First issued in 1910 the Rider-Waite Tarot is almost certainly the most widely used tarot card deck in the world. There are 78 tarot cards divided into the Major & Minor Arcanas designed by Pamela Colman Smith in accordance with A. E Waite's instructions. An instructional booklet by A. E. Waite is included explaining the tarot card meanings & how to use the cards for divination with an introduction by Stuart R. Kaplan. ...

First issued in 1910 this pack contains almost certainly the most widely used tarot card deck in the world along with an invaluable instructional book THE KEY TO THE TAROT which explains the history & usage of the tarot cards of which there are 78 divided into the Major & Minor Arcanas. The book can be used in conjunction with any set of tarot cards but it was written in particular to accompany the 78-card Rider-Waite tarot deck which was designed by Pamela Colman Smith in accordance with A. E Waite's instructions. THE KEY TO THE TAROT explains the history & symbolism of the cards & gives instructions on how to use them for purposes of divination. This edition

Includes:: a specially commissioned foreword by Liz Greene.

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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. ...

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. ...

This book originally published in 1984 contains Barry Longs extraordinary vision of the structure of existence evolution & the human mind. It is impossible to adequately describe the scope & range of its subject matter because it encompasses everything we are able to perceive & much that we can only know by spiritual insight. It describes how the human mind works. It contains prophecy
- some of which has now come true in events like 9/11 & recent scientific discoveries. It contains explanations for UFOs & other phenomena. It explains evolution in a way that resolves the more recent debates about Intelligent Design. It provides the perspective for understanding the Big Bang. It is not science. It is not religion. It is what Barry Long called the myth that came to life.
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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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