The stone sculpture of Anglo-Saxon England forms an important source for archaeologists and historians - offering fascinating insights into the thought-world of early medieval people. This volume surveys the western Midland counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, and provides an analytical catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon stone sculptures of that region. Introductory chapters set the material within an historical, topographical and art-historical context, and there are specialist contributions concerning the geology of the monuments and the analysis of surviving ninth-century paint. There is a full photographic record of each monument which includes many new illustrations. The monuments include important collections of material from Gloucester, Deerhurst and Shrewsbury, as well as individual sculptures of the highest quality such as the Cropthorne cross-head, cross-shafts from Acton Beauchamp and Wroxeter, and the small but exquisite Lechmere Stone from Hanley Castle in Worcestershire. Some of the early monuments from the western borders of the study area are linked to the traditions of the Celtic churches of the west, but much of the material was carved at a time when Mercian art was at its zenith in the late eighth to early tenth centuries. There is also a significant body of carvings from the later tenth and eleventh centuries, but Scandinavian influence - so apparent in Northumbria and much of the rest of Mercia - is notably absent from these western counties until the early eleventh century. This volume shows that Western Mercia offered a vibrant milieu in which influential artistic ideas could develop and spread, not just in carved stone but also in manuscripts, metalwork and other materials, and that, even in the unified Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Mercian craftsmen continued to produce works of the highest quality.

Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Volume X: The Western Midlands

Arts & Photography

Bryant, Richard

Sculpture

British Academy

Post-Soviet Russia.  The Wild Wild East.  Richard Bryant offers a glimpse at real life behind what remains of the rusting Iron Curtain.  At a time when relations between the United States and Russia are once again tense, Richard's work is a telling portrait of life in modern Moscow.  From train journeys across four timezones to airport security inspections, you'll never look at Russia the same way again.

The Moscow Diaries

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Richard Bryant

Luscious photos present the varied and intriguing interiors of 26 houses that are museums because of their architectural or historical significance houses that are "living museums" because they tell us so much about life in that time and place. The text is equally stimulating, telling of each house's design and construction, inhabitants, and history. The featured houses are located in the Americas, Europe, and the Far East and Australasia. A comprehensive gazetteer lists some 950 living museums worldwide. 10x12" Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Living Museums

Gale, Iain.

Travel

Bulfinch Pr

Archery: Instruction Manual

Sports & Outdoors

Holnick, Helen

Individual Sports

Natl Archery Assn of the

This 500+ page book - 3+ years in the making - was written by the author as the reference he would want if his own family's life depended on it. You could fill an entire bookshelf with survival books, or you could simply obtain "When There is No FEMA" and have a single, textbook-quality reference that provides detailed information on virtually every aspect of modern-day disaster preparedness. Described by one of the foremost survivalists in the world as "encyclopedic", WTINF covers all the bases. Where the typical survival book might simply recommend that you "raise chickens for eggs", WTINF goes into deep detail about all aspects of raising chickens and other small livestock. Rather than simply suggesting you grow vegetables, WTINF covers growing seasons, fertilization and irrigation, how, when and what to plant, how deeply to plant the seeds and how far to space them. Beyond that, this definitive work provides similar detailed information on water treatment and storage, sanitation, quarantine, food processing, foraging, hunting, trapping and fishing, fuel and energy, nutrition, first aid, weapons and home defense, defensive tactics, disaster planning, disaster communications, organizing entire survival communities and a host of other vital topics. If you are concerned that the volatile and dangerous world in which we live today may find its way to your own doorstep then this is the book that was written for you!

When There is No FEMA: Survival for Normal People in (Very) Abnormal Times

Self-Help

Dreadmoon

Richard Bryant looks inside the polarization gripping the American church and our larger society. As a clergyperson within the United Methodist Church, he provides a firsthand account of the struggle churches face to remain relevant in the 21st century and resist the tide of Christian nationalism.

God Is Not A United Methodist

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

lulu.com

An inspirational book that reflects the life-style of urban professionals, yet it also shows how the New Modern look can be achieved on a small budget in an apartment or country home. A directory of sources is included. 270 full-color photographs.

The New Moderns: Architecture and Design for Living

GLANCEY, JONATHAN

Architecture

Soma Books

This book was inspired by the records made by Carolyn Heighway during the thirty years when she was archaeological consultant at Gloucester Cathedral. The survival of so much of the abbey of 1089 is remarkable, and often not appreciated by the casual visitor since it is ingeniously overlaid by Gothic alterations. Since 2000, surveys have been produced which enable accurate plans and elevations to be made which clarify the late 11th and early 12th century appearance of the building; deductions have also been made from archaeological observations. Since there are almost no documents for the abbey before the 15th century which relate to construction matters, the building itself is primary evidence, and archaeology is an important element. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs, plans and measured drawings including accurate reconstructions; comparative scale plans of Worcester and Tewkesbury are also included. The late 11th-12th century church is described in detail, along with the surviving claustral buildings. There is a chapter on polychromy and on the surviving 11th-12th century sculpture, and a full bibliography. The whole is set in context by Malcolm Thurlby, who comments on the wider sources and associations.

The Romanesque Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester

Heighway, Carolyn

Archaeology

Oxbow Books

Stansted: Norman Foster and the Architecture of Flight (Blueprint Monograph)

Sayer, Philip

Powell, Ken

Fourth Estate Classic House

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