In a mythical world where humans & gods co-exist Arata has the unfortunate honor of being the successor to the matriarchal Hime Clan. This means he has to pretend to be a girl or face death if his true gender is discovered! Framed for the assassination of Princess Kikuri Hinohara is sent to prison island Gatoya where the fearsome warden Tsutsuga awaits him. Hinohara manages to escape his captors & now he must make his way back to the Amawakuni capital. In order to get there however he has to first cross the region ruled by the treacherous Kannagi! ...

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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This fully updated & revised edition of the best-selling title The Archaeology Coursebook is a guide for students studying archaeology for the first time. Including new methods & case studies in this third edition it provides pre-university students & teachers as well as undergraduates & enthusiasts with the skills & technical concepts necessary to grasp the subject. The Archaeology Coursebook: introduces the most commonly examined archaeological methods concepts & themes & provides the necessary skills to understand them explains how to interpret the material students may meet in examinations & how to succeed with different types of assignments & exam questions supports study with case studies key sites key terms tasks & skills development illustrates concepts & commentary with over 300 photos & drawings of excavation sites methodology & processes tools & equipment links from its own website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415462860 to other key websites in archaeology at the right level contains new material on Issues in Modern Archaeology" " Sites & People in the Landscape" & " People & Society in the Past" new case studies methods examples boxes photographs & diagrams; as well as updates on examination changes for pre-university students. This is definitely a book no archaeology student should be without." ...

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 ...