Arax the Soul Stealer has snatched away good Wizard Aduro's spirit leaving the kingdom exposed to the evil of Wizard Malvel. To save Aduro Tom tracks Arax to his cave
- but the terrible Beast wants Tom's soul too... Don't miss NIXA THE DEATH-BRINGER
- EQUINUS THE SPIRIT HORSE
- RASHOUK THE CAVE TROLL
- LUNA THE MOON WOLF
- BLAZE THE ICE DRAGON
- STEALTH THE GHOST PANTHER





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One of the most highly published & sought after British landscape photographers Charlie Waite has been widely acknowledged for redefining the genre of landscape photography in the 1980's. Now with his latest collection Waite is once again sharing his unique vision & artist's eye in ways that surprise inspire & enthrall. Each of the 65 distinctive black & white & colour images made around the world including the British Isles encourages us to look with fuller awareness at the world around us so that we too may recognise some of the extraordinary juxtapositions of form light contrast & composition that Waite's images are so full of. ...

This play takes readers back & forth between the 19th & 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas. The text explores topics such as the nature of truth & time & the difference between the classical & the romantic temperament & the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. ...

Outlandish alchemist & magician political intelligencer apocalyptic prophet & converser with angels John Dee (1527
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Drawing its numerous examples from Britain & beyond Archaeological Investigation" explores the procedures used in field archaeology travelling over the whole process from discovery to publication. Divided into four parts it argues for a set of principles in part one describes work in the field in part two & how to write up in part three. Part four describes the modern world in which all types of archaeologist operate academic & professional. The central chapter Projects Galore takes the reader on a whirlwind tour through different kinds of investigation including in caves gravel quarries towns historic buildings & underwater. " Archaeological Investigation" intends to be a companion for a newcomer to professional archaeology
- from a student introduction (part one) to first practical work (part two) to the first responsibilities for producing reports (part three) & in part four to the tasks of project design & heritage curation that provide the meat & drink of the fully fledged professional. The book also proposes new ways of doing things tried out over the authors thirty years in the field & brought together here for the first time. This is no plodding manual but an inspiring provocative informative & entertaining book urging that archaeological investigation is one of the most important things society does."
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Churches are Britains most completely surviving class of historic monument. They are also usually the oldest buildings within their settlements. As such these structures from parish church to cathedral from medieval to Georgian are a huge architectural & archaeological resource. The last couple of decades have witnessed an unprecedented upsurge of public interest in the historic environment & the growth of the tourism & heritage industries has focused new attention on churches. While some visitors to churches cathedrals & monastic ruins seem content to wander around with little or no understanding of what they are looking at many have an interest in learning about the history or usage of the building. How far does it go back? Where is the earliest part of the building? Warwick Rodwell discusses the archaeological techniques that can attempt to answer such questions. In this lavishly illustrated informative guide Professor Rodwell explores the buildings themselves their component parts from foundations to finials their sites furnishings fixtures & fittings as well as churchyards & monuments. ...

The archaeology of death & burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals we can learn not only about the attitudes of prehistoric people to death & the afterlife but also about their way of life their social organisation & their view of the world. This ambitious book reviews the latest research in this huge & important field & describes the sometimes controversial interpretations that have led to rapid advances in our understanding of life & death in the distant past. A unique overview & synthesis of one of the most revealing fields of research into the past it covers archaeologys most breathtaking discoveries from Tutankhamen to the Ice Man & will find a keen market among archaeologists historians & others who have a professional interest in or general curiosity about death & burial. ...

The Second World War transformed British society. Men women & children inhabited the war in every area of their lives from their clothing & food to schools workplaces & wartime service. This transformation affected the landscapes towns & cities as factories turned to war work beaches were prepared as battlefields & agricultural land became airfields & army camps. Some of these changes were violent: houses were blasted into bombsites burning aircraft tumbled out of the sky & the seas around Britain became a graveyard for sunken ships. Many physical signs of the war have survived
- a vast array of sites & artefacts that archaeologists can explore
- & Gabriel Moshenska's new book is an essential introduction to them. He shows how archaeology can bring the ruins relics & historic sites of the war to life especially when it is combined with interviews & archival research in order to build up a clear picture of Britain & its people during the conflict. His work provides for the first time a broad & inclusive overview of the main themes of Second World War archaeology & a guide to many of the different types of sites in Britain. It will open up the subject for readers who have a general interest in the war & it will be necessary reading & reference for those who are already fascinated by wartime archaeology
- they will find something new & unexpected within the wide range of sites featured in the book.


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This fascinating new account of what happened in Greece from c.800 to 323 bc shows how sculptors & painters responded to the challenges they faced in the extremely formidable & ambitious world of the Greek city-state. The numerous symbols & images employed by their eastern Mediterranean neighbours on the one hand & the explorations of what it was to be human embodied in the narratives with which Greek poets worked on the other helped produce the rich diversity of forms apparent in Greek art. The drawings & sculptures of this period referred so intimately to the human form as to lead both ancient & modern theorists to talk in terms of the mimetic role of art. The importance of what occurred still affects the way we see today. Ranging widely over the fields of sculpture vase painting & the minor arts this book provides a clear introduction to the art of archaic & classical Greece. By looking closely at the context in which & for which sculptures & paintings were produced Robin Osborne demonstrates how artistic developments were both a product of & contributed to the intensely competitive life of the Greek city. brilliantly illustrates the purpose of this new series by focusing on the social & political context of Greek art.. .a different approach suggesting new perspectives & original connections.. .eye-opening & thought-provoking Professor Francois Lissarrague Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris brings all that is best in the new Classical art history to this exciting interpretation.. . No reader of Osbornes stimulating & engaging book will come away with their vision of Greek art unchanged Jeremy Tanner Institute of Archaeology University of London ...

When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue & decadence of modern Moscow he heads north
- to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port of Archangel & a terrifying encounter with Russia's unburied past.
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