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1 review
Robin Cormack

British Museum Press, 2007

Important Documentary of Icons
Knowledgable presentation of the origin, meaning, creation, and use of icons. Great color photographs of the icons with sufficient detail to understand their artistic merit and relgious purpose. The end of the book provides small, color photographs with detail of the icons in the collection of the British Museum, making this book a "must have" for reference. A fabulous buy at this price and a ...

The Art of Small Things

1 review
John Mack

British Museum Press, 2007

Why it's at the top of my stack
The Art of Small Things by John Mack Reviewed by Laurel Hunter [...] It is no small thing to read through this book. Every time I picked up The Art of Small Things, I became totally absorbed in the beautiful color photographs that illustrate the book - the objects shown are incredibly varied and engaging, and the photography and printing exceptional. I found myself running to the internet to ...

Ten Thousand Years of Pottery

3 reviews
Emmanuel Cooper

British Museum Press, 2002

An essential, historical, comprehensive scholarly reference.
Now in a fully updated and expanded fourth edition, Ten Thousand Years Of Pottery continues to be a wonderfully lavish and illustrated history of pottery making from its antiquarian beginnings with the earliest Near East and Middle civilizations to the present day. A global perspective is taken with representations from the Mediterranean, Asian, Islamic, Meso American, neolithic Britain, to ...

'Olelo No'eau : Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings

3 reviews

Bishop Museum Press, 1997

'Olelo No'eau
For anyone interested in learning about the poetry and eloquence that is the Hawaiian language, you have to buy this book. The book "Olelo No'eau (which means wise sayings) illustrates the ways in which Hawaiians used examples of what they observed in their everyday surroundings to express themselves. Each of the wise sayings covers a wide variety of topics including family, relationships, ...

How to Read Egyptian Hieropglyphs: A Step-By-Step Guide to Teach Yourself

69 reviews
Mark Collier

British Museum Press, 1998

Lots of Fun
If you are interested in reading Egyptian hieroglyphs, this is really a good book to study. There is complete information about the nature of this kind of writing - a mixture of symbolic and phonetic writing - with a dictionary and exercises to test your newly acquired knowledge in deciphering coded message. Lots of fun.