Since its first & prize-winning edition of 1983, Stonehenge Complete has established itself as the classic account of this most famous of ancient places. For this new edition, Christopher Chippindale has revised & updated the story to include the latest theories & discoveries. People have puzzled over Stonehenge for centuries, speculating & dreaming about it, drawing & painting it, trying to make sense of it. Here is the story of the one real Stonehenge, as well as the many unreal Stonehenges that archaeologists, tourists, mystics, astronomers, artists, poets, & visionaries have made out of it. New studies in the last decade have revolutionized our knowledge of the complex sequence of structures that make its celebrated profile; remarkably, these new discoveries have been made without new excavations. Stonehenge today is as lively as it ever was. After a period of dissent & confrontation, visitors are once again welcome to see the sun rise over the Heel stone on midsummer solstice day, & some 20, 000 people are expected to gather at midsummer dawn this year. As the new edition explains, they are in error: although Stonehenge is indeed astronomically oriented, it is not aligned on the midsummer sunrise at all. ...

This newly revised & enlarged fourth edition of Christopher Chippindales prize-winning classic account brings the story of Stonehenge right up to date. It describes in two new chapters the startling ideas & insights of the latest field research. In a radical reinterpretation, Stonehenge with its cold rocks is seen as the place of the dead, & another site over the horizon as the place of the living, built in wood, & complete with houses & paved ways. In another theory, Stonehenge is a place of healing. Alongside the quest to understand Stonehenge are the taxing practicalities of caring for a 4, 000 years old site that was never designed to cope with a million visitors a year, & how to preserve the monument for millennia to come. ” It would not be easy to name a better guide”. (” The Guardian”). ” Splendidly illustrated Will for years to come be a standard reference work”). (” The Times Literary Supplement”). ” All you ever wanted to know about Stonehenge is catalogued in this humorously written, beautifully illustrated book”. (” The Economist”). ...

Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, & even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up. An estuary town north of Aberdeen, Stonemouth, with it`s five mile beach, can be beautiful on a sunny day. On a bleak one it can seem to offer little more than seafog, gangsters, cheap drugs & a suspension bridge irresistible to suicides. & although there`s supposed to be a temporary truce between Stewart & the town`s biggest crime family, it`s soon clear that only Stewart is taking this promise of peace seriously. Before long Stu steps back into the minefield of his past to confront his guilt & all that it has lost him, uncovering ever darker stories. Soon his homecoming takes a more lethal turn than even he had anticipated. Tough, funny, fast-paced & touching, Stonemouth cracks open adolescence, love, brotherhood & vengeance in a rite of passage novel like no other. ...

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, & he never returns to work on his father`s farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, & after his death his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion & intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats & victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, & reclaims the significance of an individual life. A reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured. ...

In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan. His work details his extensive voluntary work in Azad Kashmir & Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005 & the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders & tribal leaders even as he was dodging shootouts with feuding Afghan warlords & surviving an eight-day armed abduction by the Taliban. He shares for the first time his broader vision to promote peace through education & literacy, as well as touching on military matters, Islam, & women – all woven together with the many rich personal stories of the people who have been involved in this remarkable two-decade humanitarian effort. ...

No empire in history built so variously as the British empire in India: the buildings there attest to the richness of an imperial presence that lasted
- from the first trading settlement to the end of the Raj
- some three hundred years. The attitude of the British to India was compounded partly of arrogance, but partly also of homesickness, & it shows in their constructions. Georgian terraces were adapted to tropical conditions, Victorian railway stations were elaborately orientalized, seaside villas were adjusted to suit Himalayan conditions, & everywhere the fundamental ambivalence of the British empire, a baffling mixture of good & evil, was mirrored in the imperial architecture. This book, now reissued with a new introduction by Simon Winchester, was the first to describe the whole range of British constructions in India. The text & photographs illustrate these buildings not simply as physical objects, but as reflections of an empire`s mingled emotions. Stones of Empire charts an enterprise in architecture, engineering, & social adaptation unique in human history.

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The Stones of Venice has been described as the greatest guidebook ever written. Read by all who went there & thousands who did not, it opened Victorian eyes to the glories of a city even then under threat, & transformed the study & practice of architecture forever. It took Ruskin almost half a million words to launch this devastating attack on the Renaissance, & to explain how to see & make true architecture. They were ”glorious words, but too many, ” as J.G. Links put it while preparing this edition. Links, himself the greatest exponent of Venice of the 20”th” century, designed this abridgement to convey all the excitement, urgency, & love of Venice to a new generation of readers. ...

Stony Stratford & Old Wolverton in 1898 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map is split between two counties, Northamptonshire & Buckinghamshire. On the west side of the River Ouse is Old Stratford, historically part of Northants, including the Swan Inn & Furtho House; a major feature is the Buckingham Branch of the Grand Junction Canal. On the east of the river is the much larger Stony Stratford, which developed as a major town on Watling Street, later the A5. Features include St Paul`s College, Market Square, High Street, Corn Mill, Ousebank, St Giles` church, St Mary`s church, Watling Works, Calverton End (in the south-eastern corner of map). There is also the tramway depot of the steam trams to Wolverton. On the reverse is a good section of the adjacent sheet 9.11 which extends coverage eastward to Old Wolverton, with Holy Trinity church, Wolverton Mill, Wolverton House, Locomotive Inn & Old Wolverton Wharf on the Grand Junction Canal. The tramway is shown along the main road. ` New` Wolverton & the railway station area are covered on a separate Wolverton map. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

If war can be reduced to a competition over money & control over the l&, people, & the resources that produce it then it should be possible to pay in advance to prevent it. Author Shepherd Iverson uses this underlying premise to provide an alternative to every book written about the North Korean nuclear threat & growing East Asia militarism. Far less permeable to economic sanctions than Iran has been, North Korea requires a different sort of economic approach to peace. Taking a cultural as well as a geoeconomic approach, Stop North Korea: A Radical New Approach to Solving the North Korea Standoff proposes that reunification is the best, possibly only, way to denuclearize North Korea, end its government`s oppressive regime & create a fruitful, sustainable peace. The book further proposes that the way to achieve reunification is, essentially, to buy it while there is still a chance to prevent war & repair the damage already done. It is business-as-peace-crafting in a way that has never been imagined before. It all begins with this basic scenario: Imagine that you control a multi-billion dollar capital fund & North Korea is a large underperforming corporation. You see it is undervalued & want to take it over, but it is controlled by an old-fashioned board of directors the Kim family & a small number of ultra-elites who will not negotiate a deal. In this regressive situation it is logical to offer shareholders the larger number of political & military elites, government managers & bureaucrats, & the general population a higher price for their shares to convince them to overrule their board of directors. How to create & utilize a fund for offering such incentives; how to incentivize a nation that has become culturally ready for this sea change; why these incentives will succeed where coercion & diplomacy have failed; & how they will result in a healthy & prosperous reunified Korea are the brilliantly treated in this fascinating & hopeful work. Academics & students, strategists, policymakers & anyone interested in the possibility of a peaceful resolution to the North Korea problem should read this book. ...

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