Aztec Calendar and Other Solar Monuments by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma & Felipe Solis ISBN: 9706780092 Grupo Azabache $60.00 Hardcover In their new book, the authors reveal the true purposes of the two most important expressions of the pre-Hispanic era: the Aztec calendar and the solar symbol Nahui Ollin. The book includes a unique booklet with six full-color transparencies, each highlighting one of the six concentric circles of the Aztec Calendar. Art of Clothing A Pacific Experience Graeme Were & Susanne Kuchler, editors ISBN: 1844720152 UCL Press $60.00 Paperback A collection of richly textured and engaging empirical studies of cloth and clothing in colonial and postcolonial Pacific contexts. By challenging readers to reconsider the very nature of the materiality of clothing, the editors situate this volume at the intersection of a number of ongoing interdisciplinary cloth and clothing projects. Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989 by Wayne D. Cocroft, Roger J.C. Thomas & P.S. Barnwell ISBN: 1873592817 English Heritage $30.00 Paperback This unique book reflects a project mounted by English Heritage to document the physical remains of Britain's cold war policies, before they are demolished or reused. The authors describe and discuss secret offices and buildings in British cities used to spy on and listen to the Soviets during the Cold War. The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating Archaeology, Text and Science by Thomas E. Levy & Thomas Higham ISBN: 1845530578 Equinox Publishing (UK) $39.95 Paperback Written for an academic audience, The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating will be of great interest to biblical scholars, archaeologists, Egyptologists, and radiocarbon specialists. The general public will also be interested in this new book because of the important issues concerning the historical authenticity of the Bible tackled in this volume. Qur'an by Alan Jones ISBN: 0906094631 Gibb Memorial Trust $35.00 Paperback In a new translation of the Qur'an, special thought has been given to what the text would have meant to its original hearers and to the fact that the Qur'an was originally an oral work. This translation of the Qur'an contains a general introduction, a full index, and each sura has its own introductory note.