warsaw university press (35 resultados)

hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Acceptable. First Edition. Hardcover with bumped and lightly worn spine ends; tiny tear on foot of spine; lightly bumped upper leading corners and sun faded upper edge of front cover. Previous owner's name (linguistics professor) penned on inside front cover. Dust jacket is edge worn, slightly grubby and sun faded with some small chips and tears on upper and lower edges. T. Used.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good +. Light handling to yellow wrappers.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 264 pages, a very good hardback in a very good dust-jacket, ex-library.

Softcover, 378 pages; in English; as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

1st ed. ISSN: 0209-1232. A clean, tidy copy Used - Very Good. VG paperback journal.

Condición: Very good. xiii, 235, 51 text figs. . PB. Vg. . [9780521894579].

106 S. mit zahlreichen Abbildungen + Tafeln. Groß-Oktav. Ln. - Einband fleckig.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Paperback, 672 pages, NOT ex-library. External wear (faint grubby marks on lower outer page edges, creased spine, creasing to cover corners, scuffing to cover edges, shelfwear). Faint grubby marks to lower edge of a portion of leaves. Else clean and untanned interior with unmarked text. Gentle wear to tips of page corners. --- Scarce first edition of 1500 copies published in Poland. Contents: Oral Literature; The Rise of Written Literatures in African Languages; Literature in Fula; Literatures in the Mande and Neighbouring Languages; Akan Folk Literature and the Beginnings of Writing in Twi; Yoruba Literature; Literature in the Hausa Language; Writing and Literature in Classical Ethiopic (Giiz); Ethiopian Literature in Amharic; Somali Literature; Literatures in Cushitic Languages Other Than Somali; Malagasy Literature in Madagascar; Literature in Swahili; Zulu Oral Tradition and Literature; Xhosa Oral and Literary Traditions; Southern Sotho Literature; Tswana Literature; The Oral Literature of the San and Related Peoples.

8vo. pp 204. Fine. First Edition. Wraps.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Paperback, 306pp, sources, index, bibliography, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright interior with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. A touch of wear to tips of page corners; faint marks on lower page edges externally. Firm secure binding. Shelfworn covers with a bit of rubbing to edges. --- "The aim of this book is to elucidate basic syntactic and semantic properties of Latin infinitival structures - those which might be argued to involve raising, those which might be analyzed as control structures, and those which do not appear to instantiate either. The analysis presented is couched in minimalist terms, as developed in Chomsky (1995) and subsequent work, although not without several modifications, to be discussed in their place. In particular, the hypothesis put forward in Hornstein (2001) and developed in Hornstein (2003) is applied to Latin data in order to test its descriptive and explanatory power. The book assumes some knowledge of the Minimalist Program and, additionally, a basic knowledge of Latin. Translations are added (from published sources, except for short sentences) where it seemed to be appropriate to facilitate reading; and glosses are provided only for less widely known languages. The linguistic material discussed in this study is well-known to all classicists: structures such as accusativus cum infinitivo and bare infinitival clauses in a synchronic setting, restricted to the classical prose, Cicero and (to a lesser degree) Caesar. As a consequence, diachronic development and its perplexities are put aside. // Contents: I. Dramatic personae: 1. Latin (non)configurationality 2. Aspects of Tense 3. Bare Syntax; II. Principium movendi: 4. Infinitely Latin 5. Finite Control or Raising?; Conclusion; Sources".

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Paperback, 126 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Firm binding, unbroken/uncreased spine. Price blacked-out on rear cover. -- The work belongs to the field of sociolinguistics and linguistic pragmatics, and concerns Amharic honorific expressions and their cultural constraints. The cultural context which determines the pragmatic accuracy of the grammatical structures is set in the traditions of the Ethiopian Empire that go back many centuries and are deeply rooted in Christianity. But it also comprises changes brought about by communism and later democratic transformations, all against the background of the no less important African reality. The author pays particular attention to linguistic changes that mark transformations in social, political and cultural life, analysing them through the function and distribution of forms of address. She perceives forms of address as a combination of lexical and grammatical means, showing the changes in the way they are used as a result of the historical transformations taking place in Ethiopian society.

Soft cover. Condición: Good+. Scarce paperback, primarily in English with some contributions in French, 222 pages, NOT ex-library. Gently used, a clean and bright copy with unmarked text, free of inscriptions. A foreign stamp at the bottom of first page. Firm secure binding. Cover shows regular shelfwear; spine ends with minor creasing. -- Contents: - Articles: - There Was a Great Professor / Andrzej Bartnicki; Evolution of International Integration in Africa / Michal Dobroczynski; The Nile in the Urban Region of Cairo / Wladyslaw B. Kubiak; Conscious Choice or Dialect Mixing: Few Remarks on Alhaji Umaru's Unedited Prose Writings / Stanislaw Pilaszewicz; Toponymical Metaphors: A Case Study in Otjiherero Place Names / Rajmund Ohly; Who Lives in Ethiopia, Where and Who Is the Governor? / Joanna Mantel-Niecko; The Threats to and the Protection of Natural Environment in Africa / Ewelina Kantowicz; Phytogenic Hillocks in Libya / Boleslaw Dumanowski; The Natural Agricultural Potential of Mountainous Areas in Africa / Andrzej Walewski; Méthodologie de préparation des programmes d'action nationaux de la lutte contre la désertification (PAN-LCD) / Aleksander Kawalec; Jews in Egypt in the First Half of the 19th Century on the Basis of Sources of European Origin / Barbara Stepniewska-Holzer; Social Position of the Modern Arab Woman (The Case of Egypt) / Elzbieta Puchnarewicz; Les jeunes Africains en difficulté: (Le cas de la République Démocratique du Congo) / Alicja Wrzesinska; À propos de la troisième génération des droits de l'homme dans la Charte Africaine des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples / Maria Magdalena Kenig-Witkowska; Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again: State and Civil Society in Africa / Piotr Dutkiewicz & Edward Osei Kwadwo Prempeh; Economic Liberalisation and Development Strategies in Post-Independence Africa / Bogdan Stefanski; - Varia [pp 207-217]; - Books received [pp 221-223].

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Paperback, 236 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean, untanned interior with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound; gentle internal creasing. Faint handling marks on page edges externally. Cover shows fingermarks and shelfworn marks, moderate creases, rubbing to edges and spine. --- The available literature in the area of the history of English still has numerous gaps. One of these is the lack of a detailed account of morphological change in English. One of the aims of the present study is to offer a relatively comprehensive review of the development of English morphology from Old to Modern English. At the same time this book may be considered a companion volume to the earlier account of English historical phonology by the same author. The most important guiding principles of the present English Historical Morphology are: (1) The account of changes in English morphology is chiefly confined to those developments which substantially contributed to the structure of the contemporary morphological system. (2) Attention is focused on those features of dialects which affected the present-day grammatical standard. However, certain other characteristic morphological features of dialects are occasionally dealt with. (3) The illustrative material comes from The Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Especially important for the verification of the OED data were a number of important monographs, especially Roedler (1911/1916; nouns), Price (1910), Rettger (1934), Long (1944), and Krygier (1994; verbs), Although the forms quoted in the Morphology are only selective, they may help the reader to better understand the evolution of the grammatical features of English. (4) Because the number of contributions to the field of morphology is considerably smaller as compared with English historical phonology, the Author has provided references to as many studies and monographs as possible, and suggested additional readings, hence an extensive bibliography which, together with an index of words, closes the volume. English Historical Morphology is primarily designed for the students from the departments of English Philology, especially those taking courses of the history of English (or special courses of OId, Middle, and Present-day English). --- Contents: Introduction: Chronology; 1. The Morphology of Old English (c.700-1100): -- Nominals: General Statements; Nouns (Vocalic Stems; Consonantal Stems; Grammatical Change in Old English Nouns); Adjectives (Inflection; Comparison); Numerals; Adverbs; Pronouns; Verbs (Weak Verbs; Strong Verbs; Preterite-present Verbs; Anomalous Verbs); 2. The Morphology of Middle English (c.1100-1500): -- General Trends in Morphological Change; Nominals: General Statements; Nouns (Number and Case; Gender); Adjectives; Numerals; Adverbs; Pronouns; Verbs (Weak Verbs; Strong Verbs; Preterite-present Verbs; Anomalous Verbs); 3. The Morphology of Early and Late New English (After 1500): -- General Trends in Morphological Change; Nouns (Number and Case; Gender); Articles; Adjectives; Numerals; Adverbs: Comparison; Pronouns; Verbs (Verbs with a Single Set of the Past/Past Participle Forms; Verbs with Complex Sets of the Past/Past Participle Forms; Defective; Anomalous; Appendix 1: Summary of Chief Morphological Processes in the History of English; Appendix 2: Irregular Verbs in Modern English; Bibliography; Index.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback, 207 pages, copiously illustrated, glossy paper, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright interior with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. A touch of wear to tips of page corners. Covers shows creases, light edgewear, faint shelfwear; a deep surface scratch on the front panel; price blacked out on the back. Straight spine free of vertical creases. -- A monograph indicating the possibility of authigenic gold formation in gold-bearing deposits linked with areas of historical gold mining in Lower Silesia, Poland. Based on detailed mineralogical-geochemical characteristics of placer gold from technogenous deposits - post-mining tailings and deposits bearing traces of historical mining activity as well as textures indicative of authigenic gold reprecipitation - the author determines the scale of this process in the studied deposits. Illustrated by numerous colour sketches, charts and photographs, the book is intended for geologists and will also be useful to students of geology as well as a wider readership of geotourists interested in recreational gold panning. -- Dr Jan Wierchowiec, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources in the Faculty of Geology, Warsaw University, is the author of numerous scientific papers as well as case studies, documentation and expert opinions. His scientific interests are focused on placer deposits of gold and other economic minerals, particularly the phenomenon of the formation of 'in situ' authigenic gold in the surficial environment. -- Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The history of gold mining in Lower Silesia: an overview [Medieval placer gold beneficiation and extraction methods] 3. Previous studies on the placer gold mineralization in Lower Silesia 4. Field and laboratory methods [Sampling and laboratory processing; Analytical methods] 5. The North Sudetic Basin region [The history of exploration and mining; Geological setting; The Lwowek Slaski district; The Zlotoryja district (Zlotoryja - Kopacz mining centre; Nowa Ziemia - Sepow mining centre); Gold characteristics; Discussion of the origin and source of placer gold; Prospective geological environments] 6. The Dziwiszow historical mining district [Surficial geology; Bedrock geology; Geology of the auriferous sequence; Gold characteristics; Source of gold and other placer minerals] 7. The Wadroze Wielkie region [The history of exploration and mining; Geological setting; Mineralized veins; Gold-bearing clastic sediments (Eluvial series; Colluvial series; The Wierzbiak River valley-fill auriferous sequence); Placer gold characteristics (Size, morphology and internal texture of gold; Chemistry of gold); Genesis of the Wadroze Wielkie placer gold (Origin of supergene Au-mineralization; Timing of the secondary gold mineralization; Implications of secondary gold mobility); Summary of placer gold mineralization at the Wadroze Wielkie region] 8. The Eastern Sudetes historical mining district [Geological setting; Historical placer mining activity; Technogenous deposits generated by historical gold mining; Distribution, size and morphology of the gold grains; Chemical composition of gold; Evidence of gold remobilization] 9. Gold-bearing tailings generated by processing plants [Rakowice Plant: geology of the Middle Bobr River valley; Sedzislaw Plant: geology of the Lesk Creek valley; Heavy mineral concentrations and their characteristics; Content of gold and other heavy minerals in tailings; Gold characteristics (Size distribution; Grain shape; Internal texture; Chemistry and probable primary sources of gold); Free gold grains in the separation process; Loss of placer gold in the process of beneficiation] 10. Supergene mobility of gold: an overview [Bio-mediated Au mobilization in placer environment] 11. Models of Ag-depleted rims formation 12. Textures indicative of authigenic gold reprecipitation: a discussion 13. Summary and conclusions; Abstract; Plates; References.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Scarce paperback, 200 pages, NOT ex-library. Published in a limited academic edition of 350 copies. Weight: 326g. Title page signed & inscribed by the author, mild tanning to first & last leaves. Sunned and creased spine, cover appears dusty with scuffing to edges. Erased pencil marking on the rear cover.--- Contents: Introduction; Chapitre I. La tragédie en tant que source historique; Chapitre II. Le tout-puissant logos; Chapitre III. La justice politique; Chapitre IV. Les Suppliantes - pièce de propagande contre-propagandiste; Chapitre V. Andromaque et Ion - ou la xénophobie d'Athènes; Chapitre VI. Euripide et les Barbares; Chapitre VII. Euripide et panhellénisme; Epilogue. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Glossy hardcover, xiv + 216 pages, numerous (mostly colour) figures in text, author index, NOT ex-library. Clean, bright, tight, with unmarked text. Minor very mild internal creasing. A gentle spine lean. Published without a dust jacket. --- This monograph is intended to introduce the reader to modern problems of transport and the related sciences. As far as technological problems are concerned, the subject matter taken up in particular chapters can be grouped into the following fields: dynamics of rail/road vehicles and interaction of the vehicle with the track/road, micro-dynamics and contact issues in such problems, monitoring of phenomena in mechanical systems - methods of measurement and analysis of the signals, control and optimization in studies of dynamics of mechanical systems, as well as problems related to design of machines and devices.

4to. Pp. 293. First UK edition. Black dust jacket with white lettering and photographs to front and back covers. Publisher's white boards with black lettering at spine and barbed wire motif to front. Copious photographs throughout. Inscribed by editors of English edition. ISBN: 9780253355812 Near fine copy with very slight bump to top corner of spine. Very good, slightly used dust jacket, with some surface marks and creasing to top edge.

Series, Publications of the Astronomical Observatory of the Warsaw University, Vol. 15. 8vo. 188, [1] pp. Tables. Printed wrappers. Very good.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Scarce paperback published in a limited academic edition of 300 copies, 129 pages, NOT ex-library. Offset marks inside both covers, faint age discolourations, a brown mark in side margin of one leaf. Else clean, untanned, with unmarked text and firm binding, free of inscriptions and stamps. Rubbing to the spine, faint grubby marks on the front cover, remnants of an old price sticker on the back. -- Contents: Introduction / I. Last Years of the Ranas and the Revolution of 1950-1960 / II. Early Democracy 1951-1955 / III. King Mahendra and Political Parties 1955-1959 / IV. Nepali Congress and the Dominant King 1959-1960 / V. Panchayati Democracy 1960-1962 / VI. Evolution of the Panchayati System 1963-1981 / Conclusion / Extended Bibliography.

317 pp. -TEXT IN ENGLISH- Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 800 Large 8vo. Hardcover, no dust jacket, binding rubbed and partially with slight scratches, stamp "a" on one paste down, else fine.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Xiv, 316 Pp. Errata Slip At End. Green Cloth, Red Lettering. Lightly Used, Slight Fading At Edges, No Fraying Or Damage. Pencil Notes On Rear Endpaper. Dj Worn, Edge Tears And Small Losses. Per Wikipedia, Margaret Schlauch ( 1898 ? 1986) Was A Scholar Of Medieval Studies At New York University And Later, After She Left The United States For Political Reasons In 1951, At The University Of Warsaw, Where She Headed The Departments Of English And General Linguistics. Her Work Covered Many Topics But Included Focuses On Chaucer, Anglo-Saxon, And Old Norse Literature. From 1924 To 1950, Schlauch Was A Faculty Member In The English Department At Washington Square College (The Then Greenwich Village Undergraduate Division) Of New York University. She Became An Assistant Professor In 1927, Associate Professor In 1931, And Full Professor In 1940, The First Woman To Be Appointed A Full Professor At The University. Schlauch Was A Committed Marxist, Although She Denied Ever Having Been In The Communist Party When Investigated In 1941 By The Rapp-Coudert Committee As Part Of Its Examination Of Communism In New York Educational Institutions. Schlauch's Sister Helen Infeld Was A Mathematician Married To Leopold Infeld, A Polish-Born Physicist Who Had Been A Naturalized Canadian Citizen But Was Made Stateless By Canada Along With His Children Following His Campaigning For Nuclear Disarmament, And Moving To Poland In 1949; It Has Been Suggested That Joining Them Influenced Her Decision To Leave The U.S. Early In 1951, In Response To A Subpoena From The House Un-American Activities Committee, Schlauch Left The United States For Poland, Writing An Explanatory Letter To The Chair Of The English Department At New York University, Oscar Cargill, In Which She Stated That She Had Been "So Very Happy At N.Y.U.!" The University Announced Her Resignation To The New York Times, Where It Was The Subject Of A "Long, Above-The-Fold Article". She Is Widely Known For The Gift Of Language (Originally Published In 1942 As The Gift Of Tongues), A Layperson's Introduction To Linguistics; A Reviewer Wrote: "It Is Rarely That One Comes Across An Academic Treatise So Lively, So Easy To Read, And So Full Of Meat And Meaning". Aaother Important Contribution By Her Was On The Literary And Social Context Of Medieval English Works, Above All In English Medieval Literature And Its Social Foundations.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Glazed boards. 235 x 155 mm. xvi, 400 pp. A bright, presentable copy of Andrzej Paczkowski's examination of Poland's Solidarity revolution, the course of the Communist counterrevolution, and the final victory won by Solidarity along with its international repercussions. English language edition. Translated from the Polish by Christina Manetti. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Paperback, 257 pages, illustrations in text, NOT ex-library. A clean and bright copy with limited signs of mild wear; unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, tight binding. Spine free of vertical creases. A touch of scuffing to cover edges, price blacked out on the rear panel. -- Contents: -- Articles: -- The 'Native Land' Journey of Claude-Joseph Vernet and the Contexts of Discovering One's Own Country in Painting During the Eighteenth Century / Andrzej Pienkos; Architecture Parlante: The Art of Speaking to the Eyes and the Philosophy of Language / Gabriela Switek; 'Quite Sick of Rome and Greece / We Fetch Our Models from the Wise Chinese': China, Chinoiseries and the Classical Ideal in Europe ca. 1750-1815 / Izabela Kopania; Johann Joachim Winckelmann as the Founder of the Myth of the 'Religion of Art' / Ryszard Kasperowicz; In Search of Pleasure. Some Aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Theories on the Reception of Painting / Jacek Jazwierski; Die Rolle druckgraphischer Vorlagen im Oeuvre des Franz Anton Maulbertsch / Monika Dachs-Nickel; Natural History of the Human Face: J.C. Lavater's Physiognomische Fragmente and the Convention of the Modern-Era Scientific Illustration / Maciej Jarzewicz; The French Revolution in Caricatures from the Collection of Stanislaus Augustus, the Last King of Poland, and Their Unclear Status within That Collection / Jolanta Czerzniewska; Marie Thérèse Geoffrin: A Collector and Patroness / Malgorzata Maria Grabczewska; L'école française ou comment le rococo français est entré dans les musées français. Esquisse d'une mythologie de la collection / Tomasz F. de Rosset; The 'Dangerous Liaisons' of French Nineteenth-Century Art with the Oeuvre of Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard / Agnieszka Rosales Rodriguez; Proust and Chardin / Iwona Danielewicz; -- Reviews [in English]: -- Jacek Jazwierski's 'Nature and History: Sir Joshua Reynolds's Vision of European Art'; Some Reflections on the Nicolai Abildgaard Exhibition; Das Technische Bild: Kompendium zu einer Stilgeschichte wissenschaftlicher Bilder; Marina Dimitrieva's 'Italien in Sarmatien. Studien zum Kulturtransfer im Östlichen Europa in der Zeit der Renaissance'.

Gr.-8°. Kartoniert, 613 S. + 1 CD-Rom. Einband minimal berieben, sonst ordentliches Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100.

Großformat, Original-Broschur. 281 Seite mit zahlreichen, zum Teil farbigen Abbildungen. Gutes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Mit größerer Bleistiftsignatur des Vorbesitzers auf dem Vorsatzblatt. Exemplar mit einigen farbigen Anstreichungen. Buch aus einem Nichtraucherhaushalt. Ohne CD-Rom. // Large format softcover. Book with some colored markings, and a larger signature by the previous owner on the flyleaf, but otherwise in good condition. Book from a non smoking environment. Without CD-Rom. Sprache: Englisch.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Xiv, 316 Pp. Errata Slip At End. Green Cloth, Red Lettering. Lightly Used, Slight Fading At Edges, No Fraying Or Marks Or Damage. Dj Similarly Lightly Used, Rubbing At Top And Bottom Edges, 1/2" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel. Per Wikipedia, Margaret Schlauch ( 1898 ? 1986) Was A Scholar Of Medieval Studies At New York University And Later, After She Left The United States For Political Reasons In 1951, At The University Of Warsaw, Where She Headed The Departments Of English And General Linguistics. Her Work Covered Many Topics But Included Focuses On Chaucer, Anglo-Saxon, And Old Norse Literature. From 1924 To 1950, Schlauch Was A Faculty Member In The English Department At Washington Square College (The Then Greenwich Village Undergraduate Division) Of New York University. She Became An Assistant Professor In 1927, Associate Professor In 1931, And Full Professor In 1940, The First Woman To Be Appointed A Full Professor At The University. Schlauch Was A Committed Marxist, Although She Denied Ever Having Been In The Communist Party When Investigated In 1941 By The Rapp-Coudert Committee As Part Of Its Examination Of Communism In New York Educational Institutions. Schlauch's Sister Helen Infeld Was A Mathematician Married To Leopold Infeld, A Polish-Born Physicist Who Had Been A Naturalized Canadian Citizen But Was Made Stateless By Canada Along With His Children Following His Campaigning For Nuclear Disarmament, And Moving To Poland In 1949; It Has Been Suggested That Joining Them Influenced Her Decision To Leave The U.S. Early In 1951, In Response To A Subpoena From The House Un-American Activities Committee, Schlauch Left The United States For Poland, Writing An Explanatory Letter To The Chair Of The English Department At New York University, Oscar Cargill, In Which She Stated That She Had Been "So Very Happy At N.Y.U.!" The University Announced Her Resignation To The New York Times, Where It Was The Subject Of A "Long, Above-The-Fold Article". She Is Widely Known For The Gift Of Language (Originally Published In 1942 As The Gift Of Tongues), A Layperson's Introduction To Linguistics; A Reviewer Wrote: "It Is Rarely That One Comes Across An Academic Treatise So Lively, So Easy To Read, And So Full Of Meat And Meaning". Aaother Important Contribution By Her Was On The Literary And Social Context Of Medieval English Works, Above All In English Medieval Literature And Its Social Foundations.

Warsaw University Press, Warsaw, 2005. 682 S. mit einigen Abbildungen, Tabellen, Diagrammen und Kartenskizzen sowie 3 Faltkarten im Anhang, Pappband mit Schutzumschlag, quart---- sehr gutes Exemplar / very good condition / mit Widmung des Base Commanders auf Titel / Text englisch - 2085 Gramm.

Soft cover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. 631 pages : Illustrations, maps. ; 29 cm. Oleoculture was always an important part of ancient agriculture, which was the mainstay of the ancient economy and the writing on the subject, both ancient and modern, is immense. The present study centers upon the place of the olive in the agricultural regimes and economies of Roman and Byzantine SyriaPalestine, exploring them in environmental, technological, social and, when possible, economic contexts. The author explores the regional origins of olive cultivation and its wanderings across time and space, discussing typology and chronology of oil facilities and their rural and urban contexts, as well as the economics of production and logistics of olive oil distribution. The book opens with a synthetic presentation of oil production in Roman and Byzantine SyriaPalestine, based for the most part on data, which is gathered and presented in the second part as well as in an online resource, comprising new evidence from Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, as well as an overview of previously available data from Palestine, supplemented with information on the latest discoveries. Prominent among the data from Lebanon are hitherto unpublished records from PCMA excavations in Chhîm and Jiyeh, directed by Tomasz Waliszewski.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Very Good. book.

Soft cover. Condición: New. 280 pages : ill. ; 30 cm. Egyptian faience of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods has not enjoyed the same degree of research as the earlier material. This volume, which presents an analysis of faience object from Polish-Egyptian excavations at Tell Atrib, ancient Athribis, will help to remedy this problem. Excavations in Tell Atrib revealed traces of local production of faience objects. They include vessels, figurines, amulets and ushebti recovered from three major strata dated to different phases of the Ptolemaic period. Their provenance from securely dated contexts allowed for tracing typological changes occurring over time, which is of particular importance for studying the history of local faience production. These observations give grounds for analyzing the sources of influence and inspiration of local artisans. Distribution of faience finds at the site gives certain clues as to the role of these objects in everyday and religious life of the inhabitants of the ancient city.