Coming Soon
A Medieval Life Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9781914427435
Pub Date: 21 Feb 2025
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: 60 b/w and color illustrations
Description:
A Medieval Life: William de Felton and Edlingham Castle, 1260–1327 is a biography of a little-known man living in late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Britain. William’s precise birth and death dates are unrecorded, his place of origin has for a long time been unclear, and his parentage is still uncertain. Although somewhat wealthy and privileged, William does not represent either the high aristocracy or the ‘great and the good’ of his time, and a central theme of this book is how to write a biography of someone relatively anonymous in the Middle Ages.
RRP: £49.95
Anna Freeman Bentley – Complete Reality Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9781910221655
Pub Date: 27 Feb 2025
Illustrations: 100
Description:
Anna Freeman Bentley (b. 1982) is an artist based in London. Her painting practice explores the built environment, architecture and interiors, inviting emotive, psychological and semiotic readings of space.
2000 Blacks Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780822967309
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Description:
Winner of the 2023 Cave Canem Poetry Prize
A Beaker Pit, an Iron Age and Late Roman Occupation at Laurels Road, Offenham, Worcestershire Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 71
ISBN: 9781911228707
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Series: TVAS Monograph Series
Description:
Archaeological excavation of a 0.64ha area in advance of development of a larger field produced evidence of use of this landscape from the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age (Beaker period), middle to late Iron Age and middle to late Roman, besides later ridge and furrow. The Beaker period was represented only by a single pit containing the period’s distinctive pottery, with no evidence of the burial that often accompanies such deposits.
A Late Iron Age to Late Roman Settlement at Draycott Lane, Blockley, Gloucestershire Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 121
ISBN: 9781911228738
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Series: TVAS Monograph Series
Description:
Archaeological excavation revealed a latest Iron Age to Roman settlement typical of the Cotswold Hills for this period. The fieldwork revealed a complex settlement comprising numerous ditched (and hedged) pens, paddocks and enclosures which had been re-ordered on numerous occasions. The settlement was not enclosed per se but was aligned on a nearby ditched trackway.
A New No-Man's-Land Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780822948155
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Series: Pitt Illuminations
Description:
Guantánamo sits at the center of two of the most vexing issues of US policy of the past century: relations with Cuba and the Global War on Terror. It is a contested, extralegal space. In A New No-Man’s-Land, Esther Whitfield explores a multilingual archive of materials produced both at the US naval base and in neighboring Cuban communities and proposes an understanding of Guantánamo as a coherent borderland region, where experiences of isolation are opportunities to find common ground.
A Spaceship for All Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780822947660
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Description:
When the Apollo 11 astronauts returned from humanity’s first voyage to the moon in 1969, NASA officials advocated for more ambitious missions. But with the civil rights movement, environmental concerns, the Vietnam War, and other social crises taking up much of the public’s attention, they lacked the support to make those ambitions a reality. Instead, the space agency had to think more modestly and pragmatically, crafting a program that could leverage the excitement of Apollo while promising relevance for average Americans.
Absent Here Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780822967286
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Description:
Winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from the 2023 AWP Award Series.
African American Urban History from Past to Future Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9780822948162
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
An Early Iron Age Roundhouse, Late Roman Villa and Roman Landscape at Millfields, Cam, Gloucestershire Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 134
ISBN: 9781911228752
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Series: TVAS Monograph Series
Description:
Fieldwork revealed details of a wide landscape of Roman fields and enclosures laid out around the junction of two droveways and probably spanning the entire Roman period. An early Iron Age roundhouse radiocarbon dated to 653-542 cal BC had previously occupied the same area that was to be close to the heart of the Roman enclosures. However, the chief interest of the site lies in the late Roman period (later 3rd to 4th century) when a rectangular villa was constructed on the terrace edge overlooking the river Cam.
Animation between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 295
ISBN: 9788772196534
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
“Animation” implies that the image or figural object is alive, endowed with anima: a “soul”, “spirit” or “vital principle.” In the Middle Ages, holy or emphatically unholy imagery often possessed an ability to come to life, to act and do things, to move and gesticulate, to speak and exude. This “life” might be a result of natural or supernatural principles; it might be a work of magic, a work of mechanics or a miracle (a divine work).
Barbara Hepworth: Strings Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9781901192667
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Imprint: Piano Nobile
Description:
Barbara Hepworth: Strings is the first publication dedicated to the artist’s stringed sculptures, paintings and drawings. In 1939, Hepworth (1903–1975) made her first sculpture threaded with strings. For the rest of her career, she intermittently combined string with works made from plaster, wood, metal and stone.
Carl Nielsen Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 792
ISBN: 9788775972845
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Description:
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) occupies a prominent place among European modern composers of the early twentieth century. He represents the generation of Richard Strauss, Ferruccio Busoni, Jean Sibelius and Gustav Mahler. His music is performed all over the world.
Conflict Resolution in the Nordic World Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 108
ISBN: 9788775970049
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Description:
This book examines the model developed in the Nordic countries for handling labor market relations between employers and employees - a model that has secured flexible and well-functioning labor market relations with comparatively high remuneration in case of sickness or unemployment. Consensual - and comparatively efficient - policies have likewise been pursued in agricultural and industrial policies, in environmental policies, and in many policies related to public services. The preconditions for these policies are strong civil societies, i.
Creatures of Reason Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780822948384
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2025
Description:
In his lifetime, John Herschel was Britain’s best-known natural philosopher, a world celebrity, and arguably the first modern scientist of the generation in which the term itself was invented. The polymath son of William Herschel, discoverer of Uranus and constructor of the world’s largest telescopes, Herschel took highest honors as a student at Cambridge, conducted groundbreaking work in chemistry and optics, helped establish a mathematical revolution, extended his father’s astronomical surveys to the entire sky, and wrote the popular texts by which a generation of readers learned what it meant to do science. Along the way, Herschel gave to natural philosophy the contours of modern science, defining scientific theories as “creatures of reason rather than of sense.