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An action-packed tale of chivalry & betrayal set during the Hundred Years War September 1356 Poitiers The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle On the English side Edward the Black Prince who'd earned his spurs at Crecy On the French side the King & his son the Dauphin With 12000 knights & then there is William Gold A cook's boy
- the lowest of the low
- who had once been branded as a thief William dreams of being a knight but in this savage new world of intrigue betrayal & greed first he must learn to survive As rapacious English mercenaries plunder a country already ravaged by plague & the peasantry take violent revenge against the French knights who have failed to protect them is chivalry any more than a boyish fantasy?

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It was a deadly mistake Joseph Malik editor of a radical magazine has snooped into rumours about an ancient secret society that turned out to be still alive & kicking Now his offices have been bombed he's gone missing & the case has landed in the lap of a tough cynical streetwise New York detective Saul Goodman knows he's stumbled onto something big
- but even he can't guess how far into the pinnacles of power this conspiracy of evil has penetrated Brimming with sex & violence
- in & out of time & space
- the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination They tackle all the important cover-ups of our time
- from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on the one-dollar bill
- & suggest a truly mind-blowing reality




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This is Stephen Hawking's updated expanded & illustrated edition of his celebrated work which

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Rudolf Steiner's beautiful meditative verses for the yearly cycle have been used by countless people over the years Their purpose is to awaken a feeling of unity with nature & at the same time to stimulate a discovery of self In listening to the changing language of the year & awakening a profound sympathy for it we can in turn discover our own individual nature Steiner's original & unique meditations facilitate this process leading to a healthy feeling of being at one with the natural world This edition features Anne Stockton's 52 celebrated & evocative paintings which are a wonderful complement to Steiner's text Steiner's words are newly translated for this edition by John Thomson ...

The middle decades of the twentieth century saw an extraordinary flourishing of the illustrated pictorial dust jacket From the 1920s as the potential for the book&s protective wrapping to be used for promotion & enticement became clear artists & illustrators on both sides of the Atlantic applied their talents to this particular art form Rising to the wide-ranging challenges posed by format & subject matter leading artists & illustrators including John Piper Edward Bawden & John Minton in the UK & Ben Shahn Edward Gorey & George Salter in the USA brought their unique personal vision to bear on the world of books Many of their designs reflect the changing visual styles & motifs of the period including Bloomsbury Art Deco Modernism postwar neo-romanticism & the Kitchen Sink School Martin Salisbury has selected over fifty of the artists & illustrators who were active in the period 1920-1970 in the UK & USA as well as others such as Tove Jansson & Celestino Piatti & discusses their life & work A selection of dust jackets
- both known & too long forgotten
- for each artist reveals how far the book as an artefact had travelled from the days of the plain wrapper in the nineteenth century

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The beauty & drama of the bird world brought to breathtaking life in a new edition From hummingbirds weighing less than a coin to monkey-eating eagles this is a unique celebration of birds photographed & studied in their natural environments around the world Explore the complete bird story from their origins to up-to-date information on flight anatomy feeding communication breeding habitat migrations & life cycles Spectacular features on the most impressive birds plus a huge catalogue that profiles nearly fifteen hundred different species makes this a must-have for every bird enthusiast Published with Birdlife International the world's leading avian authority ...

Terry Pratchett's hilarious take on the Faust legend stars many of the Discworld's most popular characters Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker The trouble is he's not very good at it All he wants is the usual three wishes to be immortal rule the world & have the most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him The usual stuff But what he gets is Rincewind the Disc's most incompetent wizard & Rincewind's Luggage (the world's most dangerous travel accessory) into the bargain The outcome is an outrageous adventure that will leave Eric wishing once more
- this time quite fervently
- that he'd never been born

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Used wherever the English Language is spoken or taught & now re-designed & beautifully illustrated to make it bright appealing attractive & motivating This illustrated edition retains the structure & approach of the original bestseller but has been produced to ensure that all the terms & information are up to date & reflect the international readership of the book It is invaluable in class & as a reference book both to native English speakers & to students of English as an additional language
- Covers vocabulary spelling syntax idiom & correct usage- Provides background information-

Includes:: a wide-range of exercises to test knowledge & skills The New Illustrated First Aid in English is accompanied by an answer book which gives answers to all the exercises & tests


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' Peake's books are actual additions to life; they give like certain rare dreams sensations we never had before & enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience' CS Lewis Enter the world of Gormenghast The vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl Titus Groan is Lord & heir Titus is expected to rule this Gothic labyrinth of turrets & dungeons cloisters & corridors as well as the eccentric & wayward subject Things are changing in the castle & Titus must contend with a kingdom about to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue treachery manipulation & murder ...