Owain Glyn Dwr is one of the great figures of Welsh & military history Initially a loyal subject of the king of England he reluctantly took up arms against the Crown he had served Once committed to rebellion he proved surprisingly talented at leading rebel troops against a theoretically vastly superior enemy Not solely a warrior he conceived & implemented a strategy which saw his small poorly-equipped forces repeatedly defeat Crown troops & bring down the apparatus of governance in Wales Following these achievements he held native parliaments & established diplomatic contact with surrounding powers This led to a treaty with France after the conclusion of which he welcomed French forces to Welsh soil to campaign with the rebels In brief Owain erected a rebel state & won international recognition Owain's foreign support was fractured by the intrigues of exceptionally talented English diplomats at work in the French court This created an environment which allowed Crown forces to concentrate on defeating the rebellion in Wales Although ultimately unsuccessful Owain emerges from the era as a gifted & honourable leader giving the Welsh a figure commonly recalled as a hero ...

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle & military might Kennedy's masterwork begins in the year 1500 at a time of various great centres of power including Minh China the Ottomans the rising Mughal state the nations of Europe But it was the latter which through competition economic growth & better military organisation came to dominate the globe
- until challenged later by Japan the Soviet Union & the United States Now China boosted by its own economic prowess rises to the fore Throughout this brilliant work Kennedy persuasively demonstrates the interdependence of economic & military power showing how an imbalance between the two has historically led to spectacular political disaster Erudite & brilliantly original The Rise & Fall of the Great Powers is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the politics of power
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An illuminating & highly readable account of the rise & demise of a world classic which still informs our common language as well as much of the great literature of the last four centuries Most histories of Church of England liturgy for good reason begin in the 1530s & centre on the 1549 & 1552 Books of Common Prayer That is important for initial doctrinal changes & the establishment of the liturgical text However both liturgies were extremely short-lived & the real history of the Book of Common Prayer as the Liturgy of the Church of England begins with the Elizabethan Settlement 1559 & a long tenure of the enacted Elizabethan liturgy The only revision of any note was that of 1662 & this revision lasted without serious challenge until the 19th century & without legal alternative until the twentieth century This study therefore concentrates on 1559 until the Report of the Royal Commission in 1906 which paved the way for liturgical revision ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Simon Cotton & Kevin Leslie star as the infamous gangster twins Ronnie & Reggie Kray in this double bill of British crime dramas & Rise of the Krays& (2015) chronicles the Kray twins& early criminal career that saw them rise from amateur boxers to notorious & feared criminals in London&s East End The story follows the pair&s violent ascension during the &60s as they turn to lives of crime full-time with the expansion of their nightclub blackmail & racketeering operations The sequel & Fall of the Krays& (2016) follows the downfall of the brothers from Bethnal Green & their notorious Firm After their violent ascension to the top of the criminal underworld business is booming for the brothers as Reggie prepares to be married But the twins& good fortune doesn&t last as they each battle problems at home & the police prepare to finally bring down the Firm ...

More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee The 'third' chimpanzee is man Jared Diamond surveys out life-cycle culture sexuality & destructive urges both towards ourselves & the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal origins ...

New omnibus edition of Mike Lee's classic Warhammer fantasy trilogy The Rise of Nagash In the fantasy world of Warhammer magic suffuses the land to such an extent that even the dead can live' again & whole empires of undead creatures hold sway in the dark places of the Old World The vampires in the forests the ghouls in their tunnels the tomb kings of the southern deserts
- all can trace their dark lineage back to Nagash the first necromancer & supreme lord of undeath For it was Nagash two millennia before the time of Sigmar who wrested the secrets of life & death from the dark elves embarking upon a quest for immortality that would spark a war destroy an empire & unleash a plague of undeath that would blight the Old World until the End Times & beyond The Time of Legends omnibuses tell the stories of the ancient events that shaped the Warhammer Old World & still resonate aeons later in the current Age of Sigmar setting Nagash is a key antagonist in the original Warhammer setting & he has risen again to cause havoc amid the Mortal Realms in the Age of Sigmar A great-value collection of three novels that bring the legend of the dark necromancer Nagash vividly to life Previous trade paperback omnibus edition The Rise of Nagash (ISBN9781849702829)
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The Rise of Nine is the next thrilling instalment in the gripping Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore' Number Four is a hero for this generation' Michael Bay director of Transformers Until I met John Smith Number Four I'd been on the run alone hiding & fighting to stay alive Together we are much more powerful But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others I went to Spain to find Seven & I found even more including a tenth member of the Garde who escaped from Lorien alive Ella is younger than the rest of us but just as brave Now we're looking for the others
- including John But so are they I am Number Six To finish what they started they'll have to fight us first Praise for Pittacus Lore' Tense exciting full of energy' Observer' Relentlessly readable' The Times' Tense keeps you wondering' Sunday Times' Set to eclipse Harry Potter & moody vampires Pittacus Lore is about to become one of the hottest names on the planet' Big Issue The Rise of Nine is the third book in Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies series The first book in his Lorien Legacies series I Am Number Four is now a major Disney motion picture & along with The Power of Six & The Rise of Nine perfect for fans of The Hunger Games
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'the fates ordained the founding of this great city & the beginning of the world's mightiest empire second only to the power of the gods' Romulus & Remus the rape of Lucretia Horatius at the bridge the saga of Coriolanus Cincinnatus called from his farm to save the state
- these & many more are stories which immortalised by Livy in his history of early Rome have become part of our cultural heritage The historian's huge work written between 20 BC & AD 17 ran to 12 books beginning with Rome's founding in 753 BC & coming down to Livy's own lifetime (9 BC) Books 1-5 cover the period from Rome's beginnings to her first great foreign conquest the capture of the Etruscan city of Veii & a few years later to her first major defeat the sack of the city by the Gauls in 390 BC The complete Livy in English available in five volumes from Oxford World's Classics ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more
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In the late Iron Age Rome was a small collection of huts arranged over a few hills By the third century BC it had become a large & powerful city with monumental temples public buildings & grand houses It had conquered the whole of Italy & was poised to establish an empire But how did it accomplish this historic transformation? This book explores the development of Rome during this period & the nature of its control over Italy considering why & how the Romans achieved this spectacular dominance For Rome was only one of a number of emerging centres of power during this period From its complex forms of government to its innovative connections with other states Kathryn Lomas shows what set Rome apart Examining the context & impact of the city's dominance as well as the key political social & economic changes it engendered this is crucial reading for anyone interested in Ancient Rome ...

A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human Right now more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity's Rainbow 'it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f off' Over the past three decades the bounds of the possible in action & adventure sports
- from sky-diving to motocross to surfing & beyond
- have been pushed farther & faster A generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible; not just raising the bar but obliterating it altogether Along the way they have become a force pushing evolution relentlessly onward In a thrilling narrative that draws on biology psychology & philosophy Steven Kotler asks why at the tail end of the 20th century & the early portion of the 21st are we seeing such a multi-sport assault on reality? Did we somehow slip through a wormhole to another universe where gravity is optional & common sense obsolete? & where
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- do our actual limits lie?



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