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ContentsHighlights for Fall 2012 3The Ancient World – Greece and Rome 11The Ancient World – Egypt 13Medieval World 15Early Modern World 17Middle East – Ancient & Modern 19Modern History 23Archaeology 26Architecture & Design 29Art & Art History 34Food & Cooking 42Literature 44Religion 47Film & Media 54

Featured PublishersAmerican Numismatic Society (p. 20) • Arabian Publishing (p. 22) • Archaeopress (pp. 26, 33) • Aris & Phillips (p. 44) • ATF Press (pp. 47-48) • Barkhuis (p. 12) • British Museum Press(pp. 11, 16, 21) • CB Edizioni (pp. 34-38) • Council for BritishArchaeology (p. 27) • Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (p. 4) •Countryside Books (pp. 23, 29) • English Heritage (pp. 31-32) •Franz Steiner Verlag (p. 54) • James Clarke & Co (pp. 50-53) •Lutterworth (pp. 3, 17-18, 49-50) • Macmillan Art Publishing(pp. 20, 39) • Midsea Books (pp. 24-25, 41) • Northcote House(pp. 45-46) • Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (p. 19) • Oxbow Books (pp. 10, 13, 15) • Philipp Von Zabern (p. 19) • Prospect Books (pp. 42-43) • Sidestone Press (p. 14) •Stichting Promotie Archeologie (p. 40) • Spire Books (p. 30) •Stobart Davies (p. 8) • Summanus (p. 28) • Wessex (p. 26) •Windgather (p. 6)

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168pLutterworth PressOctober 2012Paperback9780718892975$18.95

Dr Michael Palmer, aformer Teaching Fellow atMcMaster University andHumboldt Fellow atMarburg University, hastaught at MarlboroughCollege and BristolUniversity, and was formany years founding Headof the Department ofReligion and Philosophy atThe Manchester GrammarSchool.

The Atheist’s Primerby Michael Palmer

Arguing that a 'new atheism', driven largely by Darwinianobjections to God’s existence, has limited debate to a scientificframework, The Atheist’s Primer reinstates the importance ofphilosophy in the debate about God’s existence and in so doingrecovers the distinguished philosophical tradition of atheism,which Dawkins and others have obscured.

Beginning with the Ancient Greeks and culminating with Hume,Michael Palmer provides the philosophical framework on whichscientific objections to atheism are hung. He explicates andcomments on the thinking behind atheism, discussing issues suchas evil, morality, miracles, and the motivations for belief.Although delving deeply into epistemological concerns,emphasizing the disheartening limitations of man’s capacity forknowledge and our materialist dependencies, Palmer concludeson a positive note arguing – alongside Nietzsche, Marx and Freudand many others – that happiness and personal fulfilment are tobe found in the very materialism that religious belief rejects.

An eloquent abridgment of his previous work The Atheist’s Creed,which was aimed at the educational market, The Atheist’s Primeris written in fluent and concise prose, making it an accessibleintroduction for the general reader.

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180pCotsen Institute ofArchaeologyJuly 2012Hardback9781931745611$24.95

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century32 Families Open their Doorsby Jeanne E. Arnold, Anthony P. Graesch, Enzo Ragazziniand Elinor Ochs

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks ofimportant books on social history, consumerism, contemporaryculture, the meaning of material culture, domestic architecture,and household ethnoarchaeology. Far richer in information andmore incisive than America at Home (Smolan and Erwitt), thisbook represents a blend of rigorous science and photography.

Using archaeological approaches to human material culture, thisvolume offers unprecedented access to the middle-class Americanhome through the kaleidoscopic lens of no-limits photographyand many kinds of never before acquired data about how peopleactually live their lives at home.

The book will appeal not only to scientists but to a generalaudience, who share intense curiosity about what goes on athome in their neighborhoods. Many who read the book will seetheir own lives mirrored in these pages and can reflect on howother people cope with their mountains of possessions and otherdaily challenges.

Readers abroad will be equally fascinated by the contrastsbetween their own kinds of materialism and the typical Americanexperience. The book will interest a range of designers, builders,and architects as well as scholars and students who researchvarious facets of U.S. and global consumerism, cultural history,and economic history.



416p, 233 illusWindgather PressNovember 2012Paperback9781905119455$49.95

Mick Aston is known tomillions from his TVappearances on Time Team,a popular British TVarchaeology program. Adistinguished academicspecializing in the study oflandscapes andmonasteries, he hasworked tirelessly over manydecades to bringarchaeology to the widerpublic.

Interpreting the English VillageLandscape and Community at Shapwick, Somersetby Mick Aston and Chris Gerrard

An original and approachable look at the history of an Englishvillage as uncovered through its archaeology, survivingarchitecture, literary records and the surrounding landscape.Seven of the ten chapters begin with a fictional vignette, to bringthe story of the village to life. Text-boxes elucidate re-occurringthemes and techniques. A fascinating and accessible pictureemerges, both of the history of a community and howarchaeology can tell the story of the English village.

The Shapwick Project examined the development and history ofan English parish and village over a ten thousand year period. Thiswas a truly multi-disciplinary project. Not only were a battery ofarchaeological and historical techniques explored such as fieldwalking, test-pitting, archaeological excavation, aerialreconnaissance, documentary research and cartographic analysis,but numerous other techniques such as building analysis,dendrochronological dating and soil analysis were undertaken ona large scale.

The result is a fascinating study about how the community livedand prospered in Shapwick. In addition we learn how a group ofenthusiastic and dedicated scholars unravelled this story. As suchthere is much here to inspire and enthuse others who might wantto embark on a landscape study of a parish or village area. Sevenof the ten chapters begin with a fictional vignette to bring thestory of the village to life. Extensively illustrated in color including100 full page images.



160p, 90 b/w Illus, 11 mapsStobart DaviesJuly 2012Paperback9781850589327$10.00

256p, 90 b/w illus, 11 mapsStobart DaviesJuly 2012Paperback9781850589365$10.00

London Walks in Easy English by Patrick Gubbins

Forget the boring “walk books” that take you down quiet streetswhere nothing happens. London Walks in Easy English knowswhere the busy, exciting places in the capital are, and makes sureyou see London life with all its colour, tradition, food, views, art,beautiful buildings and, most importantly, its sense of fun. Whatother book of walks takes you inside the classrooms of LondonUniversity, into courtrooms to see real trials in progress, intoshops to try exotic food, and to the big attractions, but also tomany other fascinating places that even Londoners don’t know?

London Guide in Easy English by Patrick Gubbins

Millions of visitors come to London every year on holiday, andguess what? They don’t all speak perfect English! London Guide inEasy English helps visitors to enjoy their stay by explaining thecity in clear, simple language that even basic speakers canunderstand. The guide covers all the capital’s major and minorattractions, hotels, restaurants, parks and green areas andsporting venues, and contains a full directory of necessaryinformation for visitors to London, including advice on working inthe city. One of the book’s themes is the amazing variety ofactivities on offer in London, some covered by no other guide,such as whitewater rafting, craft workshops, ski-ing on real snow,visits to courtrooms to watch real trials, and even how to seemembers of the Royal Family!



496p, b/w illus throughoutOxbow BooksAugust 2012Paperback9781842174784$49.95

Myth and History Ethnicity & Politics in the First Millennium British Islesby Stephen J. Yeates

Our recent understanding of British history has been slowlyunravelling. There are problems in understanding the earlyhistory of Britain; sources for the centuries from the first Romaninvasion to 1000 AD are few and contradictory, the archaeologicalrecord complex and there is little agreement betweenarchaeologists, Roman and Anglo-Saxon historians.

A common assumption, based on the writings of Bede, is thatthere was an invasion from northern Europe in the fifth century,the so-called Anglo-Saxon migration. However this model hasbecome increasingly unsustainable and Myth and History offers acomprehensive re-assessment of the scientific, historical,archaeological and language evidence, showing how Roman textscan be used in conjunction with the other evidence to build analternative picture.

Stepen Yeates demonstrates that the evidence used to constructthe story of an Anglo-Saxon migration, with an incomingpopulation replacing most, if not all, of the British population hasbeen found wanting, that initial attempts to interpret literally theDNA evidence based on historical sources are problematic, andthat the best DNA analysis of the British Isles fits the evidence intoa broader European view which attempts to plot the movement ofpeople across the Continent and which sees the major migrationperiods in Europe as occurring in the Mesolithic and the Neolithic.

Yeates argues that Roman texts can be used to identify where theLate Roman provinces of Britain actually lay and this leads toimportant conclusions about the ethnicity and origins of the earlyBritish peoples. This book is a timely attempt to unravel mythfrom history, present a cogent platform for Anglo-Saxon studiesand understand who the British people really are.


Greece and Rome – The Ancient World

64p, 30 colour illusBritish Museum PressObjects in FocusJune 2012Paperback9780714150802$10.00

The Mildenhall Treasureby Richard Hobbs

In 1942, while ploughing a field near Mildenhall in Suffolk,eastern England, Gordon Butcher stumbled upon a hoard of 34silver objects that he turned over to his boss and owner of theland, Sydney Ford. Dating back to Roman Britain, fourth centuryAD, and of outstanding artistic and technical quality, the hoardwas declared a Treasure Trove in 1946.

Richard Hobbs is curator ofthe Romano-Britishcollections at the BritishMuseum, with a particularemphasis on metalwork. Hisresearch interests includethe deposition of preciousmetals and food andbanqueting, particularly inthe late Roman Empire, andthe use and deposition ofcoinage at Pompeii.

Book images © The Trustees of the British Museum

Fictional TracesReceptions of the Ancient Novel – Volumes 1 & 2edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro and Stephen J. Harrison

The study of the reception of the ancient novel and of its literaryand cultural heritage is one of the most appealing issues in thestory of this literary genre. In no other genre has the vitality ofclassical tradition manifested itself in such a lasting and versatilemanner as in the novel. However, this unifying, centripetalquality also worked in an opposite direction, spreading to andcontaminating future literatures.

Over the centuries, from Antiquity to the present time there havebeen many authors who drew inspiration from the Greek andRoman novels or used them as models, from Cervantes toShakespeare, Sydney or Racine, not to mention the profoundinfluence these texts exercised on, for instance, sixteenth-toeighteenth-century Italian, Portuguese and Spanish literature.

Volume I is divided into sections that follow a chronological order,brings together an international group of scholars whose mainaim is to analyse the survival of the ancient novel in the ancientworld and in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in the 17th and18th centuries, and in the modern era.

Volume II deals with the reception of the ancient novel inliterature and art and the contributors have undertaken the taskof discussing the survival of the ancient novel in the visual arts, inliterature and in the performative arts.

The Ancient World– Greece and Rome


BarkhuisAncient NarrativeSupplementa volumes 14.1& 14.2July 2012

Volume I254p, Hardback9789077922972$95.00

Volume II211p, Hardback9789077922989$87.00


Egypt – The Ancient World

107p, illus throughoutOxbow BooksDecember 2012Paperback9781842175057$9.95

Stories from Ancient Egyptby Joyce A. Tyldesley and Julian Heath

Some of the most interesting and entertaining myths andlegends from Ancient Egypt are given a lively re-telling by JoyceTyldesley. These include stories about the gods, such as TheCreation of the World, Hathor and the Red Beer, and the mythsabout Osiris, Isis and Horus. Fairy stories and incredibleadventures are represented by The Story of the ShipwreckedSailor, The Adventures of Sinuhe and The Prince, the Dog, theSnake and the Crocodile, while good and bad behaviour are to befound in Three Magical Stories and The Story of Truth andFalsehood. King Ramesses II himself tells us about The Battle ofKadesh.

The book is illustrated with imaginative and amusing line-drawings by Julian Heath, and each of the stories has a questionand answer section for budding young Egyptologists.

Stories from Ancient Egypt is aimed at children between the agesof 7-11, but this book is an entertaining and informativeintroduction to the literature of Ancient Egypt for all ages. It is anew edition of a title previously published by Rutherford Press.

Tutankhamun’s FootwearStudies of Ancient Egyptian Footwearby André J. Veldmeijer

The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 isone of the most significant archaeological discoveries of all time.It took Carter and his team 10 years to clear the contents of thetomb and among the objects found was a large collection ofshoes and sandals. The footwear is analysed here in detail for thefirst time since the discovery using Carter’s records and HarryBurton’s excellent photographs along with the author’s analysesof the objects, all of which are housed in the Egyptian Museum,Cairo and the Luxor Museum.

Several specialists contributed to the volume discussing thedifferent materials (gold, vegetable fibre, birch bark, glass andfaience, leather, gemstones) that were used in the footwear.Tutankhamun’s footwear is compared with other finds in order tobe able to put it in a broader context. The footwear from thetomb of Yuya and Tjuiu, the King’s great-grandparents, are,therefore, analysed as well. In addition to the analysis, footwearin texts and two- and three dimensional art is considered.

The Ancient World – Egypt


312p105 b/w 286 colour illusSidestone PressJuly 2012Paperback9789088900761$140.00


Medieval World

120p, colour illus throughoutOxbow Books 2012Paperback9781842174760$19.95

Discover Medieval SandwichA Guide to its History and Buildingsby Helen Clarke

Sandwich today is a quiet Kentish town on the banks of the riverStour where small pleasure craft tie up at The Quay. It is hard toimagine that in medieval times there was a wide expanse ofwater, Sandwich Haven, which provided a calm anchorage forevery sort of vessel from Anglo-Saxon longships preparing to takeon Viking invaders to fleets of Venetian galleys laden with exoticcargoes. Nor does Sandwich now stand at the entrance to a mainwaterway joining the English Channel to the Thames. It is now apeaceful town beside a lazy river.

This book describes what happened to medieval Sandwich overthe centuries. We see how it grew from nothing more than alandmark for Anglo-Saxon seafarers to a Norman market townwith 2,000 inhabitants. But then, from a prosperous tradingcentre where ships of all European nations anchored in The Havenit became a landlocked town with no contacts with the sea. Thepresent town is a beautifully preserved example of a smallmedieval town, probably the most complete in England. Itshouses are its chief glory and many of them are illustrated here.Though the town can be seen as the hero of this book, the peopleof Sandwich are there too; some serve as mayors and members ofparliament, others brew beer and own bowling alleys. All haveleft their mark.

The Franks Casketby Leslie Webster

The whalebone box known as the Franks Casket has intrigued andpuzzled viewers since its rediscovery in the nineteenth century.Made in northern England in the eighth century AD, the sides andlids of the rectangular casket carry some of the richest and mostintricate carvings known from Anglo-Saxon times. The livelyscenes depicted are drawn from a variety of sources, includingGermanic and Roman legends and Jewish and Christian stories.They are accompanied by texts in both Old English and Latin,written in both the runic and Roman alphabets.

At some point in its mysterious history the casket wasdismantled. One of the end panels is in the Bargello in Florence;the rest of the box is in the British Museum, with the missingpiece represented by a cast. This book explores the meaning,function and history of this extraordinary icon of Anglo Saxonculture, describing and explaining the significance of the storiesdepicted in its magnificent carvings.

Medieval World


64p, 27 col & 6 b/w illusBritish Museum PressObjects in FocusNovember 2012Paperback9780714128184$10.00

Leslie Webster wasformerly Keeper of theDepartment of Prehistoryand Europe in the BritishMuseum. She specializes inthe Anglo-Saxon period andwas the co-editor of TheTransformation of the RomanWorld, The Making ofEngland and The Golden Ageof Anglo-Saxon Art.


Early Modern World

200pLutterworth PressSeptember 2012Paperback9780718892760$40.00

Swimming with Dr Johnson and Mrs ThraleSport and exercise in eighteenth-century Englandby Julia Allen

The book is divided into two main sections: Part I, afterintroducing the two characters in the title, explores the medicaltheories upon which eighteenth-century notions about exercisewere based, the role of the physician, the work of the surgeon,the social context in which exercise was taken, the place ofexercise in child-rearing and education, with examples drawnfrom the lives and experiences of Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale, and,tying in with twenty-first century medical theory, exercise as aremedy for melancholy.

Part II has discrete sections on the sports/forms of exercise withwhich Johnson and Mrs Thrale were associated: swimming,running, dancing, riding, cricket, skating, boxing, and coach travel(the last mentioned considered a form of exercise by eighteenth-century physicians). Allen describes the state of the sport at thetime; sets out (where relevant) its rules, the conditions in which itwas practised; describes some noted practitioners and theirachievements, the clothes worn, the participation permitted towomen and health benefits; based on quotations from theliterature of the time.

In order to give the eighteenth-century its own voice, the authorhas used long illustrative quotations from doctors’ case studies,newspapers, literature, journals, treatises, manuals and othersources to bring home to the reader that ‘the past is a foreigncountry’ where they did things ‘differently’.

Passion For LivingJohn Wilmot Earl of Rochesterby R. E. Pritchard

The life of the second Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, has beenmuch celebrated and dramatised in recent years. His antics havebeen both admired and condemned throughout the centuries inthe writings of poets such as Tennyson, Voltaire, Defoe andGoethe, and his character has been immortalised by the 2004film portrayal starring Johnny Depp. In this biography, R.E.Pritchard provides an up-to-date, sound and entertaining accountof the life and writings of this brilliant Restoration poet; a writerincreasingly recognised as one of the most important andinteresting of his time.

At eighteen, a graceful, charming and modest youth, Rochesterentered the court of Charles II. Promptly imprisoned in the Towerof London for attempting to kidnap a beautiful young heiresswho later agreed to marry him, John Wilmot is as alluring todayas he was during his short life span, served out in the bloodyreign of Cromwell and the Restoration period. Condemned andcelebrated in both life and death in equal measure, the enigma ofhis death-bed conversion and uncertainty about his literarycorpus make him a fascinating figure to study.

Pritchard captures the pithy wit of a man who disguised himselfas a mountebank, selling medicine as a guise for discoveringcourt secrets, and as a merchant to ingratiate himself with themerchant’s wives. Pritchard focuses on the poetry and writings ofthe Second Earl of Rochester to provide valuable insight into thisfascinating, larger than-life character.

Early Modern World


176pLutterworth PressJuly 2012Paperback9780718892999$40.00


Ancient & Modern – Middle East

184p, 168 illusThe Oriental Institute of theUniversity of Chicago 2012Oriental Institute MuseumPublications 34 Paperback9781885923899$29.95

Picturing the PastImaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle Eastedited by Jack Green, Emily Teeter and John A Larson

This fully illustrated catalog of essays, descriptions, andcommentary accompanies the Oriental Institute special exhibit ofthe same name. Picturing the Past presents paintings, architecturalreconstructions, facsimiles, models, photographs, and computer-aided reconstructions that show how the architecture, sites, andartifacts of the ancient Middle East have been documented.

It also examines how the publication of those images have shapedour perception of the ancient world, and how some of the more“imaginary” reconstructions have obscured our real understandingof the past. The exhibit and catalog also show how features of theancient Middle East have been presented in different ways fordifferent audiences, in some cases transforming a highly academicimage into a widely recognized icon of the past.

192p, 107 col & 6 b/w illusPhilipp von Zabern 2012Zaberns BildbändeArchäologieHardback9783805344531$60.00

Ancient Iran from the Airby David Stronach and Ali Mousavi

This book features many of the more exceptional landscapes andmonuments of Iran as seen through the lens of the world’s foremostaerial photographer, George Gerster. The photographs, which weretaken between 1976 and 1978, are presented in six chapters, eachauthored by one or more scholars of international repute.

Ancient Iran from the Air takes the reader on an aerial odysseythat explores the country’s infinitely varied landscapes; many ofthe more noted sites associated with Iran’s rich prehistoric past;the storied capitals of the Achaemenid and Sasanian empires; thememorable monuments of Saljuk and Safavid Isfahan; and theage-old virtues of Iran’s largely unsung vernacular mud-brickarchitecture.

Middle East – Ancient & Modern


128p, color illusAmerican NumismaticSociety 2012Paperback9780897223195$40.00

Cultural ChangeJewish, Christian, and Islamic Coins of the Holy Landby David Hendin

Cultural Change: Jewish, Christian and Islamic Coins of the HolyLand is a full color catalogue of the coins featured in the ANSacclaimed temporary exhibit of the same name. All coins areillustrated in full color, with explanatory text, illustrations ofrelated material, maps and family-trees. The volume serves as theideal introduction to the coinage of the Holy Land, as well asproviding a history of the region from the 4th century BC toCrusader times, illustrated by the coinage that was producedthere. As such, it contains some of the earliest Jewish coins, aswell as the earliest to bear overtly Christian symbolism.

The coins contained in this exhibit are often the finest examplesof their kind in existence, and the text has been written by one ofthe foremost experts in the field, so the resulting volume is asattractive to look at as it is informative.

222p, illusMacmillan Art PublishingJuly 2012Paperback9781921394508$70.00

Love and DevotionFrom Persia and Beyondedited by Susan Scollay

Jointly published by Macmillan and the State Library of Victoria inassociation with the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this bookaccompanies an exhibition of original manuscripts relating toPersian poetry and its milieu to be held at the State Library fromMarch 2012. With contributions by Australian and internationalscholars and superb examples of the art form as it is portrayed inworks like the Bodleian’s famous Shahnama of Firdausi, it is easyto see how the beauty of Persian manuscripts would capture theminds of early European travellers and influence art and literaturein the West. This book is lavishly illustrated to feature the gorgeouscolours and intricate details of these Persian masterpieces.


Ancient & Modern – Middle East

64p, 30 col illusBritish Museum PressObjects in FocusJuly 2012Paperback9780714150796$10.00

The Oxus Treasureby John Curtis

In May 1880, Captain F.C. Burton, a British political officer inAfghanistan, rescued a group of merchants who had beencaptured by bandits while travelling between Kabul andPeshawar. With them was a rich and impressive collection of goldand silver objects dating back to the fifth and fourth centuries BC.From the banks of the River Oxus, the entire hoard was, in duecourse, bequeathed to the British Museum.

Consisting of around 170 objects, including vessels, a goldscabbard, armlets, coins and much more, the collection is anexample of ancient goldsmithery at its very best. With excitingand descriptive insight placing the treasure into historical andcultural context, this book takes a closer look at the individualwonders that make up the Oxus Treasure – one of the BritishMuseum’s most celebrated and cherished collections.

John Curtis is Keeper of theMiddle East collections atthe British Museum. Mainlyinterested in archaeologyand the history of Iraq andIran circa 1000-330 BC, Johnhas directed a number ofexcavations on behalf of theBritish Museum.

Sea of PearlsSeven Thousand Years of the Industry that Shaped theGulfby Robert A. Carter

Since Antiquity the natural pearls of the Gulf have been famed asthe finest, most lustrous and most plentiful that the world canoffer. From the beginnings of trade until the 1930s, these pearlswere a major product of the Gulf’s coastal peoples. Latterly, fromthe 17th to the early 20th centuries, rising international demandturned pearling into their economic mainstay. By this time pearlswere fished in their millions, and pearling became the pillar ofthe regional economy, dominating the lives, health andexpectations of entire shaikhdoms. The influx of people andwealth to the coast permanently transformed the Gulf, providingthe manpower and capital to germinate and nurture the city-states – notably Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai,Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah – which endure there today.

Despite its formative role, there has until now been no booktaking the entire history of pearling as its subject. Dr Carter’sground-breaking work traces its evolution on both the Arabianand the Persian sides of the Gulf, and explores the role it played inshaping the political, social and urban configuration that we seein the region today. It shows the extent to which the Gulfeconomy became dependent on a single commodity, and how, inthat respect, pearling resembled the oil industry that wouldreplace it. Lavishly illustrated, this book covers in unprecedenteddetail the history, development, conduct, florescence andcatastrophic collapse of the industry in the early 20th century. Itwill fascinate not only those wishing to understand the growthand conduct of the pearl fishery, but also those interested in thehistory of the region and the origins of the Gulf states, and in thecolourful story of the global taste for one of mankind’s mosthighly prized precious stones.

Middle East – Ancient & Modern


364p, 338 color & b/w illus26 maps, 32 tables & chartsArabian PublishingNovember 2012Hardback9780957106000$190.00

Dr Robert Carter took afirst-class degree in ModernHistory at St Anne’s College,Oxford, before obtaining hisPh.D. at the Institute ofArchaeology, UCL, where hebegan his archaeologicalcareer. He has worked as aconsultant on rescueexcavations in the Gulf, bothindependently and as leaderof Oxford BrookesArchaeology and Heritage.He is currently SeniorLecturer at UCL-Qatar, UCL’snew campus in Doha.


Modern History

160p, 50+ b/w illusCountryside BooksDecember 2012Paperback9781846742019$23.95

RAF PathfindersBomber Command’s Elite Squadronby Martyn Cholton

The formation of the Pathfinder Force in August 1942 produced asteady but certain change in the fortunes of Bomber Command.Its effectiveness against targets during the early years of the warhad been very difficult to gauge. When examined in detailafterwards, aerial photographs showed that only one third of theaircraft were successfully reaching their target area and less thanthis were actually placing their bombs with target accuracy.

It was known during the large-scale bombing of Coventry in 1940that the Germans had used an elite force of pathfinder aircraft,armed with incendiaries, who had acted as target finders for themain force of German bombers. What was now needed for theRAF were some similar specialist squadrons, with crewshandpicked for their discipline, courage, high morale and, inparticular, skills in a wider than normal range of flying jobs.

Pathfinder Squadrons were equipped with the best availableaircraft, which included the famous Lancaster bomber and later,increasingly, the Mosquito which was a hugely versatile andsuccessful fighter bomber. To join a Pathfinder Squadron was arare privilege but with it went a huge leap in the likelihood ofbeing shot down. Pathfinder aircrew and aircraft had to lead theway for their following Bomber Force in hazardous raid after raid.By the end of the war some 56,000 crewmen of BomberCommand had lost their lives.

Martyn Chorlton has written a gripping account of the RAF’sPathfinder Squadrons, recalling the challenges faced in thesmoke-filled skies over occupied Europe. It is also a tribute to thebrave young men whose exploits, lives and, in all too many cases,deaths have left a powerful torch to bear for all who care aboutfreedom.

Modern History


64pMidsea Books 2012Paperback9789993273837$14.00

In the Name of the Father (And of the Son)by Immanuel Mifsud

Back from his father’s funeral, the narrator starts reading a diary hisfather kept during his days as a soldier during the Second WorldWar. The diary is very scant, almost impersonal, but it is exactly thisimpersonality which pushes the narrator to re-examine thepersonal relationship he had with his father. The father, who theson knew only as a cripple after he had been injured in amotorcycle accident, had always tried to convince those aroundhim that he was tough enough to withstand all hardship, and hadtried to bring up his son in his mould. The narrator revisits hisfather’s past, as well as his own, to look for cracks in this façade, tofind signs of weakness and displays of emotion.

This turns out to be an opportunity to also look back at his ownupbringing and especially at the way he had been educated tobecome a man. Episodes from the past are recalled and examinedfor any light they can shed on the matter. The narrator is not onlyolder, which makes him attach new meanings to old events, buthe has also changed in two other ways, which both influence theway he now sees things: he has just himself become a father, andhe has become a scholar. He has read things that his working-class father would never understand, let alone know that theywould be used to understand him.


Modern History

Second Edition196p, color insertsMidsea BooksJuly 2012Paperback9789993273776$16.00

Manoel TheatreA Short Historyby Paul Xuereb

The Manoel Theatre is the only theatre building still extant and stillregularly used in Malta that dates back to the period when Maltawas ruled by the Order of St John. It was founded by the PortugueseGrand master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena in 1732 and was usedregularly by the Knights for their amateur performances of playsand even operas, and also by visiting professional companies.

The passing of Malta to Britain meant that the theatre, nowknown as Theatre Royal, remained of importance to thesubstantial British garrison and the many British civil servantsand businessmen who spent years in Malta, but the rise of aneducated Maltese middle class also meant that productions inItalian and then also in Maltese were produced by talentedMaltese amateurs. The Manoel, however, functioned mostly as anopera theatre, managed by entrepreneurs who imported singersand dancers to appear in operas by people like Rossini, Cimarosa,Bellini and Donizetti, and Verdi.

The building of a new opera house that opened its doors in 1866meant that the theatre was no longer Theatre Royal and was nowrenamed Manoel Theatre.

During the 19th century the auditorium was enlarged andrefurbished. During the twentieth century the Manoel was knownlargely for its productions of plays in English, but its privateowners used it mostly as a cinema, and after World War II, whenthe Royal Opera House was destroyed by bombing, it presented anumber of opera seasons. In the late 1950s the Labourgovernment decided to bring the theatre back into stateownership and it opened as a state theatre in December 1960.Since then its programmes have included many classical musicevents, a smattering of opera, dance and much drama, includingthe major plays of Malta’s great dramatist, Francis Ebejer.

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Renewing the Past: Unearthing the History ofthe Olympic Park Siteby Andrew B. Powell

Investigations have revealed the buried history of the 2012Olympic Park site. Archaeologists have unearthed prehistoricsettlements, a medieval millstream and a Victorian riverboat, andthey traced the area’s industrial heritage. As the landscapechanged over time, so did the lives of the people who lived andworked here. Now it has changed again, renewing and buildingon the past to create a legacy for the future.

Dictionary of Archaeological TermsEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-Englishby Garcia Domingo Carlos Salazar, Martin Andrea Moreno

This concise dictionary is intended to be helpful in the reading ofarchaeological books and publications from the Palaeolithic tothe Middle Ages, and in the writing of papers and articles in bothEnglish and Spanish. The aim of this work is to help, in particular,students and on-site archaeologists to find quickly a wordrelating to a specific period, a specific area or a research field, in abook easy to carry everywhere. But this dictionary is alsointended for everyone fond of archaeology, from prehistory to theMiddle Ages.

Archaeology


44p, full color throughoutWessex ArchaeologyOctober 2012Paperback9781874350606$10.00

144pArchaeopress 2012Paperback9781905739479$20.00


Archaeology

216p, 130 full color illusCouncil for BritishArchaeologyCBA Research Report 168June 2012Paperback9781902771885$50.00

The Archaeology of English BattlefieldsConflict in the Pre-Industrial Landscapeby Foard Glenn and Morris Richard

Warfare looms large in the history of every nation – everycountry has its Battle of Hastings or Waterloo – yet it issurprisingly difficult to identify battle sites in the landscape.Battlefield archaeology is one of the newest areas ofarchaeological investigation, originating in work at the LittleBighorn (USA) in 1984. Here we see the results of using thesemethods in the UK, including at iconic sites such as Bosworth andTowton.

The Archaeology of English Battlefields presents the results of thefirst national assessment of English battlefields. The primarywritten sources are complemented by the results of extensivefieldwork, computer-based terrain reconstruction, and scientificanalysis of artefacts recovered from battlefields, allowing thesites of several notable battles to be located firmly for the firsttime. Battlefield archaeology rests heavily on the recording ofmetal artefact scatters across the landscape, and the bookexplores the most effective way of recovering this material.

The authors’ proposed methodology for investigating battlefieldlocations is validated by the recent identification of the preciselocation of the Battle of Bosworth, some 3km from the traditionalsite. Experiments on ordnance recovered from battlefields areenhancing our understanding of the development of gunpowderweapons. The evidence for battles from prehistory to the midfifteenth century is summarised and is followed by detaileddescriptions of battles from the Wars of the Roses, as well asnotable conflicts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Thebook concludes with some suggestions for the futuremanagement of these important sites.

Summanus 2009

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The Colonial Churches of Yucatan Volume 1Merida and the Western Yucatan Peninsula

The Colonial Churches of Yucatan Volume 2Valladolid and the Eastern Yucatan Peninsula

by Jurgen Putz, Christan Heck and Gabi Förester

This book shows the colonial churches of the Yucatan Peninsula innine trip routes with impressive pictures and texts full ofinformation and historical facts. Besides the churches in Merida,this illustrated book portrays in detail, all the Christianconstructions in the tourist-trodden “Ruta de los conventos”,which is well connected with the tourist resorts of the zone.

Also, the convents and churches of the Puuc region, well knownfor its Mayas´s ruins, are collected in this book. The wonderfulpictures and the texts of the book invite readers to observe andadmire and, perhaps, to visit these singular historicalconstructions.

Summanus 2009

Volume I320pHardback9783941648012$49.95

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Architecture & Design

Victorian Gothic House Stylesby Trevor Yorke

Gothic style transformed the urban landscape from the mid-19thcentury. In this new book, discover how leading architectsreinterpreted Medieval buildings to create a dynamic style whichspread from Victorian England to the other side of the Atlantic. Inthis illustrated guide the author uses his own drawings andphotographs to show the reader some of the leading buildings ofthe time, and explain how to identify the style on more ordinaryhouses and how to recognise the details inside and out, whichcharacterise it.

96p, illusCountryside BooksDecember 2012Paperback9781846743047$20.00



283p, 108 b/w illusSpire Books LtdOctober 2012Hardback9781904965381$70.00

The Mirror of Great BritainNational Identity in Seventeenth-Century BritishArchitectureedited by Olivia Horsfall Turner

In studies of seventeenth-century British architecture, Britain has,more often than not, been a synonym for England, yet thegeographical and political reality was far more complex. In thisbook, based on a Society of Architectural Historians of GreatBritain symposium, emerging and established scholars examinethe multi-faceted national identity of architecture across theBritish archipelago and the Atlantic world. They examine howdifferent architectural forms and features were employed toexpress political and social realities and aspirations.

Ten rich and varied essays encompass Sir James Murray, the KingsMaster of Works in Scotland; the fortification of Bermuda;plantation architecture in Ireland; country house design in Wales;architectural style on a Northern Irish estate; Scottish countryhouse and vernacular architecture; the architectural lessons of theLevant; and the gentleman’s house on the other side of theAtlantic. The authors are Mark Baker, Brenda Collins, StephenHague, Rolf Loeber, Emily Mann, Aonghus McKechnie, DanielMaudlin, Lydia Soo, Charles Wemyss.



176p, 170 illusEnglish HeritageDecember 2012Paperback9781848020894$40.00

Paddington StationThe History and Architectureby Steven Brindle

Paddington Station in London is one of Britain’s most splendidand historically significant railway termini, as the home andheadquarters of the Great Western Railway, and as one of themasterpieces of its chief engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel(1806-59). Steven Brindle’s comprehensive history, the first full-length study of the station to be published, first appeared in2004. Around the same time, in the course of research for thebook, the author discovered Brunel’s earliest surviving cast-ironbridge, which spanned the Regents Canal just outside the stationbut had hitherto been unrecognised, just in time to prevent itsdestruction for a major new road bridge and negotiate its salvageby dismantling.

The second edition of the book, richly illustrated from a wealth ofhistoric sources and now published in a larger format, has beenupdated to take account of a series of momentous recentdevelopments at Paddington: the reprieve and restoration of thestation’s Edwardian fourth span; the project to create a newentrance on its north side; and the impending redevelopment ofits south side to serve as one of the principal stations on the newCrossrail route across London. The book concludes with a detailedaccount of the project to rebuild the Bishops Road Bridge and theauthor’s discovery and salvage of Brunel’s iron canal bridge: a rareinstance when writing the history of a historic place directlyinfluenced its future, and led to the saving of a unique part of thepast.

Wells Coatesby Elizabeth Darling

The architect-engineer Wells Wintemute Coates (1895-1958)numbers amongst the most significant figures in the history of20th-century British architecture. Through projects such as theLawn Road Flats of 1934; the Sunspan Houses of the mid-1930s;Embassy Court Flats 1936; Palace Gate Flats, 1939 and theTelekinema for the Festival of Britain, 1951, he is recognised asone of those who brought about the introduction anddevelopment of architectural modernism in the UK. Hisreputation in this respect has increased in the past decade:Coates’s work for Isokon was featured in the 1999 ‘Modern Britain’exhibition at the Design Museum, while, more recently, therestoration of Lawn Road and Embassy Court has brought hiswork to the attention of a new audience.

Despite this reputation and recognition, there is little publishedwork on Wells Coates and only the biography-memoir (1999) byhis daughter Laura Cohn remains in print. This is a valuable studybut is ultimately personal rather than architectural in its analysis.The (out of print) monograph by Cantacuzino (1978), whilst itprovides scholars with a solid and informative account of Coates’life, and a near-complete Catalogue Raisonée, is now ratherdated in its approach.

It is, therefore, an appropriate moment for a new study of thissignificant figure to be published. Its primary concern will be tore-introduce Coates to a modern audience, presenting a thoroughaccount of his oeuvre and the context in which it was created. Itwill show how Coates, as a designer of products, interiors andbuildings, developed a new formal and spatial language ofdesign which worked to shape and influence the path Britishmodernism would take both during the 1930s and after the war.



160p, 120 illusEnglish HeritageTwentieth-Century ArchitectsSeptember 2012Paperback9781859464373$40.00

Elizabeth Darling PhD isan architectural historian,and is a Senior Lecturer inthe Department of Historyand Art History at OxfordBrookes University. She hasbeen working on Coates forseveral years and has spentconsiderable time studyingthe Coates archive at theCanadian Centre forArchitecture. She is ideallyplaced to bring a newunderstanding of Coates tothe historical record.



434p, color & b/w illusArchaeopressJuly 2012Paperback9781905739448$70.00

‘Temple Beauties’The Entrance-Portico in the Architecture of Great Britain1630–1850by Richard Riddell

The portico is one of the most characteristic and significantfeatures of western architecture and, yet, perhaps, also one of theleast closely observed. Redolent of Antiquity and comprising theessential vocabulary of classical architecture in the form of theorders columns, entablatures and, usually, pediments it evokespast glories and epitomizes the modular system of design that iscentral to that architecture. It has often played a key role in, oracted as a barometer of, stylistic innovations.

Used widely in Antiquity, especially in temples, the porticosuffered a decline following the dissolution of Roman imperialauthority in the West. However, sufficient literary and physicalremains survived which, when viewed in particular ways, enabledit to regain a central position in architecture, following theRenaissance. Revived in Italy, it was subsequently adoptedelsewhere in Europe and eventually in this country, and it is to thetentative introduction of the portico to Britain in the earlyseventeenth century, its widespread use throughout theeighteenth and much of the nineteenth centuries, and thebeginning of its decline towards the end of our period, that thisstudy is devoted.

Art & Art History


152p, full color illus CB Edizioni 2010Leonardo CollectionPaperback9788895686226$24.95


Leonardo & Engineeringby Sara Taglialagamba

The term “engineering” comes from the Latin word “ingenium”that means talent, gift. Thus, according to this definition, theengineer was an intelligent, practical man, able to solveproblems. Who better than Leonardo could fit this descriptionperfectly? Leonardo studied in depth ancient texts and thetreatises written by the most innovative Florentine and Sieneseengineers of that time. Among them, one of the most importantwas Brunelleschi who was considered the repository ofRenaissance knowledge. In the letter of employment written toLudovico il Moro in 1482, Leonardo presented himself as anarchitect and as a skilled military and hydraulic engineer, addingonly at the end his ability in sculpture and painting. Leonardodiffused these innovations, improving them thanks to his genius.


Leonardo & Paintingedited by Sara Taglialagamba

Leonardo was an apprentice in Verrocchio’s workshop, where theyoung artist was fascinated by the lively and updatedenvironment. Verrocchio taught the practice of drawing to theyoung Leonardo, who learnt how to describe the world aroundhim with meticulous observation.

This book traces the career of the artist, passing from the firstworks by Leonardo with Verrocchio, influenced by the fertilebackground of Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, to thegreater masterpieces. The book also contains a section on the lostworks. A train of thought connects and explains great frescoes,small paintings and prestigious commissions that have influencedso many artists.


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Leonardo & Architectureedited by Sara Taglialagamba

Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo’s first biographer, said that the artistused to sketch many designs for architecture. In fact, in theso-called letter of employment written to Ludovico il Moro in1482, Leonardo presented himself as a military engineer, ableto satisfy the demands of the Duke of Milan in peace and inwar, declaring that he can give perfect satisfaction and to theequal of any other in architecture and the composition ofbuildings public and private. And then he speaks of his abilityin hydraulic engineering for conducting water from one levelto another.

Leonardo studied in depth several ancient texts but also thetreatises of his own time: in particular the treatise of militaryand civil architecture by the Sienese engineer and architectFrancesco di Giorgio Martini, a text that contains projects forfortifications with bastions, able to offer resistance to theartillery fire. This could explain Leonardo’s fascination withfortifications, his involvement in the project to realize thetiburio for the Milan cathedral. He made a great manyarchitectural projects for gardens and elegant buildings,testing out innovative solutions, such as the internal stairs.This allows us to better understand his excellent competencein architecture and why he attempted to plan the ideal city,conceived as being organized on two different levels, one forpedestrians and the other suitable for vehicle transportation.He also projected religious buildings, studying differentsolutions for the centralized plan based on complex systems ofarchitectural symmetries.

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Leonardo & Natureedited by Sara Taglialagamba

As is well known, Leonardo defines painting as the daughter ofnature. His observation of nature, his fascination with every livingthing that surrounded him was the main source of his drawings.His entire life was dedicated to investigating and trying tounderstand the laws of nature. Nature is observed, studied anddepicted in all its forms.

In fact, Leonardo constantly aims at reproducing every element ofnature: animals, flowers, fruits, birds and also, a female smile, thethrobbing of the hearth or – following a series of examples – theintricate plait of Renaissance hairdos. All these elements have incommon the uninterrupted flow of the secret of life.


Leonardo & Anatomyedited by Sara Taglialagamba

Leonardo’s anatomical studies actually set themselves as an idealmeeting point between artistic and scientific interests becausethe study of the functioning of the body was essential for artisticpractice in order to achieve the correct representation of thehuman figure. For Leonardo, the artistic practice was determinedby an inexhaustible desire for knowledge that led him to studythe human body through the Vitruvian proportions and throughdissection, carried out by the artist with special care over themiddle years of the first decade of the sixteenth century.

Drawing becomes essential to understand and reproduce thestructure of the male and female body, a wonderful machineperfectly thought out. The organs are devices and the body is amachine: Man then becomes a further testing ground formechanical science.


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Leonardo Automation and Roboticsedited by Sara Taglialagamba

One of the most exciting challenges faced by Leonardo was tocreate robots made to resemble human or animal, or ratherautomatic self-operating devices. The technological excellenceachieved during the XV century and the impetus in Mechanicsand Engineering developed in Leonardo a growing interest inhumanoid automata and in self-operating machines that stillinterests many scholars today. Many researchers share thehypothesis that Leonardo studied automata and attempted tosketch some projects on his manuscripts. In fact, pulleys andgears are the real ‘stars’ of the famous folio 216v-b [579r] in theCodex Atlanticus, associated with the project of the automaton orrobot. Due to the lack of a main project, this drawing leaves somepending questions.

This project was the result of the research carried out by the artistin the field of anatomy, studies partially lost and partiallyrecorded in the Codex Huygens, kept at the Pierpont MorganLibrary in New York. Therefore Leonardo traced the idea of a sortof Robotics, a so-called anathomia artificialis: studying thehuman body, he came to the creation of a wonderful humanisedmachine. The artist-craftsman could not receive a higherconsecration. Leonardo’s automata are the subject of this book,which collects the results presented by scholars that have studiedLeonardo from different points of view.


Leonardo Codices and Machines edited by Carlo Starnazzi

One of the most fascinating aspects of the study of Leonardotoday – and after all, it has always been so – is his work as aninventor. Carlo Starnazzi, renowned connoisseur of Leonardo,presents the models of some of the most interesting machinesrealized for the itinerant exhibition of the Michelangiolo Galleryof Via Cavour in Florence. For many years, the Gallery has had thewidest display of Vincian technological conceptions in Italy andindeed the world.

This volume is not only a guide to the exhibition – the text makesnew contributions to the study of Leonardo and his time throughcareful and appropriate analysis. The machines are actuallypresented by following a subdivision that differentiates them infour great typologies beginning with the civil machines (forexample the wagon with differential gear, the goldbeater, thepress for oil, the automaton or robot, the bearing with spheres).The catalogue continues with the machines for water(Archimedes’s screw, life jacket, mobile bridge), with those for theflight (glider, parachute, flapping wing) to arrive then to themilitary machines (as is the case of the ‘circumfolgore’, of thebombard, of the naval cannon or of the mowing wagon withscythes). Each entry presents the image of the project as devisedand drawn by Leonardo da Vinci and the model built on the basisof the Vincian scheme.

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192p, illusCB Edizioni 2009Paperback9788895686035$50.00


Art & Art History

144p, illusMacmillan Art PublishingMacmillan Mini-Art Series 21June 2012Hardback9781921394669$35.00

Sandra BardasMini Book #21by David Bardas and Ken McGregor

David Bardas recalls how his wife, Sandra Bardas, who died in2007, sought every opportunity to photograph the graffiti shespotted in Australian cities and international centres on theirbusiness trips around the world. Her interest dates back to the1990s, before the art form’s current popularity and entry into theart market. He suggests that she recognised and empathised withthe free spirit and rebelliousness of the mostly anonymous graffitiartists and their need to be seen and heard. An artist herself, anda mother of six, she was unafraid to speak out and was attractedby the colour and inventiveness demonstrated in thephotographic images which are the subject of this book. KenMcGregor comments on current examples of stencil and graffiti inMelbourne laneways and how stencil artists’ works are nowattracting art collectors.

Amsterdam CeramicsA City’s History and an Archaeological Ceramics Catalogue(1175-2011)edited by J. Gawronski

Amsterdam Ceramics contains nine centuries of urban history andarchaeological ceramics from the city of Amsterdam. 1,247archaeological ceramic items are presented in a catalogue whichis chronologically subdivided into nine chapters covering theperiod 1175-2011. The catalogue offers a representative selectionfrom the tens of thousands of ceramic finds that have beenexcavated on c. 213 sites in Amsterdam. The finds are orderedaccording to material type and shape, offering an evocative andversatile impression of everyday domestic utensils.

The ceramic objects reviewed here were used by Amsterdammersin their homes to eat and drink from, by the rich and by the poor,for display and for convenience, from local artisans or fromforeign lands, from native-born residents and from newcomers,from 1175 until today.

The chronological order of the catalogue is based on the differentstages of urban development of Amsterdam. In nine introductorychapters the successive periods of topographical growth andshaping of the town are discussed in relation to political,religious, social and cultural factors of interest. Each chapteroffers a map of the specific stage of urban developmentcombined with a present day photo of the city area in question toillustrate the historical continuity of Amsterdam’s urban structure.

Art & Art History


336p, illusStichting PromotieArcheologie 2012Hardback9789059372672$80.00

Jerzy Gawronski (1955) isthe urban archaeologist ofthe city of Amsterdam andwas appointed Professor ofMaritime and UrbanArchaeology of the LateMiddle Ages and EarlyModern Period, in particularof the city of Amsterdam, atthe University ofAmsterdam in 2008.


Art & Art History

96p, illusMidsea Books 2012Paperback9789993273868$34.00

Ornament and MaltaAn Introductionedited by Alexander Debono

This catalogue covers the latest of a series of internationalexhibitions staged by Heritage Malta. The exhibition in Maltaincludes over one hundred pieces from the Khalili Collection. Mostwere made by, or at the workshop of, Plácido Zuloaga in the smalltown of Eibar in northern Spain. Different metals were fusedtogether, hammered and chiselled to create precious treasures offine metal craftsmanship including chests, vases, jewellery andobjects from everyday life. Some of the pieces werecommissioned by the Spanish Royal Family and contemporarycollectors. The collection has been painstakingly brought togetherby Prof. Nasser David Khalili and is considered to be the bestSpanish nineteenth-century damascene collection both in qualityand extent.

The art of damascening in precious metals on iron is of greatantiquity, and was the decoration of choice on arms and armourfrom prehistory through to modern times. Both Eastern andWestern tradition have placed its origin in what are now Islamiclands-a tradition as current in the Mongolia of Kublai Khan as itwas in the Castile of El Cid. Damascened arms proclaimed thestatus of their bearer and this function was no less importantthan the efficacy of the weapons in combat.

The Knights of the Order of St John of Jerusalem becameestablished in Malta in 1530 when Charles V of Spain as King ofSicily gave them Malta and the North African port of Tripoli inperpetual fiefdom in exchange for an annual fee of a singleMaltese falcon. It is entirely fitting therefore that this collection ofSpanish Damascene Metalwork should now be shown in Malta,following in the footsteps of previous exhibitions at The Victoriaand Albert Museum, the Alhambra Palace in Granada, and RealFundacion in Toledo.

Le Sud de FranceThe Food & Cooking of the Languedocby Caroline Conran

Languedoc-Roussillion (not forgetting the Midi-Pyrénées andAquitaine) are the regions of France most settled by Englishexpatriate colonists. Caroline Conran has spent much time theresince the early 1970s and her collection of recipes reflects years oftravel, conversation, cooking, eating and drinking. She has sharedher knowledge with English readers in a previous book, Under theSun: Caroline Conran’s French Country Cooking, but here sheconcentrates upon this single region of Languedoc which curls upfrom the Spanish border, along the Mediterranean coast as far asthe Rhône valley.

This is not polite France, this is ‘in your face’ France; it’s historyburied amidst the Crusades and Cathars, its towns and cities –Nimes, Toulouse, Carcassonne, Narbonne, Perpignan, Montpellier,Beziers – making up a fiercely independent region. Its people arepassionate about rugby, about hunting and foraging, with acuisine of their own, more Southern, simpler, more earthy, andless influenced by the Michelin style of cooking than the rest ofFrance. There will be information on the particular specialities ofthe pays, such as chestnuts, sweet onions, Bouzigues mussels andoysters (shellfish reared in the Bassin de Thau), salt cod, poufres(baby octopus), charcuterie, salades sauvages (salads of wildplants), the rose coloured garlic of Lautrec, wild asparagus andlocal mushrooms. There will be descriptions of places whereoysters, truffles, chestnuts or calçots – a giant spring onion, eatenroasted on a fire of vine-prunings – are the obsession of everyonein the community.

Food & Cooking


224pProspect BooksDecember 2012Paperback9781903018903$40.00

Caroline Conran is a writerwith a quiver of successfulbooks in her armoury. FromPoor Cook to the ConranCookbook, to hergroundbreaking translationsof Michel Guérard and otherFrench chefs.


Food & Cooking

192pProspect BooksDecember 2012Paperback9781903018965$40.00

Professor Tomasik hastranslated othercontemporary gastronomictexts and has written manyarticles on the French tablein the Renaissance, and co-edited the volume At theTable: Metaphorical andMaterial Cultures of Food inMedieval and Early ModernEurope. Professor Albala isthe author of Eating Right inthe Renaissance and aleading light in historicalfood studies. He is editor ofthe journal Food, Culture andSociety.

The Most Excellent Book of CookeryAn edition and translation of the 16th-century Livre fortexcellent de cuysinetranslated by Timothy J. Tomasik, by Ken Albala

The Livre fort excellent de cuysine is one of a family of cookerybooks that first saw the light with Pierre Sergent’s La Fleur detoute cuysine (renamed Le Grand cuisinier de toute cuisine) of1542. This edition of the Livre fort excellent was published in 1555.Scholars have often dismissed the printed cookbooks of 16th-century France as simple rehashes of the great medieval Viandierof Taillevent or as merely concentrating on marginal dishes suchas sweets and sugarwork. True French cooking, they say, did notstart until the publication of Le Cuisinier françois by La Varenne in1651. While there is some truth in this, the translators and editorsof this book would maintain that the change from medieval tomodern (already under way in Italy and Spain for example) canbe dated back to this book and its kindred; that it was more thana plagiaristic copy.

The Livre fort comprises about 70 pages of original French, withan English translation on facing pages. The translation is the workof Timothy J. Tomasik, Associate Professor of French, ValparaisoUniversity, Indiana; an historical introduction discussing theculinary significance of the work is by Ken Albala, Professor ofHistory at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California.

Tirso de MolinaMarta the Divinetranslated with an introduction by Harley Erdman

Tirso de Molina’s Marta the Divine (c. 1614-15) is a spirited comedyabout an ingenious young woman who fakes religious piety inorder to avoid an arranged marriage imposed upon her by herfather. Marta’s false religiosity becomes a cover for sneaking herboyfriend into her house and, to all intents and purposes, having asexual relationship with him without her credulous fathersuspecting a thing. The stakes involved in this risky gambit areparticularly high because her boyfriend, Felipe, is also the manwho has killed her brother. In this fast-moving play that celebratesthe victory of youth over age, of love over revenge, little is heldsacred, as circumstances spiral to the point of outrageousness. Notsurprisingly, Marta has been a controversial play over the years,condemned for immorality and salaciousness by some,championed as an anticlerical tract by others. Readers andaudience members over the years have puzzled as to what Tirsowants us to make of the title character and her behavior. Is she acautionary example, a sly hypocrite, whom we are to hold at acritical distance? Or she is a sympathetic comic heroine, even aproto-feminist, whose cause we are to embrace?

No matter one’s perspective, Marta is memorable because of theaudaciousness and resourcefulness of the title character. Marta is agreat stage creation, and the plot Tirso builds around this tricksterhas the feel of the archetypal, transcending the time and place of itscreation. At the same time, Marta is a surprisingly comprehensivesatire of the Spanish empire of its day. Through a variety of subtletouches, Tirso paints a picture of an imperial capital plagued byavarice and hypocrisy. The play has some puzzling elements or‘problems’ from a technical point of view, but the irresistible force ofits comic energy has appealed to readers and audiences for nearly400 years. This edition presents the play for the first time ever inEnglish translation. The translation is accompanied by the Spanishtext, translators’ note and a substantial introduction.

Literature


112pAris & PhillipsHispanic ClassicsJune 2012Paperback9781908343017$25.00


Literature

120pNorthcote House PublishersWriters and their WorkNovember 2012Paperback9780746309742$19.95

Roydon Salick was SeniorLecturer in English at UWI,St Augustine, Trinidad,where he taught courses onShakespeare, Donne toByron, the Novel I & II,Introduction to Poetry, aspecialist course on Selvonand The Postcolonial Novel.

Samuel Selvonby Roydon Salick

The first full-length study of Selvon to cover all aspects of hisfictional world: poems, radio dramas, short fiction and novels. Ittraces the evolution of Selvon from fledging author of poems andshort fiction to an established short-story writer and novelist. Itargues that Selvon enjoys a special place in West Indian literaturebecause of his celebration of the enormous struggle of the Indo-Trinidadian peasant, out of the cane experience into everyprofessional field and politics, of the glamorization of the WestIndian immigrant (The Lonely Londoner), and of his daring use ofthe linguistic continuum of his island, establishing it as a dialectthat meets every exigency of his artistry. He is the mostdemocratic and predictive of Trinidadian writers, establishing theunlimited literary potential of the ordinary man and anticipatingthe concerns of politicians, linguists, and artists.

Literature


Basil Buntingby Julian Stannard

Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was an extraordinary if sometimesneglected poet. His late-flowering masterpiece Briggflatts (1965)jettisoned him into the pantheon of twentieth century greats andreminded his audience that the legacies of internationalmodernism had not been entirely buried. Bunting showed thatAnglo-American modernism was not incompatible with nativetraditions and Briggflatts is a powerful evocation ofNorthumberland, the poet’s cherished place of origin.

Such dynamic regionalism struck a powerful note in the 1960s,his poetry proving an inspiration to younger poets. Buntingbecame a talismanic figure, his charismatic readings helping togalvanise the British Poetry Revival. Briggflatts rescued Buntingfrom literary neglect and prompted readers to return to his earlierwritings which are also examined here in this study. The studyalso considers the poet’s remarkable life, including his manyliterary associates.

120pNorthcote House PublishersWriters and their WorkOctober 2012Paperback9780746310069$19.95


Religion

242pATF PressJune 2012Paperback9781921817489$34.00

Three RevolutionsThree Drastic Changes in Interpreting the Bibleby Robert Crotty

The author describes the drastic changes or revolutions that haveoccurred in the interpretation of the Bible during his own lifetime.The author uses his own experiences to describe these revolutionsand to reflect on what consequences they have had for his ownlife-story. The first revolution was the introduction of thehistorical-critical approach. The Bible was interpreted as historicalin a broad sense, not in all its details. In a Roman university theauthor later found that this broad historical verification of theBible became more and more problematic.

The second revolution is described as the Bible as Literaturemethodology. This approach puts aside history and examines theBible as a clever and subtle literary document which hascontrolled religious belief and practice but cannot besubstantiated as historical fact. There was a third revolution.Within the secular university scene, the author became involvedin the study of anthropology and sociology. Judaism andChristianity were seen as religions amongst other religions; theirsacred writings were seen as sacred writings alongside others.The new approach forces him to rethink the history of Israel, therelevance of the Hebrew Scriptures and Judaism itself; he also hasto rethink the history of Jesus, the relevance of the ChristianScriptures and Christianity. This life journey should be of interestto those working in the fields of biblical and religion studies.

Front PageEveryday Ignatian Spiritualityby Christopher Gleeson

For most of the front pages that follow, my inspiration has beentwofold – to elaborate some touching story from my everydaylife experience, however banal, and use it as a stepping stone toillustrate how we might more easily find God and be found byGod in all things. Central to Ignatian spirituality is the belief thatour world is transparent, reflecting constantly a God who worksin the depths of everything. St Ignatius Loyola saw the world asvery user friendly. For him every part of it, from the stars in theheavens to the flowers of the field, elevated his mind and heartto God.

In Ribadeneira’s Life of Ignatius we learn how even the smallestthings could make his spirit soar upwards to God, who even in thesmallest things is Greatest. At the sight of a little plant, a leaf, aflower or a fruit, an insignificant worm or a tiny animal, Ignatiuscould soar free above the heavens and reach through into thingswhich lie beyond the senses. Seeking and finding God in allthings works on the belief that God is already present in ourworld and it is our task to uncover his presence and help others todo the same. It is very different to the old, perhaps arrogant,concept of ministry which talked about bringing God to theworld.

Religion


175pATF Press 2012Paperback9781921511769$27.95


Religion

260pLutterworth PressJuly 2012Paperback9780718892593$35.00

204pLutterworth PressDecember 2012Paperback9780718892555$35.00

Thomas MertonTwentieth-Century Wisdom for Twenty-First-CenturyLivingby Paul Dekar

This book explores Merton’s prophetic writings and experience asthey offer guidance for spiritual seekers in their search toexperience God, to simplify their lives, to live more humanly, andto shape Christian community in the face of alienation,consumerism, noise, and technology.

Religion and Science Fictionby James F. McGrath

In this volume, scholars working in a range of disciplines such astheology, literature, history, music, and anthropology, offer theirperspectives on a variety of points at which religion and sciencefiction intersect.

An Introduction to the New Testament, 2ndEditionby Charles B. Puskas and Michael C. Robbins

This classic introduction by Charles B. Puskas, revised with C.Michael Robbins, provides helpful guidance to anyone seekingbetter understanding of the New Testament. Since thepublication of the first edition, which was in print for twentyyears, a host of new and diverse cultural, historical, social-scientific, sociorhetorical, narrative, textual, and contextualstudies has been examined and are here explained.

Richard of Saint Victor, On the TrinityEnglish Translation and Commentaryby Ruben Angelici

Angelici presents a trinitarian model, intelligible to a Westerncontext but which could also awake admiration from Greektheologians. Today Richard’s dogmatics could represent a bridgefor dialogue between different traditions. For the first time thistheological masterpiece is being made available, unabridged, inEnglish to allow a broader theological public to benefit fromRichard’s accomplishments.

Religion


394pLutterworth PressNovember 2012Paperback9780718892654$50.00

262pJames Clarke & CoAugust 2012Paperback9780227679975$39.00


Religion

158pJames Clarke & CoJuly 2012Paperback9780227680018$30.00

420pJames Clarke & CoNovember 2012Paperback9780227679913$60.00

Jesus after ModernityA Twenty-First-Century Critique of Our Modern Concept ofTruth and the Truth of the Gospelby James P. Danaher

We are now free to rethink our notion of truth in a way that iscompatible with the things that Jesus said and did, and equallycompatible with what we now know to be our access to truthgiven the limits of our human condition. This volume sets out toexplore these issues in depth and examine what it might meanfor us to speak of the truth of the Gospel in a twenty-first centurycontext.

Sex, Wives, and WarriorsReading Biblical Narrative with its Ancient Audienceby Philip Francis Esler

This book provides fresh answers to the questions of why andhow should we read Old Testament narrative? When understoodin closer relation to their original audience, Esler argues thatbiblical stories allow us to refresh the memory that links us withpivotal stories in Jewish and Christian identities, that theydisclose more ample possibilities for being human, that theyfoster our capacity for intercultural understanding, and that theyprovide aesthetic pleasure from their embodying plots of greatimaginative power.

Hindiyya. Mystic and Criminal, 1720–1798A Political and Religious Crisis in Lebanonby Bernard Heyberger, translated by Renée Champion

This book is an exploration of an important episode inLebanon’s history as well as an action-packed story ofsuspense. Drawing together issues of faith, culture, genderand tradition in the eighteenth century this title is bothengaging and entertaining.

The Crisis of Global CapitalismPope Benedict XVIS Social Encyclical and the Future ofPolitical Economyby Adrian Pabst

Building on the tradition of Catholic social teaching since thegroundbreaking encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), PopeBenedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate is the most radicalintervention in contemporary debates on the future ofeconomics, politics, and society. Benedict outlines a Catholicthird way that combines strict limits on state and marketpower with a civil economy centered on mutualist businesses,cooperatives, credit unions, and other reciprocalarrangements. His call for a civil economy also represents aradical middle position between an exclusively religious and astrictly secular perspective. Thus, Benedict’s vision for analternative political economy resonates with people of allfaiths and none.

Religion


400pJames Clarke & CoDecember 2012Paperback9780227173886$40.00



Religion


180pJames Clarke & CoNovember 2012Paperback9780227680230$30.00

In the Beginning Were Stories, Not Textsby C.S. Song

Given the deep rootedness of the Christian faith in storytelling,this book seeks to address the fact that Christian theology has toooften taken the form of concepts, ideas, and systems. This book isan attempt to speak of Christian faith and theology in storiesrather than systems. Through stories, both biblical and non-biblical, this book shows how we might reimagine the task ofChristian theology in the life of faith today.

The Church in Africa as Salt and LightPath to an African Ecclesiology of Abundant Lifeedited by Stan Chu Ilo, Joseph Ogbonnaya and Alex Ojacor

This prophetic book applies the symbols of “salt” and “light” asecclesiological images for reenvisioning the path towardsabundant life for God’s people in the African continent throughthe agency of African Christianity.

Film & Media


144p, illusFranz Steiner VerlagMedia Geography at Mainz 2July 2012Paperback9783515101189$51.00

Place, Television, and the Real Orange Countyby Ann Fletchall, Chris Lukinbeal and Kevin McHugh

This book is an exploration of televisual place, undertakenthrough a case study of Orange County, California, and threepopular U.S. television shows set therein: The OC, Laguna Beach:The Real Orange County, and The Real Housewives of OrangeCounty. Place is a meaningful experience in the world, and it ismade through a unique intersection of social processes. Place ismuch more than the material embodiment of social processes in aparticular location, it is also an amalgam of memory, emotion,and imagination. Places of the media fit this description. Morethan just re-presentations of reality, mediated places are aninextricable part of our daily lives, and directly engage theprocesses of place-making by affecting our perception, senses,and subjectivity.

These three Orange County based television shows are used todemonstrate how production techniques contribute to the place-making process and how this process continues and culminateswith audience engagement. TV’s use of landscape images, theconcept of emotional realism, and reality television’s claim to thereal are explored for their role in the televisual place-makingprocess. Audience surveys and the phenomenon of TV-inducedtourism demonstrate the importance of televisual places toviewers. This book seeks to prove that mediated places, especiallyas seen on TV, matter.


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