Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island by Giulio Magli - 2009-04-28

New York: Copernicus Books, 2005. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xii, 444pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in yellow paper over boards with spine backed in orange and lettered in black. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal ‘world tour' of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and lore of the sky. In the second part, Giulio Magli uses the elements presented in the tour to show that the fundamental idea which led to the construction of the astronomically-related giant monuments was the foundation of power, a foundation which was exploited by ‘replicating' the sky. A possible interpretive model then emerges that is founded on the relationship the ancients had with "nature", in the sense of everything that surrounded them, the cosmos. The… Read More

Springer New York, 2009. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York, NY: Springer. Good in Good dust jacket. 2009. 1st Edition (Unstated); First Printing. Hardcover. 0387765646 . Speckle stains to exterior edge of pages. Rubbing (shelf wear) to cover and DJ edges. Stains to exterior edge of pages, minor. Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; 6.5 X 1.5 X 9.5 inches; 444 pages .

Copernicus Books, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 24.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. 444pp. Yellow and orange boards in dust jacket. There are some smudges to the foredges.

Copernicus Books, 2009. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 432 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.