Richard Bradley: 33 books
Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe
Signing the Land
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Along the Atlantic seaboard, from Scotland to Spain, are numerous rock carvings made four to five thousand years ago, whose interpretation poses a major challenge to the archaeologist.
In the first full-length treatment of the subject, based largely on new fieldwork, Richard Bradley argues that these...
The Greatest Game
The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Playoff of '78
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
In this spellbinding book, Richard Bradley tells the story of what was surely the greatest major league game of our lifetime and perhaps in the history of professional baseball. That game, played at Fenway Park on the afternoon of October 4, 1978, was the culmination of one of the most tense, emotionally...
by Richard Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
Sited at the furthest limits of the Neolithic revolution and standing at the confluence of the two great sea routes of prehistory, Britain and Ireland are distinct from continental Europe for much of the prehistoric sequence. In this landmark study, Richard Bradley offers an interpretation of the...
by Richard Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The idea of prehistory dates from the nineteenth century, but Richard Bradley contends that it is still a vital area for research. He argues that it is only through a combination of oral tradition and the experience of encountering ancient material culture that people were able to formulate a sense...
by Richard Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. Richard Bradley contends that for much of the prehistoric period, ritual was not a distinct sphere of activity. Rather it was the way in which different features of the domestic...
by Richard Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
When making decisions, people naturally face uncertainty about the potential consequences of their actions due in part to limits in their capacity to represent, evaluate or deliberate. Nonetheless, they aim to make the best decisions possible. In Decision Theory with a Human Face, Richard Bradley...
The Significance of Monuments
On the Shaping of Human Experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments - including Stonehenge - were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguities. Starting in the Mesolithic and carrying his analysis through to the Late Bronze Age, Richard Bradley sheds light on this complex period and the...
A Geography of Offerings
Deposits of Valuables in the Landscapes of Ancient Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
More than quarter of a century ago Richard Bradley published The Passage of Arms. It was conceived as An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits, but, as the author concedes, these terms were too narrrowly focused for the complex subject of deliberate deposition and the period...
by Richard Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This volume explores why natural places such as caves, mountains, springs and rivers assumed a sacred character in European prehistory, and how the evidence for this can be analysed in the field. It shows how established research on votive deposits, rock art and production sites can contribute to...
Harvard Rules
Lawrence Summers and the Battle for the World's Most Powerful University
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
It is the richest, most influential, most powerful university in the world, but at the beginning of 2001, Harvard was in crisis. Students complained that a Harvard education had grown mediocre. Professors charged that the university cared more about money than about learning. Harvard may have possessed...
The Use and reuse of stone circles
Fieldwork at five Scottish monuments and its implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The study of stone circles has long played a major role in British and Irish archaeology, and for Scotland most attention has been focused on the large monuments of Orkney and the Western Isles. Several decades of fieldwork have shown how these major structures are likely to be of early date and recognised...
Quick Fit
The Complete 15-Minute No-Sweat Workout
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2005
Most Americans know they should exercise -- but they don't. The number one reason? Lack of time. Now there's an answer: Quick Fit -- a daily workout that takes just 15 minutes. And it's no sweat, literally! You don't need to change your clothes first, or even shower afterward.
Quick Fit takes no more...
by Richard Bradley, Colin Haselgrove, Marc Vander Linden
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Many countries in northern Europe have seen a huge expansion in development-led archaeology over the past few decades. Legislation, frameworks for heritage management and codes of practice have developed along similar but different lines. The Valetta Convention has had considerable impact on spatial...
by Richard Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
This study, first published in 1978, explores the evidence for pre-Roman settlement in Britain. Four aspects of the prehistoric economy are described by the author – colonisation and clearance; arable and pastoral farming; transhumance and nomadism; and hunting, gathering and fishing. These aspects...