The Lindisfarne Gospels written & illuminated in the northeast of England at the beginning of the 8th century is one of the outstanding masterpieces of early medieval European book painting. This accessible & visually inspiring book brings together a range of historical artistic archaeological spiritual & theological perspectives to explore & celebrate a major world treasure. It is lavishly illustrated with full-page colour illustrations of the major pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels of other related treasures places & archaeological sites. It is written in a style that is accessible to the informed general public students & academic researchers & incorporates exciting new finds such as the Prittlewell burial & the Staffordshire Hoard. It also incorporates new perspectives on relations between the British Isles continental Europe & the Near East during the early Middle Ages in the light of recent research by the author. ...

From working the land in Narromine to winning cricket's World Cup three times Glenn Mc Grath has always faced life with fierce determination & an unerring will to succeed despite the odds. Now following his retirement from international cricket Mc Grath tells his complete story
- on & off the field. The man known as ' Pigeon' won his baggy green cap in Perth in 1993 & went on to forge a brilliant career eventually becoming cricket's most successful fast bowler with 563 Test wickets. Mc Grath entered Ashes folklore in 1997 when he destroyed England by taking 8 for 38 at Lords & he even scored a Test half-century with the bat. With leg spinner Shane Warne he formed the most devastating bowling combination in Test history. Glenn Mc Grath's most meaningful achievements however have been off the field. With his wife Jane he established the Mc Grath Foundation a major funder for & supporter of breast cancer sufferers. Here in their own words the Mc Graths discuss their battles with the disease & Jane's tragic death. Line & Strength is the tell-all story of an Australian country boy who took on the world.
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In 1916 in the middle of the First World War two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them. Sir Mark Sykes was a visionary politician; Francois Georges-Picot a diplomat with a grudge. The deal they struck which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the Entente Cordiale drew a line in the sand from the Mediterranean to the Persian frontier. Territory north of that stark line would go to France; land south of it to Britain. Against the odds their pact survived the war to form the basis for the post-war division of the region into five new countries Britain & France would rule. The creation of Britain's 'mandates' of Palestine Transjordan & Iraq & France's in Lebanon & Syria made the two powers uneasy neighbours for the following thirty years. Through a stellar cast of politicians diplomats spies & soldiers including T. E. Lawrence Winston Churchill & Charles de Gaulle A Line in the Sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain & France ruled the Middle East. It explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the Arabs & the Jews & ultimately led to war between the British & the French in 1941 & between the Arabs & the Jews in 1948. In 1946 after many years of intrigue & espionage Britain finally succeeded in ousting France from Lebanon & Syria & hoped that having done so it would be able to cling on to Palestine. Using newly declassified papers from the British & French archives James Barr brings this overlooked clandestine struggle back to life & reveals for the first time the stunning way in which the French finally got their revenge. ...

A huge critical success on first publication in 2004 the novel went on to win that years Man Booker Prize. It was adapted for television & broadcast on BBC2 in 2006. It is the summer of 1983 & young Nick Guest an innocent in the matters of politics & money has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald an ambitious new Tory MP his wealthy wife Rachel & their children Toby & Catherine. As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens world while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty -- a prize as compelling to him as power & riches are to his friends. In 2012 Picador celebrates its 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning & bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis & Cormac Mc Carthy Alice Sebold & Helen Fielding Graham Swift & Alan Hollinghurst. Years later Picador continue to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction non-fiction & poetry from across the globe. Discover more at picador.com/40 ...

The Polity is under attack from a melded AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebuss wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess.. .and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters. Further attacks & seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane the indefatigable brass killing machine sets out for vengeance while Orlandine a vastly-augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology seeks a weapon of appalling power & finds allies from an ancient war. Meanwhile Mika scientist & Dragon expert is again kidnapped by that unfathomable alien entity & dragged into the heart of things: to wake the makers of Jain technology from their five-million-year slumber. But Erebuss attacks are not so indiscriminate after all & could very well herald the end of the Polity itself.. . ...

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In Shiver" Grace & Sam found each other. Now in " Linger" they must fight to be together. For Grace this means defying her parents & keeping dangerous secrets. For Sam it means grappling with his werewolf past.. .and figuring out a way to survive the future. But just when they manage to find happiness Grace finds herself changing in ways she could never have expected..." ...

Linguistics falls in the gap between arts & science on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries & the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject the author of this stimulating guide begins his discussion with the oldest arts end of the subject & moves chronologically through to the newest research
- the science aspects. A series of short thematic chapters look in turn at such areas as the prehistory of languages & their common origins language & evolution language in time & space (the nature of change inherent in language) grammars & dictionaries (how systematic is language?) & phonetics. Explication of the newest discoveries pertaining to language in the brain completes the coverage of all major aspects of linguistics from a refreshing & insightful angle.
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This is the first detailed explanation of the way British Sign Language works & is the product of many years experience of research & teaching sign linguistics to deaf & hearing people. It assumes no previous knowledge of linguistics or sign language & is not structured around traditional headings such as phonology morphology & syntax. Instead it is set out in such a way as to help learners & their teachers understand the linguistic principles behind the language. There are sections on BSL grammar & also on the use of BSL including social acceptability in signing variation & poetry & humour in BSL. Technical terms & linguistic jargon are kept to a minimum & the text contains many examples from English BSL & other spoken & sign languages. The book is amply illustrated & contains exercises as well as a reading list for further study. An accompanying 90-minute DVD is available from Talk With Sign Books. To find out more visit http://www.talkwithsign.com/linguistics-british-sign-language-p-741.html. ...

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