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ItemIsrael: Museums(Springer New York, 2014)With over 230 museums, the State of Israel has the most museums per capita in the world. These range in size and sophistication from small house museums to those representing state-of-the-art contemporary museum design, such as the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum. Israel’s diverse assortment of museums covers time periods spanning prehistory to the present day. Not all museums are concerned with archaeology and many focus on other topics as varied as military history, grain, computers, sport, clandestine immigration, founding figures, visual art, folklore, and transport.
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ItemMuseums of Israel(Springer, 2017)Archaeology the study of human cultures through the analysis and interpretation of artefacts and material remains continues to captivate and engage people on a local and global level. Internationally celebrated heritage sites such as the pyramids both Egyptian and Mayan Lascaux caves, and the statues of Easter Island provide insights into our ancestors and their actions and motivation.
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ItemBritish Museum(Springer, 2017)Situated in Great Russell Street, London, the British Museum (http://www.britishmuseum.org/) was created by an Act of Parliament in 1753 and opened to the public in 1759. Governed by a board of 25 trustees in accordance with the British Museum Act of 1963 and the Museums and Galleries Act of 1992, the museum is a nondepartmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The museum’s stated purpose is “to hold for the benefit and education of humanity a collection representative of world cultures and to ensure that the collection is housed in safety, conserved, curated, researched and exhibited” (British Museumn.d.).
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ItemTwo-Dimensional Semantics(Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2017)Two-dimensional (2D) semantics is a formal framework that is used to characterize the meaning of certain linguistic expressions and the entailment relations among sentences containing them. The 2D framework has also been applied to thought contents. This entry explains the 2D formalism and the philosophical theses the formalism has been used to support. The 2017 revisions to the entry involve significant new material (about 6,000 words) reflecting current debates over the philosophical applications of the 2D framework.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAncient Doxography(Oxford University Press, 2016)
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ItemPaphos(Routledge, 2016)
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ItemCyprus(Routledge, 2016)Chronologically, the volume's scope extends from pre-historical antiquity in the third millennium B.C.E. through the rise of Islam in the seventh century C.E. An interdisciplinary approach draws out the common issues and elements between ...
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ItemBronze Age(Routledge, 2016)Chronologically, the volume's scope extends from pre-historical antiquity in the third millennium B.C.E. through the rise of Islam in the seventh century C.E. An interdisciplinary approach draws out the common issues and elements between ...