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University of Texas Press, 2013. Hardcover. New/New. New oversized cloth covered hardcover with gilt lettering to spine and front cover in a new dust jacket. Folio (13.2 x 11.2 x 1.4 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. To scale posters of the rooms in a folder in the rear of the book. Large photos on heavy paper. Includes maps, tables, bibliography and an index. 285 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Located within the deep tropical rainforest of Chiapas, Mexico, the Maya site of Bonampak is home to the most complete and magnificent mural program of the ancient Americas. In three rooms, a pageant of rulership opens up, scene by scene, like pages of an ancient Maya book. Painted c. AD 800, the murals of Bonampak reveal a complex and multifaceted view of the ancient Maya at the end of their splendor during the last days of the Classic era. Members of the royal court engage in rituals and perform human sacrifice, dance in extravagant costumes and strip the… Leer más

University of California Press, 1997. First. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. ***Signed by Author*** Very good 1st edition hardcover with teal paper and buckram to boards and gilt lettering on spine. Very good dust jacket with wear to head and tail of the spine. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Author's signature on the title page. Book is from the personal library of Professor Green. Includes maps, list of abbreviations, selected bibliography, glossary, and an index. 474 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The first commentary since 1912 on all four books of the Argonautika , the tale of Jason and the quest for the Golden Fleece, is accompanied by a dynamic translation of the Hellenistic epic which was a radical depature from the Homeric tradition, featuring a rather unsensational hero whose best quality is being a hit with the ladies, and a heroine who is a major chracter in her own right: a virgin sorceress whose magic brings Jason's triumph yet cannot save her… Leer más

Oxford University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Like new/Very good. Like new oversized tightly bound hardcover with dark blue cloth on boards and gilt lettering to spine. Very good dust jacket with scuffing from shelf wear. 4to. (2.5 x 7.7 x 9.7 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliographies, a general bibliography, index of names and an index of sources. 1,107 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This magisterial compilation personalizes and historicizes the history of religion in the city of Rome. After introductory essays on the documentary sources for the various Greek, Roman, Oriental, Jewish, and Christian cults in question, there are yearly lists of religious office-holders of various kinds, followed by 4,000 biographies of individuals who fulfilled ritual, organizational, or doctrinal roles. Concluding chapters discuss important aspects of Roman religion and its relationship with the state. The data assembled here will open up many new… Leer más

University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Hardcover. New/New. A clean crisp well preserved 2005 University of Massachusetts Press hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In 1962 the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring sparked widespread public debate on the issue of pesticide abuse and environmental degradation. The discussion permeated the entire print and electronic media system of mid-twentieth century America. Although Carson's text was serialized in the New Yorker, it made a significant difference that it was also published as a book. With clarity and precision, Priscilla Coit Murphy explores the importance of the book form for the author, her editors and publishers, her detractors, the media, and the public at large. Murphy reviews the publishing history of the Houghton Mifflin edition and the prior New Yorker serialization, describing Carson's approach to her… Leer más

Lit Verlag, 2021. Paperback. New. New out of print softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (6.5 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes addendum, index, bibliography, and photographs. 400 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This volume is a collection of ten articles published between 2009 and 2016 by Mark Dickens on the Assyrian Church of the East in Central Asia, along with a new article on Mar Yahbalaha III, the only Turkic patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. Most articles deal with the textual evidence for Syriac Christianity in Central Asia, including six on Christian manuscript fragments from Turfan (China) and two on gravestone inscriptions from Semirechye (Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan). As the volume title indicates, these articles remind us of the centuries-long presence of the Assyrian Church of the East at the centre of the Asian continent, now all but forgotten due to the general scarcity of sources from which this history… Leer más

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 224. Hardcover. Like new/Like new. Like new hardcover with black cloth over boards and gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Like new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.25 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes a list of abbreviations and an index. 187 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Written by specialists in several disciplines, this volume explores the parameters and significance of magic in Byzantine society, from the fourth century to after the empire's fall. The authors address a wide variety of questions, some of which are common to all historical research into magic, and some of which are peculiar to the Byzantine context. The authors reveal the scope, the forms, and the functioning of magic in Byzantine society, throwing light on a hitherto relatively little-known aspect of Byzantine culture, and, at the same time, expanding upon the contemporary debates… Leer más

Clarendon Press, 1999. Hardcover. Like new/Like new. Like new hardcover with black cloth over boards and gilt lettering to spine. Like new dust jacket with minor scuffing on the front. 8vo. (5.7 x 1.1 x 8.6 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes glossary of linguistic terms, references, a general index and an Index of Greeks words. 347 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Did the Greeks find it amusing, irritating, or threatening when they heard another Greek speaking in a different dialect? This book exploits the evidence of ancient Greek comedy in an attempt to answer some of the questions about ancient language attitudes. Colvin draws conclusions from a comparative study of the language of dialect speaking characters and other foreigners in Old Comedy, and on an examination of linguistic attitudes in other genres of Greek literature.

Scala Arts & Heritage, 2010. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover. Fine DJ. Red cloth over boards and gilt lettering on the front and spine. Richly illustrated. Timeline. Glossary. 256pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The cave temples of Mogao are near Dunhuang at the extreme western end of the Silk Road in China. This title examines 50 of the finest caves in detail.

Column B Press, 2014. Hardcover. New/New. Frank Salle (Photographer). A clean crisp well preserved 2014 Column B Press hardcover in a fine tight binding. Black cloth over boards with silver gilt lettering along the spine. Both front and back endpapers are illustrated. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Barry Friedman is Pendleton Woolen Mills' vintage Indian blanket consultant and Ralph Lauren's primary source for antique Indian blankets. Mr. Friedman partnered with master photographer Frank Salle. Twelve years in the making, Still Chasing Rainbows is the long-anticipated sequel to his landmark Chasing Rainbows, the bible of Indian trade and camp blanket collecting. Still Chasing Rainbows showcases the finest Indian blankets produced between 1892 and 1942. It is a perfect blend of gorgeous blankets, superb historical images and original manufacturers' catalogs. Pendleton Woolen Mills opened its… Leer más

University of Hawaii Press, 2013. Hardcover. New/New. New oversized hardcover with navy blue cloth to boards and silver lettering to spine in a new dust jacket. 4to. (8.5 x 1.25 x 10.87 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Color photos throughout the text on heavy paper. Told in six parts by geography; Papua New Guinea highlands, the north, the south and the south-east; West Papua; Solomon Islands; Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Includes notes bibliography and an index. 362 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Melanesia is one of the most culturally diverse and artistically fertile regions of the world. This book is an exporation of one of the richest collections of Melanesian art, that of the British Museum. It is the product of sustained dialogue with people from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, West Papua, and New Caledonia, who are authors or co-authors of many of its chapters. Melanesia: Art and Encounter is a companion to this outstanding… Leer más

‎University of California Press, 2005. Bilingual. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. ***Signed by Author*** Very good 1st edition hardcover with navy blue cloth to boards and silver lettering to spine. Very good dust jacket with wear to the head and tail of the spine and light toning to the top of the inside jacket. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Author's signature on title page. Book is from the personal library of Professor Green. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries, including Caesar, Cicero, and Pompey. Catullus's poetry is by turns ribald, lyric, romantic, satirical; sometimes obscene and always intelligent, it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends, enemies, and lovers. The verses to his friends are bitchy, funny, and… Leer más

University of California Press, 1993. First. Hardcover. New/New. ***Signed by Author*** New 1st edition hardcover with cloth to boards and copper lettering to spine. New dust jacket. 8vo. (6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Author's signature on title page. Book is from the personal library of Professor Green. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes list of abbreviations, list of contributors and illustrations, and an index. 293 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age. A distrust of all ideologies has altered old views of ancient political structures, and feminism has also changed earlier assessments. The current emphasis on multiculturalism has consciously… Leer más

Cambridge Press University, 1999. Reprint. Hardcover. Like new/Like new. Like new hardcover with burnt umber cloth boards and gilt lettering to spine in a new dust jacket. 4to (7.25 x 1 x 10 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes maps and photo credits. 299 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The publication of the Plates Volume to accompany the Cambridge Ancient History Volume III and that for Volume II part I inaugurates a new style and format for these books. The illustrations are now presented with a descriptive text and commentary, so that each chapter is a self-contained account of matters of archaeological and art-historical interest, relevant to the history of a period and place. The order of illustration is not always that of the chapters in the text volumes, but is determined by the material illustrated and the principal subjects it suggests. The intention is thus both to complement the text volumes and to provide… Leer más

Oxford University Press, 2008. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover with black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (8.6 x 1.2 x 5.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes list of abbreviations, references, general index, and an index of passages cited. 400 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their interpretation afterwards. Much as the contemporary sophists strove to discover truth about the invisible, Herodotus was acutely concerned to uncover hidden human motivations, whose depiction was vital to his project of recounting and explaining the past. Emily Baragwanath explores the sophisticated narrative techniques with which Herodotus represented this most elusive… Leer más

Oxford University Press, 1999. Hardcover. Like new/Very good. Like new hardcover black cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine. Very good dust jacket with minor scuffing. 8vo. ( 5.7 x 1 x 8.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes list of abbreviations, bibliography and an index. 456 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. It has often been asserted that Greek civilization underwent a transition from myth to reason. But what does such an assertion mean? And how much truth is there in it? Were the Greeks special in having evolved 'our' sort of reason, or is that a mirage? In this book, some of the world's leading experts on Ancient Greek myth, religion, philosophy, and history reconsider these fundamental issues. Among the problems they explore are; intersections involving myth/philosophy, the history of the Mythos/Logos opposition; myth and reason in practice; logic(s) of myth; intersections involving myth/philosophy, myth/history, myth ethnography, and… Leer más

Oxford University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Like new/Very good. Like new hardcover navy blue cloth on boards and silver lettering to boards. Very good dust jacket with a small 0.25 cm closed tear at the top of the rear cover. 8vo. (9.55 x 6.35 x 0.8 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes notes, references and an index. 244 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In comedy, happy endings resolve real-world conflicts. These conflicts, in turn, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies of characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology analyzes how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. It explores the utopian vision of Aristophanes' comedies--for example, an all-powerful city inhabited by birds, or a world of limitless wealth presided over by the god of wealth himself--as interventions in the political issues of his time. David Konstan goes on to… Leer más

Kukje Gallery, 2009. Hardcover. New. New cloth and case wrapped hardcover. 4to. (11.5 x 1.2 x 10 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Art exhibition catalogue from Kukje Gallery. Meekyoung Shin introduces her concept of art and culture translation. Gorgeous full page color photos on heavy paper throughout the book. Includes an introduction, Korean texts, list of works an a chronology. 267 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Meekyoung Shin's ongoing project Translation is about the process of transference and re-coding of shapes and iconography across cultures through time and space. Her work a ddresses the ways in which forms, decorative motifs and religious iconography are transformed by exchanges between cultures. Shin's soap versions of ancient classical sculptu res and oriental vases relate to their 'translation' between East and West- how this inter-cultural transport affects the way they are understood and aesthetically appreciated. Tra nslation is not… Leer más

Routledge, 2000. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover with black cloth over boards and silver lettering to spine in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (5.5 x 1.06 x 8.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes an index of sources and a general index. 400 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The economies of classical and Mediterranean antiquity are currently a battleground. Some scholars see them as lively and progressive, even proto-capitalist: others see them as static, embedded in social action and status relationships. Focusing on the central period of the Mediterranean 330-30 BC, this book contributes substantially to the debate, by juxtaposing general questions of theory and model-building with case-studies which examine specific areas and kinds of evidence. It breaks new ground by distilling and presenting new and newly-reinterpreted evidence for the Hellenistic era, by opening the debate on how we should replace Rostovtzeff's classic… Leer más

Simon & Schuster, 2015. Hardcover. New/New. ***Signed by Author)*** New tightly bound hardcover in new dust jacket. Dust jacket has been placed in a clear protective cover. 8vo. (6.25 x 1.3 x 9.25 inches) Author's signature and date on the title page. Includes photos of David McCullough singing the book. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes bibliography, and an index. 336 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. #1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how was it… Leer más

University of California Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A well preserved 1970 University of California Press hardcover in a fine sewn binding. Black cloth over boards with decorative gilt lettering along the spine and and the front cover. Dust jacket has faint tanning on the back and has been placed in a protective cover. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Includes b&w illustrations, bibliography and an index. 340 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This book makes available in the first complete English translation the detailed account, by its Russian discoverer, of one of the most remarkable pieces of archaeology of this century. Unrelieved dryness or wetness can preserved wood, leather, or textiles, but in a limited area of the world- Siberia and Mongolia-constant freezing may have the same results. Among the ancient burials from that area the most spectacular remains to have survived are at Pazyryk in the Altai mountains of Western Siberia.… Leer más