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Kelsey Mckinney

You Didn't Hear This from Me

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMESAND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH BY TIME MAGAZINE , AMAZON, AND KOBO • NAMED MOST ANTICIPATED BY LIT HUB, PUREWOW, AND W MAGAZINE" Gossip is the only…

A. N. Devers (Freelance Writer, UK, and Owner of The Second Shelf bookstore)

Train

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Triggering severe nostalgia and denoting adventure, mystery, and glamour, the passenger train is s…

Dean Falk

The Botanic Age

How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful? The beginning of the Stone Age, marked by the invention of stone tools, has traditionally dominated discussions about the origin and evolution of…

Donna Young

A Bridge to Nowhere

Artfully written and meticulously crafted, A Bridge to Nowhere explores the lives of men and women in isolated settlements across Canada, examining how their experiences are shaped by memory, precarity, a…

Charlie Parker (1920-1955)

Intégrale Charlie Parker Vol.9

Francesca Rochberg

Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity

Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others, the physical ontology of modern science no longer functions as a …

Pedro A. López García, Denisse L. Argote, Manuel A. Torres-García

Knowledge Discovery from Archaeological Materials

This Element highlights the employment within archaeology of classification methods developed in the field of chemometrics, artificial intelligence, and Bayesian statistics. These often have better result…

Lijun Zhang

Living in Heritage

Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou, translated "rammed earth building." These structures were designated a UNESCO…

Webb Keane

Animals, Robots, Gods

A mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhumanMoral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. Anim…

Aghi Bahi

Heritage and Transformation of an African Popular Music

Modern popular music is closely linked to the 'traditional' heritage - intangible and material - of which artist-musicians have, in a way, usufruct. This Element examines the relationship between (cultura…

Nicoletta Momigliano

Aegeomania

This Element provides an overview of Aegeomania: the fascination, sometimes bordering on the obsession, with the Aegean Bronze Age, which manifests itself in the uses of Aegean Bronze Age material culture…

Pierre Zalloua

Ancestors

"In recent years, as companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com have made genetic testing available across the globe, it has become relatively simple to find out where your ancestors came from. But accl…

Janice Newberry

Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory

This book describes the Raising Spirit project, a seven-year collaboration examining child-raising values among Blackfoot peoples in southern Alberta. Dilemmas faced by young Indigenous researchers led to…

Eric J. Harvey

Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

Creation myths in the ancient Middle East served, among other things, as works of political economy, justifying and naturalizing materially intensive ritual practices and their entanglements with broader …

Ester Salgarella

Writing in Bronze Age Crete

The Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus were home to a plethora of scripts, including Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and Cypro-Syllabic. This Element is dedicated to the conventionally …

The Materiality of Ancient Greek Identities, 9th to 2nd Centuries BCE

Material culture is the physical trace of what was used to construct and define identities in the past, and is therefore a key source of evidence for archaeologists and ancient historians investigating an…

Richard Hodges

The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns

Through a reconsideration of the debate about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon towns, Richard Hodges focuses on the origins and history of the four Middle-Saxon emporia - London, Ipswich, Southampton and Yo…

Emily Hammer

The Archaeology of Pastoralism, Mobility, and Society

"In this book, Emily Hammer articulates a new framework for investigating variability in past pastoral practices. She proposes ways to develop a more rigorous relationship with pastoralist ethnograph…

Cretan Hieroglyphic

Comprehensive account of the earliest undeciphered script from the Aegean, indeed the earliest writing in Europe, which was used on Crete nearly 4000 years ago. Leading experts analyses it through an arra…