Loft Architects of the Southwest. Grounded in the Mountains and the Desert

Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried provides an alternative history of the first millennium in Britain. As she did with her pre-history of Britain in Ancestors, Professor Alice Roberts combines archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history to shed fresh light on how people lived: by examining the stories of the dead

Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the XVI-XVIII Centuries. Belgian and Dutch Drawings of the XIX-XX Centuries, which has now been translated into English, is part of series of substantial scholary collection catalogues of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. One of a museum's most important tasks is to disclose its collection conscientiously and responsibly, a goal the Pushkin State Museum's staff has been steadily realising for years now. Издание на английском языке

Книга "Оружейные реликвии российского флота" содержит сведения об оружейных коллекциях Центрального военно-морского музея (Санкт-Петербург), о мастерах изготовителях холодного и ручного огнестрельного оружия, о технологиях их художественного оформления, о владельцах этого оружия и об их судьбах. Книга, несомненно, будет интересна не только для специалистов-оружиеведов, но и для многочисленных любителей, коллекционеров и читателей, интересующихся историей отечественного флота. Автор - Игорь Павлович Суханов - капитан I ранга, кандидат военно-морских наук, заведующий фондом оружия Центрального военно-морского музея. The chief curator of the weaponry collection in the Central Naval Museum, retired Captain Igor Pavlovich Sukhanov, holder of a higher degree in naval sciences, introduces the reader to rare and interesting weapons to be found in the museum's stocks

The book features seventh to fourth century BC objects from the State Hermitage's unique collection of Scythian art. In includes both well-known masterpieces and less known and expressive works, all of which equally reflect the culture of Scythian kings and nobility. by no mere chance most of the objects are made of precious metals, primarily gold, and sumptuously decorated in the so-called animal style typical of Eurasian nomadic art • The museum history of Scythian antiquities is traced back to the 18th century, yet a major part of their discoveries were made in the 19th and 20th centuries. Nowadays excavations of Scythian burial-mounds are carried on and provide new finds to keep the Hermitage collection of Scythian treasures growing. The present book comprehensively presents the great collection and offers detailed reproductions of its objects which may be of interest to art historians

In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the largest financial institutions made a startling realization: Libor the London interbank offered rate, which determines the interest rates on trillions in loans worldwide was set daily by a small group of easily manipulated administrators, and that they could reap huge profits by nudging it fractions of a percent to suit their trading portfolios. Tom Hayes, a brilliant but troubled mathematician, became the lynchpin of a wild alliance that included a prickly French trader nicknamed Gollum; the broker Abbo, who liked to publicly strip naked when drinking; a nervous Kazakh chicken farmer known as Derka Derka; a broker known as Village (short for Village Idiot) who racked up huge expense account bills; an executive called Clumpy because of his patchwork hair loss; and a broker uncreatively nicknamed Big Nose who had once been a semi-professional boxer

Loaded with hundreds of photographs of high-end homes and interiors, these gorgeous books is a treat for lovers of residential architecture and a resource for people planning to build their own house • Featuring some of the world's most aesthetically creative and environmentally conscious residential design and construction, this gorgeous collection reflects homes with a deep reverence for their natural and cultural contexts, from coastal dwellings to contemporary urban dwellings and mountain cottages With 30 leading pioneers of the green movement, this informed overview spotlights architects from such firms as Christopher Wright, Coates Design Architects, Nathan Good or Robert Hutchison

Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour, technical ingenuity and bitter personal strife involved in its creation. For over a century after work on the cathedral began in 1296, the proposed dome was regarded as all but impossible to build because of its enormous size. The greatest architectural puzzle of its age, when finally completed in 1436 the dome was hailed as one of the great wonders of the world. It has gone down in history as a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture • This book tells the extraordinary story of how the cupola was raised and of the dome's architect, the brilliant and volatile Filippo Brunelleschi

Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy, she also met with amazing kindness and understanding, tempered by a great deal of Cockney humour. She also earned the confidences of some whose lives were truly stranger, more poignant and more terrifying than could ever be recounted in fiction • Attached to an order of nuns who had been working in the slums since the 1870s, Jennifer tells the story not only of the women she treated, but also of the community of nuns (including one who was accused of stealing jewels from Hatton Garden) and the camaraderie of the midwives with whom she trained

What is the secret to humanity’s evolutionary success? Could it be our strength, our intellect… or something much nicer? • From the authors of New York Times bestseller The Genius of Dogs comes a powerful new idea about how ‘friendliness’ is the key factor in the flourishing of our species. Hare and Woods present an elegant new theory called self-domestication, looking at examples of co-operation and empathy and what this can tell us about the evolutionary success of Homo sapiens…

Убийство в 19 веке было редкостью. Но убийство как сенсация и развлечение стало повсеместным явлением - трансформировалось в романы, в афиши и баллады, в театр, мелодраму и оперу - даже в кукольные представления и представления с участием собак • В этой тщательно исследованной и убедительной книге Джудит Фландерс - автор книги "Викторианский дом" - пересказывает ужасные истории о множестве различных видов убийств - как известных, так и малоизвестных. От преступлений (и мифов) Суини Тодда и Джека Потрошителя до трагедий убитой семьи Марр в лондонском Ист-Энде, Берка и Хэйра и их бизнеса по похищению тел в Эдинбурге, а также Гринакра, который перевозил свою расчлененную невесту по городу на омнибусе • С неотразимым составом мошенников, фальшивомонетчиков и отравителей, сумасшедших, плохих и опасных для познания, "Изобретение убийства" - это одновременно захватывающая повесть о преступлении и наказании и история в ее наиболее читаемом виде