gap in the scholarship. Furthermore the study’s focus on fault lines in Dante’s vision of the afterlife – where the theological tensions implicit in his dualism surface – opens a new way to read the Commedia as a whole in dualistic terms. 198p.

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Furetière’s Roman bourgeois and the Problem of Exchange: Titular Economies Craig Moyes (Author) ‘If Furetière (1619-1688) hadn’t been friends with Racine and Boileau, if he hadn’t been famous for his Dictionary and for his battle with the Académie Française, it is unlikely that we would still be speaking of the Roman bourgeois (1666). Its qualities are decidedly few. One cannot even say in its favor that it bears witness to a period and a moment in our literary history.’ So writes Antoine Adam in his magisterial history of 17th-century French literature.

But whatever one might feel about the aesthetic value of the Roman bourgeois — and following Adam it is usually classified as a precocious though failed example of narrative realism, sadly out of step with the classicism of its time — can we really say that it bears no witness to its period? Craig Moyes shows on the contrary how, within the disarticulated narrative of the Roman bourgeois, Furetière — the titular abbot, the sitting academician, the secret lexicographer, the experimental novelist — was uniquely placed to explore a changing literary economy marked most spectacularly by the trial of Nicolas Fouquet (1661-1664), the decline of aristocratic largesse, and the subsequent centralization of artistic patronage around the personal reign of Louis XIV and the new administration of Colbert. 168p.

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Prometheus in the Nineteenth Century: From Myth to Symbol Caroline Corbeau-Parsons (Author) On Zeus’ order, Prometheus was chained to Mount Caucasus where, every day, he was to endure his liver being devoured by a bird of prey — his punishment for bringing fire to mankind.

Through the impulse of Goethe, his fortune went through radical changes: the Titan, originally perceived as a trickster, was established both as a creator and a rebel freed from guilt, and he became a mask for the Romantic artist.This cross-disciplinary study, encompassing literature, the history of art, and music, examines the constitution of the Prometheus myth and the revolution it underwent in 19th-century Europe. It leads to the Symbolist period — which witnessed the coronation of the Titan as a prism for the total work of art — and aims to re-establish the importance of Prometheus amongst other major Symbolist figures such as Orpheus.

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The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination Sotirios Paraschas (Author) The nineteenth century realist author was a contradictory figure. He was the focus of literary criticism, but obscured his creative role by insisting on presenting his works as ‘copies’ of reality. He was a celebrity who found himself subservient to publishers and the public, in a newly-industrialized literary marketplace. He was the owner of his work who was divested of his property by imperfect copyright laws, playwrights who adapted his novels for the stage, and sequel-writers.This combination of a conspicuous yet precarious status with a self-effacing attitude was expressed by an image of the author as a plural, Protean subject, possessing the faculty of sympathetic imagination – which the realists incorporated in their works in the form of a series of fictional characters who functioned as ‘doubles’ of the author. Paraschas focuses on two realists, Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot, and traces this authorial scenario from its origins in the late eighteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century, examining its presence in the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Friedrich Schlegel, Charles Baudelaire and André Gide.

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Special Price $71.60 Charlotte Bronte Patsy Stoneman (Author) Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is one of the most famous novels in the world; its heroine’s spirited response to hardship and temptation has engaged an eager readership since its publication in 1847. Jane Eyre, however, was not Charlotte Brontë’s only novel, and Patsy Stoneman’s book traces the development of her work from her exuberant early writing to her disturbing last work,Villette. A final chapter considers Charlotte Brontë’s shifting popular and academic reputation and the various adaptations and imitations of her work. Reading the novels in the context of Charlotte Brontë’s life and times, Stoneman emphasizes her persistent engagement with power relations – within families, between classes and between men and women – and the changing narrative strategies with which she explores them.While keeping close to the words of the page, the book is informed by the critical perspectives of feminism, cultural materialism and postcolonialism. 128p.

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Special Price $15.96 Crime Fiction: From Poe to the Present Martin Priestman (Author); Isobel Armstrong (Editor) Since Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ inaugurated the detective whodunnit in 1841, narratives following the same basic structure have continued to flood the fiction market.This book examines why this form has proved so tenacious, and plots a course through the thousands of crime novels and stories which have appeared since then. Noting differences of form between pure whodunnits concerned with a past crime, and thrillers where we focus on a present action, the book maps such variants onto a series of historical changes, chiefly in Britain and the USA but with some consideration of French and Scandinavian fiction. As well as such classic detective writers as Collins, Doyle, Christie and Chandler, the book explores the Newgate Novel, spy fiction, the noir thriller, postwar police fiction, black and female private eyes, and the serial-killer mode which has swept the field since the 1980s. In this second edition a substantial new chapter has been added, and other chapters have been expanded to include significant new trends in the genre. 120p.

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Cover art for CRIME FICTION 2/e by Glen Orbik, reproduced by permission of Winterfall LLC

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Simon Avery (Author) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century and has recently undergone a major critical reappraisal.

In this new study, Simon Avery examines a range of her poems, both well known and less familiar, drawn from across her career, in order to explore the concern with the search for a meaningful home which underpins much of her writing. In a series of interrelated chapters on Barrett Browning’s religious poetry, love poetry, political poetry, and her major work, Aurora Leigh, he considers the ways in which the speakers and protagonists of her poems constantly search for a place of security and stability even though this often seems finally unattainable.

Attention is also given to Barrett Browning’s own search for a home in relation to inherited poetic models and traditions, and her establishment of an often radical poetics. 126p.

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Olive Schreiner Carolyn Burdett (Author) Olive Schreiner, who was born in 1855 in South Africa, has become a central literary figure for thinking about the complex debates surrounding gender, imperialism and class between 1880 and 1920. Aesthetically bold and politically passionate, Schreiner wrote novels, short stories, lyrical fragments she called dreams, as well as non-fiction and political polemic. Her work is widely acknowledged as a significant, though unconventional, contribution to the ‘New Woman’ debates of the fin de siècle, while her anti-imperialism helped to challenge and reshape feminist thinking.This volume explores Schreiner’s contribution to these debates, while also focusing on the shaping influence of both religion and science on her work. It discusses the range of her work, including her novels,The Story of an African Farm, Undine, and From Man to Man; her feminist tract Woman and Labour and short fictions and allegories about the position of women; and her diverse writings about South Africa, her country of birth. 128p.

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Pre-Raphaelitism: Poetry and Painting Lindsay Smith (Author) This book re-assesses the significance to Pre-Raphaelitism of the fundamental relationship of poem to painting, of the visual to the verbal, to examine those aspects of the movement that account for its enduring legacy. Beginning with the profound and somewhat neglected influence of Ruskin’s work upon the poets and painters, Smith focuses in particular upon the PreRaphaelite rehabilitation of the sister arts analogy, and an aesthetic of ekphrasis as played out in the short-lived periodical The Germ and in D.G. Rossetti’s sonnets for pictures. At the heart of the project is a new reading of the notorious circumstances of Rossetti’s coffined book - those manuscript poems Rossetti disinterred from his wife Elizabeth Siddal’s grave that brings to the fore the all-pervasive significance to the Pre-Raphaelites of a complex aesthetic of resurrection.With this and other examples, Smith redefines for us those categories of the corporeal and spiritual, the material and immaterial, the verbal and visual that the Pre-Raphaelites aspired to re-conceptualize. 128p.

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Relation. Medien - Gesellschaft - Geschichte /Media, Society, History / Relation n.s.vol. 4 Media Structures and Media Performance Medienstrukturen und Medienperformanz

Revolutionary Women Writers: Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams Angela Keane (Author) This book brings together two of the most significant British women writers of the Romantic period, Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams, and explores the poetics and politics of their work. In the 1790s, when Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams were at the peak of their critical reputations, they were known to each other and often cited together approvingly.

It was Smith who provided the young William Wordsworth with a letter of introduction to Williams when he visited France in 1791 (though she had left by the time he got there). By the end of the decade, Smith and Williams were being cited together more pejoratively, as two of a number of women who came to stand for the amoral, sexually suspect and politically naïve English ‘Jacobins,’ who were vilified in the conservative press. Neither were in fact ‘Jacobins,’ but they were revolutionary.This book looks at how Smith and Williams earned such reputations and at the politics and poetics of the works that reveal Smith to be a self-constructed Romantic and Williams as a mistress of intimate disguise. 128p.

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Samuel Selvon Roydon Salick (Author) The first full-length study of Selvon to cover all aspects of his fictional world: poems, radio dramas, short fiction and novels. It traces the evolution of Selvon from fledgling author of poems and short fiction to an established short-story writer and novelist. It argues that Selvon enjoys a special place in West Indian literature because of his celebration of the enormous struggle of the Indo-Trinidadian peasant out of the cane experience into every professional field and politics, of the glamorization of the West Indian immigrant (The Lonely Londoner), and of his daring use of the linguistic continuum of his island, establishing it as a dialect that meets every exigency of his artistry. He is the most democratic and predictive of Trinidadian writers, establishing the unlimited literary potential of the ordinary man and anticipating the concerns of politicians, linguists, and artists. 130p.

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Marie Hassenpflug: Eine Märchenerzählerin der Brüder Grimm Heiner Boehncke (Author); Phoebe Schmidt (Author) German literature owes Marie Hassenpflug some of their finest stories:“The Sleeping Beauty” “Snow White” and “Red Riding Hood”- These are just some of the twenty folk tales she has told the Grimm brothers. German text. 176p.

Philipp von Zabern, June 2013, 9783805345361, HB, $30.00,

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Manuel Puppis (Editor); Matthias Künzler (Editor); Otfried Jarren (Editor) Media structures play an important role in explaining media performance.The research on media systems, institutions and organizations developed significantly over the last decade.This volume contains contributions that deal with media structures and their change, the influence of media structures on both media organizations and media content as well as the state of research field. German text. 494p.

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Price $49.60 Gendered Artistic Positions and Social Voices: Politics, Cinema, and the Visual Arts in StateSocialist and Post-Socialist Hungary Beata Hock (Author) The history of women’s art and gendered cultural practices has had a troubled record in Hungary as in many countries of EastCentral Europe, and it mostly features as a missing phenomenon.This “lack” is often attributed on the one hand to state-socialist government policies that “emancipated” women at the same time as they hindered grass-roots social movements, including feminism, and on the other hand, to a re-traditionalizing social environment after the political changes of 1989. Beata Hock critically re-examines the supposed absences and presences of feminist cultural practice in Hungary with a focus on fine arts and cinema.The gendered dimensions of art production are explored in relation to larger social and cultural contexts in order to offer a uniquely interdisciplinary account. 7 col. phot. 12 b/w-phot, 6 col. illus 6 tab. 284p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kultur des Östlichen Mitteleuropa (FGKÖM) 42, June 2013, 9783515102094, HB, $69.00, Special Price $55.20

Schöne neue Kommunikationswelt oder Ende der Privatheit? Die Veröffentlichung des Privaten in Social Media und populären Medienformaten Petra Grimm (Editor); Oliver Zollner (Editor) Facebook and other online networks have changed the face of the Internet within a few years. In addition, the exposure of many users dealing with private information has changed and this has impacted the communication and environment of the individual and of society. In this title communication and media scientists, and privacy advocates reflect on the publication of privacy in social media and popular media formats. Aspects of the ethics of privacy as well as concepts of privacy and their economization and possible regulation are discussed within the context of empirical findings.The focus is on the understanding of privacy, which lies in the use of social networks: are there different notions of privacy in the online and the offline world? How should the individual and society deal with the challenges of social media? How can users have a self-determined privacy management? This book provides an overview of the state of research and also shows new perspectives and approaches to solutions. German text. 33 b/w illus 360p.

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The Fight to Stay Put: Social Lessons through Media Imaginings of Urban Transformation and Change Giorgio Hadi Curti (Editor); Jim Craine (Editor); Stuart C. Aitken (Editor) The title of this book – The Fight to Stay Put – is both an homage to and a play on Chester Hartman’s 1984 manifesto, The Right to Stay Put. It is here where Hartman first makes the case that property ‘ownership’ must be approached as much more than simply a purely economic matter: it is affective, it is emotional, it is personal. How people connect to place indelibly matters. On the one hand, fights to stay put can be seen as representations of struggles for social justice as they relate to place. On the other, they can be seen as the inevitable non-representational outcomes of territorial conflicts where fights for and over affective connections to place clash with those seeking monetary profit and power through re-productions of space. Media provides a particularly illuminating window into such fights and the social lessons that can be learned from them because of its ability to readily reveal intersecting narratives and wider processes impacting and composing place.These capacities of media are, perhaps, more important than ever today as forces of neo-liberal globalization and urban transformation and change continue to decentralize space.The trajectories of these fights and how they work through different concrete and imagined media landscapes form the basis of this book. 86 b/w illus 271p.

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Art of Ancient Chinese Porcelain Lu Zhangshen (Author) Full color art pieces of Ancient Chinese Pottery from various dynasties held by the National Museum of China. 350p.

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Special Price $92.00 Chinese Art History Book One Liu Wei (Author); Duan Guoqiang (Author) Chapter 1:The Light of Primitive Art Chapter 2: Artistic Achievements at the Beginning of Civilization Chapter 3: New Climates during the Periods of Change Chapter 4: Glories Under centralization Chapter 5: A New scene of national amalgamation. 450p.

ATF Asia, June 2013, 9781921816093, HB, $125.00,

Special Price $100.00 Chinese Art History Book Two, Liu Wei (Author); Duan Guoqiang (Author) Chapter 7: Grace of Literati Song Dynasty 960 AD — 1279 AD Chapter 8: Charms of Arts if Nomadic People Lao,Western Xia, Jin and Yuan Dynasties (907 AD — 1368 AD) Chapter 10:The Brilliance of the Last Empire Qing Dynasty 1616 AD —1911 AD, 859p.

ATF Asia, June 2013, 9781921816109, HB, $125.00, Special Price $100.00

Chinese Art History Book Three Liu Wei (Author); Duan Guoqiang (Author) Chapter 9: Multiple Genres of Art, Ming Dynasty 1368 AD — 1644. 498p.

ATF Asia, June 2013, 9781921816116, HB, $125.00,

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Chinese Masters of the 20th Century volumes 1: Art of Li Keran

Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium Axel Bangert (Editor); Robert S. C. Gordon (Editor); Libby Saxton (Editor) Recent representations of the Holocaust have increasingly required us to think beyond rigid demarcations of nation and history, medium and genre. Holocaust Intersections sets out to investigate the many points of conjunction between these categories in recent images of genocide.The book examines transnational constellations in Holocaust cinema and television in Europe, disclosing instances of border-crossing and boundary-troubling at levels of production, distribution and reception. It highlights intersections between film genres, through intertextuality and pastiche, and the deployment of audiovisual Holocaust memory and testimony. Finally, the volume addresses connections between the Holocaust and other histories of genocide in the visual culture of the new millennium, engaging with the questions of transhistoricity and intercultural perspective. Drawing on a wide variety of different media – from cinema and television to installation art and the internet – and on the most recent scholarship on responses to the Holocaust, the volume aims to update our understanding of how visual culture looks at the Holocaust and genocide today.

Legenda, Moving Image, 4, August 2013, 9781907975028, HB, $89.50,

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Lu Zhangshen (Author) The ancient art of Chines painting has many good traditions, such as expressive use of lines, the adept use of ink, and majestic composition.Vast expanses of landscapes can be represented in a single painting scroll, which is rare in the paintings of other countries. Chinese painting is unique in reflecting the greatness and the extraordinariness of the Chinese nation.The realm reflected in Chinese paintings is very vast. Chinese painting represents no only what the artist sees, but also what he knows and thinks. It embodies great imaginative power. Some say my paintings are based on the Impressionist School of Chinese painting. I do not agree and believe it is on mixture of my Western study but also the splendid Chinese cultural system and unique forms of expression. 269p.

ATF Asia, June 2013, 9781921816079, PB, $95.00,

Special Price $76.00 Chinese Masters of the 20th Century volumes 2: Art of Pan Tianshou Lu Zhangshen (Author) Pan Tianshou 1897-1971, inheriting the traditional Chinese painting, was a socialist painter. It had been his goal and spiritual fountain to revitalise national spirit by carrying forward the national art. Compared to his predecessors, he showed more presence in the forefront of the cultural clashes and social reform, voicing his great support for Chinese painting. 230p.

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Persian Manuscripts, Paintings and Drawings: From the 15th to the Early 20th Century in the Hermitage Collection Adel Adamova (Author) This volume surveys the Persian miniature and associated arts held in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.The most comprehensive catalog yet of these collections, it comprises more than 400 works dating from the 15th to the early 20th centuries, including illustrated and illuminated manuscripts, single-page miniatures and drawings, painted lacquer and oils on canvas, presented side by side to give an overall picture of the development of the arts of Iran over five centuries. 612 color, 416p.

Azimuth Editions, June 2013, 9781898592075, HB, $100.00, Special Price $80.00

Accademia dei Georgofili: Per descrivere il territorio. Agronomi, Cartografi, Naturalisti, Viaggiatori nella Toscana tra XVIII e XX secolo,

Chinese Masters of the 20th Century volumes 3: Art of Huang Zhou Lu Zhangshen (Author) Huang Zhou (1925–1997), a modern Chinese artist, was originally named Liang Gantang. He was also known by the names of Liang Yezi, Miao Di, Liang Peng, and Liang Quan. Early in his career, he worked as an editor in the Soldiers’ Books Publishing House of the Northeast Military Region. In 1949, he joined the People’s Liberation Army and served as a staff artist of the Creative Unit in the Political Department at the Headquarters of PLA’s Northeast Military Region. In 1955, he was transferred as a staff artist to the General Political Department of the PLA in Beijing. In 1959, he became a staff painter at the Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution. In 1981, he was appointed Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting. Huang was also a member of the CPPCC National Committee, a consultant to the Arts and Crafts Corporation under the former Ministry of Light Industry, and executive member of the council of the Chinese Artists Association. Masterpieces of Huang, like A Blizzard in the Wilderness, Celebrating the Harvest, On Patrol, Singing While Travelling, and Pine and Eagle, represent innovative achievements in contemporary Chinese painting. His writings include Huang Zhou’s Views on Art and Huang Zhou’s Theories on Calligraphy and Painting. Not only was Huang an artist of the people, he was also a social activist who made outstanding contributions to the preservation and promotion of national art and to the advancement of public art education. He co-founded the Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting with famous painters Li Keran, Cai Ruohong, and Hua Junwu and presided over the establishment of the Yan Huang Art Museum.

His artistic practice and theory have exerted a significant influence on the development of contemporary art. 220p.

ATF Asia, June 2013, 9781921816086, PB, $95.00, Special Price $76.00

Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709): Der Maler-Architekt und die Räume der Jesuiten Herbert Karner (Editor) With his painting of the huge dome of the Jesuit church S. Ignazio in Rome and the publication of his two-volume work on perspective “perspectiva pictora et Architectorum”, the famous Italian artist and architect,Andrea Pozzo S. J. (1642–1709) had a decisive influence on the development of Late Baroque Room and interior decoration in Italy.The last years of his life were spent with the Jesuits in Vienna and he left the Imperial capital city a legacy of works of art which have gained international recognition as key works in the spread of Roman Baroque styles to Central Europe. Current academic interest in Andrea Pozzo is largely dictated by the fact that he was active in both architecture and painting. He mastered all aspects of both fields and combined them to create marvelous “theatra sacra”. In his real and virtual spaces altar construction played an important role, which, in the context of the theatrical liturgy of the Baroque era, was of decisive design importance for the artist.To mark the 300th anniversary of his death, a long overdue re-evaluation of the importance of this artist was undertaken at an international conference organized by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.The results are presented here. German text. 172p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, July 2012, 9783700172000, PB, $149.00,

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Lucia Bigliazzi (Editor;) Luciana Bigliazzi (Editor); Andrea Cantile (Editor); Paolo Nanni (Editor) The volume is inspired by the exhibition on cartography that took place in the Accademia dei Georgofili of Florence, between March and April 2013.The book, which reproduces material from the Archive and the Library of the Accademia dei Georgofili and from the Military Geographic Institute, presents different perspectives of the description of the territory: studies aimed at improving agriculture and land reclamation, the evolution of cartographic representation techniques, the descriptions of naturalists, travelers and geographers.The representation of the territory, by means of writing and cartography, constitutes a field of study to which the Academics of the Georgofili have paid special attention from the very beginning of their activity.The historical knowledge of particular geographical environments and of different agricultural areas was an essential element for the improvement of agriculture and for the remediation carried out between the Eighteenth and the first half of the Twentieth century. Presentation by Franco Scaramuzzi. Italian text. 144p.

Edizioni Polistampa, June 2013, 9788859612360, PB, $90.00, Special Price $72.00

Alchimie di colori. L’arte della Scagliola: La collezione Bianco Bianchi di antiche scagliole dal XVII al XIX secolo Silvia Botticelli (Editor); Modestino Romagnolo (Editor) The scagliola technique was born in the sixteenth century and can be described as different operations of manufactoring and inlay of a gypsum mixture to create floral decorations, arabesques, amazingly beautiful religious and abstract paintings.As a catalog of the exhibition in Florence from October 2012 to January 2013, this publication is dedicated to a precious collection of ancient scagliole .The thirty pieces, mostly tables, altar frontals and paintings made between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, have been collected by Bianco Bianchi, the Florentine artisan who has been one of the first to re-valuate and bring back to life this characteristic hand-crafted technique become obsolete after the Nineteenth century. Italian text. 48p.

Edizioni Polistampa, ECRF, December 2012, 9788859611585, PB, $23.00,

Special Price $18.40 Francis Bacon: La dissacrazione del corpo umano / The Debunking of the Human Body.

Disegni e dipinti a confronto con 35 fisiognomiche di artisti contemporanei / Drawings and paintings compared to 35 physiognomies of contemporary artists Ballerini Giulia (Editor) The Irish painter Francis Bacon (Dublin 1909 - Madrid 1992) has been a fundamental figure for the development of the twentieth century visual arts.A troubled and introvert artist, with his work he tried to investigate the essence and the psyche of modern man, debunking his body and revealing the innermost aspects of the ego.This publication is the catalog of the exhibition set up in Sesto Fiorentino from 25 November 2012 to 13 January 2013, in the twentieth anniversary of the painter’s death.

99 works are reproduced here, including some of his drawings and paintings compared to 35 physiognomies of contemporary artists such as Basquiat, De Maria, Lindstrom, Warhol, Casagrande, Cuniberti, Baj, Newman and Borra.Texts by Gianni Gianassi, Francesco Mariani, Giulia Ballerini, Francesco Martani. Italian text. color illus, 48p.

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Il rapace in fuga: Leonardo, Verrocchio e il ‘Battesimo di Cristo’ Antonioli Ferranti Giorgio (Author) This volume is dedicated to the picture The Baptism of Christ, painted by Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci between 1475 and 1478, and now housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The author outlines the history of the painting, reconstructs the different steps of its execution and describes its ups and downs as from the earliest sources.The sharp analysis of the painting goes beyond the conventional features that made it become a crucial point in the history of art, and explores the contents, symbolic elements and narrative choices made by the artists.The volume ends with a digression on the image of the hawk flying off a white dove, an uncommon detail on which the entire essay focuses.

Introduction by Antonio Natali. Italian text. color illus, 96p.

Edizioni Polistampa, I grani, December 2012, 9788859611530, HB, $24.00,

Special Price $19.20 Modigliani: Ritratti Gualtieri di San Lazzaro (Author); Luca Pietro Nicoletti (Editor) The text of Gualtieri di San Lazzaro (famous critic and gallerist) is a short portrait of Modigliani, of his life and his art. It recalls the Italian painter by reporting the words of his closest friends, that the author got to know after the artist’s death. In fact, Gualtieri di San Lazzaro and Amedeo Modigliani, both Italian living in Paris, have never met. Still, as San Lazzaro admitted later, everything in Montmartre and Montparnasse told him about the legendary Modì, and the young Catanese arrived from Rome had the right aptitude for playing the part of the “cousin” in search of the works of the dead relative. San Lazzaro was then a young man with strong literary ambitions, dreaming of a future as a writer: his destiny will change thanks to Leopold Zborowsky, the Polish merchant of the Italian painter. Above all, Modigliani was for him a strong expression of individual freedom, as well as the personification of the modern way of art. And it will be freedom (the same freedom that the rising fascist regime will deny) the trait of San Lazzaro’s critical itinerary, covering the most valid researches of the contemporary artistic scene, till the late Sixties. Italian text. 48p.

Der Bildhauer Fritz von Graevenitz und die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart zwischen 1933 und 1945: Bildende Kunst als Symptom und Symbol ihrer Zeit Julia Müller (Author) In this book the biography of the sculptor Fritz Graevenitz (1892-1959), a soldier, nobleman, teacher of sculpture and the director of the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts and his attitude in National Socialism are examined and his experiences are also widened to other artists and territories. Dominated by the military tradition of his family, he received military training from 1903 to 1910 in the cadet school at Berlin Lichterfelde, but this did not prevent him from realizing his dream of becoming an artist. In 1937 he was appointed professor of sculpture and in 1938 he was appointed Director of the Art Academy in Stuttgart. Using the biography of this artist during the Third Reich, an accurate picture of the movement of so-called “Nazi art” is painted and this book explains to the modern reader the symbolic associations in these seemingly harmless pieces of art.Through this explanation and the regional references contained in the volume, art history can be experience by the individual reader. German text. 135 b/w illus 21 col. illus 335p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, June 2013, 9783515102544, PB, $84.00, Special Price $67.20

100 Jahre Bibliotheca Hertziana Band 1, Jubiläumsband, In 1912 Henriette Hertz (1846 –1913) bequeathed the Roman Palazzo Zuccari to the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft society with the aim of founding an institute dedicated to “research into art and culture with a particular connection to Rome”. On the occasion of the 100- year anniversary of its opening, this twovolume publication provides the first extensive overview of the fascinating development of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. German text. 200, 360p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH 2, June 2013, 9783777490311, HB, $135.00, Special Price

$108.00 Alberto Giacometti: Begegnungen

Edizioni Polistampa, Storie del mondo, June 2013, 9788856402681, PB, $10.00,

Ortrud Westheider (Editor); Michael Philipp (Editor) Alberto Giacometti (1901 – 1966) was one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century.This catalog is the first book dedicated to an extensive presentation of Giacometti’s portrait art, which runs through his entire oeuvre.

More than any other area of his work, it shows the personality and artistic world view of the artist. German text. 237 illus

Special Price $8.00 The “Figurato” Maiolica of Montelupo Ravanelli Guidotti Carmen (Author) First English edition of the important work by the art historian Carmen Ravanelli Guidotti on Montelupo’s maiolica figurata. In this book the author leads us with patient mastery in the exploration of Montelupo figure painting on maiolica, methodically treating a significant aspect of Italian ceramic history that has long been undervalued, if not completely ignored in the literature on pottery. Foreword by John V.G. Mallet. With contributions by Fausto Berti, Bruno Fabbri, Sabrina Gualtieri, Gianluca Senzani.Translation by Julia Triolo. color illus, 320p.

Edizioni Polistampa, November 2012, 9788859611547, PB, $185.00,

Special Price $148.00 Vedere le stele Becattini Alessandro (Author) This is the catalog of the exhibition Vedere le stelle. Il cinema nelle foto di Alessandro Becattini, held in Florence at Palazzo Medici Riccardi (3rd - 31st January 2012). Al Pacino, George Clooney, Madonna, are only some of the numerous celebrities immortalized by the lens of the Florentine photographer, during years lived as a protagonist, with its camera, of the most important events in the world of show business. “With a fortunate and spontaneous gesture – Lucio Trizzino wrote – Alessandro Becattini fixes in photographic memory the course of the stars: a gallery of portraits affectionately “stolen” from the firmament of the stars of show business, in order to show their earthly humanity”. Italian text. color illus, 48p.

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Hirmer Verlag GmbH, January 2013, 9783777420028, HB, $55.00,

Special Price $44.00 Alexander Rodtschenko: Eine neue Zeit Ortrud Westheider (Editor); Michael Philipp (Editor) Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891 –1956) was one of the driving forces of the Russian avant-garde. In his works – paintings, collages, photo-montages, photographs, sculptures, advertising designs and typography – he captured the dynamic social changes that took place in the years immediately following the October Revolution: the design of a new world. German text. 160 illus, 216p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, June 2013, 9783777420035, HB, $55.00,

Special Price $44.00 Anton Graff: Gesichter einer Epoche Marc Fehlmann (Editor); Birgit Verwiebe (Editor) Anton Graff was the leading portrait painter of the German Enlightenment. His contemporaries admired his ability to look “into the depths of the soul” of his sitters, and yet his greatest achievement was that he painted the portraits of the leading figures of his age, leaving a panorama of the most important poets, thinkers and monarchs as his legacy. German text. 180

Edizioni Polistampa, Polyphemus, December 2012, 9788859612025, HB, $35.00,

Special Price $28.00 illus, 272p.

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Brueghel: Jan Brueghel d. Ä. in der alten Pinakothek Mirjam Neumeister (Editor) Pieter Bruegel the Elder, his sons Pieter the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder: for several generations, the Flemish family of painters enraptured the collectors of sixteenth and seventeenthcentury Europe.The Alte Pinakothek, one of the most important museums in the world, here presents its fascinating and varied Brueghel collection. German text. 590 illus, 456p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, March 2013, 9783777420363, HB, $70.00,

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Frankenthaler Porzellan: Geschirr Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky (Author) The Frankenthal Porcelain Factory was founded at the height of Rococo, flourished in the delicate neo-classicism of Louis XVI, and came to an end during the revolutionary wars. It refined the culture of the dining room and the salon, produced luxurious objects for use, dinner services, vases, potpourris and candelabras, as well as enchanting accessories. German text. 750 illus, 580p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Frankenthaler Porzellan 3, June 2013, 9783777439051, HB, $135.00, Special Price $108.00

Special Price $56.00 Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich: genannt Dietricy 1712-1771

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Petra Schniewind Michel (Author) Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich is one of the most important German painters of the 18th Century.To mark the 300th Birthday of this extraordinary artist, this monograph of his life and work is published. Dietrich’s importance has been largely forgotten in the wake of the changing artistic tastes in the 19th Century. German text. 184 illus, 240p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, December 2012, 9783777454917, HB, $70.00,

Special Price $56.00 Das Elfenbein der Medici Eike D. Schmidt (Author) In Florence, the Medici family had the largest collection of ivory sculptures south of the Alps.The most important sculptors, including many artists that had migrated from the German states and the Austrian Empire to Italy, created precious ivory sculptures for the courtyard of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany.

German text. 180 illus, 328p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, November 2012, 9783777456416, HB, $70.00,

Special Price $56.00 Die Russische Sammlung: Des Museums für Lackkunst Monika Kopplin (Author) The Museum for Lacquer Art in Münster has what is probably the most important collection of Russian lacquer art outside Russia.The works of art date from the early nineteenth century to the 1950s and comprehensively document the development of a flourishing branch of the arts and crafts. German text. 220 illus, 250p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, June 2013, 9783777420042, HB, $55.00, Special Price $44.00

Fritz Hörauf: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Plastiken, Architektur Fritz Hörauf (Author) Working in a highly poetic, spiritual, and often magically precise and detailed style reminiscent of the proficiency of Old Masters, Fritz Hörauf delves, at the beginning of his journey, into regions prior to the advent of man and civilization.

Caves, cliffs and dark seas harbor geniis and androgynous angels, half man, half woman, wandering along inorganic zones of black and grey.They seem to be in a state waiting their birth into the light. Symmetrical signs of alchemy appear and bring order into a yet chaotic state. Egyptian, Greek, Celtic, Medieval, Gothic and otherworldly sites, painted with an astonishing multi-dimensionality, appear at a later phase in his time travel. Portals, archaic sanctuaries and temples which have been or could be built reveal visions and initiatory rites of forgotten myths. Fairies, elves and unicorns fuse with the melodies of idyllic landscapes uncorrupted by destructive forces. Portraits of beings, carriers into the unknown, emanate a singular atmosphere of knowledge. German text.

258 illus, 300p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, October 2012, 9783777435411, HB, $70.00,

Special Price $56.00 Emile Gallé: Keramik, Glas und Möbel des Art Nouveau Bernd Hakenjos (Author); Sigrid Barten (Editor); Hans Harder (Editor) Four decades after Bernd Hakenjos’ fundamental and unsurpassed study of Emile Gallé, this richly illustrated edition is now presented. Using witty observations, the author examines the influences, background and historical contexts of the artist.

The book also brings to light new material. German text. 685 illus, 486p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, October 2012, 9783777456119, HB, $135.00, Special Price

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Heimrad Prem: Tagebücher 1962-1967 Monika Prem (Editor) Sensitive Radicalist and creative Destructor - Heimrad Prem and the group SPUR, founded in 1958, embodied the freedom of art in a Germany where everything was inadequate and still suspicious and open thinking was too dangerous. 35 years after Heimrad Prem’s death, thanks to Monika Prem, a part of his writing can now been read. German text. 15 illus, 160p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, March 2013, 9783777420417, PB, $13.00,

Special Price $10.40 Erich Heckel: Der große Expressionist

Magdalena M. Moeller (Editor) Erich Heckel was one of the principal figures of German Expressionism. As a member of the Brücke group, he wrote art history.The fascination of the 1920s and 1930s lies in the clear forms and suggestive use of color. His nature-centered lyrical late work establishes a connection with German Romanticism.

German text. 264 illus, 248p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, June 2013, 9783777490717, HB, $55.00, Special Price $44.00

Im Zentrum des Expressionismus: Ein Jubiläumsband Christiane Remm (Editor) The focus of the anniversary publication consists of the 480 acquisitions of Brücke artists’ works for the Brücke Museum by Magdalena M. Moeller over the course of the last 25 years.

These are dominated by the works of Kirchner (223 acquisitions) and Heckel (93 works). German text. 500 illus, 580p.

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Johann Christian Reinhart: Ein deutscher Landschaftsmaler in Rom Andreas Stolzenburg (Editor); Herbert W. Rott (Editor) Johann Christian Reinhart is one of the central German artists of the period around 1800.This extensive retrospective unites the entire spectrum of his landscape drawings and paintings, etchings, and scathing caricatures. German text. 385 illus, 398p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, October 2012, 9783777480213, HB, $55.00,

Special Price $44.00 Lacklegenden: Kompendium internationaler Lackkunst Monika Kopplin (Editor) An extensive commemorative publication has been dedicated to Monika Kopplin, the longstanding director of the Museum for Lacquer Art in Münster, on the occasion of her 60th birthday.

Twenty two renowned authors from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Finland, Holland, and Japan, not to mention Russia, provide an overview of the development of lacquer art. German text. 220 illus, 350p.

Pietro Cavallini in Santa Cecilia in Travastere: Ein Beitrag zur römischen Malerei des Due- und Trecento Michael Schmitz (Author) Cavallini, alongside Giotto, was one of the trailblazers of Renaissance painting, and the most important protagonist of the Roman school that from 1275 to 1305 gave rise to art production whose influence spread beyond the region’s boundaries.This includes the first-class masterwork of the frescoes of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, executed in ca. 1300.They have been examined for the first time using scientific methods, providing new findings regarding the dating, the identification of the person who commissioned them, and the reconstruction of the iconographic structure using an architectural survey and the analysis of historical sources. In addition, art-historical models from a variety of genres are identified, attributions made, and the studio practice and revolutionary execution technique analyzed. German text. 326 illus, 448p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Römische Studien der Bibliotheca Hertziana 33, June 2013, 9783777480510, HB, $185.00, Special Price $148.00

Schönheit & Revolution: Klassizismus 17701820

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, June 2013, 9783777490816, HB, $70.00,

Special Price $56.00 Letzte Bilder: Von Manet bis Kippenberger Esther Schlicht (Editor); Max Hollein (Editor) Letzte Bilder is dedicated to exceptional works created by artists during the final phase of their creative lives. A concentrated selection of artistic positions from the late nineteenth century to the present day explores the question of the possible conclusion to an oeuvre. German text. 200 illus, 200p.

Eva Mongi-Vollmer (Editor); Maraike Bückling (Editor) From Jacques-Louis David to Antonio Canova, from Bertel Thorvaldsen to Karl Friedrich Schinkel – the great masters of neo-classicis were united by their shared interest in antiquity.

Their paintings and sculptures evidence a variety of forms of expression, ranging from austerity and rationality to passion. German text. 280 illus, 368p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, February 2013, 9783777470115, HB, $60.00,

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Hirmer Verlag GmbH, February 2013, 9783777420394, HB, $55.00,

Starke Frauen für die Kunst: Im Gespräch mit Anna Lenz

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Anna Lenz (Editor) Who are the female companions of major contemporary artists? The art collector Anna Lenz asks this question and provides insights into twenty conversations with women whose lives and forms of cohabitation with an art vary from one another greatly. German text. 150 illus, 340p.

Marianne von Werefkin: Leben für die Kunst Brigitte Salmen (Author) Marianne von Werefkin was a significant pioneer of expressive painting in the early twentieth century. Her life as a painter was characterized by great personal and intellectual freedom.The richly illustrated monograph brings to life the extraordinary and intense life and work of this artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter. German text. 227 illus, 132p.

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Hirmer Verlag GmbH, January 2013, 9783777420486, HB, $49.00,

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Special Price $39.20 Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach Ostasiatischen Vorbildern: Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Lustheim Julia Weber (Author); Renate Eikelmann (Editor) The present inventory catalog of Meissen porcelain with patterns after East Asian models from the world-famous porcelain collection of the industrialist Dr Ernst Schneider (1900 – 1977) documents approximately a third of this generous endowment, which is housed in Lustheim Palace near Munich. German text. 1490 illus, 700p.

Magdalena M. Moeller (Author); Corina Ott-Seelow (Author) This is the first publication by the Brücke Museum in Berlin aimed exclusively at a young readership. A book for children and adolescents that invites them to read and also to be creative themselves, and that provides insights into the art and life of the Brücke artists. German text. 46 illus, 96p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, October 2012, 9783777470610, HB, $25.00, Special Price

$20.00 Ulrich Klieber, Malerei. Werkschau

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, June 2013, 9783777490915, HB, $175.00,

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The painter, who was the rector of the Giebischenstein Art School for a long time and also teaches there, is known for its successful series textbooks. Helmut G. Schütz, who accompanied the Klieber’s continuous artistic development, introduces three decades of the genesis of his figurative subject matter. Renato Giovannoli establishes the relationship with Cy Twombly’s work and moves both into the context of postmodernism. Dieter Knoell sees the well-traveled artist as a painter of modern life with adhesion. German text. 148 illus, 160p.

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Von Mensch zu Mensch: Wilhelm Leibl & August Sander Marcus Dekiert (Editor) The realist painter Wilhelm Leibl and the famous New Objectivity photographer August Sander shared a strong interest in the representation of humankind.This publication brings together their portrait arts, revealing surprising parallels and exploring these for the first time.

German text. 70 illus, 120p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, June 2013, 9783777420424, HB, $35.00, Special Price $28.00

Zurück zur Klassik: Ein neuer Blick auf das alte Griechenland The Greek Classical Period’s influence extends even into our own time.The artistic and intellectual achievements of the Greeks of the 5th and 4 Century BCE were already regarded as exemplary and these achievements were attacked and in question by contemporaries in the following centuries.

German text. 408 illus, 440p.

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Hot Springs: The Northern Territory and Contemporary Australian Artists Daena Murray (Author); Nicholas Rothwell (Author) Dr. Daena Murray, former and now Emeritus Curator of the Museum and Art Gallery of The Northern Territory, has collected together an extraordinary range of contemporary artworks with qualities that clearly identify them with the Northern Territory. Created by both indigenous and non-indigenous artists resident and active in the Northern Territory, these artworks share characteristics that include references and responses to the land and its unique colors and geographic formations; to the diverse culture and cultural changes that have occurred; to specialist local developments in various art forms such as printmaking, woven constructions in natural materials, site specific installation art and sculpture; and to Darwinian origins. Daena Murray’s richly detailed and well informed text, with introduction by Nicolas Rothwell, appears alongside the chosen artworks which are beautifully reproduced in this idiosyncratic publication which addresses the influences a particular region can have on its art and artists. 320p.

Macmillan Art Publishing, Australia, May 2013, 9781921394416, HB, $110.00,

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Hirmer Verlag GmbH, February 2013, 9783777420080, HB, $70.00,

Special Price $56.00 An Interpretation of This Title/Waiting For (Texts for Nothing): Nitzsche, Darwin and the Paradox of Content (Vol 1)/Samuel Beckett, in Play (Vol 2)

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Joseph Kosuth (Author) This two-volume set documents installations by acclaimed American artist Joseph Kosuth which have been commissioned by Juliana Engberg of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne,Australia.The first was shown in the Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh in 2009 and later at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, while the second was shown at ACCA, Melbourne, in the summer of 2010-2011. Joseph Kosuth’s work, executed principally in text formed of neon lighting, first appeared in the 1960s and has consistently explored the role of language and its meanings in art. His forty years enquiry has led to commissions and publications throughout Europe, the Americas, and Asia – including five Documenta(s) and six Venice Biennale(s). He lives in Rome and New York City.The two volumes contain texts by Joseph Kosuth, Jualan Engberg of ACCA, and Pat Fisher from the Talbot Rice Gallery as well as significant essays by John Welchman, noted Art historian and Professor of Modern History at the University of California, San Diego, and Ronald Jones, an artist and critic who leads the Experience Design Group at Konstfack University College in Stockholm.The photography of the installations is stunning. 184p.2nd edition, Macmillan Art Publishing, Australia, May 2013, 9781921394553, HB, $79.95, Special

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In Praise of Landscape: The Art of John Borrack

Di Bresciani: Compositions in Colour Di Bresciani (Author) The paintings of Di Bresciani, artist and musician, are currently exhibited at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Townsville to coincide with the renowned Australian Festival of Chamber Music.Texts in this multi-authored, richly color illustrated publication focus on relationships between music and art and color and sound.The paintings reflect strong technical and personal development towards an individual style largely based on the exploration of color and its perception – whether it be in music or art. Di Bresciani is well known in Australia and overseas as an artist, musician and educator. Since the first solo exhibition of her paintings in 1995, she has participated in many exhibitions in Australia as well as London, Paris and new York. Her work is represented in more than 150 collections across Australia and in the UK, France, USA, Germany and Japan. 175p.

Macmillan Art Publishing, Australia, May 2013, 9781921394959, HB, $99.95,

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Lucy Grace Ellem (Author) This magnificent book outlines the life and career of a major proponent of the art of watercolor. John Borrack is a significant Australian landscape artist who has traveled the country recording its extraordinary land forms.The more than 270 pages are fully color illustrated with hundreds of reproductions. John Borrack, a renowned Australian landscape painter whose career spans more than 50 years, continues to paint full-time in his studio north of Melbourne where the once rural landscape of the Plenty Valley is being overtaken by suburban development. His landscapes record the beauty of this region and then extend to many remote areas of the continent – particularly in the north – where extraordinary land formations range from the ‘picturesque’ to the ‘sublime’. He says, “lonely corners of Australia inspire an overwhelming sensation of space and distance.These places to which I am constantly drawn provide me with both a spiritual experience and the starting points for paintings.” Author, Lucy Ellem, an art historian who studied at The University of Melbourne before undertaking post-graduate research at Yale and then lecturing at La Trobe University, provides an eloquent account of the artist’s career, connecting his paintings with the longer tradition of landscape painting – and in particular, in watercolors. col. illus throughout, 280p.

Macmillan Art Publishing, Australia, May 2013, 9781921394843, HB, $99.95,

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Power + Colour: New Painting from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art Jane Raffan (Author) The enthralling power and color of Aboriginal painting of Tjukurpa (Law) and country has brought Aboriginal art to the forefront of contemporary art practice in Australia.

Aboriginal art has also played an important role in the formulation of Indigenous Land Rights debates and Native Title Jurisprudence.

2012 marks the twentieth anniversary of the High Court of Australia’s decision in Mabo, which overturned the British doctrine of terra nullius (empty land) – the false premise on which the colony was founded – and forever changed the legal landscape for Indigenous rights. The thesis of Power + Colour: New Painting from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art charts the history of Aboriginal art’s impact on Australian law, and explores the inextricable nexus of Aboriginal law and sense of self – an entirety that is inseparable from country. And, of course, Power + Colour is about strikingly beautiful contemporary paintings. Showcasing 129 works of art by 76 artists working across more than 25 communities nation-wide, this resplendent book exemplifies the diversity of expression within Aboriginal contemporary painting, and reveals, in nuance and detail, the breadth and depth of Aboriginal connectedness to country. 368p.

Macmillan Art Publishing, Australia, May 2013, 9781921394744, HB, $125.00,

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Vassilieff and His Art Felicity St John Moore (Author) Danila Vassilieff, a passionate, freedom-loving Cossack who burst upon the Australian art scene in the mid-1930s is, in this book, posited as the missing link in the story of 20th century painting in Australia.The author suggests that the emotionalism and originality of his art, and his unconventional lifestyle, had a leavening effect on the art of Nolan,Tucker, Hester, Percival, Blackman, and Arthur Boyd, giving the artists courage to paint their original visions in a society largely unready for them.Vassilieff’s immediate and imaginative response to the Australian landscape deepened this impact.This critical survey of Vassilieff’s painting and sculpture is richly illustrated and fully documented with catalogs of his creative output in both areas. It also provides the moving story of a legendary character who died poverty-stricken, in 1958, at the age of 60. His struggle to prove himself as an individual and an artist has all the ingredients of a novel. 240p.

Macmillan Art Publishing, Australia, May 2013, 9781921394874, PB, $69.95,

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Mattia Preti: The Triumphant Manner Keith Sciberras (Author) 2013 marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of the artist Mattia Preti (16131699), who spent forty years of his working life in Malta. Midsea Books, in collaboration with the Department of History of Art at the University of Malta, have published a book that discusses critically the artist’s oeuvre in Malta. Born in Taverna, Calabria, in 1613, Mattia Preti emerged as a leading exponent of the Baroque of mid-17th century Italy, working in a tradition which brilliantly captured the characteristics of monumental dynamism and theatrical appeal.

His life-story can be neatly divided into early training in Rome, his mid-years in Naples, and the nearly four decades that he spent on Malta between 1661 and his death. An artist-knight, his life was also conditioned by his membership in the chivalric Order of St John of Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta. Preti’s works for St John’s Conventual Church inspired a major transformation within the church.The Baroque re-decoration program, which Preti directed, transformed the interior of the Conventual Church into one of the most important nodes of Baroque art South of Rome. Preti assumed responsibility for painting the entire ceiling and many altar paintings and lunettes. Preti’s residency on the island did not go unnoticed and his circle of admirers grew beyond the circle of the Knights of Malta.The artist’s technique and method of painting was fast and he could rapidly execute large scale works. His inventive genius kept up with the pace of his technique and the artist thus produced a large corpus of paintings.This lavish publication, which marks the 400th anniversary of the master’s birth, is an outstanding contribution to Maltese art and history. full col throughout, 496p.

Midsea Books, December 2012, 9789993274070, HB, $228.00,

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Henry Mayo Bateman (1887-1970): The Man Who...Loved Gozo Bernardine Scicluna (Editor) Malta and Gozo of the sixties carried distinct appeal and artistic and creative celebrities were attracted to visit regularly or reside there. Henry Mayo Bateman was among those who chose to settle here, spending the final years of his life in Gozo until his death in 1970. A renowned cartoonist who created “The Man who…” series, Bateman contributed to a wide range of publications from The Tatler to Punch to book illustrations to advertising artworks for leading brands. Apart from detailing the works on display, this catalog also includes researched pieces on the artist by specialists Nicoline Sagona, Katya Micallef and Lawrence Pavia.The contributions offer an insight into the artist’s career. In his 1937 autobiography Bateman confessed that …there is still something missing in which I could wish for fulfillment…I would like to have painted a quite serious picture, one that did not depend upon any sort of comic situation to make it appeal..…a landscape perhaps with just the way light falls on a house or a tree. He had yearned to paint …the beauty of earth and sky and water. Gozo fulfilled him in this respect, earning him the informal title of “The Man Who … Loved Gozo”! This monograph is the first study of the last years of this loved British cartoonist and his works he did in Gozo, Malta. 96p.

Midsea Books, January 2013, 9789993274148, PB, $23.50,

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Special Price $182.40 Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America Oliver Tostmann (Author) This publication will be a valuable resource for art historians as well as the general public, with little scholarship previously published in English about Zorn.The catalog features fifty of Zorn’s works, such as Omnibus I, for which Zorn won a prize at the 1892 Salon in Paris, and Ice Skater (1898), which has never before left Sweden, combining for the first time major pieces from American collections with those of Europe, such as Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; the National museum, Stockholm; Zornmuseet, Mora; and Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenberg. 120 color, 176p.

Paul Holberton Publishing, January 2013, 9781907372445, PB, $50.00,

Special Price $40.00 Becoming Picasso:Paris 1901 Barnaby Wright (Author) This fully illustrated catalog, with essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field of Picasso studies, tells the remarkable story of Pablo Picasso’s breakthrough year – 1901 – as an artist.

It brings together an extraordinary group of paintings to explore his rapid artistic development during this single year, which launched his career and reputation in Paris.These major paintings will be reunited from public and private collections internationally, making the catalog a unique opportunity to experience Picasso’s very first masterpieces. 120 color illus, 160p.

Paul Holberton Publishing, March 2013, 9781907372452, PB, $50.00,

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ART Discovery of Paris

Stephen Duffy (Author) Some of the finest views of Paris ever painted were produced

by British artists working in watercolor in the early nineteenth century.With the ending of many years of war, first at the Peace of Amiens of 1802-03 and then after the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, Paris was an irresistible attraction for thousands of British tourists, among whom were many painters.There was an unprecedented interest in views of the city, and artists, such as Girtin, Bonington, Turner and David Cox, responded to this enthusiasm with an extraordinary range of works, from simple pencil views to the most elaborate watercolors, some for sale and exhibition, but many also for engraving as illustrations in guides and souvenir publications.This catalog, accompanying a major exhibition at the Wallace Collection, discusses and illustrates more than sixty works by over twenty artists. It will appeal not only to those interested in British watercolor painting but also to anyone interested in the history of one of the greatest of all cities. 90 col illus, 144p.

Paul Holberton Publishing, June 2013, 9780900785429, PB, $50.00,

Special Price $40.00 Giovanni Bellini’s Dudley Madonna Antonio Mazzotta (Author) The Virgin Mary rises up like a giant Tower of Babel in a closeup view, separated from us by a slender railing along which runs the painter’s signature.The Virgin appears to be sitting on a marble slab, slightly raised, and her right shoulder is thrust forward to show us her nude son. Madonna and Child, also known as ‘Dudley Madonna’, was painted in c. 1508 by Giovanni Bellini (Venice, c.

1430–1516), one of the most celebrated of Italian artists.This book tells the story of the painting, its painter and its provenance – the journey from Bellini’s 16thcentury Venice to Dudley’s 19th-century London – and the context in which it was created, and later collected.The painting was probably acquired in Bologna by John William Ward (1781–1833), who in 1827 became the 1st Earl of Dudley.The Dudley collection was one of the most outstanding in 19th-century England.The years 1505–10 were crucial ones in Giovanni Bellini’s career, and this book examines anew the part he played in Venetian High Renaissance painting – his influence upon and response to the upcoming Giorgione,Titian and Sebastiano del Piombo; it looks in particular at the importance of the visit to the Venice of the Florentine Fra Bartolommeo in 1508. 70 col illus, 96p.

Paul Holberton Publishing, December 2012, 9781907372469, PB, $30.00,

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The Harold Samuel Collection: A Guide to the Dutch and Flemish Pictures at the Mansion House Michael Hall (Author); Clare Gifford (Author) The Harold Samuel Collection Art Collection of Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century pictures is one of the finest groups of Old Master paintings assembled in Britain over the past hundred years, but one of the least known. Sir Harold Samuel bequeathed the collection to the City of London to hang at Mansion House. Now in the care of the Guildhall Museum and Art Gallery, the collection of 84 paintings can be viewed at Mansion House on organized tours or by appointment. Built between 1732 and 1754, the House is the home, office and center of entertaining for the Lord Mayor of the City of London and the Corporation.This guide will enable visitors to take a tour through Mansion House and discover the artists and their subjects – landscapes, still lifes and genre scenes – the development of styles, forms, materials and techniques, and the history of the collection. Highlights include works by Frans Hals, Aelbert Cuyp, Jan van Goyen, Jacob van Ruisdael and Pieter de Hooch. Lively and insightful entries accompany beautiful reproductions of every painting and are introduced by an essay about the creation of the collection and the history of artistic taste in relation to Dutch art. 88 col illus, 200p.

Paul Holberton Publishing, January 2013, 9781907372414, PB, $25.00,

Special Price $20.00 The Form of Meaning / The Meaning of Form: Studies in the History of Art from Late Antiquity to Jackson Pollack, Volume I Irving Lavin (Author) This work in two volumes brings together all of Irving Lavin’s studies aside from those on Gian Lorenzo Bernini.They range from studies of the art and architecture of Late Antiquity to twentieth-century painting in New York.They are divided here by date, and include seven studies on the art of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, nine on the art of the Renaissance, eight on further topics in sixteenth-century art, seven on the Baroque, and six on Modern Art.There are three studies on the history of theater and stage design, and twelve papers on the history of art in general, including obituaries of a number of influential art historians. Lavin’s prizewinning study of Late Antique architecture and pioneering work on North African floor mosaics are included here. His interest in the Italian Renaissance appears in studies on the iconography of the myth of Cephalus and Procris, and the relationship between form and content in works by Donatello, Michelangelo, Pontormo, and Giovanni Bologna.The twentieth century is represented by essays on the printmaking of Picasso and the painting of Jackson Pollock. 364 illus, 680p.

Pindar Press, June 2013, 9781899828401, HB, $300.00, Special Price $240.00

Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes: In and Around the Peter Marino Collection Jeremy Warren (Editor) The outstanding collection of European bronze sculptures formed by Peter Marino, which focuses especially on French and Italian bronzes of the High Baroque, includes masterpieces by some of the greatest sculptors of their age, among them Ferdinando Tacca, Giovanni Battista Foggini, Robert Le Lorrain and Corneille van Clève.This volume of contributions to the symposium held in June 2010 testifying to the importance of the Marino Collection includes ten essays by distinguished scholars of sculpture. 160 col ills, 160p.

Paul Holberton Publishing, July 2013, 9780900785481, PB, $50.00,

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The Form of Meaning / The Meaning of Form: Studies in the History of Art from Late Antiquity to Jackson Pollock, Volume II Irving Lavin (Author) Volumes I and II bring together all of Irving Lavin’s studies aside from those on Gian Lorenzo Bernini.They range from studies of the art and architecture of Late Antiquity to twentieth-century painting in New York.They are divided here by date, and include seven studies on the art of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, nine on the art of the Renaissance, eight on further topics in sixteenth-century art, seven on the Baroque, and six on Modern Art.There are three studies on the history of theater and stage design, and twelve papers on the history of art in general, including obituaries of a number of influential art historians. Lavin’s prize-winning study of Late Antique architecture and pioneering work on North African floor mosaics are included here. His interest in the Italian Renaissance appears in studies on the iconography of the myth of Cephalus and Procris, and the relationship between form and content in works by Donatello, Michelangelo, Pontormo, and Giovanni Bologna.The twentieth century is represented by essays on the printmaking of Picasso and the painting of Jackson Pollock. 283 illus, 650p.

Pindar Press, June 2013, 9781904597476, HB, $300.00, Special Price $240.00

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Visible Spirit: The Art of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Volume III Irving Lavin (Author) Bernini at St. Peter’s may be a unique case in history: a single artist in change of a grandiose monument in a continuous state of creativity under constantly changing patrons and a variety of projects, for nearly six decades.This book argues that a continuous thread of thought may be discerned underlying and connecting the vicissitudes of this spectacular display. From first to last, Bernini conceived of St. Peter’s as a pilgrimage church, a kind of pilgrimage of human life, his own and of the believers who visited the basilica to worship and give testimony.The book is in large format and richly illustrated with 272 colour illustrations. It represents a fitting tribute to the artist and his monument, St. Peter’s Basilica. 272 col illus, 386p.

Pindar Press, March 2013, 9781904597469, HB, $390.00,

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Traditional Buildings in the Oxford Region John Steane (Author); James Ayres (Author) The pivotal position of the Oxford region in the geological and building history of England is of fundamental importance to the study of traditional construction. Oxford occupies a central position on the ancient route between Northampton and Southampton and on the east - west road between London,The West Country,Wales and Ireland. For this reason, the buildings of the region were subject to a wide range of influences.This book, the fruit of twenty years research, provides an account of vernacular architecture in the Oxford region from Anglo-Saxon times to the 19th century. It begins with a discussion of methods and procedures followed by a description of building materials, stone, brick, slate and thatch.This serves as an introduction to the heart of the book, eleven chapters dealing with surveys of cruck buildings, manorial and moated sites, and houses in the countryside from farmhouses to cottages.There are chapters on fire hazards, public houses and public buildings. Distributed through the book are special sections devoted to wall paintings, ferramenta, apotropaic marks, carpentry details, fireplaces, staircases and windows.The book is richly and profusely illustrated with over 500 illustrations, photographs, maps, and a particular strength, a large number of drawings of architectural details and sketch perspectives. over 500 col & b/w illus.

Oxbow Books, September 2013, 9781842174791, HB, $90.00, Special Price $68.00

Die Wiener Hofburg 1835-1918: Der Ausbau der Residenz vom Vormärz bis zum Ende des “Kaiserforums” Werner Telesko (Editor) From both an historic and artistic point of view, the Hofburg in Vienna is one of the most important secular building complexes in Europe. As the seat of Austria’s dukes and archdukes, the kings and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian emperor it was at the heart of European politics from the 13th Century right through until 1918.

This central position is reflected in the architectural development of the Hofburg, from the fortified castle of the Swiss Wing via the palatial buildings of the Renaissance and the 17th Century, which have survived as the Amalia Residence, Stallburg and Leopoldine Wing, to the large-scale, building projects of Emperor Charles VI – the State Library, the Imperial Stables, the Imperial Chancellery Wing, the Winter Riding School, St. Michael’s Wing – and Maria Theresa.With the never to be completed “Imperial forum”, an attempt was made to integrate the Hofburg into the newly created urban context of the Ring Road. Approximately 20 researchers are researching a broad range of topics: the history of the planning, building and use of the building, the architecture and gardens, its urban context, its artistic decor and furnishing and the programmatic concepts of the owners and architects responsible for this. German text. 544p.

Whitewash and the New Aesthetic of the Protestant Reformation Victoria George (Author) This book is a reconsideration of the practice of whitewashing church interiors during the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is the first detailed study of its kind which challenges the view that whitewash was always only a ‘cheap coat of paint’.Victoria George pulls together several histories: of the color white from the biblical period to the present, and ideas about the color white in philosophy, theology, art, and architecture from antiquity to the present. She links them to case studies of the ways in which reformers Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin thought about color in a careful analysis of the role of color-thinking in their theological writings.The long-term symbolic and aesthetic implications of the practice of whitewashing are examined in the larger context of material culture; in terms of their value as a metaphor, for both the Reformed Protestant and the Catholic in opposition to them; and for the uses to which whitewash has been put over time. George proposes that the practice was not only visually transformative but held importance for religious aesthetics as an agent of change, and for an aesthetics of minimalism generally, especially evident in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 117 illus, 506p.

Pindar Press, January 2013, 9781904597643, PB, $300.00,

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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, October 2012, 9783700172314, HB, $135.00,

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Regency House Styles Trevor Yorke (Author) Ancient Egypt, Greek temples, Indian palaces and medieval castles are just some of the sources of inspiration which architects used when designing houses in the Regency period.This new book explains the bewildering wealth of exotic and historic forms which characterized the period and, using his own drawings and photographs, author Trevor Yorke demonstrates the work of the leading designers, the types of houses they built and the details both inside and out which are distinctive of this elegant period. 50+ col & b/w illus, 96p.

Countryside Books, March 2013, 9781846743108, PB, $19.95,

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Palazzo Datini a Prato: Una casa fatta per durare mille anni Jérôme Hayez (Editor); Diana Toccafondi (Editor) This work describes one of the greatest artistic heritages of the fourteenth century.The first volume of the book describes the construction stages of one of the most important architectural heritages of the fourteenth century, a building destined to house one of the wealthiest and most active merchants of the time together with his family.A series of essays reconstructs the rich pictorial ornaments inside and outside the building and the structure of the large garden.

Then we observe the transformation of the building, at Datini’s behest, into a welfare organization of fundamental importance in the Prato society, and its further architectural transformations, until the ones during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An overview of the present repairs of the building and on the surviving paintings considering its future cultural destination as a museum concludes the first volume.The second volume includes a detailed chronology of the architectural operations and a wide appendix that presents the most important documents of the Datini Archive concerning Francesco di Marco’s business and letters, especially the ones to artists and craftsmen who collaborated in the building and decoration of the mansion. Italian text. 712p.

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Edizioni Polistampa, December 2012, 9788859609490, HB, $295.00, Special Price

$236.00

Egypt in England Qualità dell’abitare nelle città toscane: Libri di fabbrica, muramenti, inventari (sec. XV).

Firenze-Siena

Giuseppina Carla Romby (Author); Maria Antonietta Rovida (Author) With the support of an interesting documentary apparatus, the volume examines how family residences went through significant changes during 15th century.These transformations affirmed a new way of dwelling and using the urban space, reshaping the structure of the cities of the Renaissance.The comparison between what happened in different contexts, such as Florence and Siena, permits to evaluate the peculiarity of the interventions and the quality of the urban texture, giving account of the renewed attention to the relationship between public and private space, between city and architecture. Essays and documents are enriched by explicative illustrations. Italian text. 208p.

Edizioni Polistampa, December 2012, 9788859612063, PB, $30.00, Special Price

$24.00 Sacralità e geometria: Un itinerario sapienziale dalle origini al Rinascimento Luca Maccaferri (Author) This essay aims at identifying and interpreting the proportional relationships within the most famous artistic monuments of the past.With a rapid glance at different places and times, the author certifies the wide use of geometrical symbolic elements in buildings, getting to the core of the intimate mastery, which was the casket where the sacred ars costruendi guarded the unchanging principle of its authority. So, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, from Greece to Rome, until arriving to the Florentine Middle Ages and Renaissance, we can witness, through the constancy and changing of forms, the development of a scientia antiqua in which the furor mensurandi corresponds to a united vision of the world, where the temple is an actual reproduction of the cosmos, which is meant to represent a transcendent reality.Therefore, this is built based on a specific diagram, which establishes the sacred proportions symbolizing the idea of beauty. A serious and well-documented contribution to the lucky strand of symbols, numbers and mysterious geometric designs of the religious art.This is witnessed by Renzo Manetti’s successful works. Italian text. 96p.

Edizioni Polistampa, Storie del mondo, December 2012, 9788856402254, PB, $15.00,

Special Price $12.00 Alston Moor: Cumbria, Buildings in a North Pennines Landscape Lucy Jessop (Author); Matthew Whitfield (Author); Andrew Davison (Author) A synthesis of recent English Heritage research on the vernacular buildings of the parish of Alston Moor, Cumbria, considering the very special examples found there of the bastle.

English Heritage, June 2013, 9781848021174, PB, $30.00, Special Price $24.00

Chris Elliott (Author) For more than 200 years, and especially since the rediscovery of ancient Egypt

by Europe in the 19th century, the exotic Egyptian style in architecture has been a sign of our fascination with a civilization that has had a long-lasting and deepseated influence on British culture. From its fashionable success in the Regency period to its varied uses in the 20th century, Egyptian-style architecture has much to say about what ancient Egypt represents to us. 240 illus, 336p.

English Heritage, October 2012, 9781848020887, PB, $50.00, Special Price $40.00

Paddington Station: The History and Architecture Steven Brindle (Author) Egypt in England is the first detailed guide to the use of the Egyptian style in architecture and interiors in England, and to those that survive, most of which can be seen or visited by the public. Fully illustrated, it combines a series of topic essays giving the architectural and Egyptological background to the use of the style with a guide allowing sites to be located, and explaining what can still be seen.

A variety of buildings and monuments - from cinema, supermarket, synagogue and factory, to folly, mill, Masonic temple and mausoleum - are highlighted in the book.

For those who don’t know their architrave from their entablature, or their Anubis from their Uraeus, there are also glossaries of architectural terms and ancient Egyptian deities.This engaging book is an accessible and practical guide for a general audience, but has enough depth to be useful to scholars in a range of subject areas. 170 illus, 176p, 2nd edition.

English Heritage, June 2013, 9781848020894, PB, $50.00,

Special Price $40.00 Slavery and the British Country House Andrew Hann (Author) There are few things more emblematic of England’s heritage than the great country houses. But such properties are not to be viewed simply as objects of architectural and curatorial or artistic interest.They are also expressions of wealth, power and privilege and, as new questions are being asked of England’s historic role in the Atlantic world, new connections are being unearthed between the nation’s great houses and its colonial past. In 2007 English Heritage commissioned initial research into links with transatlantic slavery or its abolition amongst families who owned properties now in its care.This was part of the commitment by English Heritage to commemorate the bicentenary of the abolition of the British transatlantic slave trade with work that would make a real difference to our understanding of the historic environment.The research findings and those of other scholars and heritage practitioners were presented at the ‘Slavery and the British Country House’ conference.The papers have been updated and reworked into a cutting-edge volume which represents the most current and comprehensive consideration of slavery and the British country house as yet undertaken. English Heritage is proud to be publishing work on which historians, educators and heritage professionals can all build to develop new understandings of this challenging and important part of our national story.

English Heritage, July 2013, 9781848020641, HB, $100.00,

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Der Kirchliche Zentralbau der Renaissance in Italien: Studien zur Karriere eines Baugedankens im Quattro- und frühen Cinquecento Jens Niebaum (Author) Central-plan buildings, i.e. churches constructed on a ground plan that is circular, square, polygonal or in the shape of a Greek cross, etc. have been among the central paradigms of the architecture of the period in Renaissance studies since Jacob Burckhardt.The present study examines the reasons for the extraordinary popularity of this design, examines the mechanisms of its currency in architectural practice and theory, and also examines more generally the categories of architectural typification of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy. One important conclusion to be noted is that there was not one consistent central-plan-building ideal during this period.

Instead, it is possible to identify overarching criteria of the architecture of this time that had a lasting impact on the dissemination of central-plan building types.

German text. 470 illus, 656p.

Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Römische Studien der Bibliotheca Hertziana 34, June 2013, 9783777480619, HB, $185.00,

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John Tweed: Sculpting the Empire Nicola Capon (Author) John Tweed (1869-1933) was a hugely successful artist who, during his lifetime, became known as ‘The Empire Sculptor’.

After training at the Glasgow School of Art, he moved to London and then spent six months in Paris.There he met August Rodin and went on to become his principal agent and friend in England.Tweed worked at the very heart of the London art world and created lasting images of many leading Victorian and Edwardian figures such as Cecil Rhodes and Lord Kitchener. His legacy of public sculptures is to be found ranged across the British Empire.This is the first book to consider John Tweed’s place in art history and is the result of a four-year project to catalog the sculptor’s archive at Reading Museum. 56 b/w illus, 112p.

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Special Price $148.00 H20 Architects to 2012 Elizabeth Jarrelly (Author); Brian Sadgrove (Editor) The buildings of H20 architects Tim Hairburgh and Mark O’Dwyer have been praised for their design commitment to sustainability, playfulness and their intelligent responses to a variety of sites and purposes.These architects practice what they call ‘expensive modernism’ in their design which are predominantly for schools, government buildings and universities. No two alike, the buildings can be brilliantly colored like Avondale Heights Library and Learning Center or rough and timbered like RMIT’s Textile Faculty in South Brunswick.

Swinburne and Deakin Universities have also benefited from H20’s unique designs, as has Victoria’s State Emergency Service Headquarters.This is architecture with a difference – beautifully illustrated in the book. 96p.

Macmillan Art Publishing, May 2013, 9781921394980, PB, $39.95, Special Price $31.96

Stones of Faith: Tombstones, Funerary Rites and Customs at the Gozo Matrice Charles R. Cassar (Author) The Cathedral of Gozo perched atop the Castello is renowned for its art treasures, drawing many visitors throughout the year. a little known feature is the wonderful array of marble tombstones that cover the whole floor of the church.The tombstones, which were produced at different periods, exhibit various styles and are a testimony of skilful artistic craftsmanship in marble intarsia. replete with memento mori symbols and intended to appeal to the senses, these ledger stones provide an enduring tribute to the people who sought to be laid to rest in the sacred confines of the church. color section, 224p.

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Special Price $47.20 Anglican Church-Building in London 1946-2012 Michael Yelton (Author); John Salmon (Author) This book is a sequel to an earlier volume by the same authors on Anglican church-building in Greater London between 1915 and 1945. In the post-war period as many as 250 new churches were built in the area, a very large corpus of work which has been largely overlooked by commentators. Many of the buildings were replacements for ones destroyed in the war or of large Victorian churches in the suburbs.The range of buildings is wide and includes work by well-known architects N.F. Achemaille-Day and Maguire & Murray as well as many lesser figures who deserve to be better known.The book consists of a wide-ranging introduction followed by a gazetteer in which most churches are illustrated by both an exterior and an interior view. 430 illus, 260p.

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The Bishop’s Palace at Salisbury Peter L. Smith (Author) One of the least known yet most important buildings in Salisbury is the former Bishops’ Palace. First built when the city was established in the 1220s, it was home to successive bishops for over 700 years until becoming the Cathedral School in 1946.This book traces the evolution of the palace, chronicles the most important bishops who lived there and sets the story within the relevant contexts of English history. It also describes the other (numerous) palaces of the bishops of Salisbury and catalogs the portraits that have hung in the Salisbury Palace. 21 col. 96 b/w, 224p.

Spire Books, April 2013, 9781904965411, HB, $60.00, Special Price $48.00

The Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume A.W.N Pugin (Author) The Glossary is Pugin’s largest and most magnificent book. He intended that his two Dublin Review articles of 1842 would be accompanied by a third dealing with ornament and decoration.

However, this developed into a grand survey church ornaments, vessels and vestments which are dealt with alphabetically, including long-forgotten ones he hoped to revive.This masterly survey reveals the extraordinary breadth and depth of Pugin’s researches. Its chief glory lies in 73 superb chromolithographs showing ‘correctly’ vested clergy and a wide range of patterns for embroidery, monograms and emblems. ‘Never – in modern days at least – were illuminations more exquisite, concluded The Ecclesiologist (1844). Even today, Pugin’s Glossary remains a locus classicus for the church furnishing.The edition reproduced is that of 1846, revised and enlarged by the Rev. Bernard Smith.

To it has been added an insightful introduction by Michael Fisher, author of the acclaimed ‘Gothic Forever’: A.W.N. Pugin, Lord Shrewsbury and the Rebuilding of Catholic England. 73 illus, 350p.

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Gregorianischer Choral aus Quellen österreichischer Bibliotheken Robert Klugseder (Editor) Music research is concerned both with the theoretical study of music, and with transferring the results of its research into musical practice, for example by including concerts in conferences, thereby enabling music and science to enter into a dialog.This kind of performance has been staged by the Commission for Music Research at regular intervals. At the heart of these events is the first performance of previously neglected works, versions or fragments. Documenting these unique and elaborate concerts as part of this series of CDs completes the circle of music as a subject of research, of scientific research into music and the transfer of the knowledge gained by that research into performing and understanding music. Austria has access to many medieval sources containing monophonic liturgical music. Alongside those in the National Library, musical treasures can be found in monastic libraries.The Grazer Choralschola presents a cross-section of a largely still unknown body of work of Austrian music from Klosterneuburg, Neuburg, St. Lambrecht, Seckau, the Schottenschift monastery in Vienna and Vorau.The CD presents a live recording of a concert held in 2011 in Vienna as part of the music research conference of the CANTUSPLANUS study group of the International Musicological Society.

German text.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, September 2012, 9783700172437, CD-Audio, $30.00, Special Price $24.00

Romanorum Rex: Musik in Zentraleuropa des 15. Jahrhunderts Kommission für Musikforschung der ÖAW In November 2010, the Commission for Music Research held a conference entitled “The Appropriation of Musical Repertoires in Central Europe, c. 1420–1450”. During this international symposiom a concert was organized which took place in the Viennese church Maria am Gestade.The pieces performed and presented in this live recording manifest the plurality and complexity of repertoires of polyphonic music in the liturgical and para-liturgical practice of the late Middle Ages.The repertoire ranges from ambitious works challenging even the singers of the period, like a mass by Dufay, to more common settings of sacred texts as they were regularly heard in contemporary liturgy. Apart from well-known composers, personalities of local importance (for Vienna and central Europe) are represented. In their pieces we hear their efforts to meet the requirements of the musical practice of the 15th century and also to follow the international repertoire.The stylistic influences affecting the central European institutions came from England, Italy, and the FrankoFlemish cultural area. Besides the important German, Austrian, and Bohemian centers, two Habsburg rulers are in the focus of this recording: the kings Albrecht II and the later Frederick III, both of them dedicatees of an artistic motet. German text.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, January 2013, 9783700173380, CD-Audio, $30.00,

Special Price $24.00 Thematischer Katalog Mathias Öttl Alexander Opatrny (Author) Following the recent publication of the work of Karlmann Pachschmidt the Thematische Katalog Mathias Öttl honours another composer of the late Austrian Baroque. Baptized on 21 February 1675 at Lake Constance in Bodman, Öttl’s first documented musical appearance was as a participant in a Jesuit drama performance in Vienna on 31 July 1698. Activities as a tenor in Vienna’s St. Stephen’s cathedral, employment at the Schotten monastery as well as his appointment as Musicus and subsequently Kapellmeister to the dowager Empress Eleonora, the widow of Leopold I. are further stages in his life which are discussed in the biographical section of the Katalog. Another aspect of this work is the investigation, in particular the attribution of 66 compositions, found under several composers’ names, which has also shed new light on several of the 37 collections from five countries, in which these works are now housed. German text. 435p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press,Tabulae Musicae Austriacae 18, 2012, 9783700171379, PB, $103.00, Special Price $82.40

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Animierte Musik – Beseelte Zeichen: Tonspuren anthropomorpher Tiere in Animated Cartoons Saskia Jaszoltowski (Author) During Hollywood’s Golden Age cartoons with Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry or Bugs Bunny were an integral part of the cinema program and also very popular. With the advent of films with sound, the cartoon characters could not only be visual, but also express themselves directly through music, sounds and voices in order to elicit the most human, emotional response from the audience: laughter. This title examines the constitutive interplay of image and sound in those films that have lost none of their impact. From a historical, technical and analytical perspective, this study unlocks the genre of animated short films and it carves out the distinctiveness of the soundtrack which conveys the credibility of idiosyncratic human-animal hybrids. Saskia Jaszoltowski explains clearly how film music makes the drawn cartoons alive and human and this has far-reaching implications for aesthetics and emotion research. German text.

206p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 74, June 2013, 9783515104272, HB, $65.00, Special Price $52.00

Das Mittelalter im 19. Jahrhundert: Ein Beitrag zur Kompositionsgeschichte in Frankreich Stefan Morent (Author) In this volume, Stefan Morent shows the influence of the reception of medieval music on compositional works in France in the second half of the 19th century, especially among the younger generation of composers such as Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie. He includes the historic research of Desiderats after a reappraisal of the dialectic between progressive and retrospective in the history of composition in France in the 19th century.

Methodologically, the author goes beyond the observation of general culturalhistorical currents by concerning himself with reception phenomena in the compositional structure and he profiles the proportion of specific Medieval composers. As well as analysis of musical aesthetics and music theory discourse, this work focuses on evidence of an impact on the history of composition based on selected works. It also clarifies the role that institutions for mediation of the renewed interest in medieval music play including the monastery of Solesmes, the Ecole Niedermeyer and the Schola Cantorum in Paris. German text. 200p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 72, March 2013, 9783515102940, HB, $63.00, Special Price $50.40

Deutsche Musikkultur im östlichen Europa: Konstellationen – Metamorphosen – Desiderata – Perspektiven Erik Fischer (Editor) This publication differs from previous (and subsequent) issued volumes of project reports because of one special feature. In this volume, an attempt is made to subject the overarching thematic area covered by the research activities in Bonn to critical self-reflection: the genesis and the typological and historic modifications of the field as well as the associated political, social and cultural requirements and interests are now the focus of examination themselves. The historic arch spanned by the total of 24 articles extends from the concepts of ‘German’ music that have been developed since the 19th century through the updates and transformations following the end of World War II caused by the flight and expulsion of the Germans from their former settlement areas all the way to consideration of the potential future scope of the discourse on “German Music Culture in Eastern Europe”. German text. 13 b/w illus, 483p.

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Cooking Gluten Wheat and Dairy Free: 200 Recipes for Coeliacs, Wheat, Dairy and Lactose Intolerants

Mäzene – Manuskripte – Modi: Untersuchungen zu My Ladye Nevells Booke Tihomir Popovic (Author) The Elizabethan era is traditionally known as the ‘Golden Age’ of English keyboard music with William Byrd, John Bull and Orlando Gibbons as the triumvirate of this genre.This notion may be idealized, but it is still undeniable that the Elizabethan Age brought forth a surge of the writing system, and significant changes to the composition technique of keyboard music.

Through the example of the collection My Ladye Nevells Booke containing 42 pieces of William Byrd,Tihomir Popovic examines both the social and culturalhistorical background of this phenomenon as well as its musical quality. In the historical part of the study the milieu of the Elizabethan aristocracy in which the collection was created, is the focus of attention. In the analytical part, the author discusses the intensity of the writing system of composition and technical details on the choice of genres for My Ladye Nevells Booke and on the changes in the composition technique at the level of key treatment. He presents the results within the context of social and cultural history studies. German text. 269p.

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Michelle Berriedale-Johnson (Author) If you suffer from allergies or intolerances to dairy, wheat and gluten, the problem you face in having to avoid these is that they are the most commonly used ingredients in food manufacture.

So you will find it very difficult to buy ready-made foods which do not contain at least one of these products.This is means you will have to cook for yourself. If you are to stick to a dairy, gluten and wheat free diet, you need know what your forbidden ingredients are, where they are likely to turn up and what alternatives to use, all of which are explained in this book.There are 200 recipes for soups, starters, light lunches, egg dishes, pasta and pizzas, fish, meat, poultry and game, salads, vegetables and vegetarian dishes, desserts, breads, biscuits and cakes - all of which are milk, cream, butter, cheese, yogurt, wheat, gluten and lactose free. full color throughout, 240p.

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Ice Creams, Sorbets and Gelati: The Definitive Guide Musikstudium in der Diktatur, Das Landeskonservatorium der Musik / die Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Leipzig in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus 1933–1945 Maren Goltz (Author) The Leipzig Conservatory is the oldest musical establishment today’s Germany. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the most renowned of its founders, upheld it as the standard of an academic training for musicians. Leipzig became a model for Conservatoires in Europe and overseas. But how did its own identity, the structure of the teaching and every day study change after the seizing of power by the Nazis?

Maren Goltz is the first to systematically and comprehensively study the historical development of the institution, founded in 1843, during the Third Reich and with this book she also makes a contribution to the study of the history of art and music colleges under a dictatorship.The volume shows that the Leipzig educational institution was not a place of seclusion for music education, untouched by Nazi ideology, but rather its members had to contribute to the direction of Nazi cultural life and to policy requirements, and from the beginning they had to accommodate these things. German text. 6 b/w-photos. 462p.

Robin Weir (Author); Caroline Weir (Author) Twelve years after the publication of their previous book, the largest selling book on ICES that has ever been published, Caroline and Robin Weir return with the ultimate guide to Ice Cream, Gelato, and Sorbet. Since the first publication, over a decade of research and millions of calories have gone into this new book which has over 400 recipes covering ice creams, gelato, graniti, bombes, parfaits, instructions on making wafers, biscuits, punches, even ice creams for diabetics and vegans.This new book, with all areas expanded and updated, is for the beginner, the enthusiast, the cook, the expert, and the professional chef. All the recipes are written in the clearest terms in Metric, cup measurements, and Imperial weights and measures.There are new revelations, on the history of ice cream as well as the origin of the ice cream cone, plus dozens of new pictures and illustrations from the authors constantly expanding collection; there is also a section on both penny licks and some hilarious soda fountain lingo.There is also a comprehensive section on the physics and chemistry of all ices, as well as enough information to enable you to make almost anything into an ice. 245p.

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Special Price $88.80 No Need to Knead: Handmade Artisan Breads in 90 minutes Suzanne Dunaway (Author) Acclaimed professional baker Suzanne Dunaway reveals her truly revolutionary technique for baking unforgettable breads that that require no fuss and no special equipment.The crusts are lighter, chewier, and the crumb is moist, stays fresh longer, and has more intense flavor than most breads. Her ingredients are simply flour, water, yeast and salt - and, passion. She uses no preservatives or additives of any kind.The recipes are her own creations, developed over years of trial and error.You will find focaccia, ciabatta, pane rustico and pizza as well as breads from around the world such as baguette, sourdough flapjacks, blini, muffins, corn bread, brioche, African Spiced bread, kulich and kolaches. In addition many of the basic bread doughs are fat-free, sugar-free and dairy-free making then perfect for people on strict dietary or allergy regimes.There are also dozens of recipes for dishes you can make with bread – soufflés, soups, salads and even desserts such as chocolate bread pudding. Plus fun recipes to make with children. full color throughout, 270p.

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Particular Delights: Cooking for all the Senses Nathalie Hambro (Author) First published in 1981 to great critical acclaim and winner of a prestigious Glenfiddich Award that same year, Particular Delights is reissued in a newly designed edition but retains the delightful line drawings by Thao Soun from the original edition. Packed with original ideas and unusual flavor combinations it is a book about the art of eating, as much as the art of cooking.The author has experimented to create recipes which are imaginative and adventurous but believes that the beauty of natural ingredients is that they speak for themselves.Who could resist trying Sun on a Cloud, Rainbow Omelette, Parmesan Puffs, Devils in Overcoats, Courgette and Coconut Soup, Steamed Mouli with Watercress Mayonnaise,Aubergines Confites, Nasturtium and Avocado Salad, Smoked Tea Ice Cream with Crystallised Mint leaves or Chocolate Decadence.There are over 150 recipes divided into sections on cheese dishes, egg dishes, grain, seeds and nuts, fish, poultry and game, soups, vegetables, salads, fruits and flowers, puddings, tea time, the still room and drinks, all designed to appeal to all our five senses. 208p.

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Taste of Portugal: A Voyage of Gastronomic Discovery Combined with Recipes, History and Folklore.

Edite Vieira (Author) It is amazing that in these times of passion for the food from every corner of the globe, the cooking of Portugal remains unexplored by so many, especially given its vibrant flavors and simple domestic style. In this authoritative and fascinating book Edite Vieira traces the rich legacy of her country’s culinary excellence from medieval through to modern times lacing it with history and anecdote and a collection of authentically delicious recipes. From simple and wholesome peasant fare to elaborate celebratory meals, ingredients include salt cod (bacalhau) in all its myriad variations, cumin and oranges are both remnants of the voyaging past, green coriander is the main flavoring herb; essentially the food is the food of a country which grows grapes, peppers, melons, quinces and apples, and few other countries have such a repertoire of pork dishes. Fresh pork is much in evidence as well as ham (presunto), pork and red pepper sausages (chouricos) and black pudding (morcela), all foods very much in present vogue. full color throughout, 256p.

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$31.96 Round the World in 80 Dishes

Leslie Blanch (Author) This charming little book was first published in 1956 when people in England were still enduring post-war restrictions on both traveling and eating. As Lesley Blanch says in her introduction to a later edition ‘benign fate whisked me elsewhere to follow less restricted ways, traveling widely and eating wildly.’

She said: ‘I don’t belong in England, I don’t belong anywhere, it is rather restful…I have met everybody and known nobody.’

Seductive and piquant, this is ‘an appetizer for enthusiastic beginners’ rather than a basic cookbook. Lesley Blanch’s gastronomic world tour includes eighty recipes each prefaced by an account of where they were first tasted, or with some amusing anecdote. Lesley Blanch was born in June 1904 and died in 2007. She studied painting at the Slade, and later designed book jackets for TS Eliot at Faber. She was, from 1937 to 1944, the dynamic and imaginative features editor at Vogue. She traveled extensively, principally in the Middle East, and during her long and extraordinary life wrote 12 books, the best-known of which is The Wilder Shores of Love, which has never been out of print since it was first published in 1954. line drawings by author, 200p.

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$19.96 Tapas: Classic Small Dishes From Spain Elisabeth Luard (Author) Tapas are the wonderfully tempting little dishes of food that are traditionally served with sherry in southern Spain. Beautifully simple, tantalizingly delicious and easy to prepare, they are perfect for all kinds of occasions.The recipes and suggestions in this book demonstrate how simple ingredients can be quickly transformed into mini feasts designed to delight the senses.

Among the recipes are salted almonds, bread with olive oil and garlic, salt cod, asparagus with 2 sauces, chicory and blue cheese, mushrooms with garlic and rosemary, aubergine puree, broad beans with ham, tortilla, pickled sardines, spiced mackerel, lamb ribs with paprika, beef in red wine, potted game, croquettes, empanadas and many, many more. In addition there is plenty of helpful advice including a selection of menus that show how to combine tapas to provide meals for every occasion – such as spring, summer, autumn and winter parties, children’s tapas party, vegetarian tapas party and a no-cook tapas menu.The wealth of background information and the superb collection of recipes vividly evokes the spirit of a country where food is the essence of the community. full color throughout, 176p.

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Messy Cook Michael Raffael (Author) Michael Raffael advocates a creative approach to cooking: don’t follow recipes too slavishly, use a little inspiration, improvise. After a successful career writing about and consulting for the food industry in all its branches: restaurants, the retail and manufacturing trades, and kitchen appliance development, the author has returned to his home in Somerset, to his allotment, to the woods and fields round about, and to his own kitchen. Here there may be some mess, and there may be a generous and eclectic collection of kitchen gadgets and implements, but there is also real family cooking. In thirty-odd chapters, Michael ranges over dishes and foodstuffs such as meat balls, ratatouille, pesto, fruit tarts, pizza and bread, custard, toasted cheese, artichokes, asparagus, mushrooms (wild and tame), strawberries, apples and pears, bread and butter puddings, cream and potatoes. He muses on washing up, making purées, fats, messy dishes, pastry and French dressing. He includes for good measure three short stories on food and its acolytes.And he illustrates the whole caboodle with his exceedingly attractive, but unstudied, photography. Michael Raffael is an acclaimed freelance food and travel writer. Educated at London University and the École Nationale de Langues Orientales Vivantes in Paris, he has also worked as a chef and judged many national food writing competitions. He has amassed a number of awards, including Glenfiddich Food Writer of the Year,Visit USA Travel Writer of the Year, World Gourmand Cookbook Award and Restaurateurs Association Food Writer of the Year. As part of his work he has been involved in the judging process of national cheese competitions. 224p.

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Advances of Atmospheric Aerosol Research in Austria Hans Puxbaum (Editor); Wilfried Winiwarter (Editor) This volume compiles the achievements and contributions of Austrian research to this important field. Members from the Clean Air Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and guest authors provide an overview of the state of science in Austria in its relationship to the international advances. Starting from developing measuring instruments to the results and interpretation of field campaigns, the contributions also show how measurement results are apportioned to individual sources, and how their health impacts are quantified. Another strand of methods includes emission modelling and simulation of emission abatement options, which serves to assess the regional distribution of air pollution as well as the global circulation in terms of establishing its impact to climate.The exploration of aerosol in its relation to climate has not even arrived at that stage. Considerable additional scientific attention is required. Further studies are needed on quantifying the effects of „dark“ absorbing aerosol that acts like a greenhouse gas, versus the reflecting „white“ aerosol which decreases any warming effect from anthropogenic activities.

This theme will be covered to some extent by the upcoming 5th IPCC assessment report, but moreover provide ample opportunity to further contributions of Austrian aerosol scientists to a global benefit.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, November 2012, 9783700173649, PB, $58.00,

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HEALTH, MEDICINE & DISEASE

Il modello Gorter: Un’innovativa terapia atossica per il cancro Robert W. Gorter (Author); Erik Peper (Author) The book describes the Gorter Model, an integrative, non-toxic approach to cancer treatment that mobilizes the immune system. It was developed by Robert Gorter, MD, PhD, who in 1976 recovered from Stage IV testicular cancer by using nontoxic treatment and no chemotherapy or radiation. Based on self-experience, extensive research, and decades of clinical practice, the treatment consists of supporting the immune system using fever therapy (hyperthermia), inoculation with immune cells, the use of the botanical mistletoe ( Viscum album ) – the single most commonly prescribed anti-cancer medication in much of Europe – supportive nutrients, and diet and lifestyle changes.

Organized into three parts, Fighting Cancer presents a clear overview of the model, the research behind it, and strategies for strengthening natural immunity.

Emphasizing stress reduction and minimizing toxic exposure, the authors provide practical guidance for patients: questions to ask doctors after diagnosis and advice for evaluating options, gathering information, and getting second opinions. Included are powerful testimonials from patients – most of whom have outlived their prognosis and, in some cases, achieved complete and sustained remission.The book has been translated from the English original edition into many languages and this is the Italian edition. Italian text. 280p.

Edizioni Polistampa, December 2012, 9788859611639, PB, $39.00, Special Price $31.20

Camera Obscura: Die Dunkelkammer in ihrer historischen Entwicklung Olaf Breidbach (Author); Kerrin Klinger (Author); Matthias Müller (Author) The camera obscura was the first image display device.The idea was already around in ancient times. In the 4th Century BCE the Chinese already knew how to project inverted images of illuminated objects through a small opening. Eclipses were observed with the camera obscura until the Renaissance and different hole shapes and image distances were experimented with,The device was used in a wide range of applications from the 16th to the 19th centuries after technical improvements, such as the insertion of the lenses and the deflection of the light beam by using mirrors. It was only after the invention of photography that the camera obscura lost its importance.This volume deals with the heyday of the camera obscura and describes its design and technical development.The focus is on the reports of the use of the device.The authors reconstruct what was seen with the camera obscura, compare imaging methods and presentation techniques with descriptions and illustrations of early productions and they provide contribution to the perception of early modern culture. German text. 185 illus 227p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, June 2013, 9783515100052, PB, $51.00, Special Price $40.80

Ternary Phase Diagrams in Materials Science D.R.F. West (Author); N. Saunders (Author) This book is an extensively revised and expanded version of the second edition published in 1981.The book aims to provide an introduction to the subject of ternary phase diagrams, commencing with fundamental principles followed by discussion of simple systems and proceeding to examples of increasing complexity. An important emphasis is the use of the diagrams to understand phase transformations such as those that occur during the solidification and melting of industrially important materials, including metallic and ceramic materials, and relevant to the control of microstructure.The coverage and approach is aimed at the needs of undergraduate and graduate students and will also serve those who already have a working knowledge of the subject and who wish to extend their expertise.

Settecento anni di storia. San Giovanni di Dio: Un ospedale da non dimenticare Diana Esther (Author); Ghidetti Enrico (Author) The San Giovanni di Dio Hospital, built at the end of the fourteenth century under the name of Santa Maria dell’Umiltà is in Florence in Borgo Ognissanti.With the contributions of scholars, the book celebrates its sanitary and social medical journey, focusing also on the artistic heritage guarded inside the ancient building.The essays recall the establishment of the hospital linked to the Vespucci family and then to the Fatebenefratelli’s congregation, and identify the distinctive relationship that the hospital created with the town: its peculiar fitting inside the existing building context and those architectural features that influenced its expansion during the eighteenth century.Various works of art, many of which have never been studied before, including the devotional ones preserved in the ancient church, are examined. In addition to the history of the building, the volume deals extensively with those sectors and associations that helped to increase its fame. Is thus emphasized the contribution given from the surgery of S. Giovanni di Dio to the progress of the sector in the Italian context, from the Florentine Avis Section, to the role played by the Documentation Centre for the enhancement of the historic heritage of the local health authorities of the Area Vasta Centro. Italian text. col illus, 272p.

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Special Price $46.40 Steelmakers & Knotted String: The Centenary Reprint, with new Afterword Harry Brearley (Author) The fascinating autobiography by the discoverer and early commercial developer of stainless steel includes a collection of photographs, both past and present, illustrating some of the achievements and episodes in Harry Brearley’s extraordinary career together with a commentary providing a modern perspective on Brearley’s life and work. 282p.

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Personality Coherence and Incoherence, A Perspective on Anxiety and Depression Malgorzata Fajkowska (Author) From the Foreword . . .

“In this detailed and thought-provoking book, Malgorzata Fajkowska provides a novel perspective on personality and its expressions in anxiety and depression.

Her theory is well founded, resplendent in factual description and theoretical nuance, and is bound to stimulate new thinking and research.”

—Philip J. Corr, University of East Anglia, 300p.

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Personality Dynamics: Meaning Construction, the Social World, and the Embodied Mind

HEALTH, MEDICINE & DISEASE 71

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Tomasz Maruszewski (Editor); Michael W. Eysenck (Editor); Malgorzata Fajkowska (Editor); Daniel Cervone (Editor) This series grows out of the Biennial Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology (BSPSP; http://www.bspsp.edu.pl), which are intended to become a regular forum for psychologists and representatives of allied disciplines.The goal of BSPSP is to understand and analyze the integrative approach to studying human psychology.The growing achievements of psychology allow us to conceptualize, measure, and influence complex behavior. Research has become more specialized, resulting in difficulties in communication and collaboration. BSPSP is an important forum for cross-disciplinary discussions concerning important aspects of the human brain and mind. 210p.

Eliot Werner Publications,Warsaw Lectures in Personality and Social Psychology 3, February 2013, 9780979773198, HB, $65.00,

Special Price $52.00 Gesundheitliche Disparitäten im urbanen Indien: Auswirkungen des sozioökonomischen Status auf die Gesundheit in Pune Mareike Kroll (Author) The rapid urbanization process in India leads to a strong overprint of the physical and social environment with farreaching implications for the health of the urban population.

Burden of disease varies depending on the socio-economic status. These intra-urban disparities are so far in India due to the long-standing focus on city -rural gaps and a lack of data availability hardly been studied. In the present study the emerging mega city of Pune is analyzed in a mixed-methods approach, the exposure of different socio-economic groups to health risk and protective factors and their disease burden based on the example of selected indicator diseases. The results of the study show that health disparities show up not only in an unequal burden of disease, but also that there are differences in disease progression in relation to the severity and duration of disease and the occurrence of comorbidities. The presented approach allows a description and analysis of the various levels at which health disparities occur or be intensified. German text. 45 b/w-photos, 53 b/w illus 13 tab. 295p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Megacities and Global Change / Megastädte und globaler Wandel 6, December 2012, 9783515102827, PB, $70.00,

Special Price $56.00 Medizin im Spiegel ihrer Geschichte: Theorie und Ethik, Schlüsselthemen für ein junges Querschnittsfach Heiner Fangerau (Editor); Igor J. Polianski (Editor) The Amendment of the Medical Licensure Act of 2002 provided for the medical school curriculum, the establishment of medical ethics along with the history of medicine and the medical theory in an interdisciplinary subject before. However, the creation of this trinity was not without controversy.You can look back on the debate, it should be noted that now the “trinity " of History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine (GTE) is a professional cutting and has formed a professional culture, as they are at the beginning of the debate as yet was not given.

This volume includes in this context to the previous reflections on, offers a critical evaluation of GTE and brightens the prospects of this cross section times.The essays collected here summarize the results of a meeting that deliberately open scientists gave a forum to present research results and perspectives from all three regions.The occasion was the founding of the Institute of History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine and the Medical Center and Society of the University of Ulm. German text. 35 b/w illus, 264p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Kulturanamnesen 4, June 2013, 9783515102278, PB, $66.00,

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Chimes of Time: Wounded Health Professionals. Essays on Recovery Bruce Kirkcaldy (Editor) This book is an ambitious project uniting various fields in a multidisciplinary venture drawing on academics and clinicians from medicine, psychology and educational sciences. The interdisciplinary approach has assembled medical, educational and health specialists – many of whom are outstanding academics and clinicians – with scholarly contributions from many different countries and institutes.

It provides a plethora of essays and reviews by clinicians and academics, many contributions self-confessional, disclosing details of their own personal pain and suffering with critical life events including either physical or psychological illnesses, and a description of their own resources and strengths.

There are also chapters by academics with creative and novel ideas drawing on insight derived from literature, arts and psychology as well as medicine, creating models for encouraging personal development; coping despite adversity and eventually finding meaning towards recovery both physically and psychologically. This process of recovery frequently required the support of trusted families and friends, teachers, and fellow physicians and psychologists, enabling them to pursue interesting and outstanding careers “despite” these apparent disadvantages.

This book will be useful for practitioners and researchers, but also for laymen and social policy makers. The intended readership includes those interested in health psychology, sociology, anthropology, public health and mental health sciences.

Bruce Kirkcaldy has academic degrees in psychology from the Universities of Dundee and Giessen, as well as postgraduate professional training as a Behavioral Therapist and Clinical Psychologist. He is Director of the International Centre for the Study of Occupational and Mental Health, and runs his own psychotherapy practice specializing in the treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders and psychosomatic ailments. 280p.

Sidestone Press, June 2013, 9789088900945, PB, $65.00, Special Price $52.00, 9789088901775, eBook, $26.00

72 MILITARY/MARITIME

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Support for the Fleet: Architecture and Engineering of the Royal Navy’s Bases 17001914 Jonathan Coad (Author) This major new book traces for the first time the architectural and engineering works in the Royal Navy’s shore bases at home and overseas and the political imperatives and technologies that helped shape them up to the First World War. Based on detailed archival research, it concentrates on the remarkable legacy of surviving structures.

The varied requirements of the sailing navy and its steam-driven successor are reflected in successive dockyard remodellings and expansions.The book reveals the close links that developed with a rapidly industrializing Britain at the end of the eighteenth century, showing contributions of figures such as Samuel Bentham, Thomas Telford, Henry Maudslay, the Rennies, the Jessops and James Watt.The influence of the Royal Engineers is traced from early beginnings in the 1700s to their major role in the dockyard expansions from the late 1830s into the twentieth century.The architectural development of victualing and ordnance yards, naval hospitals, schools and coaling stations are all described, together with their key contributions to Great Britain’s long naval supremacy. Copiously illustrated with maps, plans and photographs, this important and lively work will appeal to naval historians, industrial archaeologists and students of British history. 482 illus, 464p.

English Heritage, May 2013, 9781848020559, HB, $200.00, Special Price $160.00

Operation Pedestal: The Story of the Santa Marija Convoy John Mizzi (Author) In 1942 a naval operation was mounted to relieve Malta from the onslaught of attacks by the forces of the Axis.This operation was codenamed “Pedestal”. Many extraordinary feats occurred during Pedestal. For example, the SS Ohio withstood persistent Stuka dive bomber attacks, had a Ju87 crash on her deck and endured a Ju88 crashing into the its side.Yet Ohio, after much effort by the Royal Navy, her captain and crew, and survivors from other ships, still made it to Grand Harbor in Malta. Il-Convoy ta’ Santa Marija is undoubtedly an iconic landmark event in the history of Malta and it is therefore only fitting that those who paid the ultimate price in this operation be commemorated in a Roll of Honor which is reproduced in this book.This book is a lasting memory of this extraordinary mission which was a turning point in the defense of Malta and the Mediterranean during World War II and to all those who lost their lives defending the values of freedom and democracy. John A Mizzi has brought together in one publication a number of related anecdotes and background accounts which may not have been widely known until now. 96p.

Midsea Books, January 2013, 9789993274063, PB, $23.50, Special Price $18.80

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MARITIME

NEW FROM COUNCIL FOR BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY

Marine Archaeology: A Handbook Virginia E. Dellino-Musgrave (Author) Marine Archaeology: A Handbook aims to give easy access to a range of information about the marine historic environment. It provides a useful guide for all those involved in the marine environment, from local authorities to recreational divers and interested amateurs. In recent years there has been increased awareness of both the potential and the fragility of the marine and maritime zones.Working in these zones presents a range of challenges, from the practical to the legal, which this Handbook attempts to explain.The book begins by defining what the marine environment is, and provides a brief history of maritime archaeology. It also considers the challenging question of the differences between marine archaeology and commercial salvage. Further chapters explain the organization of marine archaeology in the UK and the planning of marine archaeological projects, with essential information on areas of responsibility and sources of information. A summary of the complex legal framework for the management of the marine zone around the UK is followed by discussion of European and UNESCO conventions on marine heritage. A glossary and extensive bibliography make this book essential reading for all amateurs and professionals with an interest in our marine historic environment.

24 col figs, 110p.

Council for British Archaeology, CBA Practical Handbook 20, January 2013, 9781902771915, PB, $24.00, Special Price $19.20

England’s Shipwreck Heritage: From logboats to U-boats?

Serena Cant (Author) The aim of the book is to promote English Heritage’s work in maritime archaeology by telling the story of shipwrecks around the coast of England, from the Anglo-Saxons to 1945, and placing these wrecks in their wider archaeological, social, economic and naval context, in particular their relationship to England’s broader historical landscape (submerged prehistoric landscape elements, defence, landscapes of war, memorials, churches, and buildings associated with particular wrecks).

English Heritage, July 2013, 9781848020443, HB, $100.00, Special Price $80.00

Oceans Odyssey 3. The Deep-Sea Tortugas Shipwreck, Straits of Florida: A Merchant Vessel from Spain’s 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet Sean A. Kingsley (Editor); Greg Stemm (Editor) In 1990 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology of Tampa, Florida, commenced the world’s first robotic archaeological excavation of a deep-sea shipwreck south of the Tortugas Islands in the Straits of Florida. At a depth of 405 meters, 16,903 artifacts were recovered using a Remotely-Operated Vehicle.The wreck is interpreted as the Buen Jesús y Nuestra Señora del Rosario, a small Portuguesebuilt and Spanish-operated merchant vessel from the 1622 Tierra Firme fleet returning to Seville from Venezuela’s Pearl Coast when lost in a hurricane.

Oceans Odyssey 3 introduces the shipwreck and its artifact collection – today owned and curated by Odyssey Marine Exploration – ranging from gold bars to silver coins, pearls, ceramics, beads, glass wares, astrolabes, tortoiseshell, animal bones and seeds.The Tortugas shipwreck reflects the daily life of trade with the Americas at the end of the Golden Age of Spain and presents the capabilities of deep-sea robotics as tools for precision archaeological excavation. 201p.

Oxbow Books, Odyssey Marine Exploration Reports 3, April 2013, 9781782971481, HB, $39.95, Special Price $31.96

Archaeology and the Sea in the Maltese Islands Elaine Azzopardi (Author);Timmy Gambin (Author) Malta and Gozo’s geographical location in the center of the Mediterranean Sea has, since ancient times, led to numerous ships passing through the islands’ waters.

Several records of this maritime activity exist in different archives and other evidence can be deduced from the seabed. Despite this, the maritime archaeology of the islands has remained largely unexplored.This book has been produced to address just a small part of this lacuna. By looking at the history of underwater archaeology in Malta and providing an overview of some of the most important finds from the seabed around the archipelago, readers will be able to familiarize themselves with the fascinating world of our submerged cultural heritage.The authors met with and interviewed a number of pioneers who took up scuba diving in the late 1950s and early 1960s and they shared invaluable anecdotal information and archival material. Other sources came from the stores and archives of the Superintendence of Cultural heritage and Heritage Malta.This book should be of interest to divers, students, researchers as well as the general public with the hope to increase awareness and passion towards the submerged cultural heritage of the Maltese islands.

Midsea Books, January 2013, 9789993274025, PB, $23.50, Special Price $18.80

NUMISMATICS

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American Journal of Numismatics 23 (2011) Andrew Meadows (Editor); Oliver Hoover (Editor) Contents includes: A Note on the Laurium Stratigraphy and the Early Coins of Athens:The Work of D. Morin and A. Photiades and its Impact on the Study of Athenian Coinage; From the Types of Alexander to Lysimachus:The Chronology of Some Mesembrian and Other West Pontic Staters; New Light on Coin Production under Seleucus II in Northern Syria, Commagene, and Mesopotamia; Irregular Coins of Judaea, First Century BCE–First Century CE: New Insights from Comparisons of Stylistic, Physical, and Chemical Analyses; More Than It Would Seem:The Use of Coinage by the Romans in Late Hellenistic Asia Minor (133–63 BC) and more. 45 plates, 284p.

American Numismatic Society, American Journal of Numismatics 23, December 2011, 9780897223201, HB, $75.00, Special Price $60.00

American Journal of Numismatics 24 Andrew Meadows (Editor); Oliver Hoover (Editor) Contents includes: Fluctuations in the Composition of the Silver Coinage of Byblos (Fifth–Fourth Century BC); Obols, Drachms, and Staters of Bronze during the Hellenistic Period ; An Egyptian Interpretation of Alexander’s Elephant Headdress; Dating the Portrait Coinage of Ptolemy I;A Note on Two Ptolemaic Bronze Coins from Israel;The Second Syrian War and Gold Staters of Alexander Type struck at Istros;The Serapis and Isis Coinage of Ptolemy IV; Le monnayage civique non datée de Sidon: Opportunisme civique et pragmastisme royal (169/8–111/0 av. J.-C.); Cinq trésors romains de Syrie and more. 38 plates, 204p.

American Numismatic Society, June 2013, 9780897223249, HB, $75.00, Special

Price $60.00 Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum: New York Paris -London-Vienna-Tehran-Berlin Volume: VII: Vologasses I. - Pacorus II Fabrizio Sinisi (Author) Volume VII is the first of nine volumes published in the Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum series.This volume covers the reigns of the Arsacid kings Vologases I - Pacorus II (AD 51 to c. 110).

Arsacid coins are the most important primary source for the history of Iran from the 3rd century BC until the end of Parthian rule in AD 224.They provide information about the succession of rulers as well as the political situation and economic conditions.The Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum represents the first attempt to produce a full systematic reconstruction of the Parthian coin series. For this purpose, this project collated important coin collections in major museums collections around the world and has resulted in a new study of this numismatic material on an unprecedented scale.Volume VII, the first in the series, catalogs 1320 coins from museums and other sources; in addition, around 900 other coins have contributed data to the overall study in the monograph. A detailed typological and metrological analysis serves as the basis for the chronological study of the series.This reveals the fundamental importance of the study of this coinage for the reconstruction of the history of Parthia in this period. 431p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, December 2012, 9783700172062, HB, $193.00,

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HERITAGE 73

Heritage Reinvents Europe Dirk Callebaut (Editor); Jan Marik (Editor); Jana Marikova-Kubkova (Editor) Does cultural heritage bind or separate; does it have the power to add value to the ‘Europe-feeling’? Will emphasizing the commonalities in national histories speed up the process of European integration? Should cultural heritage serve as an instrument in the promotion of civil understanding of the ‘building of Europe’? Unity in Diversity, the motto of the European Union, has seldom been as relevant as it is today. In these difficult economic times Europe is more and more confronted with the phenomenon that citizens openly stand up for the defense of their national and regional interests. This has put enormous pressure on the process of European integration and the concept of a shared European identity based on the cultures of individual EU member states. Thus, understanding the diversity of European cultural heritage and its presentation to the broadest audience represents a challenge that can be answered by diversified group of scientists, including archaeologists, historians, culturologists, museologists etc. By choosing “Heritage reinvents Europe” as the theme for the 12th EAC colloquium that was held between the 17th–19th March 2011, in the Provincial Heritage Centre in Ename, Belgium, the board of the Europae Archaeologiae Consilium made its contribution to the understanding of the key concept of a shared European identity.

French text. 224p.

Archaeolingua, EAC Occasional Paper 7, February 2013, 9789639911413, HB, $54.00,

Special Price $43.20 Who Cares? Perspectives on Public Awareness, Participation and Protection in Archaeological Heritage Management Agneta Lagerlöf (Editor) The reports of acts of plunder and vandalism affecting Europe’s archaeological heritage have increased in recent years.The result is loss of irreplaceable cultural artifacts and the destruction of archaeological sites and monuments.The increasing numbers of reports on tampering with ancient monuments and archaeological materials may reflect more acts of plunder. But it could also reflect a higher incidence of reporting of such acts to competent authorities or a combination of them both. A third solution is that acts of plunder are currently deemed more newsworthy than before. And, if this is the case, we must ask why has this become important now, and also, how does this influence our understanding of what is happening? The complexity of this problem and the ethical issues it raises require us to examine our view of the archaeological source material and archaeology as a profession in relation to society at large. An international conference took place in Paris 2012 with participants from different European countries.The purpose of the conference was to discuss the kind of measures that need to be taken and what the societal consequences of these may be. French text. 81 illus, 136p.

Archaeolingua, EAC Occasional Paper 8, February 2013, 9789639911420, HB, $42.00,

Special Price $33.60 Ceramic Petrography: The Interpretation of Archaeological Pottery & Related Artefacts in Thin Section Patrick Sean Quinn (Author) Thin section ceramic petrography is a versatile interdisciplinary analytical tool for the characterization and interpretation of archaeological pottery and related artifacts, including ceramic building materials, refractories and plaster. Using over 200 color photomicrographs of thin sections from a diverse range of artifacts, archaeological periods and geographic regions, this book illustrates the spectrum of compositional and microstructural phenomena that occur within ancient ceramics under the microscope and provides comprehensive guidelines for their study within archaeology.

The book is structured according to the main steps involved in the analysis and interpretation of archaeological ceramic thin sections, including classification, characterization, the determination of provenance and the reconstruction of manufacturing technology. It can be used as a reference manual for microscope research as well as a course book for specialist training on thin section petrography and archaeological ceramic analysis. Col illus, 260p.

Archaeopress, February 2013, 9781905739592, PB, $70.00, Special Price $56.00

74 POLITICAL SCIENCES

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Cento e venti anni di storia socialista Gennaro Acquaviva (Editor); Luigi Covatta (Editor); Angelo Molaioli (Editor) The volume reconstructs through the authors’ contributions, the many documents and the colored pictures, the history of the oldest Italian party 120 years after its birth. Since the foundation in Genoa in 1892 until the breakdown in 1992 and to the rebirth during the last years, through key moments such as the Resistance or the “new course” encouraged by Bettino Craxi: facts, people, ideas alternates in a long journey made of struggles and social achievements.The book contains details concerning the various general elections and conventions, deepening the key figures with quotations from their speeches. A specific section is dedicated to communication, with a gallery of election posters, brochures, periodicals, and party bulletins. Introduction by Riccardo Nencini.

Italian text. 292p.

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$33.60 Coscienza cristiana e responsabilità democratica: Riflessioni politiche lungo i sentieri del Novecento Giuseppe Bartolomei (Author); Omar Ottonelli (Editor) Elected in the Senate of the Italian Republic in 1963, Giuseppe Bartolomei (1923-1996) is mainly remembered for having been president of the senatorial group of the Christian democrats (Democrazia Cristiana)(1973-1980), Italian Minister of Agriculture (1980-1982) and president of Banca Toscana (19841996).This volume gathers a wide selection of his writings, both published and unpublished, testifying his extraordinary intellectual and political experience.With a preface by Paolo Nepi and a contribution by Romano Prodi, the book will allow the reader to rediscover the figure of this catholic animated by a profound faith in the great ideals of democracy, as well as of a protagonist of several political seasons: the Italian center-left wing, the student protest, the Years of Lead, the Moro affair, the gradual crisis of the Catholics’ party that will lead to the end of the First Republic.These are only some of the themes emerging from Bartolomei’s reflections.The volume is enriched by a complete bibliography of his writings.

Italian text. 424p.

Edizioni Polistampa, Centro Studi “Amintore Fanfani” June 2013, 9788859611486, PB, $40.00, Special Price $32.00

Discorsi parlamentari (1861-1879) Ricasoli Bettino (Author); Alessandro Breccia (Editor) Bettino Ricasoli, Italian statesman, was deputy of the Italian Parliament from 1860 to 1880, when he died. During that long period, his participation in parliamentary discussions was very careful, and his interventions marked some of the most relevant issues in the activity of the Parliament, particularly in regard to the political plan of the Tuscan moderates.The dialog with his colleagues was inevitably intensified by the two government experiences (1861-62 and 1866-67), when Ricasoli, as Prime Minister, had to defend his positions in the context of the executive branch.This volume gathers, for the first time, all the parliamentary speeches of Ricasoli in front of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic, allowing us to better understand his figure and his “vision of the State”.The ideal plot outlined by these speeches follows Italy’s first steps after unification, dealing with the main problems of its foundation.The introduction offers an itinerary through general themes; the introductory note preceding each speech allows to reconstruct the political and parliamentary context. Italian text. 304p.

Edizioni Polistampa, Comitato Nazionale Bicentenario Nascita Ricasoli, December 2012, 9788859611783, PB, $42.00, Special Price $33.60

POLITICAL SCIENCES

Il Mediterraneo tra Oriente e Occidente: Atti del seminario di studi. Firenze, Fondazione Spadolini Nuova Antologia, 2 dicembre 2011 Cosimo Ceccuti (Editor); Santoro Italico (Editor) The Arab Springs, with their contradictions and the different results from country to country, have changed the long established balance in Mediterranean, southern, and eastern shore.The prospects are still uncertain and oscillate between tumults of spring revival and fears of long winters brought by the Islamic fundamentalism. All this happens in a particularly delicate phase of the construction of Europe as a whole and of the Mediterranean countries of the Old Continent in particular.The sovereign debt problems force the EU to reflect upon itself and to face its contradictions, too long ignored and left unresolved.The risk that the entire Mediterranean area may be politically and economically destabilized is far from theoretical. Introduced by Professor Cosimo Ceccuti and coordinated

by Senator Antonio Del Pennino, on December 2, on initiative of the Spadolini Foundation, debated about these subjects.The result is a complex picture, rich of opportunities and contradictions: the Mediterranean, according to the speakers, gains back a strategic importance, and begins to look as an area in which delicate balances confront themselves and a decisive game for the global stability has been played.The future structure of the planet, starting with the basic subject of the maintaining of peace, depends on this match. Italian text. 88p.

Edizioni Polistampa, Biblioteca della Nuova Antologia, December 2012, 9788859611325, PB, $16.00,

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L’economia politica e la sua storia Barucci Piero (Author) The process through which theory flows into concrete decisions in economic policy is very complicated and differs from country to country. Leaders of this phenomenon are all those institutional, social, political, religious “intermediate corps” that produces scales of values among the general aims of economic policy. Economic theories are at the top of this process.The role played by the economists’ professional associations on their reviews, the specialized dictionaries, their contribution to daily press, their role inside the elective assemblies, or the presence of economists inside parties or business organizations on top of the central bank, have great importance in this work.These are other ways to create that unintentionally common “economic culture”, which affects the choices in economic policy. All these studies have a remarkable relevance to the historian of the economical thought and to the economist: today they still have something to say about it. Italian text. 272p.

Edizioni Polistampa, Centro Studi sulla Civiltà toscana fra ’800 e ’900, December 2012, 9788859611349, PB, $32.00,

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La forza della speranza: Giorgio La Pira. Storia e immagini di una vita Riccardo Clementi (Author) Thirty five years after La Pira’s death this book, building on the highly successful original published in 1997 which aimed “to provide the reader of every text concerning La Pira with the revelation of his aspect, of his vivacity, of the battles, the defeats and the victories he went through, and above all of his constantly renewed act of faith, his most authentic spiritual itinerary gushing from the well-aware experience of the Grace of the Lord and the certainty of the Resurrection”, includes a synthetic and fresh “narration” of his life which will contextualize the selection of photographic images, included in the original.The book contains reflections of what lie behind the famous pictures, for example the one portraying La Pira with the poor people of the Badia, or the one of 1955, during the Cold War, with the Mayors of the world’s Capitals (including Moscow and Beijing).The reader will understand the social meaning of the picture with the workmen of the Pignone or the Foundry of Le Cure, the profound religious meaning of the handshake with Pope Paul VI and the value of the immense crowd of people (the entire city) at the day of La Pira’s funeral. Italian text. 240p.

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POLITICAL SCIENCES

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Alternativlose Politik? Zukunft des Staates – Zukunft der Demokratie Rudiger Voigt (Author) The word of the” non-alternative “policy is all the rage. Behind this is the idea of an executive policy, which must not be questioned.The essential feature of the policy is the choice between alternatives. Among the “non-alternative” policy, the rulers understand the only “correct” policy, which only they know. However, on closer inspection, the observer is shown a very different picture; it is an aimless policy.The German Chancellor calls it a “tax on sight”, in other words, “to poke in the dark”.The pragmatic attitude is born out of the need for aimlessness. In reality, there is no master plan or blueprint for the German policy. In eleven essays Rüdiger Voigt analyzes the manifestations and effects of “non-alternative” policy and the revival of democratic participation of the citizens lies at its heart. It is the basis for the legitimacy of governmental action.Voigt calls for the nation-state as the last bastion of civic freedom and participation.The European Union cannot undertake this task because of their weak democratic legitimacy. Only as a sovereign nation-state does democracy has a future. German text. 247p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Staatsdiskurse 24, December 2012, 9783515103268, PB, $69.00,

Special Price $55.20 Die unvollendete Säkularisierung: Politik und Recht im Denken Carl Schmitts Pedro Villas Bôas Castelo Branco (Author); Markus Hediger (Translator) Secularization is often understood as a mere separation of spiritual and administrative power of the Church and State; of altar and throne. Many authors, including Jürgen Habermas, consider the policies and laws of the western states as fully secularized.The process of secularization includes a much broader semantic spectrum whose content extends over a wide range of views, which have characterized the term in different historical contexts.The author draws attention to a serious problem; the tension between the visible and invisible powers and the need to uncover the existential antagonisms between people.The obscuring of sovereignty, the political actions and decisions made through the law, and economy and morale increases the unpredictability and, therefore, the number of mishaps in political life. Carl Schmitt has fought all his life against the invisible or indirect powers in order to reduce the instability that the political institutions are subject to. German text. 267p.

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Special Price $56.00 Partizipation und Staatlichkeit: Ideengeschichtliche und aktuelle Theoriediskurs Gisela Riescher (Editor); Beate Rosenzweig (Editor) At the beginning of the 21st century, the western representative democracy finds itself in a profound crisis of identification.

In view of the complex internal and external challenges faced, the future ability of democratic rulers seems to be accounted for in no way.There are demands for a more global cooperation and transparency and democratic decision making from current civic protest movements from a local to a global level. Does more direct participation lead to sustainable democratization of the political system? And what forms of democratic participation seem to hint at success in the context of the changing state power? This book provides an analytical look at the history of political ideas and discussions of current political theory and it shows possible approaches that could pave the way for a new definition of the relationship of law and democratic participation. German text. 267p.

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LAW 75

Judicial Minimalism – For and Against: Proceedings of the 9th Kobe Lectures. Tokyo, Nagoya, and Kyoto, June 2008 Yasutomo Morigiwa (Editor); Hirohide Takikawa (Editor) In his Kobe Lecture, Cass Sunstein reflects upon his judicial minimalism, a doctrine asserting that the proper role of the judiciary is to go “”narrow and shallow,”” collectively making minimal changes to its jurisprudence. He goes “”beyond judicial minimalism”” by reflecting on the goal and conditions that make the minimalist strategy reasonable, culminating in the conclusion that there are situations when a different strategy is more efficient.Ten commentators carefully examine Sunstein’s legal theory, especially his arguments for and against judicial minimalism. Sunstein himself replies to the comments by appealing to the notion of fallibility.This book attempts to evaluate the pros and cons of judicial minimalism as an important strategy for legal interpretation. 99p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie - Beihefte (ARSP-B) 132, June 2013, 9783515101363, PB, $43.00, Special Price $34.40

Junge Rechtsphilosophie Carsten Bäcker (Editor); Sascha Ziemann (Editor) The young legal philosophy collected in this volume concerns an entire breadth of current and ongoing issues of legal philosophy: What are the limits of rationality of law? How is political selfdetermination composed? Does the feeling of finding the law serve a purpose? Where does the trans-nationalization and pluralism of law lead to? What does the economic analysis of law achieve? Is legal production performance? Is human dignity calculable? How does the law react to the growing autonomy of the child? In this book the authors provide fresh answers to these and other questions.The book is suitable not only for the scientific exploration of the topics, but also provides a representative insight into the scene of the young German in the field of philosophy of law. German text. 214p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie - Beihefte (ARSP-B) 135, October 2012, 9783515102681, PB, $63.00, Special Price $50.40

Law, Science, Technology: Plenary lectures presented at the 25th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Frankfurt am Main, 2011 Ulfrid Neumann (Editor); Klaus Gunther (Editor); Lorenz Schulz (Editor) The dynamic development of science and technology in the last decades has led to new challenges in jurisprudence.This holds for individual fields of doctrinal law as well as the concerned fields of jurisprudence. It is especially significant for the structure of justice, the efficiency of law as a steering instrument of society, and the empirical conditions of legal responsibility. In a jurisprudential perspective, the philosophy of law is rather engaged with the adaptiveness of its traditional principles and categories or the capacity to come to terms with the new developments and less concerned with concrete matters of law. 173p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie - Beihefte (ARSP-B) 136, January 2013, 9783515103282, PB, $57.00, Special Price $45.60

Verkehrsgovernance in Megastädten – Die ÖPNV-Reformen in Santiago de Chile und Bogotá Carolin Höhnke (Author) In recent years many megacities in Latin America have implemented far-reaching reforms of public transport, including the reforms Transantiago in Santiago de Chile and Transmilenio in Bogotá. In both cities the concept of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) forms the basis of the project and it is accompanied by extensive technical, financial and operational changes. Although both public transport reforms were based on a similar conceptual basis, the implementation processes of Transantiago and Transmilenio were designed very differently.This volume analyzes these processes and the institutional factors that determine them and it examines which factors were conducive and cumbersome to implement. It demonstrates that in both cities these reforms changed not only the public transport systems but also the structure of traffic governance. Using the results of this study, recommendations are given to help identify potential obstacles at an early stage in similar reform projects. German text. 17 b/w illus 10 b/w-tab. 252p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Megacities and Global Change / Megastädte und globaler Wandel 5, June 2013, 9783515102513, paprback, $66.00, Special Price $52.80

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www.dbbconline.com Quote discount code 539-13 Intergenerational transmission of criminal and violent behavior

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Company Towns of the Bat’a Concern: History – Cases – Architecture

Sytske Besemer (Author) ‘The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’, ‘Like father like son’, ‘Chip off the old block’. All these idioms suggest that offspring resemble their parents and this also applies to criminal behavior.

This dissertation investigates mechanisms that might explain why children with criminal parents have a higher risk of committing crime. Several explanations for this inter-generational transmission have been contrasted, such as social learning (imitation of behavior), official bias against certain families, and transmission of risk factors.

Sytske Besemer investigated this in England as well as in the Netherlands.This dissertation is the first study to specifically investigate these mechanisms of inter-generational continuity.The study is scientifically relevant because of its breadth, integration of conviction data as well as data on self-reported offending and environmental risk factors, its comparative design and the long periods over which transmission is investigated. Furthermore, the dissertation has important policy implications. It demonstrates how penal policy designed to reduce criminal behavior might actually increase this behavior in the next generation.This is especially important since Western countries such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands show an increasing trend towards more punitive policies. 5 col, 7 b/w illus, 198p.

Ondrej Sevecek (Editor); Martin Jemelka (Editor) During the interwar years, the footwear industry was confronted with similarly revolutionary changes and processes to those in the automobile industry which tend to be associated with the name of Henry Ford.Their major vehicle became the originally Czechoslovak enterprise of the Bat’a siblings, which, during the first decades of the twentieth century, grew into a gigantic concern with global reach. Seventeen researchers from Europe and North America trace the fascinating story of the Bat’a concern, a substantive chapter of which from the end of the 1920s became the establishment of company towns.

From various perspectives, they focus their attention on this unique model of industrial organization which was discussed widely in its time and which in retrospect can be considered one of the true pinnacles of private capitalist urban planning in the first half of the twentieth century. 42 b/w-phot. 20 b/w illus, 311p.

Sidestone Press, June 2013, 9789088901010, PB, $70.00, Special Price $56.00

Dietmar Sternad (Author); Eithne Knappitsch (Author); Christina Mundschütz (Author) Cross-border cooperation is becoming increasingly important as one of the most effective internationalization strategies for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Despite the existence of substantial literature on the internationalization of SMEs, there is still a distinct gap to fill regarding the specifics of SME cross-border cooperation.

This book contributes to this missing dialogue by identifying the key factors affecting cross-border cooperation activities for SMEs in a European context. It reconciles the background conditions, challenges, and potential that cross-border cooperation offers SMEs: exploring the role of public policy and governance structures in cooperation across borders; identifying the economic, social, cultural and institutional framework conditions; outlining the different stumbling blocks impeding cross-border cooperation of SMEs, and crucially, discussing how these can be overcome through effective cooperation management. 21 b/w illus 19 tab. 280p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, June 2013, 9783515103763, PB, $81.00, Special Price $64.80

Cross-Border Cooperation: European Institutional Framework and Strategies of SMEs

Franz Steiner Verlag, June 2013, 9783515102605, HB, $134.00,

Special Price $107.20 Derivate und Finanzstabilität: Erfahrungen aus vier Jahrhunderte Hanna Floto-Degener (Editor) Derivative activity is often reduced to the present, usually perceived as “opaque” trading in financial instruments such as certificates, options, futures and swaps. In many cases, they are excesses of the modern derivatives trading and its role in the recent financial crisis.This overlooks that derivatives have a long history and made a significant contribution to the development of financial markets.The 34th Symposium of the IBF on “Derivatives and Financial Stability: Experiences from Four Centuries” takes a financial historical look at these products and shows that efforts to curb the abuse of derivative instruments, as old as the strategies to circumvent the regulation of derivatives trading. German text.

10 b/w illus 5 tab. 97p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Bankhistorisches Archiv – Beiheft 48, January 2013, 9783515103343, PB, $41.00, Special Price $32.80

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Kollektive Sicherung bei Krankheit und Tod: Fallstudien zum frühneuzeitlichen Zunfthandwerk in städtischen Zentren Sachsens (Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig und Zwickau)

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Mersol: Entwicklung und Einsatz von Ersatzwaschrohstoffen aus Kohle 1936–1945: Ein Beitrag zur nationalsozialistischen Autarkiepolitik

Marcel Korge (Author) Humans have always sought to manage fundamental social risks like sickness and death through common preventative measures.

The analysis of corresponding mechanisms has produced varying results, through often without a source-based verification. At the heart of this study of early modern social, urban and trade history stand the forms of social security which were undertaken or produced through the leading guilds and communal organizations of the Saxon clothing and textile industry. In the central fields of aid for the sick, burial, and the grieving and those left behind, Marcel Korge analyses the fundamental principles and forms of support from the end of the medieval period up to the beginning of the 19th century using sources from the cities of Leipzig, Chemnitz, Dresden and Zwickau. He offers through his study multifaceted views of daily life and cooperation, from the development of the institutions for the support of the sick and destitute, to the internal guild contact with widows and orphans and the organizations of “honorable” burials. German text. 578p.

Egbert Gritz (Author) Although Nazi economic regulations strove for self-reliance, half of the German fat requirements had to be imported against valuable foreign currency.This contradiction was to be resolved through the development and introduction of synthetic substitutes from native carbon sources.To that end, new synthetic detergent materials were designed to replace the consumption of natural fat resources in the manufacture of soaps and detergents.With the onset of the Second World War, the I. G. Farben Corporation succeeded in this endeavor with the production of “Mersol.” Egbert Gritz investigates the progressive links between the detergents industry with the industrial chemistry under the regulation of the Four Year Plan authorities in the period from 1936 to 1945. In doing so, Gritz exposes how, under the terms of the war economy, the former group of competing firms were compelled into a smooth functioning corporate entity.This study sheds new light on both the scope of action of the involved firms as well as the goals of Nazi economic policies. German text. 17 b/w illus 203p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Studien zur Gewerbe- und Handelsgeschichte der vorindustriellen Zeit 33, June 2013, 9783515104029, PB, $119.00,

Franz Steiner Verlag, Beiträge zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte 123, June 2013, 9783515103800, PB, $59.00,

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Krisengeschichte(n): Krise als Leitbegriff und Erzählmuster in kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive Carla Meyer (Editor); Katja Patzel-Mattern (Editor); Gerrit Jasper Schenk (Editor) The term Crisis describes that which is essentially unthinkable, the events that have gone out of control, perceived as unpredictable, their resolution unknown. On the other hand, crises are met with fixed linguistic discourses. In communications, a logical order, a telos, is ascribed to them through which they become not only a resource for future problem solving but also organize a perspective onto the past.

In the historical scholarship the phrase “crises” serves as both an interdisciplinary as well as a diachronic concept in order to explain continuities as well as change.

The variety of identified crises makes it difficult to bring such a broadly applied term to a refined definition.When does a chain of events qualify as a “period or crisis?” How consistent are those qualification? Together these questions place themselves as the heart of the narrative construction of such “historical crises”.

Does the focus on crises necessarily lead to a definitive structuring of the material, to a definitive goal? Does that illustrative goal implicitly structure our research?

German text. 432p.

Franz Steiner Verlag,Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte – Beihefte 210, June 2013, 9783515096591, PB, $98.00,

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Reisende, Migranten, Kulturmanager, Mittlerpersönlichkeiten zwischen Frankreich und dem Wiener Hof 1630–1730 Veronika Hyden-Hanscho (Author) Despite the political antagonism between Paris and Vienna, the Viennese nobility increasingly oriented itself from the ThirtyYears War on toward French culture, especially on the model of self-representation promoted by Louis XIV. The nobility initiated through countless investments in French fashion, cosmetics, furnishings and representative coaches a transfer of culture on a large scale. Francophone professionals from France, Lorraine and the Franche-Comté were enlisted in this process. Savoyard brokers supplied Vienna with textiles from Lyons and professionally active middlemen supplied the Viennese noble houses with en vogue music directly from Paris. In this book,Veronika Hyden-Hanscho provides a detailed image of the process of cultural transmission from France to Vienna and in doing so considers migrants as intercultural agents in a study on historical migrations.The analysis adds insights into the process of integration as well as the frustrations in the process of exchange and remigration derived from 131 immigrant biographies from the Vienna of the early modern period. This work was awarded the Dissertation Prize for Migration Research in 2011 from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. German text. 20 illus 2 tab, 410p.

Franz Steiner Verlag,Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte - Beihefte 221, March 2013, 9783515103671, PB, $93.00,

Special Price $74.40 Kultur des Wettbewerbs – Wettbewerb der Kulturen Joachim Starbatty (Editor); Gregor Vogt-Spira (Editor); Jürgen Wertheimer (Editor) Worldwide, competition is dominating when it is not the dominant factor.The meaning of competition does not simply differ from culture to culture, but differs according to the fields in which they come to dominate, such as sports, science, economy, culture, etc.The contributors offer a concept of the various culture of competition, especially in the periods of world economic crises and globalization, in an equally open and controversial discussion. German text.

26 b/w illus 9 tab, 220p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Impulse - Villa Vigoni im Gespräch 7, June 2013, 9783515101714, PB, $43.00, Special Price $34.40

Risikokultur und Störfallverhalten der chemischen Industrie: Gesellschaftliche Einflüsse auf das unternehmerische Handeln von Bayer und Henkel seit der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts Thilo Jungkind (Author) Dealing with risk technology remains particularly contentious since Fukushima.The second half of the 20th century records significant productivity in the chemical industry in West Germany, with the consequences of environmental pollution and the increasing potential for disaster and harm. But where are the incentives to seek out the responsible companies in order to correct the problematic consequences? Do the social expectations for a clean environment and a safe daily life relate to the economic bear any influence on the strategic decisions of businesses? Thilo Jungkind pursues these questions concerning the changes of responsible business actions from the perspective of business history. He adds to economic theories of business practices by first drawing on neo-industrial theories of organization and thereby he works out a model of business actions within social values.The author features the development in the risk culture and incident management in the firms Bayer and Henkel, in which he establishes a connection between transformed social expectations and business practices. German text. 12 illus 332p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftsgeschichte 3, April, 9783515103459, PB, $84.00,

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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2012 (Volume 10): Education and the Global Fertility Transition Contents include: K.S. James,Vegard Skirbekk and Jan Van Bavel, Education and the global fertility transition; David Shapiro, Women’s education and fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa; Onipede Wusu, A reassessment of the effects of female education and employment on fertility in Nigeria; Bernhard Nauck and Rokuro Tabuchi, One or two pathways to individual modernity? The effects of education on family formation among women in Japan and Germany; Albert Esteve – Jeroen Spijker – Tim Riffe –Joan Garcia, Spousal and parental roles among female student populations in 55 low- and middle- income countries;Valeria Bordone – Daniela Weber, Number of children and cognitive abilities in later life; Jan Van Bavel,The reversal of gender inequality in education, union formation and fertility in Europe. 154p.

Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, January 2013, 9783700173731, PB, $60.00,

Special Price $48.00 Patria e lavoro: La Fratellanza Artigiana d’Italia fra identità sociale e pedagogia nazionale (1861-1932) Anna Pellegrino (Author) The Artisan Brotherhood of Italy, born in Florence in 1861, established itself immediately on the national scene as the most important working-class association, both for the number of members and for its ambitions and political views.The purpose of its promoters was to extend it to all the new State and to unify, according to Mazzini’s words “the whole working-class from one end of Italy to another”.This book deals extensively with the period of the origins, in which the association combines the languages of corporate tradition to the liberal and progressive political ideals. Education, as a means to integrate workers into the new national state, is among its statutory purposes.The Brotherhood thus represents one of the most interesting proposals of labor and patriotic education, to understand the characters of the development of a national identity among the lower and working classes.The second part of the book is dedicated to the side activities and to the analysis of the social base from the beginning to the 30s of the XX century. Italian text. 248p.

Edizioni Polistampa, Nuove ricerche di storia, December 2012, 9788859611769, PB, $29.50, Special Price $23.60

Der Bildhauer Fritz von Graevenitz und die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart zwischen 1933 und 1945: Bildende Kunst als Symptom und Symbol ihrer Zeit Julia Müller (Author) In this book the biography of the sculptor Fritz Graevenitz (1892-1959), a soldier, nobleman, teacher of sculpture and the director of the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts and his attitude in National Socialism are examined and his experiences are also widened to other artists and territories. Dominated by the military tradition of his family, he received military training from 1903 to 1910 in the cadet school at Berlin Lichterfelde, but this did not prevent him from realizing his dream of becoming an artist. In 1937 he was appointed professor of sculpture and in 1938 he was appointed Director of the Art Academy in Stuttgart. Using the biography of this artist during the Third Reich, an accurate picture of the movement of so-called “Nazi art” is painted and this book explains to the modern reader the symbolic associations in these seemingly harmless pieces of art.Through this explanation and the regional references contained in the volume, art history can be experience by the individual reader. German text. 135 b/w & 21 col illus 335p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, June 2013, 9783515102544, PB, $84.00, Special Price $67.20

Die Ausformung eines europäischen Bewusstseins: Anfänge der Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Mainz Tobias Gunst (Author) In an increasingly globalized world, transnational issues are becoming the focus of attention, especially in literary and cultural studies. Since its origin in the 19th Century, comparative literature has been concerned with such intercultural issues.

Nevertheless, this discipline was virtually unknown in Germany until 1946. It was only during the French occupation that the first chair was established at the University of Mainz and this laid the foundation for a department

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which to this day is the largest of its kind. But how did it come about that this department was founded in Mainz in 1946? What role did the French occupation policy in the founding of the discipline? In this volume,Tobias Gunst traces the fascinating early history of comparative literature in Mainz, Germany. It is clear that from the beginning comparative literature was a supra-national discipline which received a cultural-political significance through its specific contribution to the “emergence of a European consciousness.” Thus, comparative literature is at the heart of current cultural and higher education policy debates. German text. 10 b/w-photos, 170p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, Geschichte der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz – Neue Folge 12, June 2013, 9783515102247, PB, $54.00,

Special Price $43.20 Grundbegriffe der Pädagogik und Didaktik beruflicher Bildung Alfred Riedl (Author); Andreas Schelten (Author) This teaching and study book condenses principles of teaching and didactics of vocational education. It is aimed at professional and business education in study and practice.The chapters here were selected based on their importance and relevance and the authors are researchers and university teachers in vocational education.The positioning of the selected principles will encourage readers to develop their own perspectives.Therefore the course content can reflect and develop vocationally relevant topics in a theoretical manner.

The principles featured are arranged alphabetically and cross references within the chapters demonstrate their inter-connectedness.The volume is rounded off with a detailed index. German text. 36 b/w illus, 284p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, December 2012, 9783515103138, PB, $36.00,

Special Price $28.80 Peter Petersen und die Jenaplan-Pädagogik: Historische und aktuelle Perspektiven Peter Fauser (Editor); Jürgen John (Editor); Rüdiger Stutz (Editor) Peter Petersen is among the most important and most controversial education reformers of the 20th century. He developed the school model which has been known the world over as the Jena Plan since the “New Education Fellowship” Conference in Locarno in 1927. Petersen’s school and its commitment to a full academic teacher education placed him in the ‘educational awakening’ of the Weimar Republic. During the Nazi years, he pursued an illusory double strategy; on the one hand using self-mobilization and on the other hand a perceived policy of further educational and practical continuity. After 1945, as dean of the Jena Faculty of Education, he tried an ‘educational fresh start’ but it failed after a few years.This volume, which emerges from a conference, brings together existing knowledge, introduces new source-based research and offers up to date educational analysis of the Jena Plan. It should solidify and expand the foundations of the historical-critical Petersen and research into the Jena Plan. German text.

77 b/w illus and photos, 512p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, June 2013, 9783515102087, HB, $112.00,

Special Price $89.60 Wie bewegt sich, was uns bewegt: Evolution und Revolution in der Weltgeschichte Ernst Engelberg (Author); Achim Engelberg (Editor), “In this sense I think that, bluntly speaking, the best theory is the one that you hardly notice in the presentation of history”.

During his long tenure as the director of the Academic Institute for German History, Ernst Engelberg (1909-2010) headed up the research unit for methodology and the history of historiography.

However, his plans to revise and amend his theoretical writings remained fragmentary. In this volume Achim Engelberg summarizes various published and unpublished works of his father and puts them together under central questions:What does the work of Marx and Engels bring to historical observation? What is world history? What is a revolution era? What is the relationship between internal and external policies? How does a revolution happen from the top? Are age-old concepts redundant? What is historical recognition? Is there any sense in history? This volume sketches the main themes of the historical development of Europe and offers reflections on history from the end of a long life as a researcher. German text. 229p.

Franz Steiner Verlag, October 2012, 9783515102704, PB, $66.00,

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INDEX OF OF PUBLISHERS PUBLISHERS 79 79 INDEX

Index of Publishers ADEVA – 26, 30 Amber Books – 16, 30 Amberley Publishing – 11, 20 American Numismatic Society – 23, 73 American School of Classical Studies at Athens – 9 American Society of Papyrologists – 20 Anglo-Saxon Books – 28

Franz Steiner Verlag – 3, 7, 13, 16, 17, 19, 24, 25, 31, 32, 34, 36, 41, 45, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56, 58, 67, 68, 70, 71, 75-78 Gibb Memorial Trust – 26, 27 Golden House Publications – 21 Griffith Institute – 22 Grub Street Cookery – 68, 69

Arabian Publishing Ltd – 26

Guy Points – 28

Archaeolingua – 73

Hirmer Verlag GmbH – 58-60, 61, 66

Archaeopress – 4, 11, 12, 35, 73

INSTAP Academic Press – 10

Aris & Phillips – 18, 49

James Clarke & Co – 37, 38, 42, 45–47, 49, 51

Association Villard de Honnecourt for Interdisciplinary

Khalili Collections – 24

Study of Medieval Technology (AVISTA) – 31 ATF Asia – 4, 5, 45, 56–57 ATF Press – 37, 39 Australian Centre for Egyptology – 21 Austrian Academy of Sciences Press – 5, 7, 9, 12, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30, 34, 35, 48, 55, 57, 64, 67, 70, 73, 78

Legenda – 51 – 56 Lutterworth Press – 38, 39, 42, 43, 46, 47, 49 Macmillan Art Publishing, Australia – 61, 62, 66 Maney Publishing – 1, 70, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research – 1

Azimuth Editions – 57

Midsea Books – 62, 66, 72

Barkhuis – 6, 48

Museum of London Archaeology – 32, 35

British Institute for the Study of Iraq – 23 British Museum Press – 12, 21, 24, 27, 28

Northcote House Publishers – 54, 55 Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago – 22, 24, 25

British School at Athens – 10 British School at Rome – 12, 13 Cambridge Philological Society – 18

Oxbow Books – 1, 2, 6, 9, 11, 15, 20, 23, 28, 30, 64, 72 Oxford Archaeology – 7, 8, 14, 32

Celtic Studies Publications – 29

Oxford University School of Archaeology – 14

Council for British Archaeology – 72

Paul Holberton Publishing – 27, 62, 63

Council for British Research in the Levant – 24

Pen & Sword Books Ltd – 2, 14, 17, 28, 29, 32, 35

Countryside Books – 64

Philipp von Zabern – 4, 6, 14, 15, 17, 18, 22, 27, 29, 32, 33, 55

East Anglian Archaeology – 31 Edizioni Polistampa – 2, 31, 34, 36, 39, 49, 50, 57, 58, 65, 70, 74, 78 Elinor Kapp – 50

Pindar Press – 27, 29, 33, 63, 64 Prospect Books – 19, 69 Sidestone Press – 2–4, 6, 8, 9, 22, 71, 76

Eliot Werner Publications – 70, 71

Spire Books – 66

English Heritage – 3, 65, 72

Windgather Press – 2, 11

Evangelische Verlagsanstalt – 37, 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 48

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