The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked & suppressed the teachings of the Classical world ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to 'one true faith' Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek & mild going to their martyr's deaths singing hymns of love & praise the truth as Catherine Nixey reveals is very different Far from being meek & mild they were violent ruthless & fundamentally intolerant Unlike the polytheistic world in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones this new ideology stated not only that it was the way the truth & the light but that by extension every single other way was wrong & had to be destroyed From the 1st century to the 6th those who didn't fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way social legal financial & physical Their altars were upturned & their temples demolished their statues hacked to pieces & their priests killed It was an annihilation Authoritative vividly written & utterly compelling this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian ...

A gripping account of how the early Christians viciously attacked the art & teachings of the Classical world from a brilliant young historian 352 pages 16pp plates Nixey Catherine ...

Hardcover 144 pages Publisher Cubicle 7 Entertainment; 1st edition (21 Nov 2012) Language English ...

A heartbreakingly moving story of loyalty & passion second in the Durham Trilogy When pretty Sara Pallister's father dies leaving his farm bankrupt she is begrudgingly taken in by her narrow-minded uncle & aunt in the mining village of Whitton Grange Made to pay her way Sara is hired out to Dolly Sergeant's grocer's shop where she meets funny bashful Raymond Kirkup & his warm-hearted aunt Louie It is through Raymond that she meets the family that is to change her life the exotic & extrovert Italian Dimarcos who own the popular ice-cream parlour & finds herself irresistibly drawn to leather-jacketed motorbike-riding Joe Dimarco But neither of their families approves the love-match & they strive to keep them apart As the shadows of the Second World War gather & the growing hostility to the Italians erupts into violence Sara & Joe's passionate love seems doomed With its vivid backdrop of a pit-town strained by the tensions of war The Darkening Skies is a vibrant & moving story of conflicting loyalties passions & cultures The Darkening Skies follows the award-nominated The Hungry Hills in the Durham Mining Trilogy ...

Young Chris is an astronaut A very busy astronaut Saving the planet from aliens is much more important than taking baths or going to bed Because at bedtime the worst sort of alien appears
- darkness But when Chris watches the first moon landing on TV he discovers that there is a dark out in Space that is much darker than he's used to It's the darkest dark ever & he realizes that the unknown can be exciting! The Darkest Dark is the debut picture book by Commander Chris Hadfield international bestselling author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth & You Are Here with spectacular illustrations by illustration team The Fan Brothers Inspired by Chris's decision to become an astronaut after watching the Apollo 11 moon landing at age nine The Darkest Dark is an inspiring story about facing your fears & following your dreams
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The Darkest Day is the first novel in the five part Inspector Barbarotti series from renowned Swedish crime author Hakan Nesser It's December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge & the Hermansson family are gathering to celebrate father Karl-Erik & eldest daughter Ebba's joint landmark birthdays But beneath the guise of happy festivities tensions are running high & it's not long before the night takes a dark & unexpected turn Before the weekend is over two members of the Hermansson family are missing & it's up to Inspector Barbarotti
- a detective who spends as much of his time debating the existence of God as he does solving cases
- to determine exactly what has happened & he soon discovers he'll have to unravel a whole tangle of sinister family secrets in the process

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' Brings Glasgow to life in the same way Ian Rankin evokes Edinburgh' DAILY MAILWhen newly fledged DC Kirsty Wilson is called to the house of an elderly woman what appears to be a death by natural causes soon takes a sinister turn when it is revealed that the woman had a mysterious visitor in the early hours of that morning
- someone dressed as a community nurse but with much darker intentions As Kirsty is called to another murder
- this one the brutal execution of a well-known Glasgow drug dealer
- she finds herself pulled into a complex case involving vulnerable people & a sinister service that offers them & their loved ones a 'release' Detective Superintendent William Lorimer is called in to help DC Wilson investigate & as the body count rises the pair soon realise that this case is about to get more personal than either of them could have imagined


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Step into the wild world of the Warrior Cats
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Young entrepreneurs Sean (Emile Hirsch) & Ben (Max Minghella) meet stranded travelers Natalie (Olivia Thirlby) & Anne (Rachael Taylor) at a hot Moscow nightclub Their whole world changes in an instant when an alien attack devastates the city & everything goes dark Joined by a Swedish businessman (Joel Kinnaman) the youths emerge from hiding days later & must somehow fight back against a nearly invisible enemy that could find & disintegrate them at any moment ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Darkest Hour follows five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow following an unexplained global disaster & fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack… This sci-fi thriller highlights the classic beauty of Moscow alongside mind-blowing special effects from the genius of legendary film-maker Timur Bekmanbetov (Wanted & Night Watch) ...