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“melanie giles”

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  • A Forged Glamour

    Landscape, Identity and Material Culture in the Iron Age

    by Melanie Giles ...
    A Forged Glamour, which takes its title from a poem, is an exploration of the lives and deaths of ironworking communities renowned for their spectacular material culture, who lived in modern-day East and North Yorkshire, between the 4th and 1st centuries BC. It evaluates settlement and funerary evidence, analyses farming and craftwork, and explores what some of their ideas and beliefs might have ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grave Goods

    Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain

    by Anwen Cooper, Duncan Garrow, Catriona Gibson, Melanie Giles, Neil Wilkin ...
    Britain is internationally renowned for the high quality and exquisite crafting of its later prehistoric grave goods (c. 4000 BC to AD 43). Many of prehistoric Britain's most impressive artefacts have come from graves. Interred with both inhumations and cremations, they provide some of the most durable and well-preserved insights into personal identity and the prehistoric life-course, yet they ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Unearthing Britannia's Tribes

    A BBC history of Iron Age Britain

    by David Miles, Caradoc Peters, Melanie Giles, Nicki Howarth-Pollard, Menna Elfyn, Ilka Tampke, David Greig, Ron Hutton, Miles Russell, Mandy Haggith, Sarah Moss, Guy de la Bédoyère, Melvyn Bragg ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 6 min

    From warrior queens to King Arthur, this epic collection explores the tribes, rulers and civilisations of Britain's Iron AgeIn the first millennium BC, the Iron Age arrived in Britain, bringing with it huge technological and social changes. New civilisations arose, the landscape was transformed, and societies developed new cultures and lifestyles.In this comprehensive collection, we take an in ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Social Experiences of Breastfeeding

    Building Bridges between Research, Policy and Practice

    by Emma Laird, Elizabeth Mayo, Nicki Symes, Maia Boswell-Penc, Alison Bartlett, Fiona Giles, Melanie Fraser, Geraldine Lucas, Abigail Locke, Amy Brown, Cecilia Tomori, Louise Condon, Sally Tedstone, Sally Johnson, Lucila Newell, Lisa Smyth, Dawn Leeming, Fiona Dykes ...
    This book brings together international academics, policy makers and practitioners to build bridges between the real-world and scholarship on breastfeeding.It asks the question: How can the latest social science research into breastfeeding be used to improve support at both policy and practice level, in order to help women breastfeed and to breastfeed for longer?The edited collection includes ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Ancestors

    A prehistory of Britain in seven burials

    by Alice Roberts ...
    An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us better understand life today.‘This is a terrific, timely and transporting book - taking us heart, body and mind beyond history, to the fascinating truth of the prehistoric past and the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Britain BC

    Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Text Only)

    by Francis Pryor ...
    An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds.British history is traditionally regarded as having started with the Roman Conquest. But this is to ignore half a million years of prehistory that still exert a profound influence. Here Francis Pryor examines the great ceremonial landscapes of Ancient Britain ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Seahenge

    a quest for life and death in Bronze Age Britain

    by Francis Pryor ...
    A lively and authoritative investigation into the lives of our ancestors, based on the revolution in the field of Bronze Age archaeology which has been taking place in Norfolk and the Fenlands over the last twenty years, and in which the author has played a central role.One of the most haunting and enigmatic archaeological discoveries of recent times was the uncovering in 1998 at low tide of the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Scenes from Prehistoric Life

    From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans

    by Francis Pryor ...
    An invigorating journey through Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants.'Highly compelling' Spectator, Books of the Year'An evocative foray into the prehistoric past' BBC Countryfile Magazine'Vividly relating what life was like in pre-Roman Britain' Choice Magazine'Makes life in Britain BC often sound rather more appealing than the frenetic ... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Orcadia

    Land, Sea and Stone in Neolithic Orkney

    by Mark Edmonds ...
    The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders.The Orcadian Neolithic is home to some of the best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe: here we can find evidence of a dynamic society with connections binding Orkney to Ireland, to southern Britain and to continental Europe. Yet there is much that remains unknown about the societies that created these sites.In Orcadia, Mark Edmonds ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ancient Ireland

    Life Before the Celts

    by Laurence Flanagan ...
    When the Celts first arrived in Ireland around 200 B.C., the island had already been inhabited for over 7000 years. Drawing on a wealth of archaeological evidence and the author's own mastery of the subject, Ancient Ireland returns to those pre-Celtic roots in a bid to discover the secrets of the island's first inhabitants: Who were they? And how did they live? Few accounts of the period are as ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prehistoric Belief

    Shamans, Trance and the Afterlife

    by Mike Williams ...
    Starting with the dawn of what we would recognise as modern human thought, this book journeys through 35,000 years of our human past. It shows how our earliest ancestors learnt to enter trance states and the revolutionary effect this had on the way they interacted with their world. Moreover, by marrying the very latest research with vivid first-person reconstructions, the book will actually take ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Iron Age Britain

    by Barry Cunliffe ...
    This revised introduction to Britain in the first millennium BC incorporates modifications to a story that is still controversial. It covers a time of dramatic change in Europe, dominated by the emergence of Rome as a megastate. In Britain, on the extremity of these developments, it was a period of profound social and economic change, which saw the end of the prehistoric cycle of the Neolithic and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD