Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Reprints.
Reprints. Congratulations to Percheron on launching off with two classics,originally published by Academic Press 25 years ago, as follows. MICHAEL BRIAN SCHIFFER. Behavioral archeology. xxxii+222 pages, 26figures, 37 tables. 2002. Clinton Corners (NY): Percheron; 0-9712427-1-2paperback $29.50. STANLEY SOUTH. Method and theory in historical archeology,xxxix+345 pages, 38 figures, 37 tables. 2002. Clinton Corners (NY):Percheron; 0-9712427-3-9 paperback $34.50. Both have new forewords, SOUTH's replete with another fromL.R. Binford, who blessed the first edition by remarking that `rarely isa book published that is more than of passing interest'. ANTIQUITY(indeed) failed to review either at the time: how West Europeanarchaeology has changed! True to their early principles, both authorshave produced new books recently: see `Technology' and`Americas', above, respectively. The next three titles, newly in paperback, fared better in ourpages (ANTIQUITY 73:459,925-6 and 74: 715, respectively), as did thefourth (ANTIQUITY 735: 880), now in an American edition. H.V.MORTON's travellers' histories were originally published in1936 and 1938, respectively. The next four, now presented in a seriesentitled A brief history of ..., are of the last decade (PRESTON'Swas originally Besieged in Peking). IAN SHAW Ian Shaw may refer to: Ian Shaw (Egyptologist), a lecturer at the University of Liverpool Ian Shaw (singer), a Welsh jazz singer and former stand-up comedian Ian Shaw, a British actor & ROBERT JAMESON For the former attorney general of Upper Canada, see Robert Sympson Jameson.For the botanist (1832 - 1908), see Robert Jameson at Gerbera.org.Professor Robert Jameson (1774-1854) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist, born in Leith, near Edinburgh, in July 1774. (ed.). A dictionary of archaeology,xvi+624 pages, 61 figures, 30 maps. 2002. Oxford & Malden (MA):Blackwell; 0-631-23583-3 paperback 15.99 [pounds sterling] &US$29.95. BARBARA WATTERSON. Amarna: ancient Egypt's age of revolution.160 pages, 65 b&w photographs, 22 colour plates, 4 figures. 2002.Stroud & Charleston (SC): Tempus; 0-7524-2515-3 paperback 17.99[pounds sterling] & $29.99. A.T. CROOM. Roman clothing and fashion. 160 pages, 77 figures, 25colour plates. 2002. Stroud & Charleston (SC): Tempus; 0-7524-2512-9paperback 15.99 [pounds sterling] & $26.99. BARRY CUNLIFFE Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe CBE (born December 10, 1939), known as Barry Cunliffe, has been Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford since 1972. . The extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek.xi+195 pages, 24 illustrations. 2002. New York New York, state, United StatesNew York,Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (NY): Walker;0-8027-1393-9 hardback $23. H.V. MORTON. In the steps of St. Paul St. Paulas a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26]See : Bravery . xv+440 pages, 2 maps. 2002.London: Methuen; 0-413-77164-4 paperback 10.99 [pounds sterling]. H.V. MORTON. Through lands of the Bible. xiii+400 pages, 2 maps.2002. London: Methuen; 0-413-77173-3 paperback 10.99 [pounds sterling]. PETER BERRESFORD ELLIS. The druids. 304 pages, 14 illustrations.2002. London: Robinson; 1-84119-468-9 paperback 7.99 [pounds sterling]. DAVID DAVIES There have been several well-known people named David Davies. It is a particularly common name in Wales, and in most cases the combination of names comes from the Welsh tradition of naming children with first names similar to their surname (ie, John Jones). . Fighting ships. 201 pages, 25 figures, 8 plates.2002. London: Robinson; 1-84119-469-7 paperback 6.99 [pounds sterling]. JASPER RIDLEY. The Tudor age. xx+344 pages, 37 illustrations, 1table. 2002. London: Robinson; 1-84119-471-9 paperback 7.99 [poundssterling]. DIANA PRESTON. The Boxer Rebellion, China's war on foreigners,1900. xxxiv+459 pages, 41 illustrations. 2002. London: Robinson;1-84119-490-5 paperback 7.99 [pounds sterling]. CHRISTOPHER MCGOWAN. The dragon seekers: how an extraordinarycircle of fossilists discovered the dinosaurs and paved the way forDarwin. xvi+254 pages, figures. 2002. Cambridge (MA): Perseus;0-7382-0673-3 paperback $17 & CAN$25.95.
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