Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 1631061585
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Skull Sourcebook explores the symbolism, meaning, and breathtaking, cultural art of the human skull, one of the most iconic symbols in the world.
Skull Sourcebook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 1631061585
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Skull Sourcebook explores the symbolism, meaning, and breathtaking, cultural art of the human skull, one of the most iconic symbols in the world.
Skull Sourcebook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 1631061585
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Skull Sourcebook explores the symbolism, meaning, and breathtaking, cultural art of the human skull, one of the most iconic symbols in the world.
The Skull Collectors
Author: Ann FabianPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022676057X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
"A haunting voyage through the peculiar--and peculiarly American--world of human skull collecting. Ann Fabian's remarkable and moving study illuminates as few other works have the powerful hold that the dead and their remains continue to have upon the living". Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History.
Skulls
Author: Paul GambinoPublisher: Laurence King
ISBN: 9781786276513
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
It is said that the skull is the only human body part that is as powerful dead as it was when living. Skulls takes the reader on an eerie journey through history seen through the hollow eye sockets of this crown jewel of the human skeleton. The book is made up of a series of short illustrated stories laced with fascinating facts, historical and medical references, and compelling anecdotes. The testimonials of thirty-plus skull collectors reveal what is known of - or speculated about - the often gruesome history of the skulls, as well as how they were acquired, and what makes them so highly prized.
Skulls
Author: Noah ScalinPublisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781600593758
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Artist Scalin decided to make a skull image every day for a year, each made from odd sometimes humorous materials. Each of the 150 skulls shown is accompanied by a brief description and fun anecdotal stories. As a bonus, there are four skull projects to make.
The Skull, Volume 1
Author: James HankenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226315673
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
In this authoritative three-volume reference work, leading researchers bring together current work to provide a comprehensive analysis of the comparative morphology, development, evolution, and functional biology of the skull.
The Mammoth Book Of Skulls
Author: ILYAPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1472115325
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Skulls have always captured the human imagination. This extraordinary collection of the most engaging and intriguing images of the skull from pop culture around the world, presents a visual feast of the ultimate doom-laden image. Here you will find the skull in graphic novels, manga, graphic design, art, costume, make-up, vintage advertising and popular culture, along with the just plain weird. Page after page of stunning photographs reveal an incredible diversity of interpretations of the iconic image.
Animal Skulls
Author: Mark ElbrochPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811733092
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
This reference and guidebook offers illustrations, descriptions, and measurements for the skulls of some 275 animal species found throughout North America. The skull is the key anatomical feature used to identify an animal and understand many of its behaviors. This book describes in words and pictures the bones and regions of the skull important to identification, including illustrations of all the bones in the cranium, leading to a greater understanding of a creature's place in the natural world. With life-size drawings, this guide is a reference for wildlife professionals, trackers, and animal-lovers.
The Skull, Volume 3
Author: James HankenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226315713
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
In this authoritative three-volume reference work, leading researchers bring together current work to provide a comprehensive analysis of the comparative morphology, development, evolution, and functional biology of the skull.
Skull Collection, Modification and Decoration
Author: Michelle BonogofskyPublisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This volume is based on papers submitted to the session "Skull Collection, Modification and Decoration" organized for the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, held at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, September 5-11, 2005. The intent of the volume is to bring together and make available to a wider audience a body of information on skull collection, modification and decoration that spans the Early Neolithic to the twentieth century. The papers are grouped by geographic region - Europe, Middle East, Eurasia, Oceania, New World.