When the young Arthur pulls the embedded sword from the stone his future as the King of England is foretold This imaginative retelling of the classic legends recounts the story of Arthur's formation of the Knights of the Round Table his securing of the enchanted sword Excalibur his wooing of the Lady Guinevere & many other beloved Arthurian tales ...

The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by JRR Tolkien which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery & who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest & most tragic of all JRR Tolkien's characters Hapless Kullervo' as Tolkien called him is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers & a tragic destiny Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo who killed his father kidnapped his mother & who tries three times to kill him when still a boy Kullervo is alone save for the love of his twin sister Wanona & guarded by the magical powers of the black dog Musti When Kullervo is sold into slavery he swears revenge on the magician but he will learn that even at the point of vengeance there is no escape from the cruellest of fates Tolkien wrote that The Story of Kullervo was the germ of my attempt to write legends of my own' & was a major matter in the legends of the First Age'; his Kullervo was the ancestor of Turin Turambar tragic incestuous hero of The Silmarillion In addition to being a powerful story in its own right The Story of Kullervo
- published here for the first time with the author's drafts notes & lecture-essays on its source-work The Kalevala is a foundation stone in the structure of Tolkien's invented world
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The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by JRR Tolkien which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery & who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest & most tragic of all JRR Tolkien's characters Hapless Kullervo' as Tolkien called him is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers & a tragic destiny Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo who killed his father kidnapped his mother & who tries three times to kill him when still a boy Kullervo is alone save for the love of his twin sister Wanona & guarded by the magical powers of the black dog Musti When Kullervo is sold into slavery he swears revenge on the magician but he will learn that even at the point of vengeance there is no escape from the cruellest of fates Tolkien wrote that The Story of Kullervo was the germ of my attempt to write legends of my own' & was a major matter in the legends of the First Age'; his Kullervo was the ancestor of Turin Turambar tragic incestuous hero of The Silmarillion In addition to being a powerful story in its own right The Story of Kullervo
- published here for the first time with the author's drafts notes & lecture-essays on its source-work The Kalevala is a foundation stone in the structure of Tolkien's invented world
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this book is a magical journey through life from the beginnings of time to the birth of a child & the adventure that we take on our way to the grave & beyond to the starsit is a celebration of being human & all of the beautiful things that is in betweenif you like books that are aboutwhy we are herehow we are madebabies shedding their baby legs & growing their child legsthe innocence of childhoodthe warmth of papas backteen lifebody harethe first kissfalling in lovebeing alonethe gift of a feathertales of witchessaturday nightsmonday morningsthe mystery of old peoples earlobesdeathghostsand the meaning of lifethen this book is for youbecause inside of this book there is all of those things & after reading about 5 pages of it you will be the main expert of human life & there will be nothing in this world that you will not know love from your friend chris (simpsons artist) xox ...

At first nothing lived on Earth It was a noisy hot scary place Choking gas exploded from volcanoes & oceans of lava bubbled around the globe Then in the deep dark ocean something amazing happened This is an exciting & dramatic story about how life began & developed on Planet Earth written especially for younger children The authors explain how the first living cell was created & how the cells multiply & create jellyfish & worms & then fish with bendy necks which drag themselves out of the water into swampy forests They tell the story of the biggest creatures that have ever walked on land
- the dinosaurs Long after that hairy creatures who have babies not eggs take over stand on two legs & spread around the world some of them living through cataclysmic events such as ice ages & volcanic eruptions Everyone living today is related to these survivors With delightful illustrations including lots of detail & humour all carefully researched & checked this book shows the development of life on Earth in a truly accessible & simple way CLICK HERE to download Teachers' Notes specially written by the authors Catherine Barr & Steve Williams to assist teachers & librarians in the promotion & teaching of The Story of Lifein schools & to help foster a love of good books literature & reading in children
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Every fossil tells a story Best-selling paleontology author Donald R Prothero describes twenty-five famous beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects & fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record Prothero creates a riveting history of life on our planet The twenty-five fossils portrayed in this book catch animals in their evolutionary splendor as they transition from one kind of organism to another We witness extinct plants & animals of microscopic & immense size & thrilling diversity We learn about fantastic land & sea creatures that have no match in nature today Along the way we encounter such fascinating fossils as the earliest trilobite Olenellus; the giant shark Carcharocles; the fishibian Tiktaalik; the Frogamander & the Turtle on the Half-Shell; enormous marine reptiles & the biggest dinosaurs known; the first bird Archaeopteryx; the walking whale Ambulocetus; the gigantic hornless rhinoceros Paraceratherium the largest land mammal that ever lived; & the Australopithecus nicknamed Lucy the oldest human skeleton We meet the scientists & adventurers who pioneered paleontology & learn about the larger intellectual & social contexts in which their discoveries were made Finally we find out where to see these splendid fossils in the world's great museums Ideal for all who love prehistoric landscapes & delight in the history of science this book makes a treasured addition to any bookshelf stoking curiosity in the evolution of life on Earth ...

This new extended edition of Story of Life is the perfect gift for those with a love of the natural world Wander the galleries
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Everything you wanted to know
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- about one of the world's greatest cities told in words & cartoon illustrations

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Looking can be an act of empathy or aggression It can provoke desire or express it & from the blurry edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into looking can define us In The Story of Looking filmmaker & writer Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour
- in words & images
- through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime & the ways that looking has changed through the centuries From great works of art to tourist photographs from cityscapes to cinema through science & protest propaganda & refusals to look the false mirrors & great visionaries of looking this book illuminates how we construct as well as receive the things we see Brilliant & eclectic The Story of Looking is a photo album & an art gallery a road movie & a visual grammar once you've read it you'll never see things the same way again

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Shortlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize'A masterwork I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade A homage to the redemptive power of love' Independent Summer 1921 Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens & woods above Lahardane
- the home her family is being forced to abandon She knows the Gaults are no longer welcome in Ireland & that danger threatens Lucy however is headstrong & decides that somehow she must force her parents into staying But the path she chooses ends in disaster One chance event unwanted & unexpected will blight the lives of the Gaults for years to come & bind each of them in different ways to this one moment in time to this wild stretch of coast ' Flawless Guaranteed to keep you reading
- all through the night if necessary
- to find out what happens Trevor's best novel' New Statesman' Dark elegantly written a book to relish' Independent on Sunday


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