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  • The Brutish Museums

    The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

    by Dan Hicks ...
    New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020'Essential' – Sunday Times'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books'A real game-changer'– EconomistWalk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Scare Myself

    A Memoir

    'We won’t leave any stone unturned here. We’ll get to all the stones, because I’m a giver.' Dan Hicks**'There are lots of people who can point to music on the shelf. Some like to light candles to it, others seek only to snuf them out. Dan burned them all brightly, and here is his tale.'Elvis Costello, from his foreword to this bookDan Hicks didn’t have his heart set on a career in music. It all ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Every Monument Will Fall

    A Story of Remembering and Forgetting

    by Dan Hicks ...
    ‘An extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold, provocative book is an indispensable resource’ Paul Gilroy, founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at UCL‘Hicks’ must-read book describes how it was possible for a human skull to be made into a ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond

    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.How can Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This ground-breaking book reflects on material, visual and digital culture from the Calais “Jungle” – the informal camp where, before its destruction in October 2016, more than 10,000 displaced people lived.LANDE: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond reassesses how we understand ‘crisis’, activism ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The House Always Wins

    270 or Bust

    by Dan Hicks ...
    THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS: 270 or BustEstefanía Mendoza Arroyo has $42 in her bank account, a busted Corolla, and a job cleaning up after people who will never learn her name.According to the algorithm that fired her, she's a redundancy.According to two bored billionaires in Dorado, she's a wager.Their idea is simple: prove that anyone can be engineered into a viable presidential candidate. Give her a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Inheritance of Shadows

    by Dan Hicks ...
    Inheritance of Shadows is not a haunted house story.Maria Hart believes she has inherited a problem, not a mystery. A remote property in rural West Virginia. An unfinished estate. A few weeks of inventory, paperwork, and cleanup before the house is sold and forgotten.Instead, the work stretches.The house resists habitation in small, deniable ways. Measurements don't agree. Repairs fail without ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The 45ers

    by Dan Hicks ...
    THE 45ERSNobody built it. Nobody voted for it. And nobody will say where the money comes from.For thousands of Americans over forty-five-those who worked the "wrong" jobs in the "wrong" decade-a payment now arrives on the first business day of every month. It isn't charity. It isn't a government handout. It is simply a floor: the exact amount of money required to finally stop bracing for impact ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Corking the Bottle

    A Day-by-Day Guide to a Sober Life

    by Dan Hicks ...
    God seems always to be giving us tests. Each exam we pass makes us a better person, but getting there can be a major struggle. That's the way it is when alcohol overwhelms a person's life. Overcoming such an addiction is one of God's toughest tests to pass. But by placing him in the center of our lives, faithfully attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, working through AA's Twelve Steps, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Archaeology and Photography

    Time, Objectivity and Archive

    Edited by Lesley McFadyen, Dan Hicks ...
    Does a photograph freeze a moment of time? What does it mean to treat a photographic image as an artefact? In the visual culture of the 21st century, do new digital and social forms change the status of photography as archival or objective – or are they revealing something more fundamental about photography’s longstanding relationships with time and knowledge?Archaeology and Photography imagines a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology

    Edited by Dan Hicks, Mary C. Beaudry ...
    The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c.AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field. The volume explores key themes in historical archaeology including documentary archaeology, the writing of historical archaeology, colonialism, capitalism, ... Read more

    $58.29 USD

  • Archaeology and Photography

    Time, Objectivity and Archive

    Does a photograph freeze a moment of time? What does it mean to treat a photographic image as an artefact? In the visual culture of the 21st century, do new digital and social forms change the status of photography as archival or objective – or are they revealing something more fundamental about photography's longstanding relationships with time and knowledge?Archaeology and Photography imagines a ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Envisioning Landscape

    Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage

    The common feature of landscape archaeology is its diversity – of method, field location, disciplinary influences and contemporary voices. The contributors to this volume take advantage of these many strands to investigate landscape archaeology in its multiple forms, focusing primarily on the link to heritage, the impact on our understanding of temporality, and the situated theory that arises out ... Read more

    $61.99 USD