Brian D Dillon (36 results)

Condition: Good. paperback 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Binding has light soil; spine is a bit darkened; top corner of cover has stamp indicating that this volume was not accessioned by a Harvard University library; tight, text clean. 125 p., illustrated. Oversize. [b 720].

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine or better with no markings or noticeable wear. Illustrated.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1981. Anthropological Theory, Archaeological Method. Archaeological Research Tools Volume 1. Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 134p., very good paperback 1/26.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1993. Archaeological theory, Journals. Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles. Third edition Archaeological Research Tools #2 very good paperback 85p. 3/26.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. In near fine condition; light toning and foxing outside edges of book; faint sunning to spine; small area of faint foxing at edge of initial blank page; light toning to clean inside pages; binding tight. Ballena Press Studies in Mesoamerican Art, Archaeology and Ethnohistory No. 2. 94 pages. 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. Inv. EW0190.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. In near fine condition; faint to light soiling to outside of book; toning (?) to wraps; inside clean and bright, binding tight. Archaeological Research Tools, Volume 1. Second Printing, November 1981. 124 pages. 11 x 8.5 in. Inv. EW0010.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. 3rd.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. First printing, softcover, a Near Fine copy.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson contains twenty-two original papers in tribute to H. B. "Nick" Nicholson, a pioneer of Mesoamerican research. His intellectual legacy is recognized by Mesoamerican archaeologists, art historians, ethnohistorians, and ethnographers--students, colleagues, and friends who derived inspiration and encouragement from him throughout their own careers. Each chapter, which presents original research inspired by Nicholson, pays tribute to the teacher, writer, lecturer, friend, and mentor who became a legend within his own lifetime.Covering all of Mesoamerica across all time periods, contributors include Patricia R. Anawalt, Alfredo López Austin, Anthony Aveni, Robert M. Carmack, David C. Grove, Richard D. Hansen, Leonardo López Luján, Kevin Terraciano, and more. Eloise Quiñones Keber provides a thorough biographical sketch, detailing Nicholson's academic and professional journey. Publication supported, in part, by The Patterson Foundation and several private donors. …

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Broché. In-4, (21.5x28 cm), broché, couverture illustrée, texte en anglais, 125 pages, illustrations en noir et blanc ; tampons sur la couverture et les 1re pages, plats légèrement défraîchis, assez bon état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande. Archaeological Research Tools.…

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson. Book.

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paperback. Condition: Good. 1981 2nd printing, large softbound, tight binding, some curling at 3 corners, no markings found.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1975. Journals, Mesoamerica. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility. Number 24, 135 p., very good paperback with red taped spine. 2/25.

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121 pp.; 24.9 x 19.9 cm.; sewn bound; other special feature[s]; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; 2004 issue of Cabinet Magazine based around the theme of "Futures." Edited by Sina Najafi, Jeffrey Kastner, Frances Richard, David Serlin. Futures section edited by Daniel Rosenberg. Contents include : "Colors / Khaki," by Ben Marcus; "Inventory / Fallen Figures & Heads : Leon Golub's Lists," by David Levi Strauss; "Ingestion / The Shelf-Life of Liquefying Objects," by James Hunt; "Leftovers / What to Do with a Worn-Out Koran," by Michael Cook; "Edison's Warriors," by Christoph Cox; "Triskelion," by Sasha Archibald; "Border Sound Files: Excerpts from an Audio Essay," by Josh Kun; "Borderline Archeology," by Jesse Lerner; "Data and Metadata : An Interview with Murtha Baca and Erin Coburn," by Eve Meltzer and Julia Meltzer; "100,000 Bottles of Beer in the Wall," by Paul Collins; "Cutaneous : An Interview with Steven Connor," by Brian Dillon; "The Figurative Incaarnation of the Sentence (Notes on the 'Autographic' Skin)," by Georges Didi-Huberman; "The Hand Up Project: Attempting to Meet the New Needs of Natural Life-Forms," by Elizabeth Demaray; "Thinking Futures," by Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding; "Very Slow Scan Television," by Gebhard Sengmüller and Jakob Edlbacher; "Desert Modernism," by Joseph Masco; "CD Insert / Fast Forward," with audio by Woodrow Wilson, Janek Schaefer, Achim Wollscheid, Kara Lynch, Luz Maria Sánchez, Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harald Bode, Microsound-org, George H. W. Bush, and The Quiet American; "Artist Project / Naturalia," by Aziz + Cucher; "The Use of Drugs to Influence Time Experience;" "The Day Before the Day After;" "The Trouble with Timelines," by Daniel Rosenberg; "A Timeline of Timelines," by Sasha Archibald and Daniel Rosenberg; "Phases of Life 1 : The Artificial Foster-Mother," by Samantha Vicenty; "Phases of Life 2 : The Family Room of Tomorrow," by Joseph Masco; "Phases of Life 3 : Living at Death's Door," by Nicholas Sammond; "Hummingbird Futures," by Daniel Rosenberg; "The Veterans of Future Wars," by Susan Hamson; "The Sexual Archipelago," by Jessica Sewell; "The Eight-Fold Path to Knowing Ra," by Greg Rowland; "The Martian Variations;" "Scent from the Future," by Miryam Sas; "Manifesto of the Japanese Futurist Movement," by Hirato Renkichi; "The Cabinet Time Capsule;" "Postcard / Message to the Future, 1897," by Gallop, Wilkins, Sainsbury, Chester & Pickernell "Bookmark / Alien Timeline," by Joe Nickell. Includes contributor biographies. Very Good. Light yellowing and soiling of covers with light edge-wear. 1.9 cm. dog-ear to first page with light yellowing of pages. Contents clean and unmarked. Includes slipped-in CD.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. ; ISBN: 0810907291; 9780810907294 ; LCCN: 81-10862 ; LC: F1545.3.A7; Dewey: 709/.7286/074013 ; OCLC: 7596898 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; store stamp on inside front cover ; front endpaper corner clipped ; Contents: Guayabo de Turrialba and its significance / by Oscar Fonseca Zamora ; translated by Michael J. Snarskis -- Traditions of Costa Rican stone sculpture / by Mark M. Graham -- Jade / by Elizabeth Kennedy Easby -- Gold work / by Warwick Bray -- Technical appendix. Perspectives on Costa Rican jade : compositional analyses and cultural implications / by Frederick W. Lange, Ronald L. Bishop and Lambertus van Zelst -- Catalogue / by Michael J. Snarskis. ; VG. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2006 Classical Press of Wales hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1 Biography in the ancient world: the story of the rise of David by Andrew D.H. Mayes; 2 The biographies of poets: the case of Solon by Elizabeth Irwin; 3 Reading the Gospels as biography by Richard A. Burridge; 4 Gospel and genre: some reservations by Mark Edwards; 5 Mark's Gospel and ancient biography by Sean Freyne; 6 The Acts of the Apostles as biography by Justin Taylor; 7 Cynic influence upon first-century Judaism and early Christianity? by John Moles; 8 Philo's adaptation of the Bible in his Life of Moses by Brian McGing; 9 Portrait of the Sophist as a young man by Ewen Bowie; 10 Holy and not so holy: on the interpretation of late antique biography by John Dillon; 11 Justice for Justus: a re-examination of Justus of Tiberias' role in Josephus' Autobiography by Zuleika Rodgers; 12 Sacred writing, sacred reading: the function of Aelius Aristides' self-presentation as author in the Sacred Tales by Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis; 13 Dreams of glory: Lucian as autobiographer by Noreen Humble and Keith Sidwell; 14 The Cynic and Christian lives of Lucian's Peregrinus by Jason Konig; 15 Breaking the bounds: writing about Julius Caesar by Christopher Pelling; 16 Travel writing, history, and biography by Judith Mossman; 17 'This in-between book': language, politics and genre in the Agricola by Tim Whitmarsh; 18 Biography in letters; biography and letters by Michael Trapp; 19 Lords of the Flies: literacy and tyranny in imperial biography by Alexei V. Zadorojnyi; 20 Beyond the limits of Greek biography: Galen from Alexandria to the Arabs by Simon Swain.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 552 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson contains twenty-two original papers in tribute to H. B. 'Nick' Nicholson, a pioneer of Mesoamerican research. His intellectual legacy is recognized by Mesoamerican archaeologists, art historians, ethnohistorians, and ethnographers--students, colleagues, and friends who derived inspiration and encouragement from him throughout their own careers. Each chapter, which presents original research inspired by Nicholson, pays tribute to the teacher, writer, lecturer, friend, and mentor who became a legend within his own lifetime. Covering all of Mesoamerica across all time periods, contributors include Patricia R. Anawalt, Alfredo López Austin, Anthony Aveni, Robert M. Carmack, David C. Grove, Richard D. Hansen, Leonardo López Luján, Kevin Terraciano, and more. Eloise Quiñones Keber provides a thorough biographical sketch, detailing Nicholson's academic and professional journey. Publication supported, in part, by The Patterson Foundation and several private donors.…