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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Interpreting Objects and Collectionsby Susan Pearce
Routledge 1994; US$ 52.95Bringing together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, this volume examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things. more...
Rogues in the Galleryby Hugh McLeave
Boson Books 2003; US$ 9.95Rogues in the Gallery exposes it all: the cozy insurance ransom racket, the professional gangs of art thieves, the specialists, the connections with the international drug racket and the Mafia. Hugh McLeave has researched the whys and wherefores of the question for years, drawing on resources available to him through agencies such as Interpol, the FBI, the French Sūreté, and Scotland Yard. Rogues in the Gallery is a lively and informed account of the causes?and limited cures?of this epidemic. It charts the classic outbreaks, portrays the rich gallery of protagonists, and defines what means there are to combat the disease. But even with sophisticated computers and Interpol, the total elimination of art theft is unlikely. As long as auction prices... more...
Ancient History from Coinsby Christopher Howgego
Routledge 1995; US$ 34.95Ancient History from Coins demystifies numismatics, introducing students to the techniques, methods, problems and advantages of using coins to do ancient history, and provides - through numerous examples - a history of coinage. more...
The Passionate Collectorby Roy R. Neuberger
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 47.50"Few living persons have served the Metropolitan Museum of Art-indeed, the entire world of art and art museums-longer, or with more distinction, than Roy Neuberger. A man of taste, passion, persistence, and generosity, he has shared much of his great private collection with the public, and for generations has supported activities that bring people to museums, and motivate them to return again and again. Now, this giant of a man has recorded eighty years of his life-and the result is entertaining, illuminating, and, like the tireless gentleman himself, inspiring." -Philippe de Montebello, Director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Equal to his passion for investing is Roy Neuberger's love for art-which he has collected and encouraged for eight... more...
Ungrounded Empiresby Aihwa Ong; Donald Nonini
Routledge 1997; US$ 44.95This book examines Chinese transnationalism as a distinctive domain within the new 'flexible' capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. It is based on new ethnographic research and interweaves anthropology, culture and politics. more...
Prestige, Authority and Power in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Textsby Felicity Riddy
Boydell & Brewer 2000; US$ 95.00Prestige, authority and power: what is the significance of these three terms for the study of late-medieval manuscripts and texts? This collection of essays, by leading scholars from Britain and North America, answers this question in various ways: by discussing manuscripts as prestigious de luxe objects; by showing how the layout of texts was used to confer different kinds of authority; and by locating manuscripts and texts more dynamically in what Foucault calls `power's net-like organisation'. more...
How to Buy and Sell Artby Michael Reid
Allen & Unwin 2004; US$ 23.96Never bought a painting or a sculpture? This guide has all the answers for those who want to start collecting art but don't know where to begin. more...
Excavations at Nemea IIIby Robert C. Knapp; John D. Mac Isaac; Stephen G. Miller
University of California Press 2005; US$ 135.00Since 1974 the University of California at Berkeley has been sponsoring extensive excavations at the Panhellenic athletic festival center of ancient Nemea in the modern Greek province of Korinthia. With its well-documented excavation and clear historical context, the site offers an excellent opportunity for investigation and analysis. This volume, the third in a series of publications on Nemea, is a detailed presentation of the more than three thousand legible coins from all over the ancient world that have been unearthed there. The coins, which are mostly bronze but show an unusually high proportion of silver, reflect the periods of greatest activity at the site?the late Archaic and Early Classical, the Early Hellenistic, the Early Christian,... more...
eBay the Smart Wayby Joseph T. Sinclair
AMACOM 2005; US$ 17.95Why would anyone buy a book for dummies when they can eBay the Smart Way? more...