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Book SynopsisThe decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerising pull on the imagination. But this captivating story is missing a crucial piece. Two men have dominated Linear B in popular history: Arthur Evans, the intrepid Victorian archaeologist who unearthed Linear B at Knossos and Michael Ventris, the dashing young amateur who produced a solution. But there was a third figure: Alice Kober, without whose painstaking work, recorded on pieces of paper clipped from hymn-sheets and magazines and stored in cigarette boxes in her Brooklyn loft, Linear B might still remain a mystery. Drawing on Kober's own papers - only made available recently - Margalit Fox provides the final piece of the enigma, and along the way reveals how you decipher a language when you know neither its grammar nor its alphabet as well as the stories behind other ancient languages, like the dancing-man Rongorongo of Easter Island.Trade ReviewAn engrossing detective story of driven personalities, hidden clues, perseverance and intuition [Fox] has uncovered a remarkable woman who had been buried by history * Sunday Times *[Fox's] enthusiasm is compelling when talking about the raw inventive brainpower of the code-breakers, their unswerving passion, and the magical way that a set of lines and curves in clay can be transformed into something with meaning * Observer *The author's triumph lies in her presentation of this complex subject, narrated with the pace and excitement of a detective story * Country Life *Truly memerising. It's also a lovely testament to language and the history of linguistics -- Lesley McDowell * Sunday Herald *A nail-biting intellectual and cultural adventure -- Ian Finlayson * The Times *Praise for Talking Hands 'Fox provides an exhaustive, energetic and frequently elegant tour through the world of sign language and sign linguistics ... informed by the quiet passion of a natural teacher for her subject' * New York Times *A captivating and important book, minutely researched and vividly narrated -- Oliver Sacks

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Book SynopsisAs heard on Radio 4 Book of the Week.In the medieval Castilian village of Guzmán (population: 80), villagers have gathered for centuries in the 'telling room' to share stories and drink the local wine. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a compelling tale about a cheese made from an ancient family recipe that was reputed to be among the finest in the world. Until, Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly wrong. Hooked on the story, Paterniti relocated his young family to the tiny hilltop village to find out more. But like many Spanish villages, Guzmán was rife with gossip and old feuds, secret alliances and plotted vengeance and before long Paterniti was sucked into the heart of an unfolding mystery. When he learned that the cheesemaker had apparently plotted to murder his closest friend, the village began to spill its long-held secrets, and Paterniti found himself implicated in ways he never expected . . .Trade ReviewThe Telling Room is a gorgeous and impassioned monument to the art and mystery of storytelling. It is rich, funny, humane, devastating, and beautiful. It made me want to applaud, it made me want to cry, it made me want to move to Spain. Michael Paterniti is a genius -- ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of EAT, PRAY, LOVEMichael Paterniti is one of the best living practitioners of the art of literary journalism, able to fully elucidate and humanize the everyday and the epic. In his hands, every subject, every moment of personal or global upheaval, is treated with the same curiosity, respect, empathy, and clear-eyed wisdom -- DAVE EGGERSSun-baked highland plateaus, argumentative village rustics and beguiling old ways . . . There's no resisting the infectious glee * * New York Times * *A masterly, joyous piece of non-fiction storytelling . . . a strangely gripping and moving tale about life, love, friendship, family, place - and cheese * * Financial Times * *The list of writers I would read even if they were to write about a piece of cheese is short, but it includes Michael Paterniti. He has proved here that if you love something enough, and pay a passionate-enough attention to it, the whole world can become present in it. That's true of both the cheese and the book -- JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN, author of PULPHEADFor my money, Paterniti is one of the most expansive and joyful writers around - big-hearted and humane and funny. This book is a wild and amazing ride -- GEORGE SAUNDERS, author of TENTH OF DECEMBERElegant, strange, funny, and insightful, The Telling Room is a marvelous tale and a joyful read, a trip into a world peopled by some of the most remarkable characters - and, yes, cheese - in memory -- SUSAN ORLEAN, author of THE ORCHARD THIEFAn amazing achievement. The Telling Room is an inspired, masterly epic that expands and refigures the parameters of the storyteller's art -- WELLS TOWER, author of EVERYTHING RAVAGED, EVERYTHING BURNED'[The] best book of narrative nonfiction I've read in ages -- MICHAEL POLLANThe Telling Room captures the true essence of happiness - but what's more, it captures the fact that food is always central, always present in our memories, when we search for it. For those who doubt that food is our most vital social network, this book demonstrates it unequivocally -- FERRAN ADRIÀGripping * * Sunday Telegraph * *Few writers can write about the taste of food with Paterniti's vibrancy and precision... [He] is a master of finding and telling great stories (the finding, for most writers, often being as difficult as the telling) that appear to be about something small, such as cheese, but are actually about something far larger-in this case, the whole of human existence... As much as The Telling Room is about a Spaniard's quest to create a cheese that embodies all the love and pain and joy he's ever known, it's also the story of a writer's quest to channel that obsession into the perfect story * * Esquire * *This is a story not only of physical but emotional and spiritual hunger, the yearning to make something from love to be shared - whether food or words - and passed on to future generations . . . It's a book that is, like the cheese Paterniti searches for, 'made with love' - and one that readers will in turn love * * Metro * *Throughout this book, lovingly-prepared food and drink and storytelling are inextricably linked as essential foundation stones of a community and, ultimately, society itself . . . Paterniti has arrived at truths that are universal * * Herald * *A wonderful, enthusiastic and idiosyncratic tale * * Big Issue * *Rich and shaggy, full of Castilian-size detours, it is a travelogue, food adventure, and personal memoir rolled into one hugely likable book... In [The] Telling Room, Paterniti proves that the hardest quarry as a journalist is not the extraordinary, but the everyday * * Boston Globe * *Unforgettable . . . a must-read for all who think of Spain as magical, who consider cheese as the ultimate gift of love, who love stories of betrayal, despair, revenge and redemption * * Wall Street Journal * *If you love food and love reading about food, you can't do better than this beautiful, passionate book. I finished it and wanted to fly immediately to Spain and eat everything in sight -- MARCUS SAMUELSSON, author of YES, CHEFIt's not often that a writer as restlessly imaginative as Michael Paterniti delves into the world of food. But with The Telling Room, Paterniti has crafted a book that's as delicious as it is gripping. We food lovers are lucky to count him as one of our own -- ADAM RAPOPORT, editor in chief, BON APPÉTITPaterniti dives deeply into Spain's political history, the pleasures of craft, and the motives and methods of storytelling itself * * Harper's * *Not just a book about Spain and its food, but an investigation into the art of narrative itself * * Condé Nast Traveller * *As this witty narrative proves, there's far more to a slice of cheese than first meets the tastebuds * * Easyjet Traveller * *A thoroughly enticing read * * Bath Life * *

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Book SynopsisPoring over his grandparents' memoirs, grainy photographs of his distinguished ancestors and relating family lore passed from father to son, Michael Ignatieff begins a moving journey to come to terms with his inheritance that is bound up with the violent tumult of Russian history. With great care and complexity, Ignatieff reconstructs a vanished way of life. Beginning in the opulent court of Catherine the Great, he traces his family's rise to great influence in the imperial regime of Tsar Nicholas II before the country is swept up in revolution, civil war and exile. A profound meditation on rootlessness and belonging, The Russian Album explores both how we are formed by our pasts, but also how we must write our own stories in the present.Trade Review'A vividly fascinating account by a gifted writer who sweeps back the curtain from the past, revealing it full of color and life' - New York Times Book Review'This beautifully written book . . . is about tenderness, courage, and a sublime life-force' - Observer'A poignant family memoir, a fitting close to Russian life before the 'red curtain of the revolution'' - LA Times

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Book SynopsisDid you know that the word 'prestige' derives from the Latin word for 'illusion'? Or that 'infantry' stems from a Latin word meaning one who could not speak? In this original and highly entertaining book, Peter Jones reveals the roots of Latin words that are now common in the English language and shows how Romans actually used them in the ancient world. Covering every aspect of Roman life - from politics, philosophy, religion and the arts, to technology, warfare, medicine and botany - Quid Pro Quo highlights the vital role Latin has played in the creation of our vast vocabulary.Trade ReviewWhat did the Romans ever do for us? Well, besides the sanitation, the roads, etc, they left us Latin, and in this wonderfully informative survey, Peter Jones guides us through the ways in which their language has percolated through our own. Jones wears his learning lightly and there's an arresting insight or a fascinating historical anecdote on every page. * Mail on Sunday *Wonderfully enteratining * Spectator *

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Book SynopsisOur history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever. From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story.

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Book Synopsis___________ A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022 A New Statesman Book of the Year 2022 ‘Fascinating… You’ll learn more about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this superbly researched chronicle… than you will by reading a shelf of wider-canvas volumes on the rise of Nazism.’Daily Mail ‘An utterly absorbing insight into the full spectrum of responses from ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.’The Times ‘Boyd is an outstanding micro-historian.’iNews ___________ Hidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the picturesque village of Oberstdorf – a place where for hundreds of years people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even this remote idyll could not escape the brutal iron grip of the Nazi regime. From the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Travellers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich: an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and weakness; action, apathy and grief; hope, pain, joy and despair. Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of life – foresters, priests, farmers and nuns; innkeepers, Nazi officials, veterans and party members; village councillors, mountaineers, socialists, slave labourers, schoolchildren, tourists and aristocrats. We meet the Jews who survived – and those who didn’t; the Nazi mayor who tried to shield those persecuted by the regime; and a blind boy whose life was judged ‘not worth living’. This is a tale of conflicting loyalties and desires, of shattered dreams – but one in which, ultimately, human resilience triumphs. These are the stories of ordinary lives at the crossroads of history. ___ ‘Exceptional... Boyd's book reminds us that even the most brutal regimes cannot extinguish all semblance of human feeling'Mail on Sunday ‘Masterly… [an] important and gripping book… [Boyd is] a leading historian of human responses in political extremis.’The Oldie ‘Gripping… vividly depicted… [a] humane and richly detailed book’ Spectator ‘Vivid, moving stories leave us asking "What would I have done?"’ Professor David Reynolds, author of Island Stories “An absorbing, thoroughly recommended read”Family Tree magazine ‘Laying bare the tragedies, the compromises, the suffering and the disillusionment. Exemplary microhistory.’ Roger Moorehouse, author of First to Fight ‘Compelling and evocative’All About History ’The rise of Nazi Germany through the prism of one small village in Bavaria. […] Astonishing’ Jane Garvey on Fortunately… with Fi and Jane ‘incredibly engaging’History of War magazine 'Intensely detailed, exhaustively researched and rendered in almost cinematographic detail, Julia Boyd's A Village In The Third Reich is deeply evocative, redolent of those times and truly revelatory. I learned so much. This is a book I will need to return to again and again, to relearn, refresh and remember. A triumph.' Damien Lewis, author of The Flame of ResistanceTrade Review‘A fascinating deep dive into one community as it experiences the rise and fall of Hitler.’ The Times ‘Boyd is an outstanding micro-historian.’ iNews ‘Masterly . . . [Boyd is] a leading historian of human responses in political extremis.’ The Oldie ‘Fascinating… You’ll learn more about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this superbly researched chronicle… than you will by reading a shelf of wider-canvas volumes on the rise of Nazism.’ Daily Mail ‘Exceptional... Boyd's book reminds us that even the most brutal regimes cannot extinguish all semblance of human feeling' Mail on Sunday ‘Gripping… vividly depicted… [a] humane and richly detailed book’ Spectator ’An absorbing, thoroughly recommended read’ Family Tree magazine ‘Compelling and evocative’ All About History ’The rise of Nazi Germany through the prism of one small village in Bavaria. […] Astonishing’ Jane Garvey on Fortunately… with Fi and Jane ‘incredibly engaging’ History of War magazine

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Book Synopsis___ An innocent woman sent to the Gulag. A passion that gave her the will to survive. ‘Shattering, cinematic and brave’ Simon Morrison, author of Bolshoi Confidential ___ Nina Anisimova was one of Russia’s most intriguing ballerinas and one of the first Soviet female choreographers. Yet few knew that her exemplary career concealed a dark secret. In 1938, at the height of Stalin’s Great Terror, Nina was arrested by the secret police, accused of being a Nazi spy and sentenced to forced labour in a camp in Kazakhstan. Trapped without hope – and without winter clothes in temperatures of minus 40 degrees – her art was her salvation, giving her a reason to fight for her life. As Nina struggled to survive in the Gulag, her husband fought for her release in Leningrad. Against all odds, she was ultimately freed and astonishingly managed to return to her former life, just as war broke out. Despite wartime deprivation and the suffocating grip of Stalin’s totalitarian state, Nina’s irrepressible determination set her on the path to become an icon of the Kirov Ballet. A remarkable true story of suffering and injustice, of courage, resilience and triumph. ___ ‘Nina Anisimova’s story is extraordinary – heroic and harrowing in equal measure, a snapshot of the best and worst of Stalin’s Russia – and Christina Ezrahi does it vivid, gripping justice.’ Judith Mackrell, author of The Unfinished Palazzo ‘Christina Ezrahi vividly charts this brutal and uplifting story, bringing alive an extraordinary resourcefulness and determination to survive.’ Helen Rappaport, author of The Race to Save the Romanovs ‘Christina Ezrahi has uncovered a remarkable, untold episode in Soviet ballet history, which she brings to life through her customary rigorous research, clarity of expression and elegance of prose.’ Baroness Deborah Bull ‘An inspiring tale of survival against the odds. Ezrahi's diligent scholarship casts much-needed light on ballet history's darkest chapter.’ Luke Jennings, dance critic and author of Killing EveTrade Review‘Shattering, cinematic and brave’ Simon Morrison, author of Bolshoi Confidential ‘Nina Anisimova’s story is extraordinary – heroic and harrowing in equal measure, a snapshot of the best and worst of Stalin’s Russia – and Christina Ezrahi does it vivid, gripping justice.’ Judith Mackrell, author of The Unfinished Palazzo ‘Christina Ezrahi vividly charts this brutal and uplifting story, bringing alive an extraordinary resourcefulness and determination to survive.’ Helen Rappaport, author of The Race to Save the Romanovs ‘Christina Ezrahi has uncovered a remarkable, untold episode in Soviet ballet history, which she brings to life through her customary rigorous research, clarity of expression and elegance of prose.’ Baroness Deborah Bull ‘An inspiring tale of survival against the odds. Ezrahi's diligent scholarship casts much-needed light on ballet history's darkest chapter.’ Luke Jennings, dance critic and author of Killing Eve

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Book SynopsisAn immersive travelogue exploring the pervasive mythology and emotional resonance of flooded places, at a time when the waters are rising once more

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Book SynopsisHigh above the mountaintops on the Isle of Mull, a huge bird is soaring. Its all-encompassing gaze records people in its Hebridean territory far below, but they are of no interest. The eagle is about its business: concentrating on the deer and fidgety hares out grazing in the morning sun, the urgent push of thermals beneath its wings, a threatening weather front way out at sea, and the restless chick back in its eyrie. This is Mull in its glory. This is what the excited, watching people have travelled so far to witness. They train their binoculars and admire, perhaps envy, the eagle with its vast freedom, knowing that such a self-willed being is part of another world – almost. This book guides the reader through that world. With superb illustrations and illuminating text, we are led to the wild side of Mull. Every facet of the island’s natural history is considered, its diverse species and many stories – past, present and future. Along the way we are reminded that wildness is not somehow separate from the human world but influenced, and shared, by nature and people together. Here is the tale of a precious and unique place, a seaborne landscape that displays an uncommon biodiversity and rare wildlife experiences, although today it also faces its greatest challenges. Most of all, this book is testimony to the power of wild places and the duty we have to learn from and protect them.Trade ReviewThis is a very attractive book which deals with a very attractive place which is rich in wildlife. If you are a naturalist visiting Mull then you should read this book, luxuriate in the images, imagine you’ll see all the wildlife and plan your trip ahead of setting off, and take the book with you for your visit. For this is a very good guide to Mull, for those naturally inclined. -- Mark Avery * author and environmental campaigner *The authors' love of Mull and empathy with Scottish culture comes across strongly...It’s the kind of book that deserves a prominent place on the bookshelves of anyone with any kind of interest in Mull and its surrounding islands, and would be invaluable in the rucksack when you are out and about on our beautiful island of Mull. -- Anne Cleave * Mull Historical & Archaeological Society *Every element is given the same attention and balanced approach that clearly stems from a deep love of Mull and its surrounding environment. The images from the island are something special...You get a sense of the joy the authors had in capturing the life and detail in the landscape. -- Kirsteen Bell * The Oban Times *Weaves together the animals, landscapes and people of this incredible island...Poetic in its descriptions of the resident creatures it also effectively gives them a voice and a place in the history and the future of this Hebridean gem. -- Kenny Smith * Scottish Field *A beautiful book and with sumptuous photos of all the species throughout…Wild Mull has been written by two exceptional field naturalists which adds to the enjoyment of the reading experience. Naturalists will love this book. -- Steven Rutherford * Honorary Chairman British Naturalists’ Association *Stephen has delved deep into the history, which makes the book a great reference work. Mull deserves this coverage, and the beautiful pictures taken by Martin Jones greatly enhance the book. -- John Miles * Scottish Birds *Wild Mull is a wonderful guide to the island, its wildlife, people and history. Profusely illustrated, I would certainly want to read this before visiting, and probably take it with me. -- Gordon Hamlett, Birdwatchers, Best Bird Books of the YearWild Mull has all the ingredients of a truly enjoyable read. It is a beautiful depiction of a place and a reference guide that does justice to a unique island that fully deserves such masterful coverage. -- Laura C. Thubron, Glasgow Natural History MuseumThis book is a good meld of natural and human history, anecdotes and facts and a useful reference for those visiting or with an interest in Mull. -- Dan Brown, British BirdsInformative, inspiring and a great guide should you ever visit… and you will want to when you’ve read this book! -- Bo Beolens (Fatbirder)Very enjoyable... This is a great book to dip into and interesting facts can be found on just about every page. -- Sandy McNeil * De Tha Dol *Table of ContentsForeword by Mark Cocker Introduction 1 The Fairest of the Isles 2 The Land that Holds the Life 3 People and the Shaping of Mull 4 Invasions, Extinctions and Mull’s Own ‘Gene Genie’ 5 Fangs, Fins and Fur 6 Raptors of Eagle Island 7 In Their Element – the Seabirds 8 Extraordinary Landbirds 9 The Kingdom of the Celtic Rainforest 10 Plants of Place and Purpose 11 Life Beyond the Strandline 12 Beautiful Beasties Postscript: The Forever Future Acknowledgements and Photographers’ Credits Bibliography Useful Contacts for Further Information Watching and Photographing Wildlife on Mull List of Species Referred to in the Text Index

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Book SynopsisWilliam Hillman started manufacturing cars in Coventry in 1907 before selling his company to the Rootes Brothers in 1928. Three years later came the Hillman Minx, the first of a line that would endure in multiple forms for nearly half a century, even after the remarkable Imp arrived in 1963 to claim a slice of the market opened by the BMC Mini. Rarely revolutionary, Hillman cars nevertheless carved out a special place in the hearts of the British people as well as many overseas customers. This beautifully illustrated introduction to a classic British marque traces Hillman’s history from its first cars at the turn of the century until, weakened by industrial disputes, it disappeared in the mid-1970s.Table of ContentsHillman’s Early Days The Large Hillmans of the 1930s The Hillman Minx, 1932–48 Cars for Everyman Dependable Transport with Style Decline and Fall Further Reading Places to Visit List of Hillman Models Index

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Book SynopsisThe 00 gauge train set was the ultimate ‘boy’s toy’ of the 1950s and ’60s. Electric 00 gauge trains were introduced by Trix and Hornby Dublo in the mid-1930s, but the Second World War quickly halted production. However, they burst back onto the post-war scene with great success, and 00 quickly became the dominant scale in Britain, and was taken up by other large manufacturers including Tri-ang. Whilst the components of the sets themselves were often basic, they could be transformed into astonishing landscapes in the hands of imaginative builders. The sheer number of box sets, locomotives, rolling stock, buildings and accessories gave everyone the ability to form a bespoke layout. This beautifully illustrated introduction to the heyday of clockwork and electric 00 gauge trains tells their story up until 1975, when finer detailing and changing trends led to them becoming enthusiasts’ models rather than children’s toys.Trade ReviewI feel like a gap in my education has now been filled... an interesting and informative read. * MODEL RAIL *Table of ContentsForeword by Richard Lines Introduction The Beginning to 1945 Post-war Austerity: Smaller Companies Post-war Hornby Dublo and Trix The Giant Awakes: Enter Tri-Ang European HO Gauge in Britain Tri-Ang Hornby and Hornby Railways 1966–75 Beyond 1975 Appendices: Accessories; Retailers; Bertram Otto Places to Visit Further Reading Index

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Book Synopsis#1 NEW RELEASE ON AMAZONThe Great Roman Empire was no stranger to rebellions, but who were the rebels behind these lost causes, and what fueled their brazen plights?Despite their many differences, the rebels of the Roman Empire had one thing in common: all were Romans, or onetime Roman allies, who attempted to overthrow Roman rule within the bounds of the Roman Empire. Many of these rebels succeeded in humbling Rome, for a time. But in the end, Rome always prevailed, occasionally through the ineptitude of the rebels, but more often through the skills of Roman generals who rose to the occasion after others had failed.Rome’s greatest rebels took on many forms—including royalty, enslaved people, foreigners serving in the Roman army, over-ambitious Roman governors, a handful of genuine freedom fighters—but all had the courage and audacity to oppose the greatest empire the world had known to that time. These are their stories . . .Trade Review“Boudicca, Spartacus, Arminius, and Simon Bar-Kochba join twenty lesser-known heroes in this fascinating compendium of people who, having tasted Roman life, spit it out and turned against it in revolt, threatening the empire itself. They failed, but they failed magnificently. An absorbing journey into the long history of Rome and the threats from within it faced to survive.” —Margaret George, New York Times bestselling author of The Confessions of a Young Nero and The Splendor Before the Dark“Stephen Dando-Collins never fails to provide a thrilling and educational read.” —Cameron Reilly, co-host of The Life of Caesar podcast series“Reading Rebels Against Rome was a pleasure, much like reading a good novel . . . The book is enjoyable and we can highly recommend it for those interested in the events of the late Roman Empire, a fascinating subject of great importance to the Western World that reverberates through time to this day. Enjoy.” —Major Dan, History & Headlines“An enthralling read! In his selection of two dozen extensively researched case studies, Dando-Collins dissects rebellions that regularly changed the course of Roman history. In his writings he reveals the symptoms of revolution and charts the fates of charismatic freedom fighters, power hungry bureaucrats, and brilliant generals. He also reveals the brutality used to maintain this power. His words make these individuals real to the reader, beyond simple historical facts. In doing so, Dando-Collins provides brilliant insight into the way the Roman Empire dealt with the cancer of internal revolt.” —Dr. Terry J. Hannan, author of Heard Healed Helped: The Healing Power of Storytelling

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Book SynopsisThis study focuses on ceramic finds from the excavations (1996-2006) of the Episcopal Group of Sidi Jdidi, the ancient city of Aradi, in the hinterland of Hammamet in Tunisia, directed by Dr Aïcha Ben Abed-Ben Khader and Prof. Michel Fixot. The aim of these excavations was to understand the processes of the (evolution and) insertion of Christian monuments into the pre-existent town and the distribution of the liturgical and economic functions within various buildings of this ecclesiastic centre. The ceramological study contributed to attaining this aim by suggesting dates for each phase of the construction, occupation and abandonment of the Episcopal group, as well as evidence for the function of each space. Furthermore, this study has documented the (strong) rural and regional characteristics of the ceramic assemblages: these are very different from those of the large-scale excavations at Carthage and indicate a pattern of self-sufficient consumption supplied by purely intra-regional trade. The author is a Research Fellow of The National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, Japan), and Research Associate of the Centre Camille Jullian (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, MCC, CCJ, F-13000, Aix-en-Provence, France).Table of ContentsPréfaces; Avant-propos; Introduction; I. Présentation générale du site; II. Les classes de céramiques; III. Les contextes archéologiques sélectionnés; IV. L’evolution des faciès céramiques d’Aradi/Sidi Jdidi; Conclusion; Bibliographie; Tableaux; Annexe I: Céramique de l’atelier de Tefernine; Annexe II: Analyses archéométriques de céramiques de Sidi Jdidi; English abstract

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Book SynopsisThis work presents an anthropological study of crania and mandibles from the osteological collection from Chinchero (Peru), currently housed at the American Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of the Complutense University of Madrid. From 1968 to 1971, a team of archaeologists of the Spanish Scientific Mission in Hispanic America excavated the site of Chinchero, a small village located in the Andean high plateau near Cusco. As the result of this mission, remains from 8 single burials and two ossuaries dated to pre-colonial times were exhumed and brought to Spain. The excavated area included an ancient palace and several administrative and religious structures built by Tupac Yupanqui, who ruled the Inca Empire between 1471 and 1493. The surroundings of the catholic church, erected over one of these buildings, were excavated as well.Table of ContentsINTRODUCCION; MATERIAL Y METODO; RESULTADOS; DISCUSION; CONCLUSIONES; BIBLIOGRAFIA; ANEXOS; ANEXO 1: INVENTARIO; ANEXO 2.- DATOS ANTROPOMETRICOS (medidas en mm); ANEXO 3: DATOS Y ESTIMACION DE SEXO, GRUPO DE EDAD Y ASCENDENCIA; ANEXO 4: INDICE CRANEALES Y MANDIBULARES; ANEXO 5: MORFOSCOPIA 1; ANEXO 6: MORFOSCOPIA 2; ANEXO 7: MODIFICACION CRANEAL 1; ANEXO 8: MODIFICACION CRANEAL 2; ANEXO 9: DATOS DEL ESTUDIO ANTROPOLOGICO DENTAL DE LOS EJEMPLARES ADULTOS (CON DENTICION DEFINITIVA)

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Book SynopsisAn intimate history of the Holocaust, drawn from the final days of a Jewish family in Munich Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to the demagogue who becomes the Nazi Führer?Adolf Hitler. In a story passionately told by one of their descendants, the narrative begins as Benno Neuburger, a modest German land investor from Munich, and Anna Einstein, daughter of a cattle dealer, meet at a seder in Laupheim and soon marry. The year is 1907, a relatively prosperous, optimistic time for German Jews, and there is little hint that this good fortune might soon unravel. Of all the Jews in Europe, Germans like the Neuburgers feel most secure.When, on a warm July day in 1914, an assassination strikes an ?obscure? Balkan corner of the continent, the news passes through Munich?s beer-gardens like a cold wind. Far from a fleeting chill, what follows is the time of prolonged bloodshed known as World War I, followed by a period of German humiliation, resurgent revolution, and a brief left-led democratic interlude in Munich. What might have been a site of socialist experimentation instead becomes the epicenter of German fascism, and as Benno and Anna and their extended families cling with vain hope to a peaceful resolution, their beloved haven degenerates into a state of racialized madness. A bloody pogrom is chased by a second world war, followed by evictions, ?resettlements? and far worse, sounding an inescapable knell despite desperate and defiant acts of resistance.Postcards to Hitler is a deeply researched history drawn from personal interviews and archival documents including Benno?s and Anna?s final letters?written amid a slow-moving parade of horror until the frail boundaries between themselves and the Holocaust ultimately vanish.

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Book SynopsisWhat does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics? The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels, underground comics, the surreal works of Yu Hua, Yan Lianke, and Nobel laureate Mo Yan, and what is widely hailed as a golden age of Chinese science fiction. Chinese online fiction is now the largest publishing platform in the world. Fueled by her passionate engagement with Chinese literature and culture, Megan Walsh, a brilliant young critic, shows us why it’s important to finally pay attention to Chinese fiction—an exuberant drama that illustrates the complex relationship between art and politics, one that is increasingly shaping the West as well. Turns out, writers write neither what their government nor foreign readers want or expect, and they work on a different wavelength to keep alive ideas and events that are either overlooked or off limits. The Subplot vividly captures the ways in which literature offers an alternative—perhaps truer—understanding of the contradictions that make up China itself.Trade ReviewA New Yorker Best Book of 2022 An Economist Best Book of 2022 “Engaging, informative and — considering the ground it covers in 135 pages — astonishingly nuanced, The Subplot primes us to dig into her list of suggested further reading.” —The Wall Street Journal “A lively, lucid survey of contemporary Chinese fiction.... Walsh delivers a wry cornucopia, inviting for general readers who don’t know Mo Yan from Han Han.” —The New York Times “Illuminating...offers a superb introduction to Chinese publishing and the clever, subversive ways it’s thriving.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post “A wonderful, pacy tour of contemporary Chinese literature.” —The Economist “A portal into people’s hearts and minds by exploring contemporary Chinese literature.” —GlobalAsia “Concise and fast-paced.... The Subplot will make you want to read more Chinese fiction.” —The New Statesman “An illuminating insight into the web fiction, sci-fi and subtle dissent read by one-fifth of humanity.” —Financial Times “A sharp, revealing portrait of contemporary China.... Elegantly written and fascinating.” —Adam Foulds, author of The Quickening Maze “An eye-opening glimpse into China’s ‘intentionally hazy’ authoritarian political climate of censorship and propaganda…. A succinct, fascinating overview of literary ambivalence in China.” —Kirkus Reviews “Drawing on a rich field of research, The Subplot not only crosses the language barrier, opening a window for the world to see contemporary Chinese literature, but it could also be an invaluable record for young Chinese people, both in China and overseas, to think about how society is affected by China's fast-pace of change.” —Xinran, author of The Good Women of China “In The Subplot, Megan Walsh showcases the diversity and vitality of contemporary Chinese literature. With economy and wit, she shows us why it’s so necessary to read literature to understand the story of China today.” —Angie Baecker, University of Hong Kong “A jaw-dropping look at what mainland Chinese are reading right now. Megan Walsh tells us why, in this time of China’s economic ascension, its literature is both liberating—and soul-crushing.” —Jan Wong, author of Red China Blues “We are what we read. As China is rising, people are naturally interested in what the Chinese are reading. This overview of the literature in China offers an interesting perspective of a country that is reshaping the world.” —Lijia Zhang, author of the novel Lotus and of Socialism Is Great!: A Worker’s Memoir of China

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Book SynopsisThe contributions to this volume address the archaeology and history of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. Bringing together papers presented at a conference in Athens in December 2012 as a part of the Syrian-Norwegian research project Palmyrena: City, Hinterland and Caravan Trade between Orient and Occident, it reflects international research and fieldwork that was going on until the outbreak of the Syrian civil war.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Jørgen Christian Meyer, Eivind Heldaas Seland, Nils Anfinset); Palmyra, Pastoral Nomads, and City-State Kings in the Old Babylonian Period: Interaction in the Semi-Arid Syrian Landscape (Kristina J. Hesse); The Venice of the Sands: Palmyrene Trade Revisited (Michael Sommer); Trade Across Frontiers: Foreign Relations of a Caravan City (Michał Gawlikowski); Palmyra and the Chinese Silk Trade (Marta Żuchowska); The Palmyrene Temple in Rome and Palmyra’s Trade with the West (Taco T. Terpstra); The Road from Palmyra to Damascus in the Tabula Peutingeriana (Paola Mior); The Stage of Palmyra: Colonnaded Streets, Spaces for Communication and Activities in the Eastern Roman Empire (Claudia Bührig); Geophysical Prospection by Ground- and Space-based Methods of the Ancient Town of Palmyra (Syria) (Roland Linck); The Palmyrene Gods in the Works of M. I. Rostovtzeff and C. Hopkins (Pavel Alipov); A Roman Residential House in the ‘Hellenistic’ Town of Palmyra: Archaeology, Function and Urban Aspects – Vessel Glass (Christine Ertel and René Ployer); Seleucid, Roman, and Mesopotamian Influence in Palmyrene Pottery and the Question of a Palmyrene Identity (Christiane Römer-Strehl); Excavation of No.129-b House Tomb at the North Necropolis in Palmyra (Kiyohide Saito); The Vessels in Palmyrene Banquet Scenes: Tomb BWLH and BWRP and Tomb TYBL (Saeko Miyashita); On the Human Skeletal Remains Excavated from the Underground Tombs in Palmyrab (Takahiro Nakahashi); Inorganic Impurities in Teeth of the Ancient Inhabitants of Palmyra (K. Yoshimura, Shiqin Wu, T. Nakahashi and S. Saito); Agriculture in Byzantine Palmyrena (Knut Krzywinski and Jonatan Krzywinski)

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Book SynopsisIn more than five decades as a reporter, editor and publisher, Peter Osnos has had an especially good view of momentous events and relationships with some of the most influential personalities of our time.As a young journalist for I.F. Stone''s Weekly, one of the leading publications of the turbulent 1960s and in 18 years at The Washington Post , he covered the war in Vietnam and Cambodia, the Soviet Union at the height of Kremlin power, Washington D.C. as National Editor, "Swinging London" in the 60s and Thatcher''s Britain in the 1980s.At Random House and the company he founded, PublicAffairs, he was responsible for books by four presidents -Carter, Clinton, Obama and Trump; celebrated Washington figures including Robert McNamara, House Speaker Tip O''Neill and Vernon Jordan, first ladies Rosalynn Carter and Nancy Reagan, the billionaire George Soros, basketball superstars Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Magic Johnson, legendary spies, political dissidents and the writers, Molly Ivins and Peggy Noonan, among many others.In this unusually wide-ranging memoir, Osnos uses a reporter''s skills to portray historic events and encounters beginning with his parents'' extraordinary World War II experiences escaping Europe to India, where he was born, to the present day. He shares unique portraits of the famous people he worked with and an insider''s perspective of the news and publishing businesses. As he charts the evolution of his career and recent history, he also explores the influence and impact of family, character, curiosity, luck, resilience, a well-pressed suit and some unexpected wrinkles.Also featuring a "virtual attic" of photographs, documents and video at anespeciallygoodview.com.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents proceedings from the session ‘Monumental Earthen Architecture in Early Societies: Technology and power display’, part of the XVII World UISPP Congress, held in Burgos (Spain), the 4th September 2014. The theme of the symposium is the archaeology of earthen architecture in pre- and protohistoric cultures, with an emphasis on constructive techniques and systems, and diachronic changes in those aspects. The main interest is in monumental architecture (not domestic), where it is better possible to appreciate the building strategies that show raw earth to be as noble a material as stone or wood, but with its very own characteristics which required the development of original solutions and construction techniques. The scope on monumental buildings also allows analyzing the political, social and economical factors that made such architecture a recognized expression of societal values and political power.Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek); Introduction (Annick Daneels); Building Power: Earthen Monuments in the Construction of Elite Identities in Pre-Columbian North America (Melissa R. Baltus); Political and Technological Significance of the Monumental Earthen Architecture of La Joya, on the Tropical Gulf Coast of Mexico (Annick Daneels); Activity areas in two ceremonial centers of the Southern Brazilian Highlands: relations between architecture and function (Jonas Gregorio De Souza); New data on the Neolithic ditches of the Tavoliere area (Apulia, Southern Italy) (Annamaria Tunzi & Tania Quero); First test for luminescence dating of ancient mud-brick buildings from Northern Mesopotamia (Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez & Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós); Traditional Architecture and Socio-Political Organization at Figuig Oasis, Morocco (Florencia Tatiana Azul Ultramar Ramírez-Rodríguez)

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Book SynopsisFrom renowned journalist Guy Rundle, Red, White and Blown is a piercing and provocative investigation into the United States' resolute failure to reckon with its own divisions and blind spots. Interrogating the political events of the 2022 midterm elections as well as their cultural and historical backdrop, this latest book from the Crikey Reads series asks us to frankly consider the US for what it may have ultimately become: a cult.From the Orange People in Oregon to the Moonies with their stadium weddings, the US is a country where cults have easily taken a foothold since the 1970s. But do those crazed origins stem much further back? Could the US perhaps itself be likened to a cult – one that has acquired immense power and imposed its vision on millions, but has now found its impossible fantasy collapsing from within, prompting it to do what cults always do: believe in magic and look for enemies? With this necessary and fresh perspective, Rundle allows us to slot the inexplicable nature of the US into place. Red, White and Blown gives the Australian reader a tour through the embattled republic and poses a question: why are we slavishly attaching ourselves to a potential cult, when we have so far successfully avoided the very things that have made the US so? From Crikey and Hardie Grant Books, The Crikey Read is a series that brings an unflinching and truly independent eye to the issues of the day in Australia and the world.

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Book SynopsisArt has always played a significant role in the history of the labour movement. Songs, stories, poems, pamphlets, and comics, have inspired workers to take action against greedy bosses and helped shape ideas of a more equal world. They also help fan the flames of discontent. Radical social change doesn''t come without radical art. It would be impossible to think about labour unrest without its iconic songs like "Solidarity Forever" or its cartoons like Ernest Riebe''s creation, Mr. Block.In this vein, The Graphic History Collective has created an illustrated chronicle of the strike—the organized withdrawal of labour power—in Canada. For centuries, workers in Canada—Indigenous and non-Indigenous, union and non-union, men and women—have used the strike as a powerful tool, not just for better wages, but also for growing working-class power. This lively comic book will inspire new generations to learn more about labour and working-class history and the power of solidarity.

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Book SynopsisEgyptians went to great lengths to protect their dead from the omnipresent threat of robbery by incorporating specially developed architectural features in their tombs. However, the architecture of tomb security has rarely been studied as a subject in its own right and is usually treated as a secondary topic in publications of a scholarly nature, which tend to regard its role as incidental to the design of the tomb rather than perhaps being the driving force behind it. This issue had been raised in the early Twentieth Century by Reisner (1908: 11), who suggested that the rapid evolution of Egyptian tomb substructures was as a result of the desire for tomb security and more ostentatious tombs, rather than a development spurred by religious or funerary practices. Taking this premise much further, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the architecture of tomb security in Egypt from the Predynastic Period (c. 5000–4000 BC) until the early Fourth Dynasty (c. 2500 BC) by extrapolating data on the security features of published tombs from the whole of Egypt and gathering it together for the first time in one accessible database. Using the information assembled it adds new information to the current body of knowledge concerning the architecture of tomb security and explains many of the underlying reasons behind their adoption. By thematically analysing these features in order to draw conclusions it also demonstrates that many aspects of the architecture of the Egyptian tomb over this period, in both royal and private contexts–whilst subject to changing tastes, needs and ideologies–had indeed originated as the result of the need to protect the tomb or improve its security.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Substructure and access route typology; 3. The early precursors of tomb security; 4. The defence of the burial chamber; 5. The security of the access route and its blockings; 6. Mounds, mastabas and pyramids – the security of the superstructure; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Charts A-Q; Tomb Catalogue

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Book Synopsis“Enjoy your homes. Enjoy your food. There is nothing that can take their place.” Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World War. They beat back pangs of hunger by playing decadent games of make-believe and writing down recipes filled with cream, raisins, chocolate, butter, cinnamon, ripe fruit—the unattainable ingredients of peacetime, of home, of memory. In this novelistic, immersive biography, Suzanne Evans presents a truly individual account of WWII through the eyes of Ethel—mercurial, enterprising, combative, stubborn, and wholly herself. The Taste of Longing follows Ethel through the fall of Singapore in 1942, the years of her internment, and beyond. As a prisoner, she devours dog biscuits and book spines, befriends spiders and smugglers, and endures torture and solitary confinement. As a free woman back in Canada, she fights to build a life for herself in the midst of trauma and burgeoning mental illness. Woven with vintage recipes and transcribed tape recordings, the story of Ethel and her fantastical POW Cookbook is a testament to the often-overlooked strength of women in wartime. It’s a story of the unbreakable power of imagination, generosity, and pure heart.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Prologue: Setting the Table I. Meeting the Emperor 1. What’s a Manitoulin Girl Doing in Singapore? 2. The Tiger Woman 3. Bon Voyage Photos 4. Stepping Out in Singapore 5. Guns, Bicycles and Spies 6. Loaded to the Hilt on Benzedrine 7. Silence of the Guns II. Getting to Hunger 8. The Road to Jail 9. On the Inside 10. Shopping for Food and Answers 11. Shop for Some Pumpkins in Stall 38 12. The Logic of a Dream 13. Recipes of Longing III. Dreaming it Up 14. Stitching Stories 15. The Red Cross Silence Hut 16. The Games People Play 17. Double Tenth 18. Descending Mania 19. Solitary Confinement IV. Breaking Out 20. Shameful Hunger 21. First Feasts 22. The Horrors of Health Care 23. Is this Home? 24. Never Enough 25. The Gift of Food V. Putting it all Together 26. Not Fit Company for Herself 27. Treasure Van 28. What’s in the Bottom Drawer? 29. A Forgiving Spirit Draws Two Worlds Together Notes Index

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Book Synopsis?Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they study. [Gordon Miller?s] paintings of ships under sail, wrecked on a lee shore, in storms and in cities are luminous.??Pacific Yachting In Western myths and imagination, the Pacific is the home of soft, warm, gentle trade winds, idyllic island lagoons and waving palms?the exotic earthly paradise of escapists, adventurers and romantics. Until James Cook showed otherwise, eighteenth-century Europeans also believed this ocean to contain a great southern continent of untold riches and beauty. The islands of the South Pacific can indeed be enchanting, their charm often exceeding expectations, but as European mariners realized when they first arrived here in the sixteenth century, the Pacific Ocean is also a region of ferocious tropical cyclones, treacherous, reef-littered atolls, wearying doldrums and mind-numbing distances.This book is maritime artist and historian Gordon Miller?s tribute to the humble little ships that first ventured across the great Pacific, and the brave sailors that manned them. It is a brief, selective and condensed story of the charting, exploitation and occupation of the Pacific Ocean, mostly in small, wooden ships, with only wind and human muscle for power. These maritime pioneers united North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, the entire Pacific Ocean, all the coasts that surround it, and all the islands within.Even confined to the last four centuries of oceangoing sail, this is a large and complex story?a story brought to life by Miller?s carefully researched text and masterfully rendered maritime paintings.

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Book SynopsisThis work examines travellers’ accounts of their journeys to Cyrenaica, focusing in the main on an analysis of these accounts within the context of their significance to topographic surveys of the region. The dates given in the title symbolically mark their beginning and end. The starting date (1706) is that of the first journey across Cyrenaica that led to the writing of the first account extensive enough to be the subject of detailed analysis. The end date (1911) marks the beginning of the Italian occupation of Libya, when responsibility for archaeology was entrusted to the greatest Italian specialists of the period. Travelogues were replaced by scholarly studies featuring both well-known and newly discovered sites, while amateur descriptions and drawings were replaced by professional analysis and documentation. The main protagonists of the book are people who travelled to Cyrenaica or stayed there for some time, people of a variety of ages and sorts: physicians and an engineer, priests, soldiers and diplomats, artists and adventurers, scholars and archaeologists. They differed considerably in their education, personalities, itineraries and objectives of their journeys, their wealth and personal circumstances. What they did have in common was great curiosity and courage, love of adventure and the ability to survive in harsh and dangerous conditions – compensated for by unusual discoveries – and, finally, an interest in ancient ruins, which for the purpose of this book is what makes their accounts valuable.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction; Chapter I The History of Archaeological Interests in Europe (18th century – early 20th century) Selected topics; Chapter II Travellers in Cyrenaica. The History of Travels to Cyrenaica Against the Panorama of Libya (18th – 19th Centuries); Chapter III The Topography of Ancient Sites; Chapter IV ‘Transfering’ Cyrenaica to Europe; Postscript; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBeing in Being contains three masterpieces by legendary Haida mythteller Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay. The shortest recounts the high points of the legend of his family. The second, Raven Travelling, is the longest and most complex version of the story of the Raven ever recorded on the Northwest Coast. The third is The Qquuna Cycle, a narrative poem of nearly 5,500 lines, one of the true masterpieces of North American literature.Robert Bringhurst’s eloquent and vivid translations of these works are supplemented by explanatory notes that supply the needed background information.

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book PrizeOn his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby island of Redonda—where, with pomp and circumstance, he was declared the island’s king. A few years later, when Shiel set sail for a new life in London, his father gave him some advice: Try not to be strange. It was almost as if the elder Shiel knew what was coming.Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda tells, for the first time, the complete history of Redonda’s transformation from an uninhabited, guano-encrusted island into a fantastical and international kingdom of writers. With a cast of characters including forgotten sci-fi novelists, alcoholic poets, vegetarian publishers, Nobel Prize frontrunners, and the bartenders who kept them all lubricated while angling for the throne themselves, Michael Hingston details the friendships, feuds, and fantasies that fueled the creation of one of the oddest and most enduring micronations ever dreamt into being. Part literary history, part travelogue, part quest narrative, this cautionary tale about what happens when bibliomania escapes the shelves and stacks is as charming as it is peculiar—and blurs the line between reality and fantasy so thoroughly that it may never be entirely restored.Trade ReviewPraise for Try Not to Be Strange"This combination literary history, travelogue and cautionary tale tells the history of the formerly uninhabited Caribbean island of Redonda and its development into a 'micronation' ruled by writers, beginning with the science fiction author M.P. Shiel in 1880."—New York Times"A wonderfully entertaining book, an account of how its Canadian author grew fascinated with a literary jape, a kind of role-playing game or shared-world fantasy involving some of the most eccentric and some of the most famous writers of modern times."—Washington Post“Highly recommend … The fact that it involved M.P. Shiel is just the beginning of the strangeness. Great read!”—Patton Oswalt"Michael Hingston's captivating history underscores the affinity between [Javier] Marias's preoccupations as an artist and the peculiar interplay of the real and fictional that defines the kingdom"—TLS"Hingston traces the story of one of the strangest kingdoms in the world ... a fascinating account."—Winnipeg Free Press"That spirit, the tongue-in-cheek mock seriousness of the whole endeavour, and the playfulness of its participants, is a keen factor in Try Not to Be Strange. The book is a delightful reading experience, utterly unexpected and unlike anything you are likely to read this year."—Toronto Star"Try Not to Be Strange takes on the magnificent feat of writing the history of a persistent and yet barely extant literary kingdom ... The charm of the book, really, is the earnestness with which Hingston approaches the story"—Alberta Views"The island [of Redonda] is the subject of the Canadian writer Michael Hingston’s often excellent Try Not to Be Strange ... A Redondan gong for Hingston seems in order: perhaps he could be made Duke of Rather Interesting Non-fiction."—The Spectator"The authoritative history of the Kingdom of Redonda."—The BC Review"Try Not to be Strange is an enjoyable account of a bizarre not-quite-real place, with a rich cast of characters—not least Hingston himself, who amusingly tracks his own obsessiveness."—Complete Review"Combining travelogue, memoir, and literary history, Hingston has crafted a fascinating tale full of eccentric characters. Editions of all sizes play a role in the drama, and bibliophiles will also relish the author’s auction experience."—Fine Books and Collections Magazine"Try Not to Be Strange is a passionate and skillfully written exploration of an extraordinary world and those who search for such places to get to the heart of what stories really mean. Hingston’s thirst for deeper knowledge is palpable, and it illuminates what the kingdom might really stand for."—Quill & Quire"Full of colorful personalities, exotic locales, and unexpected twists, this is a jaunty historical footnote."—Publishers WeeklyPraise for Michael Hingston"[Hingston] does it all with a delicious sense of humour."—Quill & Quire (starred review)"Wise and love-driven ... full of observations, analysis, and well-researched history."—Edmonton Journal “A fresh take on the campus novel, Michael Hingston’s debut is a droll, incisive dissection of the terrible, terribly exciting years known as post-adolescence.”—Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers "This book captures the joy and excitement at first discovering Calvin and Hobbes, and the wistful sadness that it is no more."—Patton Oswalt "The Dilettantes is a whip-smart and very funny literary portrait of the post-ironic generation. Don't miss this."—Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People "His insights are rich and concise, but he never commandeers the work, as is the habit with writing about pop culture. As a critic, Hingston uses light touches of salt to bring out the flavours already in the work... A fine companion to a comic about a kid without much interest in companionship."—Bookshelf NewsTable of ContentsChapter 1: Perpetuating the Fraud Chapter 2: Try Not to Be Strange Chapter 3: Raising the Standard Chapter 4: Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go Chapter 5: Succession Crisis Chapter 6: The Territory and the Map Chapter 7: A Mere Rock

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together all the successful peer-reviewed papers submitted for the proceedings of the 43rd conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology that took place in Siena (Italy) from March 31st to April 2nd 2015. Altogether, within the four days of the conference 280 papers were presented in 48 sections divided into ten macro topics, 113 posters, 7 roundtables and 12 workshops. That number, in itself, has prompted a thought or two. Above all it says that CAA is very much alive and kicking, that it is in robust good health, and that it remains a wholly relevant force in the scientific community, fully engaged with the questions of the day, and a continuing focal point for the profession. All of that speaks well for the motto of CAA 2015: KEEP THE REVOLUTION GOING. Although the significance of the motto is obvious, it is worth some thoughts. Few would deny that in the past 30 years or so, digital technologies have profoundly revolutionised archaeology – in the office and laboratory, in the field and in the classroom. The progressive introduction of digital techniques in the archaeological process has of course led to a general increase in efficiency. But perhaps more importantly it has provided a spur to the discussion of methodology and through that has strongly influenced not only the way we go about things but also the outcomes that we have been able to achieve. The pioneering phase in the application of digital techniques in archaeological research has clearly been fruitful and today computer applications such as GIS, databases, remote sensing and spatial analysis as well as virtual and cyber archaeology are deeply embedded within our universities. This is all good, of course, but we must not assume that the task has been completed. An intrinsic revolutionary instinct towards technological development has been awakened. But it will only survive by virtue of the results that it brings about. Or using the words of our Chairman Prof Gary Lock: ‘Computers not only change the way we do things, but more importantly they change the way we think about what we do and why we do it’. The general thrust of this statement can be summed up and reinforced by recalling a quote from the philosopher Don Ihde, who has argued we should never forget that all technologies should be regarded as ‘cultural instruments’, which as well as strategies and methodologies implemented in our researches are also ‘non-neutral’. So KEEP THE REVOLUTION GOING! is a motto that lays stress on the need to maintain innovation in archaeology through technological advances. But innovation must have at its root the fostering of critical thought and the framing of new archaeological questions. So there is much work still to be done, and fresh challenges to be faced in the months, years and decades ahead. -from the introduction by Stefano Campana and Roberto ScopignoTable of ContentsIntroduction (Stefano Campana, Roberto Scopigno) ; Introductory Speech (Professor Gabriella Piccinni) ; CHAPTER 1: Teaching and Communicating Digital Archaeology ; From the Excavation to the Scale Model: a Digital Approach (Hervé Tronchère, Emma Bouvard, Stéphane Mor, Aude Fernagu, Jules Ramona) ; Teaching Digital Archaeology Digitally (Ronald Visser, Wilko van Zijverden, Pim Alders) ; 3D Archaeology Learning at the Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne University (François Djindjian) ; How to Teach GIS to Archaeologists (Krzysztof Misiewicz, Wiesław Małkowski, Miron Bogacki, Urszula Zawadzka-Pawlewska, Julia M. Chyla) ; Utilisation of a Game Engine for Archaeological Visualisation (Teija Oikarinen) ; The Interplay of Digital and Traditional Craft: re-creating an Authentic Pictish Drinking Horn Fitting (Dr Mhairi Maxwell, Jennifer Gray, Dr Martin Goldberg) ; Computer Applications for Multisensory Communication on Cultural Heritage (Lucia Sarti, Stefania Poesini, Vincenzo De Troia, Paolo Machetti) ; Interactive Communication and Cultural Heritage (Tommaso Empler, Mattia Fabrizi) ; Paleontology 2.0 - Public Awareness of Paleontological Sites Through New Technologies (Tommaso Empler, Fabio Quici, Luca Bellucci) ; Lucus Feroniae and Tiber Valley Virtual Museum: from Documentation and 3d Reconstruction, Up to a Novel Approach in Storytelling, Combining Virtual Reality, Theatrical and Cinematographic Rules, Gesture-based Interaction and Augmented Perception of the Archaeological Context (Eva Pietroni, Daniele Ferdani, Augusto Palombini, Massimiliano Forlani, Claudio Rufa) ; CHAPTER 2: Modelling the Archaeological Process ; Principal Component Analysis of Archaeological Data (Juhana Kammonen, Tarja Sundell) ; IT-assisted Exploration of Excavation Reports. Using Natural Language Processing in the Archaeological Research Process (Christian Chiarcos, Matthias Lang, Philip Verhagen) ; A 3D Visual and Geometrical Approach to Epigraphic Studies. The Soli (Cyprus) Inscription as a Case Study (Valentina Vassallo, Elena Christophorou, Sorin Hermon, Lola Vico, Giancarlo Iannone) ; Modelling the Archaeological Record: a Look from the Levant. Past and Future Approaches (Sveta Matskevich, Ilan Sharon) ; 3D Reconstitution of the Loyola Sugar Plantation and Virtual Reality Applications (Barreau J.B., Petit Q., Bernard Y., Auger R., Le Roux Y., Gaugne R., Gouranton V.) ; Integrated Survey Techniques for the Study of an Archaeological Site of Medieval Morocco (Lorenzo Teppati Losè) ; CHAPTER 3: Interdisciplinary Methods of Data Recording ; 3-Dimensional Archaeological Excavation of Burials Utilizing Computed Tomography Imaging (Tiina Väre, Sanna Lipkin, Jaakko Niinimäki, Sirpa Niinimäki, Titta Kallio-Seppä, Juho-Antti Junno, Milton Núñez, Markku Niskanen, Matti Heino, Annemari Tranberg, Saara Tuovinen, Rosa Vilkama, Timo Ylimaunu) ; Palaeoenvironmental Records and Php Possibilities: Results and Perspectives on an Online Bioarcheological Database (Enora Maguet, Jean-Baptiste Barreau, Chantal Leroyer) ; Integrated Methodologies for the Reconstruction of the Ancient City of Lixus (Morocco) (Cynthia Mascione, Rossella Pansini, Luca Passalacqua) ; A Dig in the Archive. The Mertens Archive of Herdonia Excavations: from Digitisation to Communication (Giuliano De Felice, Andrea Fratta) ; Archaeological and Physicochemical Approaches to the Territory: On-site Analysis and Multidisciplinary Databases for the Reconstruction of Historical Landscapes (Luisa Dallai, Alessandro Donati, Vanessa Volpi, Andrea Bardi) ; Interdisciplinary Methods of Data Recording, Management and Preservation (Marta Lorenzon, Cindy Nelson-Viljoen) ; Driving Engagement in Heritage Sites Using Personal Mobile Technology (Thom Corah, Douglas Cawthorne) ; A Conceptual and Visual Proposal to Decouple Material and Interpretive Information About Stratigraphic Data (Patricia Martin-Rodilla, Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Patricia Mañana-Borrazas) ; Recording, Preserving and Interpreting a Medieval Archaeological Site by Integrating Different 3d Technologies (Daniele Ferdani, Giovanna Bianchi) ; A 3D Digital Approach to Study, Analyse and (Re)Interpret Cultural Heritage: the Case Study of Ayia Irini (Cyprus and Sweden) (Valentina Vassallo) ; CHAPTER 4: Linking Data ; Beyond the Space: The LoCloud Historical Place Names Micro-Service (Rimvydas Laužikas, Ingrida Vosyliūtė, Justinas Jaronis) ; Using CIDOC CRM for Dynamically Querying ArSol, a Relational Database, from the Semantic Web (Olivier Marlet, Stéphane Curet, Xavier Rodier, Béatrice Bouchou-Markhoff) ; Connecting Cultural Heritage Data: The Syrian Heritage Project in the IT Infrastructure of the German Archaeological Institute (Sebastian Cuy, Philipp Gerth, Reinhard Förtsch) ; The Labelling System: A Bottom-up Approach for Enriched Vocabularies in the Humanities (Florian Thiery, Thomas Engel) ; Providing 3D Content to Europeana (Andrea D’Andrea) ; How To Move from Relational to 5 Star Linked Open Data – A Numismatic Example (Karsten Tolle, David Wigg-Wolf) ; Homogenization of the Archaeological Cartographic Data on a National Scale in Italy (Giovanni Azzena, Roberto Busonera, Federico Nurra, Enrico Petruzzi) ; The GIS for the ‘Forma Italiae’ Project. From the GIS of the Ager Venusinus Project to the GIS of the Ager Lucerinus Project: Evolution of the System (Maria Luisa Marchi, Giovanni Forte) ; GIS, an Answer to the Challenge of Preventive Archaeology? The Attempts of the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeology (Inrap) (Anne Moreau) ; Dynamic Distributions in Macro and Micro Perspective (Espen Uleberg, Mieko Matsumoto) ; CHAPTER 5: New Trends in 3D Archaeology ; Hand-free Interaction in the Virtual Simulation of the Agora of Segesta (Riccardo Olivito, Emanuele Taccola, Niccolò Albertini) ; Master-Hand Attributions of Classical Greek Sculptors by 3D-Analysis at Olympia - Some Preliminary Remarks (A. Patay-Horváth) ; Using 3D Models to Analyse Stratigraphic and Sedimentological Contexts in Archaeo-Palaeo-Anthropological Pleistocene Sites (Gran Dolina Site, Sierra De Atapuerca) (I. Campaña, A. Benito-Calvo, A. Pérez-González, A. I. Ortega, J.M. Bermúdez de Castro, E. Carbonell) ; Establishing Parameter Values for the Stone Erosion Process (Igor Barros Barbosa, Kidane Fanta Gebremariam, Panagiotis Perakis, Christian Schellewald, Theoharis Theoharis) ; The New Trend of 3D Archaeology is… Going 2D! (Giuliano De Felice) ; Documentation and Analysis Workflow for the On-going Archaeological Excavation with Image-Based 3D Modelling Technique: the Case-study of the Medieval Site of Monteleo, Italy (Giulio Poggi) ; 3D Technology Applied to Quantification Studies of Pottery: Eve 2.0 (Miguel Busto-Zapico, Miguel Carrero-Pazos) ; 3D Recording of Archaeological Excavation: the Case of Study of Santa Marta, Tuscany, Italy (Matteo Sordini, Francesco Brogi, Stefano Campana) ; Visual Space, Defence, Control and Communication: Towers and Fortresses System of the Tuscan Coastal Belt and Islands (Michele De Silva) ; CHAPTER 6: Integrating 3D Data ; Photomodelling And Point Cloud Processing. Application in the Survey of the Roman Theatre of Uthina (Tunisia) Architectural Elements (Meriem Zammel) ; Deconstructing Archaeological Palimpsests: Applicability of GIS Algorithms for the Automated Generation of Cross Sections (Miquel Roy Sunyer) ; Pompeii, the Domus of Stallius Eros: a Comparison Between Terrestrial and Aerial Low-cost Surveys (Angela Bosco, Marco Barbarino, Rosario Valentini, Andrea D’Andrea) ; Pottery Goes Digital. 3D Laser Scanning Technology and the Study of Archaeological Ceramics (Martina Revello Lami, Loes Opgenhaffen, Ivan Kisjes) ; ARIADNE Visual Media Service: Easy Web Publishing of Advanced Visual Media (Federico Ponchio, Marco Potenziani, Matteo Dellepiane, Marco Callieri, Roberto Scopigno) ; Mapping Archaeological Databases to CIDOC CRM (Martin Doerr, Maria Theodoridou, Edeltraud Aspöck, Anja Masur) ; Scientific Datasets in Archaeological Research (Nikolaos A. Kazakis, Nestor C. Tsirliganis) ; CHAPTER 7: Spatial Analysis: Theories, Questions and Methods ; Fuzzy Classification of Gallinazo and Mochica Ceramics in the North Coast, Peru Using the Jaccard Coefficient (Kayeleigh Sharp) ; Dynamics of the Settlement Pattern in the Aksum Area (800-400 Bc). an ABM Preliminary Approach (Martina Graniglia, Gilda Ferrandino, Antonella Palomba, Luisa Sernicola, Giuseppe Zollo, Andrea D’Andrea, Rodolfo Fattovich, Andrea Manzo) ; An Application of Agent-Based Modelling and GIS in Minoan Crete (Angelos Chliaoutakis, Georgios Chalkiadakis, Apostolos Sarris) ; Evaluating the Crisis: Population and Land Productivity in Late Medieval Salento, Italy (Giuseppe Muci) ; When GIS Goes to the Countryside: Detecting and Interpreting Roman Orchards from the ‘Grand Palais’ (Drôme, France) (Christophe Landry, Bertrand Moulin) ; GIS Applications and Spatial Analysis for the Survey of the Prehistoric Northern Apennine Context: the Case Study of the Mugello in Tuscany (Andrea Capecchi, Michele De Silva, Fabio Martini, Lucia Sarti) ; The Statistics of Time-to-Event. Integrating the Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Data and Event History Analysis Methods (Juan Antonio Barceló, Giacomo Capuzzo, Berta Morell, Katia Francesca Achino, Agueda Lozano) ; Hypothesis Testing and Validation in Archaeological Networks (Peter Bikoulis) ; Traveling Across Archaeological Landscapes: the Contribution of Hierarchical Communication Networks (Sylviane Déderix) ; Dispersal Versus Optimal Path Calculation (Irmela Herzog) ; Visibility Analysis and the Definition of the Ilergetian Territory: the Case of Montderes (Núria Otero Herraiz) ; CHAPTER 8: Spatial Analysis: Predictivity and Postdictivity in Archaeology ; Predictivity – Postdictivity: a Theoretical Framework (Antonia Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, Carlo Citter, Giovanna Pizziolo) ; Predicting and Postdicting a Roman Road in the Pre-pyrenees Area of Lleida (Spain) (Antonio Porcheddu) ; Predict and Confirm: Bayesian Survey and Excavation at Three Candidate Sites for Late Neolithic Occupation in Wadi Quseiba, Jordan (Philip M.N. Hitchings, Peter Bikoulis, Steven Edwards, Edward B. Banning) ; Predicting Survey Coverage through Calibration: Sweep Widths and Survey in Cyprus and Jordan (Sarah T. Stewart, Edward B. Banning, Steven Edwards, Philip M.N. Hitchings, Peter Bikoulis) ; Estimating The ‘Memory of Landscape’ to Predict Changes in Archaeological Settlement Patterns (Philip Verhagen, Laure Nuninger, Frédérique Bertoncello, Angelo Castrorao Barba) ; On Their Way Home... A Network Analysis of Medieval Caravanserai Distribution in the Syrian Region, According to an 1D Approach (Augusto Palombini, Cinzia Tavernari) ; Modelling Regional Landscape Through the Predictive and Postdictive Exploration of Settlement Choices: a Theoretical Framework (Emeri Farinetti) ; Site Location Modelling and Prediction on Early Byzantine Crete: Methods Employed, Challenges Encountered (Kayt Armstrong, Christina Tsigonaki, Apostolos Sarris, Nadia Coutsinas) ; Potential Paths and the Historical Road Network between Italy and Egypt: from the Predictive to the Postdictive Approach (Andrea Patacchini, Giulia Nicatore) ; CHAPTER 9: Spatial Analysis: Occupation Floors and Palaeosurfaces in the Digital Era ; Ritual use of Romito Cave During the Late Upper Palaeolithic: an Integrated Approach for Spatial Reconstruction (Michele De Silva, Giovanna Pizziolo, Domenico Lo Vetro, Vincenzo De Troia, Paolo Machetti, Enrico F. Ortisi, Fabio Martini) ; Visualizing Occupation Features in Homogenous Sediments. Examples from the Late Middle Palaeolithic of Grotte De La Verpillière II, Burgundy, France (Jens Axel Frick) ; A New Palaeolithic Burial From Grotta Del Romito (Calabria, Italy). A Digital Restitution (Francesco Enrico Ortisi, Domenico Lo Vetro, Giovanna Pizziolo, Michele De Silva, Claudia Striuli, Pier Francesco Fabbri, Fabio Martini) ; Predicting the Accumulative Consequences of Abandonment Processes. Intra-site Analysis of Lakeside Settlements (Katia Francesca Achino, Juan Antonio Barceló, Micaela Angle) ; Reconstructing the Boom of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Population Size in Finland by Agent and Equation-Based Modelling (Tarja Sundell, Martin Heger, Juhana Kammonen) ; Archaeology, Geomorphology and Palaeosurfaces Studies: a Multidisciplinary Approach for Understanding the Ancient Laos Territory (Vincenzo Amato, Cristiano Benedetto De Vita, Francesca Filocamo, Alfonso Santoriello, Francesco Uliano Scelza) ; Intrasite Analysis in the Florentine Plain: from Data Integration to Palaeosurfaces Interpretation (Giovanna Pizziolo, Nicoletta Volante, Lucia Sarti) ; Living in a Palaeoriverbed: Intra-site Analysis of Two Prehistoric Sites in the Florentine Alluvial Plain (Rosalba Aquino, Matteo Faraoni, Laura Morabito, Giovanna Pizziolo, Lucia Sarti) ; Exploring Scenarios for the First Farming Expansion in the Balkans Via an Agent-based Model (Andrea Zanotti, Richard Moussa, Jérôme Dubouloz, Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel) ; CHAPTER 10: Spatial Analysis: Data, Patterns and Process Interpretation ; Strontium Isotope Analysis and Human Mobility from Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age in the Central Plain of China (Chunyan Zhao) ; The Iron Age in Serakhs Oasis (Turkmenistan). The Preliminary Results of the Application of Geographic Information System in the Study of the Settlement Pattern of the Earliest Confirmed Occupation of the Oasis (Nazarij Buławka, Barbara Kaim) ; Multi-Scale Approach for the Reconstruction of a Past Urban Environment. From Remote Sensing to Space Syntax: the Case of Dionysias (Fayum, Egypt) (Gabriella Carpentiero, Carlo Tessaro) ; Enhancing GIS Urban Data with the 3rd Dimension: A Procedural Modelling Approach (Chiara Piccoli) ; Structural Integrity Modelling of an Early Bronze Age Corridor House in Helike of Achaea, NW Peloponnese, Greece (Mariza Kormann, Stella Katsarou, Dora Katsonopoulou, Gary Lock) ; Discovering Prehistoric Ritual Norms. A Machine Learning Approach (Stéphanie Duboscq, Joan Anton Barceló Álvarez, Katia Francesca Achino, Berta Morell Rovira, Florence Allièse, Juan Francisco Gibaja Bao) ; Application of the ‘Bag of Words’ Model (bow) for Analysing Archaeological Potsherds (Diego Jiménez-Badillo, Edgar Roman-Rangel) ; Autonomy in Marine Archaeology (Øyvind Ødegård, Stein M. Nornes, Martin Ludvigsen, Thijs J. Maarleveld, Asgeir J. Sørensen) ; Identifying Patterns on Prehistoric Wall Paintings: a New Curve Fitting Approach (Michail Panagopoulos, Dimitris Arabadjis, Panayiotis Rousopoulos, Michalis Exarhos, Constantin Papaodysseus) ; Pottery Studies of the 4th-Century Necropolis at Bârlad-Valea Seacă, Romania (Vlad-Andrei Lăzărescu, Vincent Mom) ; A Bridge to Digital Humanities: Geometric Methods and Machine Learning for Analysing Ancient Script in 3D (Hubert Mara, Bartosz Bogacz) ; CHAPTER 11: Remote Sensing: Computational Imaging Advances and Sensor Data Integration ; The Possibilities of the Aerial Lidar for the Detection of Galician Megalithic Mounds (NW of the Iberian Peninsula). The Case of Monte De Santa Mariña, Lugo (Miguel Carrero-Pazos, Benito Vilas-Estévez) ; Reflectance Transformation Imaging Beyond the Visible: Ultraviolet Reflected and Ultraviolet Induced Visible Fluorescence (E. Kotoula) ; Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa: Introducing the EAMENA Project (Robert Bewley, Andrew Wilson, David Kennedy, David Mattingly, Rebecca Banks, Michael Bishop, Jennie Bradbury, Emma Cunliffe, Michael Fradley, Richard Jennings, Robyn Mason, Louise Rayne, Martin Sterry, Nichole Sheldrick, Andrea Zerbini) ; Enhancing Multi-Image Photogrammetric 3d Reconstruction Performance on Low-Feature Surfaces (George Ioannakis, Anestis Koutsoudis, Blaž Vidmar, Fotis Arnaoutoglou, Christodoulos Chamzas) ; Combination of RTI and Decorrelation — an Approach to the Examination of Badly Preserved Rock Inscriptions and Rock Art at Gebelein (Egypt) (Piotr Witkowski, Julia M. Chyla, Wojciech Ejsmond) ; Geophysical-Archaeological Experiments in Controlled Conditions at the Hydrogeosite Laboratory (CNR-IMAA) (Felice Perciante, Luigi Capozzoli L., Antonella Caputi, Gregory De Martino, Valeria Giampaolo, Raffaele Luongo, Enzo Rizzo) ; Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage in 6Ds: the Interdisciplinary Connections (Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Julio M. del Hoyo Melendez, Lindsay W. MacDonald, Aurore Mathys, Vera Moitinho de Almeida) ; Integrating Low Altitude with Satellite and Airborne Aerial Images: Photogrammetric Documentation of Early Byzantine Settlements in Crete (Gianluca Cantoro, Christina Tsigonaki, Kayt Armstrong, Apostolos Sarris) ; Creating 3D Replicas of Medium- to Large-Scale Monuments for Web-Based Dissemination Within the Framework of the 3D-Icons Project (Anestis Koutsoudis, Fotios Arnaoutoglou, Vasilios Liakopoulos, Athanasios Tsaouselis, George Ioannakis, Christodoulos Chamzas) ; The Lidoriki Project: Low Altitude, Aerial Photography, GIS, and Traditional Survey in Rural Greece (Todd Brenningmeyer, Kostis Kourelis, Miltiadis Katsaros) ; A Fully Integrated UAV System for Semi-automated Archaeological Prospection (Matthias Lang, Thorsten Behrens, Karsten Schmidt, Dieta Svoboda, Conrad Schmidt) ; Stereo Visualization of Historical Aerial Photos as a Valuable Tool for Archaeological Research (Anders Hast, Andrea Marchetti) ; CHAPTER 12: Open Source and Open Data ; Strati5 - Open Mobile Software for Harris Matrix (Jerzy Sikora, Jacek Sroka, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz) ; Archaeology as Community Enterprise (Néhémie Strupler) ; Digital Resources for Archaeology. The Contribution of the On-Line Projects by Isma-Cnr (Alessandra Caravale, Alessandra Piergrossi) ; A Swabian in the Orient. In the Footsteps of Julius Euting (Matthias Lang, Manuel Abbt, Gerlinde Bigga, Jason T. Herrmann, Virginia Hermann, Kevin Körner, Fabian Schwabe, Dieta Svoboda) ; GQBWiki Goes Open (Stefano Costa, Alessandro Carabia) ; Archaeological Contents: from Open Access to Open Data (Aurélie Monteil, Viviane Boulétreau) ; CHAPTER 13: Computers and Rock Art Studies ; Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art: Quantitative Approaches to the Acoustics and Soundscape of Rock Art (Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Tommaso Mattioli) ; Photometric Stereo 3D Visualizations of Rock-Art Panels, Bas-Reliefs, and Graffiti (Massimo Vanzi, Paolo Emilio Bagnoli, Carla Mannu, Giuseppe Rodriguez) ; SIVT – Processing, Viewing, and Analysis of 3D Scans of the Porthole Slab and Slab B2 of Züschen I (Stefanie Wefers, Tobias Reich, Burkhard Tietz, Frank Boochs) ; Digital Practices for the Study of the Great Rock in the Naquane National Park, Valcamonica, Italy: from Graphic Rendering to Figure Cataloguing (Andrea Arcà) ; Real-time 3D Modelling of the Cultural Heritage: the Forum of Nerva in Rome (Tommaso Empler, Barbara Forte, Emanuele Fortunati) ; Mediated Representations After Laser Scanning. The Monastery of Aynalı and the Architectural Role of Red Pictograms (Carlo Inglese, Marco Carpiceci, Fabio Colonnese)

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Book SynopsisCountry of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a magnanimous cornerstone of the Canadian state, developed in lockstep with colonial control over Indigenous land and life.Pathogens are storytellers of their time. The 500-year-old debate over the origins of syphilis reflects colonial judgments of morality and sexuality that became formally entwined in medicine. Smallpox is notoriously linked with the project of land theft, as colonizers destroyed Indigenous land, economies and life in the name of disease eradication. And tuberculosis, considered the "Indian disease," aroused intense fear of contagion that launched separate systems of care for Indigenous Peoples in a de facto medical apartheid, while white settlers retreated to sanatoria in the Laurentians and Georgian Bay to be cured. In this immersive and deeply reflective book, physician and activist Dr. Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay provides riveting insights into the biological and social relationships of disease and empire. Country of Poxes considers a future of health in Canada that heeds redress and healing for Nations brutalized by the Canadian state.

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Book SynopsisAs part of a series of research projects on the Archaeology of hunter-gatherers societies in the Southern Pampean Hills this presents, among other things, the study of various aspects of the organization of lithic technology and strategies for the use of lithic resources by prehistoric populations. This is in order to understand the social aspects that allow us to recognize and describe habitus or ways of doing things. In this book we studied lithic assemblages, in the manner described above from stratigraphic levels of the Alero Deodoro Roca (Deodoro Roca Rockshelter) comprising chronologies between ca. 3000 years BP to ca. 3600 years BP. We propose that behind the technical movements, organization of the production, distribution of activities in space, the selection of raw materials and any other technological activity, there are people and groups who make decisions based on the context, needs, history and knowledge. We ask ourselves: What affected material selection for the production of stone tools rocks? Was there a differential selection depending on the desired end product? And if so, was it different in diachronic moments? What techniques were used in the production of what instruments? What productive activities were conducted in Alero Deodoro Roca and which were not? What role did the tools produced have? This study aims to produce relevant and new information that expands our knowledge of technological strategies used by the human groups in order to compare them with those produced in other areas of the Sierras. It will contribute to a process of constructing knowledge about hunter-gatherers of the valleys of Cordoba province, by studying lithic technology and therefore raising new questions for further studies.Table of ContentsCapítulo 1 El problema de investigación y sus antecedentes; Capítulo 2 Aspectos teóricos – metodológicos; Capítulo 3 Caracterización del Alero Deodoro Roca y procedencia de la muestra estudiada; Capítulo 4 Resultados del análisis de los materiales líticos de ADR-B; Capítulo 5 Discusión y conclusiones del análisis de los materiales líticos de ADR; Referencias bibliográficas; Anexo 1; Anexo 2

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Book SynopsisThe Victorians risked more than just delays when boarding a steam train . . .Victorian inventors certainly didn't lack steam, but while they squabbled over who deserved the title of 'The Father of the Locomotive' and enjoyed their fame and fortune, safety on the rails was not their priority. Brakes were seen as a needless luxury and boilers had an inconvenient tendency to overheat and explode, and in turn, blow up anyone in reach.Often recognised as having revolutionised travel and industrial Britain, Victorian railways were perilous. Disease, accidents and disasters accounted for thousands of deaths and many more injuries. While history has focused on the triumph of engineers, the victims of the Victorian railways had names, lives and families and they deserve to be remembered . . .Trade ReviewOriginal, informative and quirky, the stories in this book linger in the memory. * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *'an intriguing alternative history' -- B Lesle McDowell * SUNDAY HERALD *

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Book SynopsisA lively and engaging account of the legendary Irish folk music ensemble Ceoltóirí Chualann, and the first time that readers can see the groundbreaking concepts used by Seán Ó Riada and his band Ceoltóirí Chualann as they changed the course of Irish Music.Written by Peadar Ó Riada, blending memoir and historical narrative, this book draws on the experiences and records of Éamon de Buitléar, Michael Tubridy, and the Ó Riada archives, enriched by Seán Ó Sé''s anecdotes. From the birth of the band to the complexities of their trailblazing musical arrangements, composed by the visionary Seán Ó Riada, this book showcases their ability to blend traditional Irish music with complex orchestration.The magic of their story unfolds against the backdrop of a changing Ireland, where traditional music, once marginalised, began to find new expression and appreciation as their popul

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Book SynopsisThe island of Sant’ Andrea, situated on the road that since ancient times has linked the Adige Valley with the Lake Garda, once rose impressively from the green expanse of water, but now is a small hump on the edge of a vast marshy basin. Fifteen centuries ago it was the fortified seat of a contingent of soldiers and their families. In 1998, after a long series of sporadic discoveries that started way back in the 19th century, the Archeaology Section of the Rovereto Civic Museum began a research and study project that involved a series of summer excavations, that brought to light a multi-layered archeological site with finds ranging from the prehistoric age to late antiquity, medieval times and right through to even the First World War. Along the northeastern side and the southern edge of the island the remains have been found of some buildings that can be traced to a fortified settlement and on the top part of the hump the remains of a Romanesque church have been investigated. The buildings that made up the settlement illustrate a complex series of construction periods; so far these have been dated between the 5th and 7th centuries. Numerous examples of armoury and military clothing have been found in the settlement area and this clearly suggests the military function of the site. The volume is devoted to the results of the research in the castrum: A general overview of the site is followed by a part devoted to periodization and stratigraphic analysis of the dig; then there is a large section that includes contributions on the small finds; the fourth part contains some concluding remarks.Table of ContentsCOLOPHON; GELEITWORT; PREFAZIONE; PREFACE; PARTE PRIMA; IL SITO DI SANT’ANDREA DI LOPPIO: ASPETTI NATURALISTICI E FONTI STORICO-ARCHIVISTICHE; 1. IL TRATTO OCCIDENTALE DELLA VALLE DI LOPPIO: IL PAESAGGIO OGGI E NELL’ANTICHITÀ; 2. UNO SGUARDO ALLA FLORA E ALLA VEGETAZIONE DELLA CONCA DEL LAGO DI LOPPIO; 3. IL SITO DI LOPPIO NELLE FONTI DOCUMENTARIE; PARTE SECONDA; LO SCAVO ARCHEOLOGICO: PERIODIZZAZIONE E ANALISI STRATIGRAFICA; 1. LE RICERCHE ARCHEOLOGICHE NEL SITO DI LOPPIO - SANT’ANDREA; 2. LA PERIODIZZAZIONE; 3. LA SEQUENZA STRATIGRAFICA: ANALISI E INTERPRETAZIONE; 4. EDIFICI E STRUTTURE MURARIE: TIPOLOGIA, MATERIALI, TECNICHE COSTRUTTIVE; 5. “QUID SINT SUGGRUNDARIA”: LA SEPOLTURA INFANTILE A ENCHYTRISMOS DI LOPPIO – SANT’ANDREA; PARTE TERZA; I REPERTI MOBILI; 1. CERAMICA COMUNE; 2. ANALISI IN SEZIONE SOTTILE DI CERAMICA COMUNE PROVENIENTE DA LOPPIO; 3. CERAMICHE FINI D’IMPORTAZIONE E IMITAZIONI LOCALI O REGIONALI; 4. CERAMICA INVETRIATA; 5. ANFORE; 6. ANALISI IN SEZIONE SOTTILE SU ANFORE DI LOPPIO; 7. RECIPIENTI IN PIETRA OLLARE; 8. REPERTI DI VETRO E PASTA VITREA; 9. ANALISI ARCHEOMETRICHE SU MANUFATTI VITREI; 10. REPERTI METALLICI; 11. STUDIO DEI MATERIALI LEGATI AD ATTIVITÀ METALLURGICHE DALL’ISOLA DI SANT’ANDREA: RISULTATI PRELIMINARI; 12. IL RESTAURO DEGLI OGGETTI METALLICI DI LOPPIO - SANT’ANDREA; 13. LE MONETE DEL CASTRUM; 14. MANUFATTI IN OSSO; 15. UTENSILI DI TERRACOTTA; 16. PRODOTTI LATERIZI; 17. MANUFATTI LITICI; 18. PERLINA ANULARE DI ENSTATITE: CARATTERIZZAZIONE MINERALOGICA E CHIMICA E IPOTESI SU TECNICA DI PRODUZIONE E ZONA DI PROVENIENZA; 19. PIETRE DURE E SEMIPREZIOSE; 20. MANUFATTI IN SELCE; 21. I RESTI CARPOLOGICI DELL’INSEDIAMENTO CASTRENSE DI SANT’ANDREA DI LOPPIO; 22. INDAGINI ARCHEOZOOLOGICHE SUI RESTI FAUNISTICI PROVENIENTI DAL CASTRUM DI SANT’ANDREA; PARTE QUARTA; CONSIDERAZIONI CONCLUSIVE; L’INSEDIAMENTO FORTIFICATO DI SANT’ANDREA DI LOPPIO: TIPOLOGIA, FUNZIONE, COMPONENTI SOCIALI; BIBLIOGRAFIA

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Book SynopsisContains hundreds of photos of the Mosquito production line and design concepts. Appendices include first hand pilot accounts, details of the unique variants put into production, and information relating to the Mosquito's deployment in a civilian context with BOAC.

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Book SynopsisIt is commonly recognized that the Cedars of Lebanon were prized in the ancient world, but how can the complex archaeological role of the Cedrus genus be articulated in terms that go beyond its interactions with humans alone? And to what extent can ancient ships and boats made of this material demonstrate such intimate relations with wood? Drawing from object-oriented ontologies and other ‘new materialisms,’ Cedar Forests, Cedar Ships constructs a hylocentric anti-narrative spreading from the Cretaceous to the contemporary. With a dual focus on the woods and the watercraft, and on the considerable historical overlap between them, the book takes another step in the direction of challenging the conceptual binaries of nature/culture and subject/object, while providing an up-to-date synthesis of the relevant archaeological and historical data. Binding physical properties and metaphorical manifestations, the fluctuating presence of cedar (forests, trees, and wood) in religious thought is interpreted as having had a direct bearing on shipbuilding in the ancient East Mediterranean. Close and diachronic excavations of the interstices of allure, lore, and metaphor can begin to navigate the (meta) physical relationships between the forested mountain and the forest afloat, and their myriad unique realities.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: An Object-Oriented Archaeology (or, Redefining the ‘Archaeological Object’); PART I: Forests, Trees & Timber – The Realities and Relations of Wood; CHAPTER 1: The Enduring Qualities and the First Relations; CHAPTER 2: The Seductive Forests; CHAPTER 3: The Allure and the Distortion; PART II: Ships, Shipbuilding, and Seafaring - The Potency of Wood on Water; Chapter 4: Ships and Transformation; CHAPTER 5: Ship Construction, Myth Construction; CHAPTER 6: The Ontology of Obsolescence; EPILOGUE: Dark Ecology; or On Pins & Needles; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFrom antiquity, when the Great Pyramid was revered as a wonder of the ancient world, to the Cleopatra of Shakespeare’s stage, and from the medieval Arab scholars who sought hieroglyphs’ mystical wisdom, to the biblical stories still told today, Visions of Ancient Egypt explores how ongoing engagement with ancient Egypt has shaped centuries of art and design. Accompanying a ground-breaking exhibition, it unpicks the constructed fantasies of this ancient civilisation and charts how ancient Egypt’s iconic motifs and visual style have been re-imagined over time – revealing not just an enduring artistic fascination with Egypt, but a story of how Egypt’s own heritage has been reinvented and appropriated by different cultures over time, and a history closely entwined with imperial conquest and colonial politics.Beautifully illustrated throughout and with contributions by leading scholars, this book explores the imagined construction of ancient Egypt promoted through painting, sculpture, photography, architecture and film, as well as design, fashion and jewellery. It traces the journey across time, beginning with the ancient Romans who looted Egyptian monuments and adopted Egyptian gods into their Pantheon; to Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Egypt, and the elite taste for all things Egyptian it prompted; as well as the Victorian creation of an Orientalist fantasy popularised at World Fairs. Presented in a nuanced way, the story is not Eurocentric. For the first time, it also places Egypt’s own story firmly into the narrative, exploring for example Egyptian artists’ responses to nationalist calls for independence spurred by the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, while also addressing the popular impact of the ‘Tutmania’ craze in the West and its influence on Art Deco. The book also examines the enduring appeal of ancient Egypt in global contemporary art, across media from painting and sculpture, to film and multimedia installations. Artists both within and beyond Egypt continue to look to its ancient imagery to make statements about heritage, identity and race.The book invites readers to debate and to discuss this complex history of the construction of ancient Egypt in art and design, and to ask who these visions serve – both then and now.

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Book SynopsisThe Roman legionary base at Novae in Lower Moesia is one of the most important sites in the Lower Danubian provinces. Towards late Antiquity, the military camp was transformed into a civil town with Episcopal residence and survived until the beginning of the 7th century. The Polish-Bulgarian excavations carried out for more than 55 years revealed remains dated from the mid-1st up to the early Byzantine periods and more than 300 inscriptions on stone. The rural hinterland of Novae is exceptional and fascinating for the historian and archaeologist, not only due to the importance of the site itself, but also due to its location. The legionary camp at Novae was located halfway between the outlets of two rivers – the Osăm and Jantra, flowing nearly parallel to each other. This part of the Danubian Plain was inhabited by Geto-Thracians and tribes influenced by the Celts. The special position of the lands between the Osăm and Jantra rivers is well-expressed by a series of boundary stones set up in AD 136 by Emperor Hadrian, who divided the tribal territories of Moesos and Thraces. This special geopolitical situation must have caused considerable difficulties in administering the area by the Romans. At present this poses a challenge for scholars, who search for answers to various questions concerning the universal solutions applied in borderlands in the past.Trade Review'The general sense that the books offers is of thorough and solid documentation, thus seeming completely trustworthy in regard of the provided data. Even if aspects of this investigation have been revised and enhanced recently (e.g. Mihailescu-Bîrliba 2018), micromonographs for mainly rural provincial areas are scarce for this part of Europe, thus A. Tomas’s book serves as a methodological example, as well as an important source of information and data.' – Rada Varga (2020): Acta Musei Napocensis, 56/ITable of ContentsChapter 1 GEOGRAPHY OF THE REGION; Chapter 2 HISTORICAL SETTING; Chapter 3 METHODOLOGICAL REMARKS AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE SITES; Chapter 4 SETTLEMENT STRUCTURES; Chapter 5 LOCAL ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNMENT; Chapter 6 THE LANGUAGES IN USE, ETHNIC AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES; Chapter 7 MILITARY AND CIVILIAN INTERACTION: RELATIONS, IMPACT AND DEVELOPMENT; CATALOGUE; Epigraphic monuments; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSteven Mithen's unique history of water and society in the ancient world has never been told before and is particularly relevant today in the face of global climate change.The planet faces a 21st-century global water crisis - but to what extent is this really new? Past societies and ancient civilisations have always faced climate change and been dependent on their ability to harness and manage a water supply. This has often been a key driver of historical change, leading to some of the most remarkable engineering projects of antiquity.In THIRST, renowned archaeologist and prehistorian Steven Mithen examines the history of water management in the ancient world. From the first flushing toilets at Knossos on Minoan Crete to the aqueducts of Petra and the Incas, from the bath houses of Rome to the canals of ancient China and the vast reservoirs of the Khmer and Maya civilisations, water management is shown to have been not only essential for human survival but a source of political power. It will remain so as we face global climate change, population growth and mega-urbanisation on a massive scale. So, does the past give us reason for hope or for despair?Trade ReviewThough somewhat dense, and indeed dry in parts, this is an informative and important study of the lessons to be learned from past civilisations. -- P D Smith * THE GUARDIAN *Who would think that a study of ancient hydraulic engineering could be so revelatory, so engrossing? * THE INDEPENDENT *A dense, thought-provoking study of the management of water supplies in the ancient world, taking in the aqueducts of Petra, the canals of Ancient China and the bath houses of Rome * THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the long history of Syria through a jouney of the most important and recently-excavated archaeological sites. The sites cover over 1.8 million years and all regions in Syria; 110 academics have contributed information on 103 excavations for this volume. Based on these contributions the volume offers a detailed summary of the history of Syria, a history as important as any in terms of the development of human society. It is hoped that this knowledge will offer not only an increased understanding of the country but also act as a deterrent to the destruction of Syrian cultural heritage and facilitate the protection of Syrian sites. The following paper(s) are available to download in Open Access: Dja’de el-Mughara (Aleppo) - Eric Coqueugniot: DownloadTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Significance of Syria in Human History – (Youssef Kanjou and Akira Tsuneki) ; Chapter 1: Prehistory: 1. El Kowm Oasis (Homs) – (Reto Jagher, Dorota Wojtczak and Jean-Marie Le Tensorer) ; 2. Dederiyeh Cave (Afrin, Aleppo) – (Takeru Akazawa and Yoshihiro Nishiaki) ; 3. Wadi Mushkuna Rockshelter (Damascus) – (Nicholas J. Conard) ; 4. Baaz Rockshelter (Damascus) – (Nicholas J. Conard) ; 5. Kaus Kozah Cave (Damascus) – (Nicholas J. Conard) ; 6. Abu Hureyra (Raqqa) – (Andrew M. T. Moore) ; 7. Qarassa (Sweida) – (F. Braemer, J. J. Ibanez and X. Terradas) ; 8. Mureybet (Raqqa) – (Marie-Claire Cauvin and Danielle Stordeur) ; 9. Tell Qaramel (Aleppo) – (Youssef Kanjou) ; 10. Jerf el-Ahmar (Aleppo) – (Danielle Stordeur and George Willcox) ; 11. Dja’de el-Mughara (Aleppo) (Eric Coqueugniot) [Open Access: Download] ; 12. Tell Halula (Aleppo) – (Miquel Molist) ; 13. Tell Aswad (Damascus) – (Danielle Stordeur and Rima Khawam) ; 14. Tell el-Kerkh (Idlib) – (Akira Tsuneki) ; 15. Tell Sabi Abyad (Raqqa) – (Peter M. M. G. Akkermans) ; 16. Tell Seker el-Aheimar (Hassake) – (Yoshihiro Nishiaki) ; 17. Shir (Hama) – (Karin Bartl) ; 18. Tell Kosak Shamali (Aleppo) – (Yoshihiro Nishiaki) ; 19. Tell el-‘Abr (Aleppo) – (Yayoi Yamazaki and Hamido Hammade) ; 20. Chagar Bazar (Hassake) – (Walter Cruells and Anna Gomez Bach) ; 21. Tell Zeidan (Raqqa) – (Anas Al Khabour) ; 22. Tell Feres (Hassake) – (Régis Vallet and Johnny Samuele Baldi) ; 23. Tell Ziyadeh (Hassake) – (Frank Hole) ; Chapter 2: Ancient Syria (Bronze and Iron Ages): 24. Tell Beydar / Nabada / Nabatium (Hassake) – (Marc Lebeau and †Antoine Suleiman) ; 25. Tell Banat (Aleppo) – (Thomas L. McClellan and Anne Porter) ; 26. Tell Mozan/Urkesh (Hassake) – (Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati) ; 27. Tell Leilan (Hassake) – (Harvey Weiss) ; 28. Tell Sheikh Hamad/Dur-Katlimmu/Magdalu (Deir ez-Zor) – (Hartmut Kühne) ; 29. Umm el-Marra (Aleppo) – (Glenn M. Schwartz) ; 30. Tell Jerablus Tahtani (Aleppo) – (Edgar Peltenburg) ; 31. Tell Al-Rawda (Hama) - (Corinne Castel and Nazir Awad) ; 32. Tell Munbāqa (Raqqa) – (Dittmar Machule) ; 33. Tell el-Abd (Raqqa) – (Uwe Finkbeiner) ; 34. Tell Ali al-Hajj, Rumeilah (Aleppo) – (Kazuya Shimogama) ; 35. Mishrifeh / Qatna (Homs) – (Daniele Morandi Bonacossi) ; 36. Mishirfeh/Qatna, Syrian Excavations (Homs) – (Michel Al-Maqdissi and Massoud Badawi) ; 37. Tell Mastuma (Idlib) – (Hidetoshi Tsumoto) ; 38. Tell Sakka (Damascus) – (Ahmad Ferzat-Taraqji) ; 39. Tell Iris (Lattakia) – (Antoine Souleiman and Michel Al-Maqdissi) ; 40. Tell Toueini (Lattakia) – (Michel Al-Maqdissi, Massoud Badawi and Eva Ishaq) ; 41. Tell Sianu (Lattakia) – (Michel Al-Maqdissi) ; 42. Tell Taban (Hassake) – (Hirotoshi Numoto) ; 43. Tell Hammam el-Turkman (Raqqa) – (Diederik J.W. Meijer) ; 44. Tell Selenkahiye (Aleppo) – (Diederik J.W. Meijer) ; 45. Tell Mohammed Diyab (Hassake) – (Christophe Nicolle) ; 46. Tell Tuqan (Idlib) – (Francesca Baffi) ; 47. Khirbet Al-Umbashi, Khirbet Dabab and Hebariye (Sweida) – (Frank Braemer and Ahmed Taraqji) ; 48. Tell Masaikh and the Region around Terqa (Deir ez-Zor) – (Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault) ; 49. Tell Ashara/ Terqa (Deir ez-Zor) – (Olivier Rouault) ; 50. Tell Bazi (Aleppo) – (Adelheid Otto and Berthold Einwag) ; 51. Tell Afis (Idlib) – (Stefania Mazzoni) ; 52. Tell Fekheriye (Hassake) – (Dominik Bonatz) ; 53. Mari (Deir ez-Zor) – (Pascal Butterlin) ; 54. Tell Nebi Mend (Homs) – (Peter Parr) ; 55. Qala’at Halwanji (Aleppo) – (Jesper Eidem) ; 56. Tell Ahmar/Til Barsib (Aleppo) – (Guy Bunnens) ; 57. Chagar Bazar/Ashnakkum (Hassake) – (Onhan Tunca) ; 58. Tell Humeida (Deir ez-Zor) – (Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós and Yaroob al-Abdallah) ; 59. Tell Qabr Abu al-‘Atiq (Deir ez-Zor) – (Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós and Shaker al-Shbib) ; 60. Tulul el-Far, Tell Taouil and Tell el-Kharaze (Damascus) – (Sophie Cluzan and Ahmad Ferzat-Taraqji) ; 61. Tell Massin and Tell al-Nasriyah (Hama) – (Dominique Parayre) ; 62. Tell Arbid (Hassake) – (Piotr Bieliński) ; 63. Tell Halaf (Hassake) – (Lutz Martin) ; 64. Halawa (Raqqa) – (Jan-Waalke Meyer and Winfried Orthmann) ; 65. Tell Shiyukh Tahtani (Aleppo) – (Gioacchino Falsone and Paola Sconzo) ; 66. Ras Shamra/Ugarit (Lattakia) – (Valérie Matoïan and Khozama al-Bahloul) ; 67. Tell Chuera (Raqqa) – (Jan-Waalke Meyer) ; 68. Amrith/Marathos (Tartous) – (Michel Al-Maqdissi and Eva Ishaq) ; 69. Arslan Tash (Aleppo) – (Anas Al Khabour) ; 70. Tell Meskene/Emar (Aleppo) – (Ferhan Sakal) ; 71. Tell Barri/Kahat (al Hassake) – (Raffaella Pierobon Benoit) ; 72. Tell Kazel/Sumur – (Leila Badre) ; 73. Tell Qumluq (Aleppo) – (Youssef Kanjou and Andrew Jamieson) ; 74. The Cemetery of Abu Hamad (Raqqa) – (Jan-Waalke Meyer) ; 75. The cemeteries of Wreide, Tawi and Shameseddin (Raqqa) – (Jan-Waalke Meyer andWinfried Orthmann) ; 76. Tell Ajaja (Hassake) – (Asa’d Mahmoud and Hartmut Kühne) ; 77. Tell Bderi (Hassake) – (Hartmut Kühne) ; Chapter 3: Syria in the Classic World (Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine): 78. Jebel Khalid, (Aleppo) – (Graeme Clarke and Heather Jackson) ; 79. Palmyra, Years of Syro-German/Austrian Archaeological Research (Homs) – (Andreas Schmidt-Colinet, Khaled al- As‘ad and Waleed al-As‘ad) ; 80. Palmyra, Japanese Archaeological Research (Homs) – (Saito, Kiyihide) ; 81. Palmyrena. The Northern Hinterland of Palmyra (Homs) – (Jørgen Christian Meyer, Nils Anfinset and Torbjørn Preus Schou) ; 82. Palmyra/Tadmor (Homs) – (Michal Gawlikowski) ; 83. Cyrrhus/Nebi Houri (Aleppo) – (Jeanine Abdul Massih and Shaker Al Shbib) ; 84. Tell As-Sin (Deir ez-Zor) – (Shaker al-Shbib and Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós) ; 85. Gindaros (Aleppo) – (Ammar Abdulrahman) ; 86. El-Iss/Qinnasrin (Aleppo) – (Marie-Odile Rousset and Youssef Kanjou) ; 87. Resafa/Sergiopolis (Raqqa) – (Anas Al Khabour) ; 88. Resafa/Sergiupolis /Rusafat Hisham (Raqqa) – (Dorothée Sack and Martin Gussone) ; 89. Zenobia – Halabiya (Deir Ezzor) – (Sylvie Blétry) ; 90. Sergilla, Ruweiha and El Bâra (Idlib) – (Maamoun Abdulkarim and Gérard Charpentier) ; 91. Musaytbeh-Jableh (Lattakia) – (Massoud Badawi) ; 92. Deir Qinnsrin-Jarabulus (Aleppo) – (Mohamad Fakhro) ; 93. Tell el-Kasra (Deir ez-Zor) – (Yaroob al-Abdallah) ; 94. Syriac Inscriptions of Syria – (Françoise Briquel Chatonnet) ; 95. Sura (Raqqa) – (Ali Othman) ; 97. Tell Shayzar (Hama) – (Matthias Grawehr and Abdulsalam Albachkami) ; Chapter 4: Islamic Archaeology in Syria: 97. The Citadel of Shayzar (Hama) – (Cristina Tonghini) ; 98. Qalaat Al Mudiq/Apamean Citadel (Hama) – (Shaker al Shbib and Mathilde Gelin) ; 99. Tell Tuneinir (Hassake) – (Michael Fuller and Neathery Fuller) ; 100. Aleppo Castle (Aleppo) – (Assad Yusof and Youssef Kanjou) ; 101. Madinat el-Far/Hisn Maslama (Raqqa) – (Claus-Peter Haase) ; 102. Kharab Sayyar (Raqqa) – (Jan-Waalke Meyer) ; 103. Tell Damir (Raqqa) – (Anas Al Khabour) ; Synthesis: Syrian Archaeology in the Past, Present and Future – (Youssef Kanjou and Akira Tsuneki)

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Book SynopsisGypsies, Roma and Travellers are some of the most marginalized and vilified people in society. They are rarely seen as having a place in a country, either geographically or socially, no matter where they live or what they do. Another Darkness, Another Dawn is a new history that charts their movement through time and place: from their roots in the Indian subcontinent, across the Byzantine and Ottoman empires to western Europe and the Americas, to their place in the contemporary world. This history of Romani people demonstrates how their experiences provide a way to understand mainstream society's relationship with outsiders and immigrants, both in the past and present. Rather than seeing these peoples as separate from the societies in which they have lived, and as untouched by history, this book sets Gypsies' experiences in the context of broader historical changes. Understanding their history is to take in the founding and contraction of empires, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, wars, the expansion of law and order and of states, the Enlightenment, nationalism, modernity and the Holocaust, as well as the increasing regulation of modern society. It is as much a history of ourselves as it is a history of 'others'. Ultimately Taylor demonstrates that history is not always about progress: the place of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers remains as contested and uncertain today as it was upon their first arrival in western Europe in the fifteenth century.

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Book SynopsisArchaeological excavations at the Eleuthernian burial ground of Orthi Petra continue to yield significant elements of the archaeo-anthropological record, the subject matter of continuous interdisciplinary research, outreach, national and international acclaim. Among a plethora of features discovered, unearthing components of a unique nexus to the Geometric-Archaic Periods, was an unspoiled time capsule in astonishing contextual preservation, a hand carved tomb with a drómos into the softer bedrock material of Orthi Petra. Designated in short as contextual association A1K1, the tomb as a funerary activity area yielded a remarkable collection of jar burials in complex internal tomb stratification, containing cremated human bones accompanied by a most noteworthy assembly of burial artifacts of exquisite wealth, along a multitude of traces of “fossilized” behavior left resolutely behind by the ancients in their transactions on the paths of their perceived realities and obligations of life norms, but also of the arcane matters of afterlife. Such evidentiary data of funerary behavior in conjunction with the rest of the archaeo-anthropological record afford the opportunity to document where possible and deduce where pertinent aspects of the transitional period, overlapping the end of life’s journey and the unfolding of death in light of a number of the principles, the values, and the modes that guided the lives of the ancients as mortuary habits may have the transcending power to be revealing of certain codes of ante mortem conduct, of main beliefs, of ideologies and viewpoints, characteristic of their ideational world and hence of their attitudes toward, and expectations of, post mortem life. Such understandings, based on critical and deductive thinking combined with the data offered through the scope of anthropological archaeology and forensics by the decoding of traces permanently recorded on bone and dental surfaces, construct a persuasive dialectic, regarding important facets of the human condition in Eleutherna from Geometric through Archaic times.Table of ContentsPrologue; Introduction; Anthropological insights on monumental tomb A1K1; The warrior order of ancient Eleutherna; Deciphering conferred funerary whispers; Standing upright in Hades; Epilogue; Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThe Watery Scroll rulers selected the ancient Maya site of Tamarindito as their capital. First settled around 300 BC, the site served as their seat from the fifth through the eighth century AD. After the collapse, people continued to live at Tamarindito for several generations. Archaeological investigations provide a comprehensive perspective on social dynamics and change in an ancient Maya capital.Table of Contents1. Introducción – Markus Eberl y Claudia Marie Vela González; 2. Reconocimiento, creación del mapa y análisis especial – Sarah Levithol, Markus Eberl y Byron Hernández; 3. Excavaciones de pozos de sondeo – Claudia Marie Vela González, Andrea Díaz, Sven Gronemeyer, Sarah Levithol, Juan Manuel Palomo, Laura Velásquez y Markus Eberl; 4. Excavaciones extensivas – Claudia Marie Vela González, Andrea Díaz, Sven Gronemeyer, Sarah Levithol y Markus Eberl; 5. Textos jeroglíficos – Sven Gronemeyer; 6. Recursos naturales y subsistencia – Markus Eberl, Claudia Marie Vela González y Laura Velásquez; 7. Organización política y social – Markus Eberl y Sven Gronemeyer; 8. Cambios a través del tiempo – Markus Eberl, Omar Schwendener y Claudia Marie Vela González; 9. Conclusiones – Markus Eberl y Claudia Marie Vela González; Bibliografía

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