Go with God & Fight Like the Devil. A fascinating hero & the pursuit of a sword with mythical power
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Go with God & Fight Like the Devil. The remarkable new novel by Britain's master storyteller which culminates at the Battle of Poitiers. 1356: France stands alert to danger. The English army victorious at the battle of Crecy & led by the Black Prince is invading & the French are hunting them down. The bloodiest battles of the Hundred Years War are yet to be fought. Thomas of Hookton an English archer becomes trapped with his outnumbered army. & here near the town of Poitiers an extraordinary confrontation will ignite one of the greatest battles of all time. ...

This classic birthday card to celebrate the great occasion of a 13th birthday has a 3D number 13 in silver on a white background decorated with sparkly violet circles. This card is blank inside for your own message & comes complete with a silver envelope ready for posting. Approximate dimensions: 11.4x 21.5cm. Not suitable for children under 3 years contains small parts which may cause a choking hazard. ...

14 000 Things To Be Happy About" is the mesmerizing bestseller that celebrates all the little things that make life worth living. Any random page is an instant pick-me-up & reading it is as irresistible as popcorn. It
Includes:: new babies; a well-crafted chair; having a sense of your own space; a real person answering the phone; peninsulas; leaves snuggled around the foundations of old country houses; & staying home on New Year's Eve. Now revised & updated with 1 500 new entries
- the feel of the fur in Ugg boots a favourite television program. "14 000 Things To Be Happy About" is a panacea for a new time & a new generation an antidote to the all-too-many things we might be unhappy about."

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This practical guide to effective revision & success in exams takes the reader through a fourteen-day program which ensures maximum results in the time available. With illustrations to enhance the text it shows the reader how to tackle common revision & exam challenges through exercises checklists & worked examples. It is a handy guide offering expert advice to help students maximize their chances of exam success in just two weeks. ...

Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt his piety & his rigorous application of justice he was elevated by Shakespeare into a champion of English nationalism for all future generations. But what was he really like? Does he deserve to be thought of as the greatest man who ever ruled England?. In this groundbreaking & ambitious book Ian Mortimer portrays Henry in the pivotal year of his reign. Recording the dramatic events of 1415 on a day-by-day basis he offers the fullest most precise & least romanticised view we have of Henry & what he did. In addition the kings story is told against the background of other important developments in Europe in particular the struggle for power within the Catholic Church & official attempts to eradicate any deviant religious beliefs. In so doing the reader encounters unexpected & eye-opening explanations for why Henry tried to unify the kingdoms of England & France
- & why he was prepared to burn men alive as heretics. The result is not only a fascinating reappraisal of Henry; it brings to the fore many unpalatable truths which biographers & military historians have largely ignored. While Henry retains the essential qualities of his greatness his legend is stripped of its Shakespearean rhetoric & compassion. At the centre of the book is the campaign which culminated in the battle of Agincourt: a slaughter ground designed not to advance Englands interests directly but to demonstrate Gods approval of Henrys royal authority on both sides of the Channel. 1415 was a year of religious persecution personal suffering & one horrendous battle. This is the story of that year as seen over the shoulder of its most cold-hearted most ambitious & most celebrated hero.
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On 8 March 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships some nearly five hundred feet long were under the command of Emperor Zhu Dis loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas & unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last for over two years & take them around the globe but by the time they returned home China was beginning its long self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. & so the great ships were left to rot & the records of their journey were destroyed. & with them the knowledge that the Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan reached America seventy years before Columbus & Australia three hundred & fifty years before Cook... The result of fifteen years research 1421 is Gavin Menzies enthralling account of the voyage of the Chinese fleet the remarkable discoveries he made & the persuasive evidence to support them: ancient maps precise navigational knowledge astronomy & the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers & the later European navigators as well as the traces the fleet left behind
- from sunken junks to the votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed giving thanks to Shao Lin goddess of the sea. Already hailed as a classic this is the story of an extraordinary journey of discovery that not only radically alters our understanding of world exploration but also rewrites history itself.
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In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science art & technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance & our modern world. In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World Gavin Menzies presented controversial & compelling evidence that Chinese fleets beat Columbus Cook & Magellan to the New World. But his research has led him to astonishing new discoveries that Chinese influence on Western culture didnt stop there. Until now scholars have considered that the Italian Renaissance
- the basis of our modern Western world
- came about as a result of a re-examining the ideas of classical Greece & Rome. A stunning reappraisal of history is about to be published. Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that a sophisticated Chinese delegation visited Italy in 1434 sparked the Renaissance & forever changed the course of Western civilization. After that date the authority of Aristotle & Ptolemy was overturned & artistic conventions challenged as was Arabic astronomy & cartography. Florence & Venice of the 15th century attracted traders from across the world. Menzies presents astonishing evidence that a large Chinese fleet official ambassadors of the Emperor arrived in Tuscany in 1434 where they met with Pope Eugenius IV in Florence. A mass of information was given by the Chinese delegation to the Pope & his entourage
- concerning world maps (which Menzies argues were later given to Columbus) astronomy mathematics art printing architecture steel manufacture civil engineering military machines surveying cartography genetics & more. It was this gift of knowledge that sparked the inventiveness of the Renaissance
- Da Vincis inventions the Copernican revolution Galileo etc. Following 1434 Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas discoveries & inventions which formed the basis of European civilization just as much as Greek thought & Roman law. In short China provided the spark that set the Renaissance ablaze.



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This book features 150 chicken recipes for all occasions from simple stir-fries & grills to substantial pies & casseroles. Every recipe comes with step-by-step how-to information & a glorious photograph of the finished dish. Discover the exciting flavours of chicken dishes from around the world including Japanese Udon Pot Cannelloni al Forno Chicken Peri-peri & Stir-fried Crispy Duck. Make the most of poultry's low fat content with versions of classics that won't affect your waistline. The book offers easy-to-follow instructions on how to bone joint & carve a chicken spatchcock a poussin & make delicious stock & gravy. 150 Quick & Easy Chicken Recipes" provides inspiration for all occasions whether you are preparing a midweek supper or entertaining. Those on a low-fat diet are also catered for with a section devoted to delicious recipes that won't pile on the pounds. As well as tempting recipes "150 Quick & Easy Chicken Recipes"

Includes:: essential information about different cuts of chicken & turkey & a useful techniques section shows you how to prepare them for cooking. With its easily accessible text colour photographs & fabulous selection of recipes "150 Quick & Easy Chicken Recipes" is perfect for every cook."

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Up until very recently it was believed that in 1491 the year before Columbus landed the Americas one-third of the earth's surface were a near-pristine wilderness inhabited by small roaming bands of indigenous people. But recently unexpected discoveries have dramatically changed our understanding of Indian Life. Many scholars now argue that the Indians were much more numerous were in the Americas for far longer & had far more ecological impact on the land than previously believed. This knowledge has enormous implications for today's environmental disputes yet little has filtered into textbooks & even less into public awareness. Mann brings together all of the latest research & the results of his own travels throughout North & South America to provide a new fascinating & iconoclastic account of the Americas before Columbus. ...