This edition of Michael Wood's groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating & mysterious centuries between the Romans & the Norman Conquest of 1066 In Search of the Dark Ages vividly conjures up some of the most famous names in British history such as Queen Boadicea leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans & King Arthur the 'once & future king' for whose riddle Wood proposes a new & surprising solution Here too warts & all are the Saxon Viking & Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England
- Offa of Mercia Alfred the Great Athelstan & William the Conqueror whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England Reflecting recent historical textual & archaeological research this revised edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy & brutal era showing them to be a richly exciting & formative period in the history of Britain ' With In Search of the Dark Ages Michael Wood wrote the book for history on TV' The Times ' Michael Wood is the maker of some of the best TV documentaries ever made on history & archaeology' Times Literary Supplement
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Historian Michael Wood presents this BBC series about the Dark Ages Originally aired in 1981 the series gives the audience an insight into the period known as the Dark Ages with Wood going on a journey of discovery to find out what really happened in Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire All 8 episodes are included; ' In Search of Offa' ' In Search of Boadicea' ' In Search of Arthur' ' In Search of Alfred the Great' ' In Search of Athelstan' ' In Search of Eric Bloodaxe' ' In Search of Ethelred the Unready' & ' In Search of William the Conqueror' Directors Michael Wood Format PALLanguage English Subtitles English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 2 ...

A rollercoaster new history for the 50th anniversary of the ' Summer of Love' from a music business veteran who was actually there 280 pages Goldberg Danny ...

Danny Goldberg is probably one of the purest most reasonableguides you could ask for to 1967' Ex-Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham Weaves together rollicking rousing wonderfully colourful anddisparate narratives to remind us how the energies & aspirations of thecounterculture were intertwined with protest & reform mesmerising' The Nation It wasthe year that saw the release of the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band & of debut albums from the Doors the Grateful Dead Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin The year of the Summer of Love & LSD; the Monterey Pop Festivaland Black Power; Muhammad Ali's conviction for draft avoidance & Martin Luther King Jr's public opposition to war in Vietnam On its 50th anniversary music business veteran Danny Goldberg analyses 1967 looking not only at the political influences butalso the spiritual musical & psychedelic movements that defined the eraproviding a unique perspective on how & why its legacy lives on today Exhaustively researched & informed byinterviews including Allen Ginsberg Timothy Leary & Gil Scott-Heron In Search of the Lost Chord is the synthesis of a fascinating andcomplicated period in our social & countercultural history that was about somuch more than sex drugs & rock n roll ...

In Search of the Romans is a lively & informative introduction to ancient Rome Making extensive use of ancient sources & copiously illustrated with photographs drawings maps & plans it introduces six key areas of the Roman world history religion society entertainment Pompeii & Herculaneum Each chapter can be read independently although there are many cross-references & links between them There are also useful Appendices on the city of Rome Roman politics currency values clothing & the calendar Review questions throughout the book challenge students to read further & reflect on some of the most important social political & cultural issues of ancient Rome as well as comparing them with those of their own society In Search of the Romans is essential reading for teachers & students of Classical Civilisation ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Ethan Embry & Michael Gladis star as Kevin & Bruce best friends & co-owners of a failing home security company in a town with no crime As a last ditch effort to drum up some business they start robbing the neighbours to instil fear & create a need for their services Bullets fly when they unwittingly rob the wrong guy Cary Elwes who turns in a killer performance as a suburban drug lord with a penchant for kitchen gadgets Clea Du Vall & Adam Arkin co-star in this action-packed comedy featuring a host of hilarious turns from Ed Begley Jr Vinnie Jones & Ving Rhames Actors Adam Arkin Clea Duvall Cary Elwes Michael Gladis Vinnie Jones Directors Adam Beamer Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

' An enthralling page-turner Anyone whose life has been touched by illness will be transfixed by this deeply moving tale' Rachel Clarke author of Your Life in My Hands' Urgent & supremely eloquent In Shock is a book to set alongside the likes of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Direct Red by Gabriel Weston & of course Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air' Caroline Sanderson At seven months pregnant intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume & losing her unborn first child She spent months fighting for her life in her own hospital enduring a series of organ failures & multiple major surgeries Every step of the way Awdish was faced with something even more unexpected & shocking than her battle to survive her fellow doctors' inability to see & acknowledge the pain of loss & human suffering the result of a self-protective barrier hard-wired in medical training In Shock is Rana Awdish's searing account of her extraordinary journey from doctor to patient during which she sees for the first time the dysfunction of her profession's disconnection from patients & the flaws in her own past practice as a doctor Shatteringly personal yet wholly universal it is both a brave roadmap for anyone navigating illness & a call to arms for doctors to see each patient not as a diagnosis but as a human being ...

In Sicily is a loving take on an extraordinary island based on Norman Lewis's sixty-yearlong fascination with all things Sicilian! Few places on earth have escaped the singular eye of Norman Lewis but always in the course of his long career he has come back to Sicily From his first wartime visit
- to a land untouched since the Middle Ages
- through his frequent returns he has watched the island & its people as they have changed over the years! Dedicated to a Sicilian journalist killed by a Mafia bomb he rarely lets us forget the presence of organized crime We benefit from his friendships with policemen journalists & common people Moreover he writes beautifully of landscape & language of his memories of his first father-in-law (professional gambler descendant of princes & member of the Unione Siciliana) of Sicily's changing sexual mores of the effects of African immigration of Palermo & its ruined palaces
- & of strange superstitions of witches & bandits & murder


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play ‘ Tis the season to be jolly? Not for Alf Garnett His daughter prefers the company of her Scouse husband his mates all abandon the pub for their families & he’s left with Marigold & a cheese sandwich Happy Christmas! There’s not much that gets Alf’s goat more than Christmas – that is if you ignore immigrants the unions the Labour Party Scousers or the price of beer – & every festive season finds him delivering some of his greatest rants For a lonely OAP whose pension won’t stretch much further than a pint of mild & some pipe tobacco it’s time to put on the waterworks wring what he can out of friends relations & do-gooders – & spend it down the pub These Christmas specials broadcast between 1985 & 1990 find Alf in great miserable form & include his last Christmas with Else; his short lived career as a store Santa; his Christmas in hospital for a hip replacement & a disastrous wedding day that leaves Mrs Hollingbery in a less than festive mood… ...

Alfred Garnett favourite small-minded bigot returns for the second series that marked a spin-off from the hugely popular TILL DEATH US DO PART Contains all the episodes from the show's third series ...