Comprehensive & engaging this colourful study covers the whole sweep of ritual history from the earliest written records to the present day From May Day revels & Midsummer fires to Harvest Home & Hallowe'en to the twelve days of Christmas Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey through the ritual year in Britain He challenges many common assumptions about the customs of the past & debunks many myths surrounding festivals of the present to illuminate the history of the calendar year we live by today ...

In The Staufer Dynasty the players are nobles in the 12th century accompanying Henry VI on his tour of the areas of Europe brought under control by the Staufer family an area that included much of modern day Germany went from the Baltic Sea in the North to Sicily in South You&re eager to improve your own lot in the land by placing envoys & nobles in positions of power in the six regions represented in this game The game lasts five rounds with each player having three actions per round Players take action in order of their family members on the action board from top to bottom & on a turn you either take a supply action (moving to one side of the action board) or a movedeploy action (moving to the other side) For a supply action you pick one of the spaces on the supply table move the indicated number of envoys & nobles from the province to your personal court then claim any chests underneath that space The treasure chests come in different colors with each color having a different function in the game the brown treasure chests score points based on how many you collect the orange ones provide immediate points or figures the blue ones provide a one-shot bonus & the violet ones let you collect one of the privilege cards on display The privilege cards often modify other actions or give you a bonus for doing a particular thing For a movedeploy action you decide which office seat you want to occupy in a particular region If this seat isn&t in the region where the king is located you need to spend one envoy as you move clockwise away from the king placing each envoy in the top part of those regions until you reach the region that you want to occupy You then pay the cost of the office seat placing one figure — possibly a noble if the seat demands it — in that seat & all the other figures in clockwise order one per region When you occupy a seat you claim the chest underneath it After everyone has finished their actions you score for the round — but you score only in the region indicated in the current row of scoring tiles (Aachen Nijmegen Palermo etc) & the region that best meets the condition laid out in a separate part of the current row of scoring tiles (fewest chests most occupants where the king is located etc) If these two regions turn out to be the same one you score that region only once Players score points for having the most office seats in a region (or the second- or thirdmost most office seats) based on the point tile placed in the region at the start of the game Each region also has a printed bonus that players receive such as bonus chests or additional envoys To end the round you remove all of the office occupants of the region that scored add new chests under each office seat in those scoring regions & each space on the supply table then sweep the king clockwise 1-3 regions As the king moves he returns all of the envoys that he encounters in the regions that he enters to their owners After five rounds players score for their treasure chests as well as for how well they completed their secret job cards & the player with the most points wins Players 2-5 Playing time 40 minutes Suggested ages 10 ...

Following Steal Like an Artist & Show Your Work! both New York Times bestsellers with 614000 copies in print The Steal Like an Artist Journal is the next step in the journey It combines Kleon&s unique & compelling ideas on being creative with the physical quality that makes journals like Moleskines so enormously popular Its page after page of ideas prompts"es & exercises are like a daily course in creativity a portable workshop & sourcebook of inspiration Each spread has one page offering a prompt or exercise & the other blank for writing drawing doodling whatever There are lists to fill in 10 Things I Want to Learn 10 Things I Probably Think About More Than the Average Person Challenges to take Illustrated creative exercises Make a Mixtape (for someone who doesn&t know you) & Fill the Speech Balloons Pro & con charts What Excites You? What Drains You? ...

' He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames for fear the spirits in their innards might catch fire' The Steel Flea is an uproarious & alcohol-soaked shaggy-dog story from one of Russia's great comic masters Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Nikolay Leskov (1831-1895) Leskov's works are available in Penguin Classics in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk & Other Stories & Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida ...

Master of suspense Jeffery Deaver returns with the latest gripping thriller featuring paraplegic forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme The hardback contains an exclusive never-before-seen leaked memo from the Lincoln Rhyme case files Smart technology is everywhere It makes our lives easier our connections faster & journeys quicker But in the wrong hands it can kill Detective Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a murderer chasing him through a Brooklyn department store when her pursuit is fatally interrupted An escalator gives way forcing Sachs down into the machinery to help the man trapped in its depths & enabling the suspect to flee But was it simply a freak accident? Could the killer's presence in the store really be a coincidence? As the body count threatens to grow Sachs & forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme realise they are facing one of their most formidable opponents ever Someone able to turn the most commonplace product into a murder weapon Someone who can kill by remote control ...

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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 Executive Decision The mission board a hijacked 747 in mid-air Avoid detection Locate & disable a hair-triggered nerve-toxin bomb that could wipe out the US Eastern Seabord Execute a split-second attack that overwhelms the terrorists & safeguards the passengers Do it all without air-to-ground radio & do it before an increasingly jittery US military blasts the airliner out of the sky Exit Wounds Stolen drugs crooked cops To gangster Latrell Walker the money at the other end of the deal provokes the question
- are all cops bad? But when he crosses paths with tough cop Orin Boyd he discovers that nothing is what it seems even the law With enemies everywhere & only one chance Latrell & Orin must join forces to reveal the deadly conspiracy at the heart of the precinct Fire Down Below In the peaceful Appalachian hills of Jackson Kentucky the earth burns The toxins being dumped into abandoned mines could turn Jackson into a wasteland if no one stops it EPA Marshal Jack Taggert in Fire Down Below a thunderous eco-thriller Taggert&s job is to ferret out those responsible for poisoning the land When thugs try to take him out of the action Taggert takes on another line of work He&s in the butt-kicking business & business is good Glimmer Man The desperate hunt for a serial killer just got rougher for LAPD homicide detectives Jack Cole & Jim Campbell; they&ve become partners Popular comic Wayans brings his wisecracking stock-in-trade to his hard-hitting role Action icon Segal draws on his trademark sock in trade chopping through dynamic martial arts sequences & getting in his own wry comedy chops as well Wearing Buddhist prayer beads relying on ancient potions & living by Eastern philosophies ex-New Yorker Cole is unlike any partner the street-savvy Campbell has ever seen The way Campbell sees it secretive Cole is also something else suspect No 1 in their murder investigation Nico Above The Law Chicago cop Nico Toscani is on to something big Suspects collared in a drug raid are allowed to walk & Nico himself is asked to turn in his badge He may be off the force but he&s not out of the action Steven Seagal makes his sensational screen debut as Nico smashing his way into the top ranks of action stars as he tracks ex-CIA operatives trafficking drugs & plotting a political assassination Out For Justice Brooklyn born-&-raised cop Gino Felino has seen many changes in &the Neighbourhood& One sad one is that boyhood adversary & criminal scum Richie has turned the local streets into war zones He&s a mad dog unleashed who Gino&s more than willing to send to an eternal obedience school But he & his world-weary partner must catch Richie first Under Siege When the USS Missouri welcomes aboard entertainers for the battleship&s last voyage the visitors throw a party a war party Led by a rogue CIS operative & a turncoat officer they&re killer-elite commandos out to hijack the ship&s nuclear arsenal They overpower the crew Except one man
- Ex-Navy SEAL & decorated combat operative Casey Ryback Under Siege 2 Dark Territory A renegade electronics wiz has seized the sleek Grand Continental passenger train transforming it into a rolling command unit for an awesome weapons satellite But the one passenger who eludes capture is Ryback The train is now a battleground the satellite is locked onto its target & an oncoming freight train hauling gasoline is headed toward the Grand Continental Can Ryback thwart the siege in time? All aboard!

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Two puffins compete to be the Number One Steve in this very funny brightly illustrated story 32 pages Hood Morag ...

The Stick Family are always busy in their Family Tree Now you can join in the fun too! An all-year-round drawing activity book based on the bestselling book Stick Man by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler Jam-packed with all kinds of colouring & drawing activities for pre-schoolersthere's plenty to keep Stick Man fans busy for hours 64 pages Donaldson Julia ...