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1 Autumn Bargain Catalogue 2015 Welcome to the latest edition of the Oxbow Bargain Catalogue, featuring a magnificent array of titles at the very best prices - with reductions ranging from 50 to over 90 per cent! From wide-ranging overviews to site-specific reports and from early hominids to the archaeology of modern conflict, we are sure that there will be something (hopefully many things!) here to tempt you. Many of the bargains are new to this catalogue, with great new prices on books from publishers such as the Society for Libyan Studies, the Getty Trust, the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Spire Publications, the Society of Antiquaries (including an amazing deal on their corpus of the Roman Mosaics of Britain – see page 51) and many, many more. For an even bigger selection of bargain books, with new titles being added all the time, be sure to check the dedicated bargain section of our website - www. oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/bargains As ever stocks are limited, and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, so please do get your orders in quickly to avoid disappointment, and feel free to phone us on 01865 241249 to check availability. With best wishes 2 General Interest and Method and Theory Glass of Four Millennia Ornaments from the Past Silver by Martine Newby. Bead Studies After Beck by Philippa Merriman. This book charts the development edited by Ian Glover, Jualian Silver has been used over of Glass over four millennia, from Henderson and Helen Hughes- the centuries for coinage, for 18th Dynasty Egypt, through to Brock. jewellery and adornment, for the present day, illustrated by 56 The subtitle ably describes this as high-status vessels and plate. It examples from the collections `A book on glass and semiprecious has been given as gifts on special held by the Ashmolean Museum. stone beads in history and occasions and associated with 80p col illus (Ashmolean Museum 2000) Hb was archaeology for archaeologists, jewellery historians magic and the moon. Phillipa Merriman, herself a £11.95 now £4.95 and collectors’. It combines studies and analyses professional silversmith, writes entertainingly about of beads from a wide range of contexts including the long and fascinating history of silver around the Mycenaean Greece, Sasanian Persia, Celtic, Viking, world, illustrated throughout with examples from the southeast Asia and Africa. collections of the British Museum. 141p, b/w and col illus (Bead Studies Trust 2003) Pb 128p col illus (British Museum Press 2009) Hb was was £30.00 now £9.95 £9.99 now £4.95 English Ruins Masterpieces of World Masters of the Word by Jeremy Musson. Ceramics How Media Shaped History A beautiful coffee-table style by Reino Liefkes and Hilary Young. from the Alphabet to the reflection on the many ruined Featuring 120 masterpieces from Internet buildings which dot the English the collections of the Victoria & by William J. Bernstein. landscape and their place in Albert Museum, this beautiful Bernstein takes a thematic look the national psyche. Jeremy book traces developments in at communication technologies Musson selects twenty-four of world ceramics from ancient from the dawn of writing to the his favourite ruins, taking in abbeys and churches, times to the present. Conceived as a visual timeline, present day, emphasising their fundamental role in castles and forts, country houses, industrial ruins, it draws together potting traditions from across the shaping societies and power structures. villages and townhouses. Each is illustrated through a globe, showing how they interrelate and how trade 420p b/w illus and pls (Grove Press 2013) Hb was short summary of its history and a wealth of glorious and cultural interchange have shaped their histories. £18.99 now £6.95 photography. 144p col illus (V&A 2008) Hb was £30.00 now £9.95 191p col illus (Merrell 2011) Hb was £30.00 now £9.95 The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Cod After Lives Maritime History A Biography of the Fish that A Guide to Heaven, Hell and edited by John B. Hattendor. Changed the World Purgatory Here is an encyclopedia of maritime by Mark Kurlansky. by John Casey history that, in scope and depth, This book spans 1,000 years A rich historical and philosophical rivals the expansiveness of the sea and four continents. From the exploration of the world beyond, itself. The Encyclopedia covers the Vikings to Clarence Birdseye, from the ancient Egyptians to St. entire history of seafaring, from Mark Kurlansky introduces the Thomas Aquinas, from Martin ancient Egyptian shipbuilders to Viking sea-raiders, explorers, merchants, writers, chefs and fisherman, Luther to modern Mormons. Casey examines such from Nelson and the Napoleonic Wars to the voyages whose lives have been interwoven with this prolific topics as predestination, purgatory, Spiritualism, of Cheng Ho, from the European conquerors of the New fish. He chronicles the cod wars of the 16th and 20th the Rapture, Armageddon and current Muslim World to the nuclear submarines and supertankers centuries and blends in recipes and lore from the apocalyptics. of today. Middle Ages to the present. 468p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2009) Pb was £12.99 now 4 vols, 2912p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2007) Hb was 294p b/w illus (Vintage 1997) Pb was £9.99 now £5.95 £370.00 now £99.95 £4.95 Conquest European Cities and Towns, Clean How Societies Overwhelm 400-2000 A History of Personal Hygiene Others by Peter Clark. and Purity by David Day. This study of European cities looks by Virginia Smith. Rather than take a chronological both at regional trends and also From pre-historic grooming approach to the phenomenon at the widely differing fortunes rituals to New Age medicine, David Day attempts to identify of individual communities on from ascetics to cosmetics, Smith common facets of conquest - how the roller coaster of European looks at how different cultures it is justified, and enforced, mechanisms of cultural urbanization. It addresses important debates ranging have interpreted and striven for personal cleanliness subjugation, land seizures, population transfer, and from the nature of urban survival in the post-Roman and shows how, throughout history, this striving for the manipulation of history. Examples are drawn from era to the position of the European city in a globalizing purity has brought great social benefits as well as great all over the world and from Alexander the Great to world. tragedies. the present day. 412p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2009) Pb was £25.00 now 457p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2007) Hb was £16.99 now 288p b/w pls (Oxford UP 2008, Pb 2012) Pb was £9.95 £7.95 £13.99 now £5.95 Conceptions of Cosmos: Gold WreckProtect From Myths to the by Susan La Niece. Decay and Protection of Accelerating Universe Cultures as different as the Archaeological Wooden A History of Cosmology Mughals of India, the Anglo- Shipwrecks Saxons of Britain and the pre- by Helge S. Kragh. edited by Charlotte Gjelstrup Hispanic civilizations of the New Bjorndal and David Gregory. This book is a historical account World have created precious This book includes chapters on the of how natural philosophers and objects of gold and given special anatomy and structure of wood scientists have endeavoured to status to their goldsmiths. The author draws upon her and the physical and biological decay of shipwrecks understand the universe at large, first in a mythical long experience of investigating and making discoveries under water. A summary of available methods for and later in a scientific context. Starting with the about golden objects to write entertainingly about the the in-situ protection of wrecks is presented and a creation stories of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, long and fascinating history of gold around the world cost-benefit analysis of in-situ preservation versus the book covers all the major events in theoretical and across time, illustrated throughout with examples and observational cosmology, from Aristotle’s cosmos conventional raising and conservation is given. from the collections of the British Museum. 154p col illus (Archaeopress 2012) Hb was £19.95 over the Copernican revolution to the discovery of the 128p col illus (British Museum Press 2009) Hb was now £6.95 accelerating universe in the late 1990s. £9.99 now £4.95 288p (Oxford UP 2013) Pb was £22.99 now £7.95 Method and Theory 3 Archaeographies Managing the Marine Material Engagements Excavating Neolithic Dispilio Cultural Heritage Studies in Honour of Colin by Fotis Ifantidis. edited by J. Stachell and P. Palma. Renfrew This book consists one of the very This volume presents a range edited by N. Brodie and C. Hills. first experimentations in printed of international initiatives that Papers which explore the format, dealing with the visual include examples of management engagement of human beings, interplay between archaeology responses to regional, national, now and in the past, with both and photography. The case study and international situations. It the natural world and the material is the excavation of the Greek Neolithic settlement of also discusses the principal challenges facing maritime world they have created. Particular themes include the Dispilio. The book tackles archaeological practice on archaeology, which have relevance not just in the UK interactions of archaeology with the study of art and site, the microcosms of excavation, and the interaction but across the globe. with the antiquities trade. between people and “things”. 114p col illus (Council for British Archaeology 2007) 180p, col figs (McDonald Institute 2004) Hb was 112p b/w illus (Archaeopress 2013) Pb was £9.50 Pb was £18.50 now £3.95 £35.00 now £12.95 now £3.95 World Archaeology at the Birds Innovation in Cultural Pitt Rivers Museum by Dale Serjeantson.
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