English description: Twenty-two contributions by renowned specialists deal with the development of the gallery as architectural type and its function, as well as literary and visual illustrations of g
Rosamond Lehmann's first book, Dusty Answer (1927), with its scandalous subject matter, made her a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-seven. Seen as the voice of a new generation, she became the
A gifted storyteller, Wilcox deftly relates the content of the scenes, the complexities of relationships, the inner struggles, and lessons to be found in the story of David's fall, with his commentary
The Hebrew Bible offers a metaphor of marriage that portrays men and women as complementary, each with their distinct and 'natural' roles. Queer Theory and the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in the Hebre
The first of a series of monographs by Oxford Wessex Archaeology presents the results of archaeological work undertaken in the Ebbsfleet Valley in northwest Kent--in connection with excavation done fo
The fifth volume reports on excavations during the 2005-2007 seasons, and includes findings at the adjacent tomb of Tia, the overseer of the treasury, and an important robbers' dump with grave goods f
Presbyterian minister Bryden (1883-1952) taught at Knox College in Toronto for almost three decades. This is the most influential of his five books that, along with his articles and teaching, helped s
This survey of human interaction with the Boeotian landscape uses GIS to jointly plot and assess material culture and environmental data. Chronologically the focus is on the Classical era, from Archai
This study takes a linguistic approach to Ancient Egyptian funerary ritual, focusing on the definition of the word h3i and its performance. Whilst h3i has the connotation of "ritually transport" with
The Mongolian Academy of Sciences extended a request to the U. of Bonn, Germany to conduct excavations in the area of Karakorum, the capital city of the Mongolian empire, and with further collaboratio
A long time in the making (life sometimes interferes with book making), this volume stems from an eponymous 2003 conference organized by the departments of religion and religious studies at Duke U. an
This volume continues the Middle Iranian portion of the Iranisches Personennamenbuch. It deals with personal names attested in published texts in the Sogdian language, an eastern Iranian vernacular
The book is divided into sixteen chapters dealing – in a diachronic perspective – with a wide range of problems concerning the development of the royal pyramid necropolis at Abusir. The introductory s
The 11 essays are from a 2005 academic colloquium held in conjunction with the exhibition Women of Distinction: Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria, in Mechelen, Belgium during 2005. Specialists
The seven texts edited in this volume give new insights into the Prajnaparamita literature in Old Uyghur, an important corpus of Old Uyghur Buddhist texts. The volume presents each text with a transcr
V&R Unipress is affiliated with Bonn University, Germany, and at least two of the three editors are faculty there with specialties in English-language literature and cultures. They have collected
This volume discusses the role of organic residue analysis in identifying economic activities and subsistence practices associated with the first uses of pottery in the Middle East, and presents the r
Hogue (theology, Meadville Lombard Theological School, Chicago) is mainly concerned with power and uncertainty as one of the most pressing moral problems of the time, and he grapples with it here as i
In conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the start of excavations at Petras, an important Minoan settlement found in the area of the modern town of Siteia, Crete, Greece, archeologists Tsipopoulou
Thorough and authoritative, this classic study of the site is reproduced in facsimile of the 1977 original. Published in an oversized format (8.5x11"), the analysis is illustrated in b&w with draw
This book deals with the apse as a showcase for images in the early Christian and early Byzantine periods. Two opposed traditions, harking back to early imperial times, nourished the invention of the
The literature of socialism is lost only in the sense of not having been read for a very long time. George Watson has been re-reading this literature as a professional literary critic, with-Antony Fle
Published in an oversized format (9.75x12") and heavily illustrated with color plates of finds, buildings, plans, and drawings, as well as the people involved in the Agora's excavation and study, this
Beautifully illustrated with full-page color plates and many b&w plates, this oversized volume (9.75x12.5") offers a detailed catalog of the rich Alana collection of Italian paintings. The materia
This is the first critical edition of the Sanskrit text together with the Tibetan translation of the Vajrasattvanispadanasutra (VS) ascribed to the Buddhist tantristic author Candrakirti. The text
The most comprehensive volume of its kind and a valuable contribution to the history of art, Gray's Dictionary of British Women Artists provides readers with significant insight into a long-neglected
A man visited Michelangelo in his studio as he was chipping away with his chisel at a huge shapeless block of marble. He was surrounded by dust and covered in fragments. The man asked Michelangelo wha
Landgrafova and Navratilova continue their long-term project of setting the love songs in the context of their time and place, which began with their 2007 Czech translation of the songs. Among the que
From 1997 to 2001, works associated with Carlisle City Council's Gateway City (Millennium) Project on Castle Way and Castle Gardens provided an important opportunity to conduct a programme of archaeol
This is the cookbook of the Museo di Palazzo Davanzati and comes from the material produced in the period 1980-1990 by Maria Fossi Todorow in collaboration with Mina Bacci, Chiara Baldasseroni, Mar
The landscape of Scotland is full of dramatic contrasts. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland holds the national collection of aerial photography for Scotland with
An overview essay by Merry Wiesner-Hanks (history, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) introduces this volume of essays, describing the historiography of gender theory with regard to early-modern Europe, setti
Clackson died while compiling and commenting on the documents, and her husband James Clackson completed the study. The documents are concerned with the day-to-day administration of an Egyptian monaste
Filling two oversized volumes (9.25x12"), this exhaustive catalog systematically describes each of the Egyptian objects found at archaeological sites on Crete with attention to their impact on Minoan
Writer and social historian Ward writes this reference on women's employment 1850-1950, organized with an A-Z encyclopedic method. The over 300 entries, all of which are on trades and jobs, have limit
Focusing on the well-preserved prehistoric landscape of Dartmoor, particularly the once ignored reaves, landscape archaeologist Fleming updates his 1988 edition on prehistoric land divisions with two
The Standing Conference on Inter-Faith Dialogue in Education was formed in 1973 to convene, or encourage the convening of national and regional inter-faith conferences concerned with education in scho
A comprehensive introduction to the theory of knowledge; the story of what it is to be a rational, sentient human being blessed with a mind, but confronted with a complex world. Structured around a ce
Green China captures the glory of China's natural world through Heather Angel's photographs, most taken specifically for this book. Over 300 images are coupled with an informed and engaging text to ta
