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Stone Worlds

Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology

By: Barbara Bender,Sue Hamilton,Christopher Tilley

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Stone Worlds

Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology

By: Barbara Bender,Sue Hamilton,Christopher Tilley

This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England, especially the site of Leskernick. The result is a multivocal, multidisciplinary telling of the stories of Bodmin Moor—both ancient and modern—using a large number of literary genres and academic disciplines. Dialogue, storytelling, poetry, photo essays and museum exhibits all appear in the volume, along with contributions from archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, geologists, and ecologists. The result is a major synthesis of the Bronze Age settlements and ritual sites of the Moor, contextualized within the Bronze Ages of southwestern and central Britain, and a tracing of the changing meaning of this landscape over the past five thousand years. Of obvious interest to those in British prehistory, this is a substantial presentation of a groundbreaking project that will also be of interest to many concerned with the interpretation of social landscapes and the public presentation of archaeology.

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Routledge

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1315419637

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Interpreting Landscapes

Geologies, Topographies, Identities; Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 3

By: Christopher Tilley

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Interpreting Landscapes

Geologies, Topographies, Identities; Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 3

By: Christopher Tilley

This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, Tilley examines it through the lens of their geology and landscapes, asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in the process of human occupation over the long durée. Granite uplands, rolling chalk downlands, sandstone moorlands, and pebbled hilltops each create their own potentialities and symbolic resources for human settlement and require forms of social engagement. Taking his findings from years of phenomenological fieldwork experiencing different landscapes with all senses and from many angles, Tilley creates a saturated and historically imaginative account of the landscapes of southern England and the people who inhabited them. This work is also a key theoretical statement about the importance of landscapes for human settlement.

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437

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Routledge

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1315426277

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9781315426273

Landscape in the Longue Durée

A History and Theory of Pebbles in a Pebbled Heathland Landscape

By: Christopher Tilley

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Landscape in the Longue Durée

A History and Theory of Pebbles in a Pebbled Heathland Landscape

By: Christopher Tilley

Pebbles are usually found only on the beach, in the liminal space between land and sea. But what happens when pebbles extend inland and create a ridge brushing against the sky? Landscape in the Longue Durée is a 4,000 year history of pebbles. It is based on the results of a four-year archaeological research project of the east Devon Pebblebed heathlands, a fascinating and geologically unique landscape in the UK whose bedrock is composed entirely of water-rounded pebbles. Christopher Tilley uses this landscape to argue that pebbles are like no other kind of stone – they occupy an especial place both in the prehistoric past and in our contemporary culture. It is for this reason that we must re-think continuity and change in a radically new way by considering embodied relations between people and things over the long term. Dividing the book into two parts, Tilley first explores the prehistoric landscape from the Mesolithic to the end of the Iron Age, and follows with an analysis of the same landscape from the eighteenth into the twenty-first century. The major findings of the four-year study are revealed through this chronological journey: from archaeological discoveries, such as the excavation of three early Bronze Age cairns, to the documentation of all 829 surviving pebble structures, and beyond, to the impact of the landscape on local economies and its importance today as a military training camp. The results of the study will inform many disciplines including archaeology, cultural and art history, anthropology, conservation, and landscape studies.

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UCL Press

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1787350819

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Artificial Life

Proceedings Of An Interdisciplinary Workshop On The Synthesis And Simulation Of Living Systems

By: Christopher Langton

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Artificial Life

Proceedings Of An Interdisciplinary Workshop On The Synthesis And Simulation Of Living Systems

By: Christopher Langton

In September 1987, the first workshop on Artificial Life was held at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Jointly sponsored by the Center for Nonlinear Studies, the Santa Fe Institute, and Apple Computer Inc, the workshop brought together 160 computer scientists, biologists, physicists, anthropologists, and other assorted ""-ists,"" all of whom shared a common interest in the simulation and synthesis of living systems. During five intense days, we saw a wide variety of models of living systems, including mathematical models for the origin of life, self-reproducing automata, computer programs using the mechanisms of Darwinian evolution to produce co-adapted ecosystems, simulations of flocking birds and schooling fish, the growth and development of artificial plants, and much, much more The workshop itself grew out of my frustration with the fragmented nature of the literature on biological modeling and simulation. For years I had prowled around libraries, shifted through computer-search results, and haunted bookstores, trying to get an overview of a field which I sensed existed but which did not seem to have any coherence or unity. Instead, I literally kept stumbling over interesting work almost by accident, often published in obscure journals if published at all.

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Routledge

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0429688997

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ABOUT SIXTY: Why Every Sherlock Holmes Story is the Best

By: Christopher Redmond,Dan Andriacco

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ABOUT SIXTY: Why Every Sherlock Holmes Story is the Best

By: Christopher Redmond,Dan Andriacco

Sixty original tales of Sherlock Holmes -- which one is the best? In sixty essays, sixty Sherlockians make the case for each of the stories. Their arguments range from the playful to the academic, and are as varied as the authors themselves. As editor Christopher Redmond says, ""What they have written is compelling evidence that any one of the Sherlock Holmes stories can be the best; it’s all a matter of what the reader is looking for."" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales range from Victorian horror, to jewel heists, to society scandals. As these authors show, there's a Sherlock Holmes adventure for every taste. This volume benefits the Beacon Society. No royalties from the sale of this volume will be paid to either the authors or the editor. Royalties earned will, with the cooperation of the publisher, be turned over in their entirety to the Beacon Society, a not-for-profit organization of Sherlockians with the purpose of introducing young people to Sherlock Holmes through classrooms and libraries.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479423734

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9781479423736

Where the Bodies Are Buried

By: Christopher Brookmyre

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Where the Bodies Are Buried

By: Christopher Brookmyre

The murder of a small-time Scottish hoodlum makes big trouble for two Glasgow detectives in a thriller that’ll “wake up crime fiction readers everywhere” (Val McDermid). When a neighborhood heroin dealer turns up dead one fine morning in Scotland, no one is too surprised. Sleeping with a major drug trafficker’s girlfriend can bring around plenty of enemies. It’s no wonder that Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod has plenty of early leads. If only out-of-work actress Jasmine Sharp could get a lead. With a career in nosedive, she’s learning the ropes at her uncle Jim’s PI business. But when Jim goes missing, Sharp is thrown into the deep end. To find him she’ll have to solve his most recent case—and do it solo. Following the trail quickly leads Sharp into the crosshairs of an unknown assailant—and headed down the same road as McLeod. When their investigations become intertwined, “Glasgow’s mean streets come alive . . . [in] one of the best novels of the year” (John Lutz, New York Times–bestselling and Edgar award–winning author). “[For] fans of Lynda La Plante’s Prime Suspect series and HBO’s The Wire.” —Library Journal “Tough Scottish humor . . . leavened with Elmore Leonard-like flourishes . . . finely controlled yet exuberant mayhem.” —The Christian Science Monitor

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802194443

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9780802194442

Thinking Through Images

Narrative, rhythm, embodiment and landscape in the Nordic Bronze Age

By: Christopher Tilley

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Thinking Through Images

Narrative, rhythm, embodiment and landscape in the Nordic Bronze Age

By: Christopher Tilley

This book provides a general self-reflexive review and critical analysis of Scandinavian rock art from the standpoint of Chris Tilley’s research in this area over the last thirty years. It offers a novel alternative theoretical perspective stressing the significance of visual narrative structure and rhythm, using musical analogies, putting particular emphasis on the embodied perception of images in a landscape context. Part I reviews the major theories and interpretative perspectives put forward to understand the images, in historical perspective, and provides a critique discussing each of the main types of motifs occurring on the rocks. Part II outlines an innovative theoretical and methodological perspective for their study stressing sequence and relationality in bodily movement from rock to rock. Part III is a detailed case study and analysis of a series of rocks from northern Bohuslän in western Sweden. The conclusions reflect on the theoretical and methodological approach being taken in relation to the disciplinary practices involved in rock art research, and its future.

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232

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Oxbow Books

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1789257042

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My Fighting Congregation

An Army Chaplain in the Pacific

By: Chaplain William C. Taggart,Christopher Cross

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My Fighting Congregation

An Army Chaplain in the Pacific

By: Chaplain William C. Taggart,Christopher Cross

My Fighting Congregation is the World War 2 combat diary of U.S. Army Chaplain William Taggart. His book details his work with servicemen aboard US ships in the Pacific, and the duties he performed alongside Allied troops fighting on Java and stationed in Australia. My Fighting Congregation is both an important historical document and an inspirational story of the valuable services performed by the US Army�s Chaplain Service during World War II.

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Lulu.com

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0359847269

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9780359847266

BODY AND IMAGE

EXPLORATIONS IN LANDSCAPE PHENOMENOLOGY 2

By: Christopher Y. Tilley,Wayne Bennett

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BODY AND IMAGE

EXPLORATIONS IN LANDSCAPE PHENOMENOLOGY 2

By: Christopher Y. Tilley,Wayne Bennett

Chris Tilley offers a kinaesthetic approach to understanding ancient landscapes, one that uses the full body and all the senses, through examples of rock art and megalithic architecture in Norway, Ireland, and Sweden.

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Left Coast Press

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1598743147

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9781598743142

The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3

The Brough of Birsay, Orkney: Investigations 1954-2014

By: Christopher D. Morris

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The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3

The Brough of Birsay, Orkney: Investigations 1954-2014

By: Christopher D. Morris

The Brough of Birsay was the power-center of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotlands key monuments and visitor attractions on the islands. This publication is the culmination of 60 years of investigations that took place on the site between 1954 and 2014. This new volume incorporates comprehensive accounts of work undertaken by Dr Ralegh Radford and Mr Stewart Cruden between 1954 and 1964, excavations by the Viking and Early Settlement Research Project under the direction of the author on site between 1974 and 1981, a rescue excavation in 1993, a geophysical survey in 2007 and archival research up to 2014. Specialist artefactual and palaeobiological studies of metallurgical material, ogham inscriptions and a gilt-bronze mount of Insular origin are included, together with re-analysis of the radiocarbon dates from all sites in Birsay Bay, and a re-assessment of the architecture and dating of the church and related buildings on the Brough itself. The final two chapters put the Brough, as both a Pictish power-center and the hub of the Viking earldom, in the overall context of Birsay Bay and Viking and late Norse Orkney, and the wider world between the Pictish and late Norse/Medieval periods. As well as being the authors third and final volume reporting on work for the Birsay Bay Project, this volume completes a trilogy of studies of the Brough itself, alongside Mrs Cecil Curles and Prof John Hunters earlier monographs.

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784

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Oxbow Books

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1789256100

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9781789256109

Daredevil

Predator's Smile

By: Christopher Golden

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Daredevil

Predator's Smile

By: Christopher Golden

A ruthless crime boss is bent on wrestling control of New York's underworld from the corrupt clutches of the Kingpin of Crime. His enforcer is Bullseye, a master assassin with a pathological hatred for Daredevil. Bullseye takes to his work with deadly efficiency, killing his way toward the Man Without Fear. Now Daredevil must make a deal with the Kingpin.

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404

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Berkley

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1572970103

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9781572970106

Kebister

The Four-thousand-year-old Story of One Shetland Township

By: Olwyn Owen,Christopher Lowe

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Kebister

The Four-thousand-year-old Story of One Shetland Township

By: Olwyn Owen,Christopher Lowe

The story of Kebister was a constant surprise to archaeologists and has opened a remarkable window on 4000 years of Shetland's past.

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Society Antiquaries Scotland

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0903903148

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9780903903141

Light Before Day

By: Christopher Rice

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Light Before Day

By: Christopher Rice

Adam Murphy, a twenty-five-year-old journalist, is chasing a career-making story of a serial killer preying on young gay men in West Hollywood when he is abruptly fired by the magazine that employs him. He soon learns his former lover has disappeared, but what he+s about to uncover is far more diabolical than he could ever have imagined. Light Before Day is a riveting and complex mystery set against the gothic landscape that Rice has made his own.

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Miramax Books

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1401359892

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Stone Worlds

Stone Worlds

Interpreting Landscapes

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Landscape in the Longue Durée

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Artificial Life

Artificial Life

ABOUT SIXTY: Why Every Sherlock Holmes Story is the Best

ABOUT SIXTY: Why Every Sherlock Holmes Story is the Best

Where the Bodies Are Buried

Where the Bodies Are Buried

Thinking Through Images

Thinking Through Images

My Fighting Congregation

My Fighting Congregation

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BODY AND IMAGE

The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3

The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3

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