The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem in 1947 & 1956. Now Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh, co-authors of The Holy Blood & The Holy Grail, have succeeded in uncovering what has been described as 'the academic scandal par excellence of the twentieth century': the story of how & why up to 75 per cent of the eight hundred ancient Hebrew & Aramaic manuscripts, hidden for some nineteen centuries, have, until very recently, remained concealed from the rest of the world. Through interviews, historical analysis & a close study of both published & unpublished scroll material, the authors are able to reveal the true cause of the bitter struggle between scholars, for these documents disclose nothing less than a new account of the origins of Christianity & an alternative & highly significant version of the New Testament. ...

In Deadly Dare, there's a new craze at Theo & Ricky's school. The rules are simple. Write a dare, put it in the ...

In Deadly Dare, there's a new craze at Theo & Ricky's school. The rules are simple. Write a dare, put it in the ...

In the spring of 1940, the spectre of war turned into grim reality.

And on the English home front, men, women & children

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Conventional city planning holds that cities decline because they are blighted by over-crowding, byt old buildings & narrow streets, & by mixtures of commercial & residential use. Crowded neighbourhoods, it is generally stated, breed apathy & crime, discourage investment & contaminate the areas around them. The response of city planners is to tear the old neighbourhoods down, scatter their inhabitants, lay out super-blocks, & rebuild the area according to an integrated plan, with the frequent result that the crime rate rises still higher, the new neighbourhood is more lifeless than the old one, & the surrounding areas deteriotate even more, until the whole city is affected. In this groundbreaking study, Jane Jacobs offers a real alternative to conventional city planning that we have had in this century. Herself a city dweller, she asks what makes cities work, why are some neighbourhoods full of things to do & see & others dul, why is the crime rate soaring in public housing developments, & why are some of the areas condemned as slums so much more safe, stable & congenial? ...

Since solving a particularly nasty case of child murder using her forensic skills, Adelia Aguilar is deemed too valuable to send back to the School of Medicine in Salerno. Instead, King Henry II has decided to keep her in Engl&. This is bad news for Adelia ...