The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. This title describes the selection process for colonial officers, the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer's wife & the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum. ...

This text identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics, concepts such as sovereignty, nation & people
- & links this philosophical transformation to cultural & economic changes in postmodern society.
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Fresh from their victory in Germania, Marcus Aquila & the Tungrians have been sent to Dacia, on the north-eastern edge of the Roman Empire, with the mission to safeguard a major source of imperial power. The mines of Alburnus Major contain enough gold to pave the road to Rome. They would make a mighty prize for the marauding Sarmatae tribesmen who threaten the province, & the outnumbered auxiliaries are entrusted with their safety in the face of a barbarian invasion. Beset by both the Sarmatian horde & more subtle threats offered by men who should be their comrades, the Tungrians must also come to terms with the danger posed by a new & unexpected enemy. They will have to fight to the death to save the honour of the empire
- & their own skins.
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Ants have been walking the Earth since the age of the dinosaurs. Today there are one million ants for every one of us.



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In 1945 Britain inherited the title of the world's pioneer & leading builder of jet aircraft. And how extraordinary these aircraft were over the next ten years. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built, & the Lightning, which could zoom ten miles above the clouds in a couple of minutes & whose pilots rated flying it as better then sex. By the early 1960's, the designers, the extremely brave test pilots, & the legendary companies they worked for
- Avro, hawker, Vickers, de Havilland
- were gone or facing a bleak future. A heroic & distinguished industry was coming to an end, & now these magnificent planes are much-loved museum pieces. What was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war decade when innovative new British aircraft made their debut several times a year, & pilots were the rock stars of the age? & how did Britain lose the plot so completely? James Hamilton-Paterson captures that season of glory in a compelling story that fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane-spotter with a rueful history of Britain's loss of self confidence & power. It is a glimpse of a vanished world: the exhilarating story of atomic-age aviation pioneers, their great & charismatic machines, & the men who flew them.

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Humanity is on the brink? The Nova War is spreading as the Emissaries wage a fiece & reckless campaign, encroaching on the area of space occupied by humanity & forcing the Shoal into a desperate retreat. While Dakota Merrick goes in search of the entity responsible for creating the Maker caches, Corsi, left incharge of a fleet of human-piloted Magi ships, finds his authority crumbling in the face of assassination attempts & politically motivated sabotage. If any hope exists at all it lies in an abandoned asteroid a thousand light years beyond the Consortiums borders, & with Ty Whitecloud, the only ma alive with the skill to decipher the messages left behind by an ancient race of star travellers. But Whitecloud is locked in a prison cell abroad a dying coreship adrift in space, awaiting execution for war crimes against Corso's own people. For humanity to survive, Corso must find some way to keep Whitecloud alive
- & that's only if Dakota doesn't kill him first.
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Moria & Ashyn have lost everything except each other.

Betrayed, orphaned & kept under close guard at court, they are

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The 4th novel in the bestselling Conqueror series, continuing the life & adventures of the mighty Khan dynasty. Genghis Khan is dead, but his legend & his legacy live on. His son Ogedai has built a white city on a great plain & made a capital for the new nation. Now the armies have gathered to see which of Genghis' sons has the strength to be khan. The Mongol empire has been at peace for two years, but whoever survives will face the formidable might of their great enemy, Chinas Song dynasty. The great leader Tsubodai sweeps into the west: through Russia, over the Carpathian mountains & into Hungary. The Templar knights have been broken & there is no king or army to stop him reaching France. But at the moment of Tsubodai's greatest triumph, as his furthest scouts reach the northern mountains of Italy, Tsubodai must make a decision that will change the course of history forever. ...

Just what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, & pilots were the rock stars of the age? In this book, the author fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline
- its loss of self confidence & power.
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In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer & builder of aircraft
- a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric.
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