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  • Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards: The Cross-Temporality of Headstones

    by Sylvia E. Thornbush, Mary J. Thornbush ...
    This interdisciplinary reference work presents a linked consideration, to the reader, of physical-cultural (physicocultural) representations of headstones located in urban churchyards in England and Scotland. The geomorphology of landscapes relevant to these locations is explained with the help of detailed case studies from Oxford and Edinburgh. The integrated physicocultural approach addresses ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards

    by Sylvia E. Thornbush, Mary J. Thornbush ...
    This interdisciplinary reference work presents a linked consideration, to the reader, of physical-cultural (physicocultural) representations of headstones located in urban churchyards in England and Scotland. The geomorphology of landscapes relevant to these locations is explained with the help of detailed case studies from Oxford and Edinburgh. The integrated physicocultural approach addresses ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Photographs Across Time: Studies in Urban Landscapes

    by Mary J. Thornbush, Sylvia E. Thornbush ...
    Photographs Across Time: Studies in Urban Landscapes presents a record of urban environments in Britain, including Oxford, York, Scarborough, Dunbar, Edinburgh, and Inverness. It is a unique demonstration of how digital photography bridges urban landscape studies with archaeology and heritage studies. The book revisits several landscape and weathering studies in churchyards throughout England and ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Heritage Stone Conservation in Urban Churchyards

    Merging Necrogeography, Historical Archaeology, and Geomorphology

    by Mary J. Thornbush, Sylvia E. Thornbush ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a cross-disciplinary perspective on the degradation and deterioration of the cultural record encompassed by urban headstones located in parish churchyards. Its interdisciplinary approach allows the geomorphological analysis of rock weathering to be combined with the impacts on the cultural record, its interpretation, and management. In particular, by examining the impacts of air ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Dry Store Room No. 1

    The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (Text Only)

    by Richard Fortey ...
    This edition does not include illustrations.‘Dry Store Room No. 1’ is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination.Behind the public façade of any great museum there lies a secret domain: one of unseen galleries, locked doors, priceless specimens ... Read more

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    The epic story of the First Australians

    by Scott Cane ...
    First Footprints tells the extraordinary story of the Aboriginal people of Australia. How they made their way out of Africa 60,000 years ago, and how they survived across this vast continent, from the harsh deserts of the inland to the glaciers of southern Tasmania. With photos from the ABC TV series of the same name.Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern ... Read more

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  • Woodlands

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    ‘Trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife. Each species has its own agenda and its own interactions with human activities …’Written by one of Britain’s best-known naturalists, Woodlands offers a fascinating new insight into the trees of the British landscape that have filled us with awe and inspiration throughout the centuries.Looking at such diverse evidence as the woods used in ... Read more

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    by Oliver Gilbert ...
    Series Book 86 - Collins New Naturalist Library
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  • The Origins of the Irish

    by J. P. Mallory ...
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