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  • The Sixty Neolithic Long Barrows of North and Mid-Wessex
    Terence Meaden
    This monograph is a reprint of a MSc thesis completed at Oxford University in 2009. It reports the fieldwork study of 60 Wessex long barrows of central-southern England as observed in a landscape context using a multi-disciplinary approach involving orientations and alignments to sunrises and moonrises. As a consequence, the core meanings of many Neolithic long barrows become m...
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    24,53 €

  • The Stone Circles of Cork and Kerry
    Terence Meaden
    The latest research on the 60 multiple-stone circles of Cork and Kerry in southwest Ireland is reported in detail. Stone circles forever fascinate with their simple eye-catching circularity but spotting the builders’ input of specialized knowledge is often not straightforward because the symbolism can be subtle, a consequence of the builders’ adroit stone selection or clever cr...
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    55,87 €

  • How Pytheas the Greek Discovered Iron-Age Britain, Stonehenge and Thule
    Terence Meaden
    Pytheas of Massalia-a Greek scientific adventurer of the fourth century BC-was the first literate explorer to meet British countryfolk and write of their customs, crafts, food and farming practices. He explored parts of Britain including Kent, Stonehenge and the Cornish tin mines, then sailed to Scotland, Shetland, Iceland and the amber coasts of Denmark. His was a truly ambiti...
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    26,67 €

  • Going for Cold
    G. Terence Meaden / J. G. Weisend II
    This short but revealing biography tells the story of Kurt Mendelssohn FRS, one of the founding figures in the field of cryogenics, from his beginnings in Berlin through his move to Oxford in the 1930s, and his groundbreaking work in low temperature and solid state physics. He set up the first helium liquefier in the United Kingdom, and did fundamental research that increased o...
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    80,48 €

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    Terence Meaden
    This is the Fourth Testament of A New Bible. It advocates and justifies atheism, with befitting quotations that epitomize universal truths, for it is offered in the language of inspired men and women, and completes a tetralogy of volumes having a common cause.The earlier testaments deal with the Origins of the Universe, Stars, Sun, Earth, Life and Humankind. The Third Testament...
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    21,23 €