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Disease and demography in the Americas by John W. Verano (editor)

The European Iron Age by John Collis

On war by Carl von Clausewitz

Banking and business in the Roman world by Jean Andreau

Agricultural production in the Roman economy, A.D. 200-400 by Tamara Lewit

Archaeology : the science of once and future things by Brian Hayden

Fractals in geography by Nina Siu-Ngan Lam

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CollectionsYour library (1,210), Main collection (871), Entertainment (93), Cookbooks (41), Computer software (37), Fiction etc (167), Work (3), All collections (1,210)

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Tagsarchaeology (399), history (358), Roman (247), Europe (185), fiction (158), medieval (134), ancient (131), modern (110), anthropology (102), economy (80) — see all tags

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GroupsAncient History, Archaeologists, Combiners!, Dewey Decimal Challenge, Editors, Researchers, Whatever, Food History, Late Roman, LC Classification Challenge, Lingua Latina, Medieval Europe

Favorite authorsLewis R. Binford, Fernand Braudel, John W. Hayes (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBarnes & Noble Main Store, Strand Bookstore

Favorite librariesAvery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University - Butler Library, New York Public Library - Humanities and Social Sciences Library

About meArchaeologist, editor, and compulsive book-hoarder.

About my libraryI'm slowly entering them, in order by shelf or pile or box. Along with a few stray books in other categories, the main sections not entered yet are archaeology (in progress), ancient and medieval history (in progress), music, and numismatics. Also, at some point I may go back to the periodicals and catalogue them in greater detail.

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E59F reviewed, rated:
Byzantium in the seventh century : the transformation of a culture by J. F. Haldon

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African political systems by M. Fortes

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The Byzantine economy by Angeliki E. Laiou

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Roman building : materials and techniques by Jean-Pierre Adam

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Greek and Roman technology by K. D. White

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Roman crafts by Donald Strong

Hey, yeah, a group wiki page would be really neat! I know nothing about them but would be willing to help get one created. I plan on tagging my books with the DD and LC tags when I get home from this work trip.

Also, although we only share a few books, you have a lot that look interesting so I am going to have to go through and add a bunch to my wishlist on BookMooch, I think :D

posted by amckie at 7:27 pm (EST) on Mar 23, 2009

Just noticed your collection of FCR literature. Working on a project? Last summer, we ended up finding a few tightly clustered accumulations of FCR, which I interpreted as being from the user having dumped out the bag or pot. Any suggestions for references on that?

posted by Marshdrifter at 9:59 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008

Woo Hoo! Willey and Phillips!

I just reread that one. Good stuff. Somewhat problematic, but they acknowledge where it's problematic.

posted by Marshdrifter at 9:54 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2008

I'm thinking that if I already want to do more varied reading, I probably shouldn't start a Ph.D. immediately (though it's so easy to get caught in academia: they'll give me money to stay in school, so I might as well do it). Editing does sound like fun. What exactly does it entail? I'm sort of worried that if I'm forced to read all the time I might not enjoy it as much. The other career prospect I'm currently considering is high school/elementary teaching. Some high schools at least still offer Latin.

posted by _Zoe_ at 7:08 pm (EST) on Nov 3, 2007

Oh, I'm starting to look forward to being done with grad school so that I can read all sorts of different things for a change. Being a professional dilettante sounds quite appealing. Of course, I can imagine that once I actually do have the freedom to read anything I want I'll suddenly find that everything I'm being forced to read now seems much more interesting :)

posted by _Zoe_ at 11:05 am (EST) on Nov 2, 2007

Good call on moving the discussion to profile comments :)

I do like citations to a certain extent, but it sometimes gets to a point where the flow of the reading is disrupted too much by looking at a citation every two or three sentences, especially when they're citing the same few authors again and again. I don't need to look up every last detail in the relevant passage of Plato or Aristotle, for instance. I do like notes if they have content beyond just a reference to another work, and I completely agree that I'd rather have footnotes than endnotes. I also really enjoy annotated bibliographies. But like you, I don't tend to pay much attention to the critical apparatus.

Thanks for explaining about the problem with translating military terms. I feel somehow better knowing that I can dislike the translation not just because I didn't understand it, but because the underlying principal is flawed. I think it would be much more useful to leave technical terms untranslated and provide a glossary at the back explaining precisely what they mean.

posted by _Zoe_ at 11:41 am (EST) on Oct 28, 2007

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