Arabic for archaeologists

Arabic for Archaeologists is a pocket-sized booklet for work in the field. It contains essential words and phrases, each presented in English, Arabic transliteration, and Arabic.

Chogha mish. volume 1

Nearly 28 years after the completion of the first five seasons at the Chogha Mish site in Iran, the first of the final reports is now available. The site turned out to be highly significant for the wide range of protoliterate and prehistoric artifacts found there. These volumes examine and lavish...

Happiness in premodern judaism

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for the attainment of happiness, and that the discourse on happiness captures the evolution of Jewish intellectual history from antiquity to the seventeenth century.

Marsa matruh ii

This volume of the report on excavations at Marsa Matruh on Bates' Island, which is located in a lagoon on the seacoast at the north of Egypt's western desert, publishes the local and imported pottery, the crucibles and other evidence for metalworking, the organic finds (including ostrich egg she...

Carolingian commentaries on the apocalypse by theodulf and smaragdus

In the early ninth century Theodulf of Orleans and Smaragdus of Saint Mihiel served as advisers to Charlemagne. This book provides English translations of a Latin commentary on the Apocalypse written by Theodulf and three homilies on the Apocalypse by Smaragdus.

Piers plowman, volume ii, part 2: commentary, bibliography and indexical glossary

Volume 2 Part 2 of a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman specifically designed to facilitate study of the parallel text (Vol 1) alongside both the textual notes (Vol 2, Part 1) and the commentary/glossary (Vol 2, Part 2), and is intended to make the entire editi...

Visions of christian unity

In this volume, Olav Fykse Tveit sketches an ecumenical movement that reveals a horizon of hope and illumines many of our most pressing global challenges. Rather than focusing inward, Tveit envisions an ecumenism that leverages the Christ-inspired unity of the global fellowship into transformativ...

Images in action

Presents interpretations of a large corpus of art and iconography from the Southern and South-Central Andes, bringing together the most esteemed scholars in the field. Uses artifacts, artworks, textiles, archaeology, and architecture to develop new insights on the cultural interactions between pe...

The abu bakr cemetery at giza

Reflects the work of the joint expedition of Cairo University and Brown University to record and publish the tombs uncovered on behalf of Cairo University by Prof. Abdel-Moneim Abu Bakr from 1949 through 1953, but never published.

Journal of the american research center in egypt, volume 54 (2018)

The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems and archaeology of the Egyptian people; it welcomes articles on all periods and aspects of Egyptian civilization, in English, French or German.

Kom el-hisn (ca. 2500 - 1900 bc)

This volume presents the findings of the excavation at Kom el-Hisn in the northwest Nile Delta. This provincial community was often in the orbit of Memphis, the capital and administrative centre of Egypt's Old Kingdom Period. Kom el-Hisn's faunal, floral, lithic and architectural remains are pres...

City and cemetery volume 1

The Amathous Gate Cemetery played a key role in the spatial and social organisation of Kourion on the south coast of Cyprus, and in its transformations between the Hellenistic and Byzantine periods. This first volume presents the chamber tombs and cist tombs, quarrying evidence and deposition act...

In search of the unknown in medieval architecture

John James, an Australian architect and historian, researched the origins of Gothic architecture. He analyzed stone structures' construction history, emphasizing early Gothic churches in the Paris region. His key finding: smaller buildings drove major innovations. This volume contains 42 of his s...

Petras, siteia i

This volume is the first of two that represent the final publication of Sector I of the Prepalatial to Postpalatial Minoan urban settlement and palace of Petras, Siteia, located in eastern Crete, and it presents the results of the excavations conducted there from 1985 to 2000.

Defining israel

The first book in any language devoted to the controversial passage of Israel's nation-state law. Israel has no constitution, and though it calls itself the Jewish state there is no agreement among Israelis on how that fact should be reflected in the government's laws or by its courts.

Cappenberg - der kopf, das kloster und seine stifter

The so-called Cappenberger Barbarossakopf is one of the most famous and well-known monuments of 12th century art. This book sheds new light on the importance of Cappenberg for the spread of the Premonstratensians, but above all it explains the origin, function and significance of the Cappenberg h...

The middle english metrical paraphrase of the old testament

The paraphrase is a remarkable artifact of the Chaucerian period, one that can reveal a great deal about vernacular biblical literature in Middle English, about understandings of the Bible, about the environment in which the Lollards and other reformers worked, perceived roles of women in history...

Crossroads and boundaries

This research has focused on how successive rural populations in the Malloura valley have adapted to local environmental changes and shifting political tides in the region, and how this adaptation is reflected in the archaeological, historical, and ethnographic record recovered by the project and...

Hebrew union college annual volume 45

Tales from the aegean

The author describes his adventures over most of a lifetime across the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean seas where he pursued careers as diplomat and educator. These accounts range from assisting afflicted Americans to restore their lives to aiding the inhabitants of a monastery to capture covete...

Managing boundaries in the health professions

The availability and delivery of health care is one of the most important issues on the American public policy agenda. The authors analyze the social, psychological, and bureaucratic boundaries that define health care in the United States, discuss how organizational change affects these boundarie...

Ridolfo capoferro's the art and practice of fencing

Rapier instructor Tom Leoni offers a full, accurate and accessible English translation of Ridolfo Capoferro's teachings in the Great Representation of the Art and Practice of Fencing, complete with high-resolution reproductions of the 43 original illustrations. Includes a glossary of rapier-fenci...

Eugenio pacelli - pius xii. (1876–1958) in the view of scholarship

Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli, 1876-1958) was one of the most prominent personalities of the Catholic Church in the 20th century. Under the sponsorship of Archbishop Reinhard Cardinal Marx, a highly acclaimed series of lectures about Pius XII was held in 2009; this volume makes that significan...

Studia occitanica

The first of two volumes dedicated to the memory of Paul Remy and having as theme the scientific domain to which he had dedicated his research for nearly forty years: the Occitan literature and language.

Vital expression (english language edition)

Ιoannis Makriyannis (1797-1864) was a Greek politician and author, best known for his Memoirs. Τhis series of 24 paintings depicting episodes from the Greek War of Independence of 1821 and from the Memoirs, belonged to King Otto of Greece, the first monarch of ‘modern’ Greece. 78 col. illus. Engl...

Rabbi eliezer of beaugency, commentaries on amos and jonah (with selections from isaiah and ezekiel)

Introduction, translation, and critical notes to Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency: one of the most innovative exegetical projects of the twelfth-century Renaissance.

Excavations at cerro azul, peru

Winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize. During the Late Intermediate period , the lower Canete Valley of Peru was controlled by the Kingdom of Huarco. The seaside community of Cerro Azul, 130 km south of Lima, produced fish for the kingdom. This is the final site report on the architecture ...

Games and sanctuaries in ancient greece (greek language edition)

Greek language edition. Foreword by Professor Sir John Boardman. Revised and expanded second edition, includes new historical and archaeological research on the panhellenic sanctuaries and their games, and new photographic material from the many sites and monuments where excavation and restoratio...

The trucial coast political reports 1963-1966

The Trucial Coast Political Reports are a unique record of events, commented on by a small group of British men living in Sharjah and Dubai. This was in the years leading up to the commencement of oil exports from the desert of Abu Dhabi.