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  • Planning and Politics

    The British Experience 1960-1976

    by Michael Shanks ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1977, Planning and Politics examines Britain’s economic planning experiments during a period when the country’s seemingly intractable economic problems had become one of the major weaknesses of the western world. Since 1960, both Conservative and Labour governments carried out a series of experiments to plan the country’s affairs better and involve industry and trade unions in ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Theatre/Archaeology

    by Mike Pearson, Michael Shanks ...
    Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Creative Pragmatics for Active Learning in STEM Education

    Edited by Connie Svabo, Michael Shanks, Chunfang Zhou, Tamara Carleton ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume is an invitation to redesign STEMhigher education**.** It shows the way to active learning in diverse scenarios and provides educators, leaders and policymakers with a visionary approach to active learning andhands**-**on examples of how education can help students navigate complexity and unpredictability—the challenges of contemporary society.Featuring contributions from a ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Muscle and a Shovel

    10th Edition

    by Michael Shank ...
    10th Edition with Randall's Secret, Endnotes and Bible References.Muscle and a Shovel is a true story about a pair of young newly-weds who move to the city to chase the American dream. In the middle of their pursuit they are befriended by a man who turns their beliefs about God, their church, and their faith upside-down. Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Community Churches - no one ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Handbook of Archaeological Theories

    by R. Alexander Bentley, Kenneth M. Ames, Alex W. Barker, Peter Bellwood, Reinhard Bernbeck, John Bintliff, Briggs Buchanan, Mark Collard0, Tom D. Dillehay1, Timothy Earle2, Don D. Fowler3, Liane Gabora4, Andrew Gardner5, David W.J. Gill6, Kelly Hays-Gilpin7, ThomasJ Green8, Edward A. Jolie9, Sian Jones0, Peter Jordan1, Stephanie Koerner2, Carl Lipo3, Ben Marler4, Herbert D.G. Maschner5, Randall H. McGuire6, Ian J. McNiven7, Mark Pluciennuk8, Steven D. Price9, Lynette Russell0, Marion Salter1, Michael Shanks2, Stephen Shennan3, Timothy Taylor4, Patty Jo Watson5, Gillian Wallace6, Gary S. Webster7, David S. Whitley8, David R. Yesner9, Marek Zvelebil0 ...
    This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Experiencing the Past

    On the Character of Archaeology

    by Michael Shanks ...
    Series series Material Cultures
    In Experiencing the Past Michael Shanks presents an animated exploration of the character of archaeology and reclaims the sentiment and feeling which are so often lost in purely academic approaches. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Archaeology

    The Discipline of Things

    by Michael Shanks, Timothy Webmoor, Christopher Witmore, Bjørnar Olsen ...
    Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane. This book considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage with things in order to craft stories, both big and small, concerning our relations with ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Re-constructing Archaeology

    Theory and Practice

    by Michael Shanks, Christopher Tilley ...
    InRe-Constructing Archaeology, Shanks and Tilley aim to challenge the disciplinary practices of both traditional and the `new' archaeology and to present a radical alternative - a critically self-consious archaeology aware of itself as pracitce in the present, and equally a social archaeology that appreciates artefacts not merely as ovjects of analysis but as part of a social world of past and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Interpreting Archaeology

    Finding Meaning in the Past

    Edited by Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Ian Hodder, Jonathan Last, Gavin Lucas, Michael Shanks ...
    This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, a recognition of how ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Archaeological Imagination

    by Michael Shanks ...
    Archaeology is a way of acting and thinking—about what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains, about material and temporal processes to which people and their goods are subject, about the processes of order and entropy, of making, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. These elements, and the practices that archaeologists follow to uncover them, is the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Classical Archaeology of Greece

    Experiences of the Discipline

    by Michael Shanks ...
    Archaeologists do not discover the past but take the fragmentary remains which they recover and make something of them. Archaeology is a process of detection and supposition; this is what makes it so fascinating. However, the interpretations of archaeologists differ and change over time. They depend upon the amount of evidence available, the ideas and preconceptions of the archaeologist and their ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Archaeologies of Presence

    Edited by Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye, Michael Shanks ...
    Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions:What are the principle signifiers of theatrical ... Read more

    $65.99 USD