When David Thomas, aged 15, & Arthur Turk, 16, signed up for the Merchant Navy on MS Empire, they did not realise that for them the war would be for life. Disaster strikes in the form of a German U-boat, leaving David adrift & alone until taken as a prisoner on war. ...

Helps the reader understand the progression of mathematical thought, & the very foundations of technologies. This book



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Now a major motion picture, the epic that began with the HUGO & NEBULA continues...

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Gerard Hughes's popularity lies in the fact that he always writes directly for the individual struggling with issues of faith & life & gets right to the heart of spiritual needs & concerns. His best-seller GOD OF SURPRISES published nearly 20 years ago has sold nearly a quarter of a million copies. GOD IN ALL THINGS is a follow up to that book written for a different world & a different spiritual climate. This is a guidebook for the inner journey. It is about recognising God in the ordinary, in the joy & sadness of things, about knowing that God cannot be separated from whatever we experience. It is written for people on the fringes of Christianity, or those who are disillusioned with church structures & dogmatic theology. Hughes has written this book because he is concerned at the split between religion & life, as if religion was something apart & detached from the rest of God's creation. Apart from being a brilliant spiritual guide this book is a call to a faith in terminal decline to enlarge its concept of God & break out of the straitjacket of pious religion. This book has 245 pages & is 13.2 x 1.9 x 19.8cm ...

Demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive & distorts the very origins of the cosmos. This book argues that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly damaged humanity, & proposes that the world might be a great deal better off without 'him'. ...

This is a facsimile reissue of the original 1970s BBC LP, featuring the story of Christmas in words & music. With readings by the actor Andrew Cruickshank & carols & songs by the Saint Martin Singers, this interweaving of prose, poetry & music is a delightful accompaniment to Christmas. This first-time-on-CD Vintage Beeb edition features the original 1976 sleeve notes & artwork, plus a vinyl-look CD. ...

An insight into British life 50 years ago. While much of the attention of this Jubilee year focuses on the Queen & the changes witnessed over the past half century, here is Britain at the dawn of what many heralded as the new Elizabethan age, an exploration in words & pictures of a nation still suffering the consequences of war but beginnning to move from austerity to affluence. The new monarch reigned over a diminishing empire. But it was also the year proposals for a new helidrome in central London were under discussion, British railways began mainline electrification, the first jet air service began operating. Rationing was still in force & television showed only one channel. But radio continued to entertain millions. The Olympics dominated the international sporting calender. It was a year of tragedy too, most notably the Harrow railway disaster, the Lynmouth floods & a thick & deadly London fog in December. Included here too is coverage of the death of King George VI, the accession & the first months in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The book also recalls education, arts & scientific advances, work, home life & leisure pursuits of the time. ...

A farmer Borin who would spend his days tilling fields is disrupted when he stumbles across a wizard (Melchiot). Borin is deceived by the wizard Melchiot, whom set him upon his journey & is forced into submission by threat that an amulet he is forced to wear & unable to remove contains a deadly virus capable of destroying hundreds of acres. ...

The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was one of the most devastating conflicts in its history. This book illuminates what it was like to live through a time of terrifying violence, religious fervor & radical politics. ...

God's Smuggler has thrilled & inspired readers now for almost forty years. It tells the true story of how a young Dutchman risked his life to bring faith & hope to believers behind the Iron Curtain. This book has 304 pages & is 19.7cm x 13.1cm x 1.8cm ...