This volume presents contemporary evidence scientific archaeological botanical textual & historical for major revisions in our understanding of winemaking in antiquity. Among the subjects covered are the domestication of the Vinifera grape the wine trade the iconography of ancient wine & the analytical & archaeological challenges posed by ancient wines. The essayists argue that wine existed as long ago as 3500 BC almost half a millennium earlier than experts believed. Discover named these findings among the most important in 1991. Featuring the work of 23 internationally known scholars & writers the book offers the first wide ranging treatment of wine in the early history of western Asia & the Mediterranean. Comprehensive & accessible while providing full documentation it is sure to serve as a catalyst for future research. ...

This book originally published in 1984 contains Barry Longs extraordinary vision of the structure of existence evolution & the human mind. It is impossible to adequately describe the scope & range of its subject matter because it encompasses everything we are able to perceive & much that we can only know by spiritual insight. It describes how the human mind works. It contains prophecy
- some of which has now come true in events like 9/11 & recent scientific discoveries. It contains explanations for UFOs & other phenomena. It explains evolution in a way that resolves the more recent debates about Intelligent Design. It provides the perspective for understanding the Big Bang. It is not science. It is not religion. It is what Barry Long called the myth that came to life.
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Nowadays we believe that consenting adults have the freedom to do what they like with their own bodies. We publicize & celebrate sex; we discuss it endlessly; & we are obsessed with the sex lives of celebrities. We think it wrong that in other cultures people suffer for their sexual orientation that women are treated as second-class citizens or that adulterers are put to death. Yet until quite recently our own society was like this too. For most of western history all sex outside marriage was illegal & the church the state & ordinary people all devoted huge efforts to suppressing & punishing it. This was a central feature of Christian civilization one that had steadily grown in importance since the early middle ages. In this brilliant ground-breaking book Faramerz Dabhoiwala describes in dramatic detail how between 1600 & 1800 this entire world view was shattered by revolutionary new ideas
- that sex is a private matter; that morality cannot be imposed by force; & that men are more lustful than women. Henceforth the private lives of both sexes were to be endlessly broadcast & debated in a rapidly expanding universe of public media: newspapers pamphlets journals novels poems & prints. The Origins of Sex" shows that the creation of this modern culture of sex was a central part of the Enlightenment intertwined with the eras major social political & intellectual trends. It helped create a new model of Western civilization whose principles of privacy equality & freedom of the individual remain distinctive to this day."
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Stephen Oppenheimer's extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics linguistics archaeology & historical record shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the English gene pool. Two thirds of the English people reveal an unbroken line of genetic descent from south-western Europeans arriving long before the first farmers. The bulk of the remaining third arrived between 7 000 & 3 000 years ago as part of long-term north-west European trade & immigration especially from Scandinavia
- & may have brought with them the earliest forms of English language. As for the Celts
- the Irish Scots & Welsh
- history has traditionally placed their origins in Iron Age Central Europe. Oppenheimer's genetic synthesis shows them to have arrived via the Atlantic coastal route from Ice Age refuges including the Basque country; with the modern languages we call Celtic arriving later. There is indeed a deep divide between the English & the rest of the British. But as this book reveals the division is many thousands of years older than previously thought.


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This is a book of exceptional quality
- The work of a historian at the peak of his powers a magisterial study a profound analysis
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The Origins of the First World War" is a concise introduction to one of the major historical controversies. This pamphlet: surveys the roots of the conflict; assesses the legacy of Bismarck's diplomacy; outlines the assassination crisis; focuses on influences affecting individual countries; & examines the historical debate. This edition

Includes:: a new introduction a chronology of the key events & an update on the historical debate explaining the directions in which the historiography is heading."

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A.J.P. Taylors bestselling The Origins of the Second World War" overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war. One of the most popular & controversial historians of the twentieth century who made his subject accessible to millions A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War he argued provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as part of an evil master plan but blundered into it partly by accident aided by the shortcomings of others. Fiercely attacked for vindicating Hitler A.J.P. Taylors stringent re-examination of the events preceding the Nazi invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939 opened up new debate & is now recognized as a brilliant & classic piece of scholarly research. " Taylors most perfect work of art a miracle of proportion language & insight". (Robert Skidelsky). "A dazzling exercise in revisionism which summed up Taylors paradoxical provocative & inventive approach to history". (" The Times"). " Taylor was a lifelong dissenter...at his best
- as in " The Origins of the Second World War"...he shifted the ground of major debates". (Ben Pimlott " Financial Times"). " No historian of the past century has been more accessible". (Niall Ferguson " Sunday Telegraph"). " An almost faultless masterpiece". (" Observer"). " Highly original & penetrating... No one who has digested this enthralling work will ever be able to look at the period again in quite the same way. (" Sunday Telegraph"). A.J.P. Taylor (1906-90) was one of the most controversial historians of the twentieth century. He served as a lecturer at the Universities of Manchester Oxford & London."
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Unlocking the secrets of the pyramids. For thousands of years the pyramids have stood imposing & enigmatic refusing to give up their secrets. Why did the Egyptians really build pyramids? What lies inside the Great Pyramids hidden chamber & what awesome secret unseeen for 4500 years could be concealed there? Bauval & Gilbert have spent over ten years investigating the mysteries of the pyramids. Their conclusions have aplit the academic establishment. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...