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The foremost book on the craft, now revised. Stickmaking: A Complete Course has long held an excellent reputation among stickmakers and stick enthusiasts as a leading book in the field. Now in this new, revised edition, the authors have updated the original with expanded sections on how to make and source tools and formers, and where to find materials. The revision brings Stickmaking: A Complete Course one step closer to becoming the stickmaker's bible, with a more comprehensive coverage of the history and tradition of the craft.

Remarkable...

• Presents essays by some of the most dynamic researchers and leading European scholars in the field today
  
• Ranges from the Neolithic period to the early stages of the Iron Age, and from Ireland and Scandinavia to the Urals and the Iberian Peninsula

Colour shapes our world in profound, if sometimes subtle, ways. It helps us to classify, form opinions, and make aesthetic and emotional judgements. Colour operates in every culture as a symbol, a metaphor, and as part of an aesthetic system. Yet archaeologists have traditionally subordinated the study of colour to the form and material value of the objects they find and thereby overlook its impact on conceptual systems throughout human history.

This book explores the means by which colour-based cultural understandings are formed, and how they are used to sustain or alter social...

Colour shapes our world in profound, if sometimes subtle, ways. It helps us to classify, form opinions, and make aesthetic and emotional judgements. Colour operates in every culture as a symbol, a metaphor, and as part of an aesthetic system. Yet archaeologists have traditionally subordinated the study of colour to the form and material value of the objects they find and thereby overlook its impact on conceptual systems throughout human history.

This book explores the means by which colour-based cultural understandings are formed, and how they are used to sustain or alter social...

Human Geography: The Basics is a concise introduction to the study of the role that mankind plays in shaping the world around us. Whether its environmental concerns, the cities we live in or the globalization of the economy, these are issues which affect us all. This book introduces these topics and more including:

• migration, immigration and asylum
• international security and terrorism
• travel and tourism
• agriculture and food.

Featuring end of chapter summaries, case study boxes, further reading lists and a glossary,...