Product Description: This book explores the nature of the Crown in its legal and political context. Here, the term The Crown is being used, not as a direct reference to the Queen, but as a reference to the central power of the State which exercises legal and political authority...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The 22 essays on various aspects of archaeozoology in this volume form a Festschrift dedicated to Juliet Clutton-Brock. Contributors include: J Altuna (Northern mammals in the southern Pyrenees during the Upper Pleistocene); L Chaix (Environment and ecology of the Mesolthic hunters inn the northern Alps); C S Churcher (Dogs from Ein Tirghi cemetery, Balat, Egypt); J Paters and A von den Driesch (Mesolithic fishing in Central Sudan); A M Muniz (Ancient Iberian fishing industries from an archaeozoological perspective); H Muller (Horse skeletons of the Bronze Age in central Europe); E Tchernov (From sedentism to domestication in the southern Levant); H Uerpmann (Proposal for a separate nomenclature of domestic animals); E S Wing (The realm between wild and domestic); P Wyrost (The fauna of ancient Poland)...read more