Get inside the glamour with Tasmina Perry! stunning Brooke Asgill is about to marry into one of the richest & most powerful ...

From the author of the breakthrough crime debut of 2013 Dark Winter. Simon & Suzie are two pleasure seekers defined by their flamboyant tattoos. Peter Tressider is a politician on the fast track to the top. DS Aector Mc Avoy is a policeman with scars to his body & career. Each is marked in their own way. & soon each will be branded by the same sinister foe. Original Skin is a crime novel that leaves a permanent impression. Half serial killer thriller half gritty police procedural it examines the imprints that our darkest sins leave upon us & just how far we will go to keep them covered. ...

Lizzie Betsey & Ella are sisters: triplets. Or so you might think. In fact the girls are clones in hiding forced to split their lives & live as one person in the outside world. But what happens when one of them falls head-over-heels in love? & of course there's a darker secret at play that might change everything. By the author of Forgotten & Revived. Perfect for fans of Ally Condie Lauren Kate Jay Asher David Levithan Cassandra Clare & Kami Garcia. ...

Set during the Civil War against a backdrop of grand estates unimaginable riches & deadly secrets three teenagers in Mystic Falls Virginia enter a torrid love triangle that will span eternity. Brothers Stefan & Damon Salvatore are inseparable until they meet Katherine a stunning mysterious woman who turns their world upside down. Siblings turned rivals the Salvatores compete for Katherine's affection only to discover that her sumptuous silk dresses & glittering gems hide a terrible secret: Katherine is a vampire. & she is intent on turning them into vampires so they can live together--forever. ...

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. ...

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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An engaging range of period texts & theme books for AS & A Level history. This text analyses the origins of the First & Second World Wars in one single volume drawing on a wide range of material including original sources. In concise chapters Frank Mc Donough surveys the key issues surrounding the causes of the First & Second World Wars offers a critical survey of the conflict between historians & provides a lively selection of primary documents on major issues. The result is a unique perspective on the origins of the two most devastating military conflicts in world history. ...

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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