What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion & what motivated them to change those rituals? To these questions Clifford Ando proposes simple answers: in contrast to ancient Christians who had faith Romans had knowledge & their knowledge was empirical in orientation. In other words the Romans acquired knowledge of the gods through observation of the world & their rituals were maintained or modified in light of what they learned. After a preface & opening chapters that lay out this argument about knowledge & place it in context The Matter of the Gods" pursues a variety of themes essential to the study of religion in history." ...

Claire Barclay has returned to the home in Scotland where she spent her teenage years. After the sudden death of her mother Claire is concerned about the welfare of her much-loved & now frail stepfather Leo. But his own grown children seem more concerned about preserving their financial assets than their father's health. Claire is desperately trying to avoid Jonas the love of her life who broke her heart at just eighteen but he's asking her to trust him again on a matter of urgency. Can she forget the past & put her faith in someone who once hurt her so deeply? The bestselling author of An Ocean Apart Robin Pilcher excels at weaving stories full of heart warmth & family secrets ...

Fire Support Base Matterhorn: a fortress carved out of the grey-green mountain jungle. Cold monsoon clouds wreath its mile-high summit concealing a battery of 105-mm howitzers surrounded by deep bunkers carefully constructed fields of fire & the 180 marines of Bravo Company. Just three kilometres from Laos & two from North Vietnam there is no more isolated outpost of America's increasingly desperate war in Vietnam. Second Lieutenant Waino Mellas 21 years old & just a few days into his 13-month tour has barely arrived at Matterhorn before Bravo Company is ordered to abandon their mountain & sent deep in-country in pursuit of a North Vietnamese Army unit of unknown size. Beyond the relative safety of the perimeter wire Mellas will face disease starvation leeches tigers & an almost invisible enemy. Beneath the endless jungle canopy Bravo Company will confront competing ambitions duplicitous officers & simmering racial tensions. Behind them always Matterhorn. The impregnable mountain fortress they built & then abandoned without a shot to the North Vietnamese Army - ...

Hope Dunne is content with her life finding serenity & beauty through the lens of her camera. She isnt looking for a man or excitement. But things change when she accepts a last minute assignment in London photographing one of the worlds most celebrated writers. To Hopes surprise Finn ONeill exudes warmth & a boyish charm. He courts her whisking her away to his palatial isolated Irish estate weaving a tapestry of tales about his life. Hope finds it all absolutely dizzying. But soon cracks begin to appear in his stories & suddenly Hope is both in love & suspicious. How many lies has he told? Is it possible that this kind loving attentive man is hiding something even worse? ...

In 1987 a small aspirant dance group with a striking name made its debut on the London fringe. In 1996 Adventures in Motion Pictures" made history as the first modern dance company to open a production in London's West End. From this achievement AMP sailed triumphantly to Broadway
- winning three Tony Awards
- guided by Artistic Director Matthew Bourne. Even before the inception of AMP Bourne was fascinated by theatre by characterization & by the history of dance. In his early works
- " Spitfire" " Town & Country" & " Deadly Serious"
- Bourne brought a novel approach to dance. & in his reworkings of the classics of the ballet canon
- " Nutcracker" " Swan Lake" " Cinderella"
- Bourne created witty vivid poignant productions that received great acclaim. In the first decade of the new millennium the company name was changed to New Adventures & Bourne's 'classics' as well as Bourne's new works
- " The Car Man" " Play Without Words" " Edward Scissorhands" & " Dorian Gray"
- achieved levels of box-office popularity that have seldom if ever been matched in dance. In addition his choreography for various musicals
- " My Fair Lady" " Mary Poppins" & " Oliver!"
- have run for years in the West End & on Broadway. The detail in which Bourne discusses his work with Alastair Macaulay is unprecedented. The two explore Bourne's upbringing his training & influences & his distinctive creative methods. Bourne's notebooks his sources & his collaboration with dancers all from part of the discussion in this book."









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An entirely new & approachable translation of the New Testament & study guides by a world-renowned scholar Tom Wright. The series provide invaluable background detail & a wealth of information to help the reader understand each passage in a richer way. The implication of the text for the life of the modern reader is also explored. The translation of the Bible text is underpinned by deep scholarship but has an immediacy & freshness that makes it easy to read & set it apart from other modern-language translations. The guides assume no detailed knowledge of the New Testament & are therefore suitable for beginners as well as more experienced students of the Bible. Each volume stands alone though the series will build into an unrivaled guide to the entire New Testament book by book. ...

Matthew doesn't care about anything as much as football. What's more he's the best player in the whole school! But his mother has banned him from playing & she doesn't seem to care if he misses the most important match of the season. The whole team are depending on him. Is there anything he can do? ...

Slagar the Fox is bent on revenge
- & determined to bring death & destruction to Redwall Abbey. Gathering his evil band around
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Through its use of conversational & supportive tones this popular guide puts readers at ease assisting the transition to academic study. With clear explanations summaries & exercises it is an invaluable companion for the mature student. This third edition has much new content including a new chapter on writing a dissertation proposal. ...

The Second World War forever altered the complexion of the British Empire. From Cyprus to Malaya from Borneo to Suez the dominoes began to fall within a decade of peace in Europe. Africa in the late 1940s & 1950s was energized by the grant of independence to India & the emergence of a credible indigenous intellectual & political caste that was poised to inherit control from the waning European imperial powers. The British on the whole managed to disengage from Africa with a minimum of ill feeling & violence conceding power in the Gold Coast Nigeria & Sierra Leone under an orderly constitutional process & engaging only in the suppression of civil disturbances in Nyasaland & Northern Rhodesia as the practicalities of a political handover were negotiated. In Kenya however matters were different. A vociferous local settler lobby had accrued significant economic & political authority under a local legislature coupled with the fact that much familial pressure could be brought to bear in Whitehall by British settlers of wealth & influence most of whom were utterly irreconciled to the notion of any kind of political handover. Mau Mau was less than a liberation movement but much more than a mere civil disturbance. Its historic importance is based primarily on the fact that the Mau Mau campaign was one of the first violent confrontations in sub-Saharan Africa to take place over the question of the self-determination of the masses. It also epitomized the quandary suffered by the white settler communities of Africa who had been promised utopia in an earlier century only to be confronted in a post-war world by the completely unexpected reality of black political aspiration. This book journeys through the birth of British East Africa as a settled territory of the Empire & the inevitable politics of confrontation that emerged from the unequal distribution of resources & power. It covers the emergence & growth of Mau Mau & the strategies applied by the British to confront & nullify what was in reality a tactically inexpert but nonetheless powerfully symbolic black expression of political violence. The revolt was suppressed & peace restored but events in the colony were nevertheless swept along by the greater movement of Africa toward independences resulting in the eventual establishment of majority rule in Kenya in 1964. ...