The Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution yet few people today understand either its contents or its context. This Very Short Introduction introduces the document to a modern audience explaining its origins in the troubled reign of King John & tracing the significance of the role that it played thereafter as a totemic symbol of the subjects right to protection against the raw & absolute authority of the sovereign. Drawing upon the great advances that have been made in the past two decades in our understanding of thirteenth-century English history Nicholas Vincent demonstrates why the Magna Carta continues to be of enormous popular interest. ...

Film star George Hannaford oozes charm. Although women fall at his feet his marriage is the most solid in the movie business. But when he sees his wife staring into another man's eyes & returns home to a blackmailer demanding fifty thousand dollars he begins to doubt everything. United by the theme of love the writings in the Great Loves" series span over two thousand years & vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities & extremities: romantic love platonic love erotic love gay love virginal love adulterous love parental love filial love nostalgic love unrequited love illicit love not to mention lost love twisted & obsessional love..." ...

Humanity is enjoying the Galactic Milieu. Colonies are thriving Earth is peaceful & as more metapsychics are born the goal of mental Unity with the Milieu seems close. But a rebel group want Earth to remain separate led by a man obsessed with human superiority. This is Marc Remillard unknowingly influenced by Fury who is now unveiled & on the run. Marcs goal is nothing less than the elevation of human metapsychics above all others through artificial enhancement of mental faculties. His methods are unpalatable; his goal horrific. So Marc & his co-conspirators continue their work in secret. Only the very Unity he fears can derail Marcs plans. & only his brother Jack the Bodiless & the young woman known as Diamond Mask can attempt the impossible: destroy Marc Unify humanity & allow the golden age of the Galactic Milieu to begin. Fascinating.. . May has cemented her position as one of this generations foremost storytellers Library Journal A certain crowd-pleaser Kirkus Reviews ...

Today's love affair with urban farming & backyard poultry coops means Tamara Staples' stunning photographs are more apropos ...

What Joe needs is a friend. What Jim needs is a fresh start. Living in a former pit village in the North of England Joe's learning difficulties have left him isolated his only contact with the community playing the back-end of the horse in the local panto. Until Jim another of life's outsiders for a whole different set of reasons comes home. So begins an unlikely friendship. Jim & Joe offer one another loyalty & camaraderie simple but magnificent qualities that give Jim that most elusive thing
- hope
- as he rebuilds his life. But when rumours of an unthinkable crime get out of control Jim's loyalty is put to the test with heartbreaking consequences. Funny bittersweet & unforgettable Magnificent Joe is a tale of devastation loss & the redemptive power of one extraordinary friendship.

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When Augustin Meaulnes arrives in Francois home he changes everything. Life in the little town where they both go to school suddenly becomes far more adventurous & exciting. On one of his escapades Meaulnes gets lost in the countryside finds himself at an extraordinary party where he meets the girl of his dreams. From this point on he is haunted by her memory & devotes his life with Francois willing help to finding her again. ...

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This is the fabulous second book in this enchanting comedy series. It is a future classic. We must find out what the exciting THING is! I bet that its TREASURE! P.J. & the Moon Hare are off on a new adventure battling pirates. Accompanied by P.J.s dragon (whos called Sandra even though hes a boy) can P.J. & the Moon Hare stop the horrible feathered villain Foul from stealing Uncle Julians treasure? ...

When Queen Victorias husband Prince Albert died in December 1861 the nation was paralysed with grief. His death was a catastrophe for Victoria who not only adored her husband but had through twenty-one years of marriage utterly relied on him: as companion father of their children friend confidant & unofficial private secretary. Without Albert to guide & support her the Queen retreated into a state of pathological grief which nobody could penetrate & few understood. Drawing widely on contemporary letters diaries & memoirs Rappaport brings new light to bear on the causes of Alberts death & tracks Victorias mission to commemorate her husband in perpetuity. Richly compelling this is the story of a magnificent obsession that even death could not sever. ...

Bessie Mundy Alice Burnham & Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters & are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell & becomes his wife. But marriage soon turns into a terrifying experience. In the dark opening months of the First World War Britain became engrossed by The Brides in the Bath trial. The horror of the killing fields of the Western Front was the backdrop to a murder story whose elements were of a different sort. This was evil of an everyday insidious kind played out in lodging houses in seaside towns in the confines of married life & brought to a horrendous climax in that most intimate of settings
- the bathroom. The nation turned to a young forensic pathologist Bernard Spilsbury to explain how it was that young women were suddenly expiring in their baths. This was the age of science. In fiction Sherlock Holmes applied a scientific mind to solving crimes. In real-life would Spilsbury be as infallible as the great detective?
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