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  • Hellenistic and Roman Pontecagnano

    The Danish Excavations in Proprietà Avallone 1986-1990

    Edited by Birgit Tang ...
    Series series Collection du Centre Jean Bérard
    This volume presents the results of the excavations conducted by the University of Copenhagen at Pontecagnano (Prop. Avallone), located some 8 km southeast of Salerno in the northern part (the Ager Picentinus) of the Sele Plain in Campania. The excavations revealed a part of the residential zone of the ancient town with two main phases of occupation, the first belonging to the late Classical/early ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Hidden Wonders

    The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance

    by Etienne Guyon, Jose Bico, Etienne Reyssat, Benoit Roman ...
    Look through a physicist’s lens to revel in the hidden elegance of 200+ everyday objects and physical mechanisms, from crumpled paper to sandcastles.Includes 35 science experiments that bring physics concepts to life in your own kitchen!Hidden Wonders focuses on the objects that populate our everyday life—crumpled paper, woven fabric, a sand pile—but looks at them with a physicist’s eye, revealing ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Eye of the Beholder

    Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

    by Laura J. Snyder ...
    The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek—a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher—gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined world of microscopic life. At the ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • On Architecture

    by Vitruvius ...
    Translated by Richard Schofield ...
    In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, De architectura has been an invaluable source of information for scholars. The rediscovery of Vitruvius during the Renaissance ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction

    by Nikolas Davies, Erkki Jokiniemi ...
    With more than 20,000 words and terms individually defined, the Dictionary offers huge coverage for anyone studying or working in architecture, construction or any of the built environment fields.The innovative and detailed cross-referencing system allows readers to track down elusive definitions from general subject headings. Starting from only the vaguest idea of the word required, a reader can ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • Etruscan Granulation

    by Gerhard Nestler & Edilberto Formigli ...
    Brynmorgen Press is pleased to announce the publication of an Italian book now available for the first time in an English language edition. Through historical photos, electron microscopy, and experiments inspired by archeological research, the authors examine the methods and results of classical goldsmiths through history as they created works that continue to mesmerize us today. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Exploring Ancient Textiles

    Pushing the Boundaries of Established Methodologies

    Edited by Alistair Dickey, Margarita Gleba, Sarah Hitchens, Gabriella Longhitano ...
    Series Book 40 - Ancient Textiles
    Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has developed into an important field of scientific study. It has greatly benefited from interdisciplinary approaches, which combine the application of advanced technological knowledge to ethnographic, textual and experimental investigations. In exploring textiles and textile processing (such as production and exchange) in ancient ... Read more

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  • Roman Building Techniques

    by Tony Rook ...
    Building and architecture flourished throughout the Roman Empire. The Romans discovered new techniques to solve problems but also to impress the world. They built aqueducts to bring water into their cities and towns, grand baths for cleansing and socialising, and elaborate villas for the cream of their society. In this book, scientist and archaeologist Tony Rook takes the reader through Roman ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture'

    by Vitruvius ...
    The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped humanist architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. This new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Structural Intuitions

    Seeing Shapes in Art and Science

    by Martin Kemp ...
    Series series Page-Barbour Lectures
    "All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge," wrote Albert Einstein. In Structural Intuitions, a fascinating exploration of the commonalities between two seemingly disparate realms, renowned art historian Martin Kemp applies Einstein's notion both to science and to art.Kemp argues that in both fields, work begins at the intuitive level, curiosity aroused by our ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Structural Design in Building Conservation

    by Dimitris Theodossopoulos ...
    No building is properly conserved if it is not structurally sound. Consequently architects, engineers and conservation officers need an adequate grounding in the technology, the materials and the historic origins of the building in order to complete a conservation project successfully.Structural Design in Building Conservation deals with design issues and technical choices, showing how they are ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Conservation of Historic Buildings

    by Bernard Feilden ...
    Since its publication in 1982 Sir Bernard Feilden's Conservation of Historic Buildings has become the standard text for architects and others involved in the conservation of historic structures. Leading practitioners around the world have praised the book as being the most significant single volume on the subject to be published. This third edition revises and updates a classic book, including ... Read more

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