New Releases by John Guy

This book provides a perfect introduction to the brutal but exhilarating world of the Vikings. It explores everything from the bloodthirsty expeditions to the Vikings'' rich culture, revealing what life was really like for the people of this maurading race

Medieval Life provides a short history of life in the Middle Ages. Colourful illustrations, many from contemporary medieval paintings, as well as striking photographs of surviving buildings and artefacts, allow the reader to understand the everyday lives

Here is a visual record of one of the great untold stories of Asian design history: the trade in Indian textiles to Southeast and East Asia. For over 1000 years Indian cloths were traded for spices and the forest and mineral wealth of the East by Asian, Arab and European merchants.

Gives a unique insight into the history of this deadly occupation.

Describes the culture, history, and lifestyle of the ancient Greeks.

The expansion of the British Empire, the changing styles in fashion, the Great Exhibition, Disraeli and Gladstone - Victoria''s very able Prime Ministers, and the social changes with the new industrial age are brought to life in this book.

Vietnamese potters combined their own native genius with elements derived from neighboring cultures, including Cambodia, Champa, India, and especially China. Yet their decorative motifs, glaze types, production methods, and perhaps even attitudes toward potting differed distinctly from those of China. Using the excellent clay of the Red River valley--smooth, homogeneous, gray-white--they created the most sophisticated ceramic tradition of Southeast Asia. The most definitive study on Vietnamese ceramics to date, this volume is the collaborative effort of experts from around the world, including Vietnam, Japan, England, France, and the United States. They discuss the history and development of Vietnamese ceramics, kiln sites discovered in Vietnam, and technical questions. John Guy (Victoria & Albert Museum, London) contributes essays on Vietnamese ceramics and cultural identity, and Vietnamese Ceramics in international trade. John Stevenson (Seattle Art Museum) explains the historical context and examines the ivory-glazed wares of the Ly and Tran dynasties. Louise Cort (Smithsonian Institution) analyzes Vietnamese ceramics in Japanese contexts, while Regina Krahl (British Museum) shares her expertise on Vietnamese blue-and-white and polychrome traditions. Asako Morimoto (Fukuoka Museum) describes the kilns of northern Vietnam. The book contains additional essays by Philippe Truong of the Louvre, Trian Nguyen of UC Berkeley, and Peter Lam of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lastly, Nguyen Dinh Chien of the Hanoi Historical Museum and John Guy address chronological issues and list dated and datable ancient Vietnamese ceramics.--Amazon.com.

A short history of life in the 16th and 17th centuries under the Tudor and Stuart monarchs. This fascinating book covers all the important events that changed the course of history, including Henry VIII''s divorce and establishment of the Church of England, the colonisation of America and the Civil War between Roundheads and Cavaliers. Over 100 colourful illustrations, many from contemporary paintings, take you on a voyage of discovery, from the daily lives of ordinary people to Sir Francis Drake''s adventures on the high seas.

Life in 16th century England under Queen Elizabeth I. 10 yrs+

This book provides an introduction to the glazed ceramic traditions of South-East Asia. The ceramic wares of Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam are discussed, including the evolution of forms and glazes and related kiln technology.

Focuses on the society, politics and culture of Tudor England, examines its strengths and weaknesses and portrays the personalities and politics of the monarchs and politicians.

Glazed ceramics, through their physical resilience and social relevance, have become a persistent indicator of cultural contact in Southeast Asia for over a millennium of the region''s history. This lavishly illustrated historical survey includes introductions to technical and stylistic aspects of the ceramic traditions of China, Vietnam, and Thailand, over two hundred illustrations of stoneware and porcelain ceramics, and an extensive biography.

Some of the theoretical and experimental implications of isotropic incremental elastic-plastic constitutive models formulated with constant values for the shear modulus G are examined. Two types of constant G models are considered, i.e. a single constant value of G for loading and unloading and two separate values of G, one for loading and one for unloading. These material property specifications are successively coupled with four increasingly more realistic idealized stress-strain axial strain and a von Mises-type limiting shear envelope characteriatic of that specified for the classical Prandtl-Reuss material. The resulting models are used to calculate mean normal stress or pressure versus volumetric strain and uniaxial strain principal stress difference versus pressure relations for qualitative comparison with observed test phenomena. The constitutive equations of a classical Prandtl-Reuss material and the behavior of this ideal model for conditions of uniaxial strain are included in an appendix for reference and informational purposes. (Author).