Written by leading authorities and including thirteen personal accounts of the latest ground-breaking research, Courtly Arts of the Ancient Maya examines the royal courts and their art in unprecedented depth. Color photographs and specially commissioned drawings reveal a dazzling array of objects that still have the power to engage and astonish observers centuries after their creation. The book investigates the rise in the importance of the court, its mythical backdrop, the role of women and the place of warfare. The works of artists and scribes - ceramic censers, stucco heads, jade masks, terracotta figurines, stone boxes, and great carved limestone lintels - bring alive the form, texture, and color of their vanished world.

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya

Mary Miller

Kathleen Berrin

Simon, Martin

Reference

Thames&Hudson

Stanley Spencer: Heaven in a Hell of War (National Trust Book)

Paul Gough

Katy Norris

Jamie Hacker Hughes

Jenny Beddington

National Trust

Describes the nature of AIDS, criticizes conventional treatments, and suggests natural medicine approaches

A World Without AIDS: The Controversial Holistic Health

Leon Chaitow

Medical Books

Harpercollins

The ruins of Calakmul, Mexico, have produced a series of significant archaeological finds over the years. Among the most recent and important is a buried platform whose exterior is covered in figural murals. Mural paintings are among the greatest artistic achievements of the Maya, and yet very few have survived ancient destruction or the subsequent ravages of the tropical climate. Thanks to these well-preserved images we are offered an important view of Maya society, one very different from the normal representations of the lordly elite or supernatural. Maya Archaeology 2 offers extensive photographic coverage of this important find and others, together with numerous insights by leading authors into the world of the ancient Maya.

Maya Archaeology 2: Featuring the Ancient Maya Murals of Calakmul, Mexico

Politics & Social Sciences

David, Stuart

Ramón Carrasco Vargas

María Cordeiro

Arnoldo González Cruz

Guillermo Bernal Romero

Greg Borgstede

Archaeology

Precolumbia Mesoweb Press

Continuing in the tradition of the Maya Archaeology series from Precolumbia Mesoweb Press, this volume offers chapters by leading authorities on discoveries and research in the field of Maya archaeology. Topics include a royal tomb at Palenque, an early Maya ceremonial center at Ceibal, a hieroglyphic stairway at El Palmar recording a pilgrimage to distant Copan, and breakthrough insights into Maya divinity. The volume is accompanied by a facsimile of an authentic Maya screenfold book, the Grolier Codex. 
 Chapters include: The Text and Context of the Cuychen Vase, Macal Valley, Belize, by Christophe Helmke, Jaime J. Awe, Shawn G. Morton, and Gyles Iannone....Ajpach' Waal: The Hieroglyphic Stairway of the Guzman Group of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico, by Kenichiro Tsukamoto and Octavio Esparza....Middle Preclassic Caches from Ceibal, Guatemala, by Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan....The Funerary Complex of Temple XX: Offering and Ritual in the Early Classic Period of Palenque, by Arnoldo Gonzalez Cruz and Joshua Balcells....The Fourth Maya Codex, by Michael Coe, Mary Miller, Stephen Houston, and Karl Taube...Royal Death, Tombs, and Cosmic Landscapes: Early Classic Maya Tomb Murals from Rio Azul, Guatemala, by Mary Jane Acuña...The Old Man of the Maya Universe: A Unitary Dimension to Ancient Maya Religion, by Simon Martin.

Maya Archaeology 3: Featuring the Grolier Codex

Michael Coe

Kenichiro Tsukamoto

Stephen Houston

Karl Taube

Takeshi Inomata

Daniela Triadan

Christophe Helmke

Jaime Awe

Shawn Morton

Gyles Iannone

Octavio Esparza

Arnoldo Gonzalez

Joshua Balcells

Mary Jane Acuña

María Cordeiro Baqueiro

Poets in the Landscape

Pallant House Gallery

John Tunnard: Inner Space to Outer Space

Gallery; Et Al

Eduardo Paolozzi: Collaging Culture

Colin St. John Wilson

Eduardo Paolozzi

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