Presents facts & information on ancient civilisations. This series provides an introduction to the country & the culture, exploring daily life, monuments, & local dress. It

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Islamic art has long been misunderstood in the West as no more than decoration. This study explains how the geometrical patterns of Islamic art reveal intrinsic cosmological laws. The primary function of the patterns is to lead the mind from the literal world towards the underlying reality. ...

Challenges romantic, ahistoric & irreconcilable notions of Islamic & Western cultures, highlighting the plurality of both. This book rethinks the relationship between Muslim & Western societies through to the post-9/11 period, uncovering a history of interaction & exchange. ...

Details: Britains big strength is that it is an island nation. However, we often forget that it boasts hundreds of smaller
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Scattered in a crescent in the sparkling waters of the Aegean, the islands of the Sporades are known to Greek fishermen as 'the gates of the wind'. This book presents a tale of a life full of simple pleasures, governed by the seasons, the tides & the wind. ...

Harriet & Mae Grafton are twenty-year-old identical twins born from a scandalous affair.

They grew up in India slighted

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Have hours of fun piecing together these stunning images of Island Life. This picture perfect puzzle

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Many aspects of Britain's involvement in World War Two only slowly emerged from beneath the barrage of official secrets & popular misconception. One of the most controversial issues, the internment of 'enemy aliens' (and also British subjects) on the Isle of Man. ...

Cumbria, 1783. A broken heritage; a secret history... The tomb of the first Earl of Greta should have lain undisturbed on its island of bones for three hundred years. When idle curiosity opens the stone lid, however, inside is one body too many. Gabriel Crowther's family bought the Gretas' land long ago, & has suffered its own bloody history. His brother was hanged for murdering their father, the Baron of Keswick, & Crowther has chosen comfortable seclusion & anonymity over estate & title for thirty years. But the call of the mystery brings him home at last. Travelling with forthright Mrs Harriet Westerman, who is escaping her own tragedy, Crowther finds a little town caught between new horrors & old, where ancient ways challenge modern justice. & against the wild & beautiful backdrop of fells & water, Crowther discovers that his past will not stay buried. ...

A vengeful goddess hunts for three jewels: fallen stars that will give her endless power.

To save the world, six friends

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