Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity
Thelma K. Thomas, Jennifer L. Ball, Edward Bleiberg and Kathrin Colburn
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Ideals of character and beauty, and conceptions of self and society, were in flux during Late...
Escape: The Heyday of Caribbean Glamour
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A nostalgic celebration of the glamour of warm-weather destinations in the Caribbean and Florida,...
Mark Tobey: Threading Light
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The first comprehensive English-language monograph on Mark Tobey in forty years, this book traces...
Oaxaca Stories in Cloth: A Book About People, Belonging, Identity and Adornment
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Eric Mindling has been travelling the back roads of Oaxaca, Mexico, for over two decades. Oaxaca...
Pick of the Bunch: The Story of Twelve Treasured Flowers
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The list of favourite flowers has remained remarkably constant over the centuries. From...
Shetland
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Ann Cleeves' bestselling series of crime novels, featuring Detective Jimmy Perez, and now also...
The Colors of New World - Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the Florentine Codex
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This is a penetrating glimpse into the first illustrated encyclopaedia of the New World. In August...
The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico
Claudia Brittenham and Maria Teresa Uriarte
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Between AD 650 and 950, artists at the small Central Mexican city-state of Cacaxtla covered the...
On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History
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Since the late Stone Age, approximately 10 percent of humans have been left-handed, yet for most of...
The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire
Dick Wicke, John MacGinnis and Tina Greenfield
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The Assyrian empire was in its day the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Building on the...