For a picture of what the ancient Celts looked like we must take the word of the classical writers who describe them as being tall, blond & muscular with elaborate hairstyles & big walrus moustaches. This is a narrative about the way they worked & lived throughout the ages. ...

Much more than simply an account of Celtic holy places & mythology, this book invites the reader into the deeper psychology of the Celtic world. A desire for wisdom is shown to drive this ancient culture & connect it to a deep appreciation of nature, a lifelong immersion in storytelling, the soulful expression of love & the belief that human feeling is the way to enlightenment. Instructing modern readers about how to seek similar experiences, the discussion turns to specific elements of Celtic belief, including the sacred Celtic calendar, goddess archetypes, the cauldron of wisdom & the cloak of death that sings us to life. This book is looking at the deeper psychology of what it means to be Celtic, to be conscious of this great way of being in the world. It is not just another textbook about Celtic holy places or Celtic mythology. It is a living organism of human experience, an invitation to the holy places within. This book guides the reader to wonder at the inner landscape of love, courage, grief & ecstasy. It encourages us to risk living a soulful involvement with all creation. ...

Here is a superb collection of designs for wall hangings inspired by art & tapestry. Miniaturists & embroiderers alike will ...

The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, & misunderstanding. This title seeks to reveal this fascinating people, exploring subjects such as trade, migration, & the evolution of Celtic traditions, & examining such char ...

When Handy returns to his native Los Angeles to attend the funeral of his old friend Burrow, who is brutally murdered, a terrible secret threatens to reveal itself. 26 years earlier, Handy, Burrow & Holden were three young thieves who pulled a heist tha ...

The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred & profane, poetic & pornographic, famous & infamous. Censored explores ideas of censorship & the history of free speech through the stories told by these works of literature. ...

When we think of the word censorship, we imagine blacked out words & authoritarian political regimes of the past. Offering a potted history of the phenomenon from the execution of Socrates in 399 BC to internet filtering, this book provides an impassioned manifesto for freedom of speech. ...

Jonathan Reeves (Peter Gallagher) is the artistic director of the American Ballet Company & has a small collection of young students under his wing who face a long struggle for success. As well as growing up & facing adulthood & the onset of relatio ...

Jonathan Reeves (Peter Gallagher) is the artistic director of the American Ballet Company & has a small collection of young students under his wing who face a long struggle for success. As well as growing up & facing adulthood & the onset of relationships, the main problem facing Reeves is what this group can achieve on the stage & whether they can deliver the goods. ...

1897, the year in which these maps first appeared in The Royal English Atlas, was one of great celebration for it marked the Diamond Jubilee of Britain's longest reigning monarch Queen Victoria. But there was much more to celebrate than her continuing occupancy of the throne as the previous sixty years had seen the greatest ever period of industrial development. The rapidly expanding industrial towns & cities were now the homes of workers who once laboured on the land but were now in the factories & mines creating & processing the needs of the mother country & the Empire. To record these changes the Victorians had become great map makers & the Ordnance Survey had already been publishing maps for a century. This series, created from Ordnance Survey maps, were coloured & published in book form. They are now available in sheets for the first time. The construction of the railway network, commenced a mere 72 years before, was now virtually complete with over 20, 000 miles in use. They are all marked, as are their 'predecessors' the canals. But, despite all the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution, the great conurbations we know today were still surprisingly small in 1897. The countryside had changed little for centuries. There were still scores of aristocratic homes surrounded by park land where now the urban sprawl, new towns & industrial estates may be found. Just as interesting is what is not shown. Notice how small the towns & scattered villages are, indeed there is a village just to the west of London on sheet 9 which shows the three or four houses that made up the village of Heathrow. There are no by-passes & all the major trunk roads pass along the high streets of country towns. Motorways had, of course, not even been dreamt about but interestingly the route of a proposed channel tunnel is marked. These maps provide a fascinating insight into the past & will be a delight for local historians, walkers, genealogists & indeed anyone curious to see how their area used to be. Each map has a booklet describing England & Wales in 1897. ...