This second volume based on the excavations of the Viking town Kaupang 2000-2003 presents find types used in economic transactions -- coins hacksilver ingots weights & balances. Changes in type & volume of economic transactions at Kaupang & in Scandinavia are discussed & the economic mentality of Viking crafts- & tradesmen is explored. Earlier the study of Viking silver currency was based mainly on hoards containing coins & hacksilver. In this volume the combined study of the find types mentioned as well as the sophisticated chronology of settlements finds from sites like Kaupang gives a completely new insight into economy & exchange. In the early 9th century silver & goods seem to have come to Kaupang mainly from the Carolingian world. Silver weighed with locally produced lead weights was used as currency on a limited scale. The old ore unit was easily convertible to Carolingian units. After the mid-9th century this early system was altered. The increased availability of silver caused by the import of Islamic coins as well as the introduction in most of Scandinavia in the 860s/870s of standardised weights of probable Islamic origin paved the way from then on for an increasing use of silver as payment. These studies demonstrate that sites like Kaupang led the way in economic development in Scandinavia. The urban environment promoted an economic mentality which contributed significantly to the fundamental transformation of Scandinavian culture & society which culminated in the regions integration in Christian Europe in the High Middle Ages. ...

Mr Macks inventing career has got off to a bad start
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Travel back into the measly Middle Ages where the world was full of wild women mad monks naughty knights & crazy kings & qeens! Discover a genuine jesters joke why chickens had their bottoms shaved & what ten-year-old treacle was used for. History with the nasty bits left in! 2013 is HORRIBLE HISTORIES twentieth anniversary. ...

Travel back into the measly Middle Ages where the world was full of wild women mad monks naughty knights & crazy kings & queens! Discover a genuine jester's joke why chickens had their bottoms shaved & what ten-year-old treacle was used for. With a bold accessible new look these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Revised by the author to make Horrible Histories more accessible to young readers. 2013 is HORRIBLE HISTORIES twentieth anniversary. ...

In the hope of saving her brothers life should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become? Although Measure for Measure ends like a comedy with reconciliations forgiveness & marriages it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeares problem plays. The drama shows the difficulty of effecting an appropriate balance between judicial severity & mercy between sexual repression & decadence & between political vigilance & social manipulation. These problems remain topical & in Measure for Measure they are given immediacy by vivid character-conflicts & memorably intense poetry. This is one of Shakespeares most probing & powerful works. ...

In the Dukes absence from Vienna his strict deputy Angelo revives an ancient law forbidding sex outside marriage. The young Claudio whose fiancee is pregnant is condemned to death by the law. His sister Isabella soon to become a nun pleads with Lord Angelo for her brothers life. But her purity so excites Angelo that he offers her a monstrous bargain he will save Claudio if Isabella will visit him that night. ...

1916. England is at war & the Morland family is in the thick of it with two men already in France & three more soon to go. Tragedy strikes Morland Place when Jessie's husband Ned is reported missing on the Western Front. His father launches a desperate bid to find him but the family fear the worst. Jessie in mourning & frustrated by her job as an auxiliary nurse goes to London to work in a military hospital. There she is reunited with her old friend Oliver posted to the capital under the RAMC. Also in London is violet whose affair with the brilliant artist Octavian Laidislaw is about to erupt in scandal.. . The Measure of Days paints a portrait of a family & a nation at war at a pivotal point in history. With the onset of conscription no one is left unaffected. Every man must hold himself in readiness; & every woman knows that when she says goodbye it might be for the last time. ...

THE ARMY OF DARKNESS DRAWS NEAR Five centuries ago a catastrophic demon war left the world in ruins. Since then the survivors
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Chef Adrian Richardson is passionate about meat. Whether its simple minute steak or slow-cooked brisket with red wine & mushrooms he knows what makes it great & how to give home-cooked dishes that restaurant-quality edge with minimum fuss. Covering all the basics Richardson imparts his extensive knowledge of beef pork poultry venison & much more. With recipes such as Barbecued Butterflied Lamb with Honey & Rosemary Twice-cooked Pork Belly with Toffee Crisp Crackling Roast Duck with Pomegranate Glaze & even the perfect meat pie Meat" is a comprehensive but friendly cookbook for making great meals at home full of great tips for both the novice & the confident cook." ...

For 26 years John Nicholson was a vegetarian following a seriously healthy diet that included no cholesterol or animal fats but plenty of brown rice & lentils. His diet defined him. It was the one thing that was definably unshakeably him throughout half a century. However for 26 years John Nicholson was ill
- tormented year after year by apparently untreatable IBS. He was eating the healthiest diet known to mankind yet his digestive system was breaking down. His illness was affecting his life so badly that eventually he & his partner considered doing the unthinkable
- eating meat. The results were spectacular. 24 hours after eating meat he was better. After 48 hours he was totally well. All his symptoms had gone
- the IBS the headaches the mid-afternoon tiredness achy knees
- the lot. Even his eyesight enhanced to the point he no longer needed to use reading glasses. Twelve months on he feels like a new person. The Meat Fix details John Nicholsons remarkable transformation with the characteristic wit & humour that saw his We Ate All the Pies nominated for the 2010 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. It is the story of how eating meat again after 26 vegetarian years changed his life powerfully for the better & his quest to understand why the supposedly healthy diet he had existed on was actually damaging him. He is not a scientist & this is not your standard diet book. Rather it is an explanation of how Nicholson discovered what works for him & why we should all look at nutritional advice through a clear lens not the warped prism of what has become conventional dietary advice over the past three decades. This is a fascinating surprising often hilarious & shocking journey of discovery.



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