Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur Timber and wood processingShowcases over 230 objects excavated from the Sumerian city of Ur in the 1930s by Sir Leonard Woolley. Details gold jewelry, engraved seal stones, statuettes, musical instruments, and vessels. The history of Ur and the excavations is included, and art historians discuss the historical significance and motifs on the artifacts.
British soldiers who served on the Western front
Explores why the Liberal Democrats continue to overwhelmingly return male MPs to Westminster
It makes a substantial contribution to debates about collective burial in the Neolithic
Taking on a friend’s challenge to “write [a] novel treating both the upper and lower classes of black Harlem equally
including education and training
Examining the popularity of Stieg Larsson’s international success with his Millennium trilogy
Beginning Realism gives detailed coverage of the nineteenth-century realist novel through its focus on novels by Gaskell
Elizabeth Isham
This book uses the case study of public television in post-communist Latvia to explore how audiences respond to TV offerings and how their choices can be seen as an act of agency
The accompanying introduction provides an account of Percy and his manuscript
through which Britons reimagined the relationship between past
A collection of new essays on Auguste Comte by leading Comte scholars
