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  • - culture and conquest
    av Dirk Booms
    380,-

  • - Hidden History
    av Eleanor Ghey
    176,-

    This book will investigate the most interesting and bountiful hoard discoveries as well as studying the practise of hoarding itself. Exploring the great variety of hoards all the way from Bronze-Age weapon deposits, Greek and Roman coin hoards, impressive Viking wealth, to gold sovereigns hidden in the twentieth century, this book will consider who was responsible for the hoarding, and why they might have been compelled to do so. These motivations may shed light on times of economic upheaval or reveal more complex social and ritual customs.

  • - Close-Up
    av A.L. Dallapiccola
    176,-

    This beautiful book offers a striking and unusual view of a wide array of Indian art. It highlights ¿ close up and in colour ¿ outstanding examples of design, workmanship and craft in dramatic sculptures of metal, stone and wood as well as sumptuous paintings and textiles.

  • - The history and context of a much-travelled textile
    av T. Richard Blurton
    140,-

    This beautiful and rare textile, now in the British Museum, was produced in the late seventeenth century in the wake of the remarkable outflow of Krishna veneration resulting from the ministry of the great eastern Indian saint, Sankaradava (died 1568). The author looks at the art, technique and iconography of the textile and also place it within its wider religious, cultural and geographical contexts. He traces, too, its fascinating history and its journey from Assam to London.

  • - faith after the pharaohs
    av Gisela Helmecke
    346,-

  • - Ten Coins that Changed the World
    av Thomas Hockenhull
    130,-

    This engaging book tells the story of ten of the world's most important currencies and reveals how each and every one of them has helped shape the world we live in.

  • av Dirk Booms
    140,-

    Illustrated with the best examples of inscriptions from the British Museum's Roman collection, this book will explore the meaning of putting up public inscriptions and the standardised system of abbreviation that was used to ensure Romans from all areas of the Empire could read them. Written in the simple everyday-life Latin, they also reflect linguistic changes within society, allowing the modern day scholar to uncover the introduction of slang words and new spellings of Latin words. We may also stumble across spelling mistakes, for not everyone knew how to write Latin fluently, and often we find that words had been written phonetically.

  • - Close-Up
    av Chris Spring
    176,-

    Now available in paperback, this successful and beautiful book provides a unique introduction to the global phenomenon that is African art, and highlights the most striking aspects of craftsmanship, materials and design.

  • - Close-Up
    av Sheila R. Canby
    176,-

  • av Irving Finkel
    140,-

  • av John Reeve
    176,-

    From the successful, collectable Art-in-Detail series, now available in paperback with new covers.

  • - Close-Up
    av Carol Michaelson
    176,-

    From the successful, collectable Art-in-Detail series, now refreshed and available in paperback.

  • av Jane Portal
    140,-

    Selection of classical and modern Chinese love poems, illustrated with brushwork calligraphy and scenes from rarely exhibited paintings and prints in the collection of the British Museum.

  • - Making and Selling Jewellery in the American Southwest
    av Henrietta Lidchi
    446,-

    Situating jewellery in the cultural economy of the American Southwest, this title explores Southwestern jewellery as a decorative form in constant transition. It describes this rich tradition as subject to a number of desires, fostered and regulated, at different times, by government agencies, traders, curators and Native American communities.

  • av Lloyd de Beer
    100,-

    For 400 years the Lacock Cup had been used as a chalice at a Wiltshire church. But it was once the centrepiece of the high table of a rich local nobleman.

  • av Eleanor Ghey
    120,-

    In 2007 during an archaeological excavation in advance of a hotel development situated 150 metres from the Roman Baths in Bath, a Roman silver coin hoard was unearthed. This book tells the story of this remarkable find, focusing on the discovery, scientific investigation, interpretation of the hoard, and the parallels and context in Roman world.

  • av Stephen H. Harrison, Gareth Williams & Jayne Carroll
    150,-

  • - Graphic Worlds
    av Nigel Tattersfield
    140,-

    Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was the foremost wood engraver not only of his generation, but of all subsequent generations, and the quality of his work has remained unsurpassed. This book celebrates the skill of the artist by presenting sixty engravings, and by offering a historical perspective.

  • av Kevin Leahy
    136,-

    Complete with new photography of the cleaned and conserved objects, showing off the stunning and intricate decoration, this book provides a fascinating account of the history and the discovery of this remarkable hoard.

  • av David Thompson
    276,-

    The British Museum watch collection is unsurpassed anywhere in the world, and this brilliant book tells the story of the watch which spans an incredible 500 years.

  • av Giulia Bartrum
    140,-

    Beautifully illustrated gift book on the prints and drawings of Albrecht Durer, the first truly international artist.

  • av Martin Findell
    140,-

    From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were inscribing runes on a range of different objects. Once identified and interpreted by experts, runes provide us with invaluable evidence for the early Germanic languages including English, Dutch, German and the Scandinavian languages and reveal a wealth of information about our early civilisations. Runes employ many techniques from informal scratchings to sophisticated inlaid designs on weapons, or the exquisite relief carvings of the Franks Casket. The task of reading and understanding them involves a good deal of detective-work, calling on expertise from a number of academic disciplines: archaeology, art history, linguistics, and even forensic science. This book tells the story of runes from their mysterious origins, their development as a script, to their use and meaning in the modern world. Illustrated with a range of beautiful objects from jewellery to tools and weapons, Runes will reveal memorials for the dead, business messages, charms and curses, insults and prayers, giving us a glimpse into the languages and cultures of Europeans over a thousand years ago.

  • - Baselitz and his generation: From the Duerckheim Collection
    av John-Paul Stonard
    456,-

    Showcases key works from six artists who re-defined art in Germany in the second half of the twentieth century: Georg Baselitz; Marcus Lupertz; Blinky Palermo; A R Penck; Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter. This book explores the work of these artists in the broader historical context of Germany and Europe in the 1960s and 1970s.

  • - The Last Viking Adventure
    av Thomas J.T. Williams
    130,-

    Presents an adventure that takes King Harald Sigurdsson, the last king of the Vikings, from a frightened teenager to wealthy and powerful warrior and finally, to a ruthless and tyrannical king, whose ambition leads him to a futile, yet glorious death at the battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066.

  • - Records, Memorials and Myths
    av R.I. Page
    176,-

    There have been many books about the Vikings, but few that see them from their own point of view. Most accounts rely heavily on the records of prejudiced observers (who saw the Vikings only as savage raiders) or the archaeological record, which tells us much about their material culture but little about their values. This classic book reveals how the Vikings saw themselves: portrayed in their own writings or in the reports of people who knew them closely. Using a series of translations from primary sources including runic inscriptions, literary works, rare historical accounts and eye-witness reports, this book brings the Viking world to life.

  • av Gareth Williams
    140,-

  • - Desire and Diversity across the World
    av R. B. Parkinson
    150,-

    How old is the oldest chat-up line between men? Who was the first lesbian? Were ancient Greek men who had sex together necessarily gay? And what did Shakespeare think about cross-dressing? This title deals with these questions.

  • av Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
    140,-

  • - Love
    av Alan Cummings
    140,-

  • av Jonathan Williams
    140,-

    From the darkly erotic poetry of Sappho to the bawdy advice of Ovid, love is a ubiquitous theme in Classical poetry. This newly revised edition collects the best short poems and extracts from the Classical tradition, by authors including Virgil, Homer, Catullus, Horace, Sappho and Ovid, and illustrates them with the finest Classical and classically inspired pieces from the British Museum¿s extensive collection.

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