Alexander Mc Queen: Evolution is the story of the designers thirty-five runway shows & the genius behind them. From Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims his 1992 graduate collection to Platos Atlantis the last show before his death in 2010 Lee Alexander Mc Queen was as celebrated for the meticulous craftsmanship & stunning originality of his designs as he was notorious for his theatrical
- & often controversial
- runway shows. Taking his inspiration from sources as diverse as his own Scottish ancestry Alfred Hitchcock movies & Yoruba mythology Mc Queen brought together exquisite tailoring & avant-garde performance art. Combining gripping narrative & vivid photography with"es from the designer & those who knew him best this book brings each of the designers runway shows to life including a look at the pieces & inspiration behind Angels & Demons the show he was working on before his untimely death. This is the definitive immersive account of a unique career & a fitting tribute to the enfant terrible of British fashion.

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This title deals with ancient Greece & the rise of Macedonia the campaigns of Alexander & his mighty empire. This stirring history of the age of Alexander examines the dramatic life & times of one of the worlds most remarkable men & the growth of his immense empire. It explores the military strategies of Alexanders armies including the arms & armour troops & training ships & war machines crucial to their campaigns. It

Includes:: detailed coverage of every significant battle from Alexanders early commands to the final campaigns & analysis of his greatest opponents. It offers an authoritative account of military & political strategy & power seen through the lives of some of the worlds greatest soldiers from Alexander to Hadrian. Alexanders brief reign is placed in context through analysis of the rise of Macedonia & the disintegration of his immense empire after his death. This title is packed with over 250 beautiful photographs & illustrations sourced from contemporary artefacts & great artists as well as detailed maps & battleplans. One of the worlds greatest generals & commanders Alexander is a near-legendary figure. He dominates classical history as the general & king whose military brilliance & instiable desire for conquest led him to conquer half the known world. This book opens with the rise of Macedonia followed by an account of Alexanders astonishing military progress & the lasting significance of his vast empire. Over 250 illustrations of the key events from Granicus to Gaugamela place the historical action in context. Our knowledge of the ancient world is increased with this expert & insightful guide to one of the most significant periods in world history.

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From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox Alexander the Great" searches through the mass of conflicting evidence & legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Tough resolute fearless Alexander was a born warrior & ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest & of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two his vast empire comprised more than two million square miles spanning from Greece to India. His achievements were unparalleled
- he had excelled as leader to his men founded eighteen new cities & stamped the face of Greek culture on the ancient East. The myth he created is as potent today as it was in the ancient world. Combining historical scholarship & acute psychological insight " Alexander the Great" brings this colossal figure vividly to life. " So enjoyable & well-written... Foxs book became my main guide through Alexanders amazing story". (Oliver Stone director of " Alexander"). "I do not know which to admire most his vast erudition or his imaginative grasp of so remote & complicated a period & such a complex personality". (Cyril Connolly " Sunday Times"). " An achievement of Alexandrian proportions". (" New Statesman"). Robin Lane Fox was the main historical advisor to Oliver Stone on his film " Alexander" & took part in many of its most dramatic re-enactments. His books include " The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece & Rome" " The Unauthorised Version: Truth & Fiction in the Bible" " Travelling Heroes: Greeks & their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer" & " Pagans & Christians in the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine"."
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' He was a man like no other man has ever been' So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC) who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the rivers of the Punjab from Egypt to Uzbekistan & died in Babylon at the age of 32 with further ambitions unfulfilled. Arrian (c. 86-161 AD) a Greek man of letters who had experience of military command & of the highest political office in both Rome & Athens set out to write the definitive account of Alexander's life & campaigns published as the Anabasis & its later companion piece the Indica. His work is now our prime & most detailed extant source for the history of Alexander & it is a dramatic story fast-moving like its main subject & told with great narrative skill. Arrian admired Alexander & was fascinated by him but was also alive to his faults: he presents a compelling account of an exceptional leader brilliant ruthless passionate & complex. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty & by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death aged only thirty-three in 323BCE he was ruler of the known world & was being worshipped as a god by the Greeks both at Babylon where he died & further west among the Greek cities of the Asiatic seaboard. The fruit of a lifetime's scholarship & meticulous research this is an outstanding biography of one of the most remarkable rulers in history. 'A hugely impressive portrait of a towering but enigmatic figure' Saul David Sunday Telegraph 'A revealing often enthralling search.. .[a] restless exhilarating book' Observer ' Fascinating...blends all the pleasures of Hollywood epic with those of a subtle & deeply intriguing detective tale' Tom Holland author of Rubicon ' Alexander the Great provides an endless fount both of amazement & of speculation. This gripping book examines the legends as well as the life. Most interestingly it invites the reader to participate in the difficult task of separating the fact from the fiction' Norman Davies ...

Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson whose encyclopedic American Ornithology established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson's unpublished drawings for the nine-volume Ornithology Edward Burtt & William Davis illustrate Wilson's pioneering & today underappreciated achievement as the first ornithologist to describe the birds of the North American wilderness. Abandoning early ambitions to become a poet in the mold of his countryman Robert Burns Wilson emigrated from Scotland to settle near Philadelphia where the botanist William Bartram encouraged his proclivity for art & natural history. Wilson traveled 12 000 miles on foot on horseback in a rowboat & by stage & ship establishing a network of observers along the way. He wrote hundreds of accounts of indigenous birds discovered many new species & sketched the behavior & ecology of each species he encountered. Drawing on their expertise in both science & art Burtt & Davis show how Wilson defied eighteenth-century conventions of biological illustration by striving for realistic depiction of birds in their native habitats. He drew them in poses meant to facilitate identification making his work the model for modern field guides & an inspiration for Audubon Spencer Fullerton Baird & other naturalists who followed. On the bicentennial of his death this beautifully illustrated volume is a fitting tribute to Alexander Wilson & his unique contributions to ornithology ecology & the study of animal behavior. ...

The whole of Fairyland is very excited
- there's going to be a new royal baby! But when Foster the stork fails to deliver the new
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For Marcus Didius Falco agent to the Emperor Vespasian Alexandria holds fascination & a hint of fear. Beautiful historic & famously unruly the great cosmopolitan city wears Roman rule lightly. While his wife Helena Justina wants to see the Lighthouse & the Pyramids Falco has a mission at the Great Library that soon turns out to involve much more than stock-taking its innumerable scrolls. A mysterious death in the world-famous library bring him into immediate conflict with the darker side of academic life. With forensic science in its infancy even an illegal autopsy fails to find real answers. To solve the crime for the Roman Prefect
- if indeed it is a crime
- Falco will have to draw on his own doggedness & intuition at first supported only by Helenas commonsense & the loyal backup of her brother Aulus who goes under cover as a student among the in-fighting academics. The philosophers lust after fame & fortune so ruthlessly there is soon another terrifying death this time at the royal zoo. At the same time his original innocent mission is overshadowed by the machinations of his Uncle Fulvius who is living in Alexandria with his partner Cassius for obscure reasons. Their involvement in local affairs already seems shady when they are joined by their crony Falcos father Geminus a man well known for disreputable business practices. If the irrepressible Pa has had any hand in what has gone wrong at the Library Falco knows he stands no chance...

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A hidden treasure. A forgotten truth. Cotton Malone is in trouble. His son has been kidnapped & his bookshop in Copenhagen attacked all because he is the only man alive who knows the whereabouts of the Alexandria link
- the means of locating the most important cache of ancient knowledge ever assembled: the legendary Library of Alexandria which vanished without trace fifteen hundred years ago. Now Malone is forced to join the search for a forgotten truth hidden within that vast literary treasure
- a truth that if revealed will have grave consequences not only for Malone but for the balance of world power.. .

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Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet" is unquestionably his most admired work at heart a sensuous & brilliant evocation of wartime Alexandria. In this world of corrupt glamour L.G. Darley attempts to reconcile himself to the end of his affair with the dark passionate Justine Hosnani
- setting alight a beguiling exploration of sexual & political intrigue that the author himself described as an investigation of modern love."
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