The thinkers of ancient Egypt Greece & India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world & hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the system that determines the dimension & the form of both man-made & natural structures from Gothic cathedrals to flowers from music to the human body. By also involving the reader in practical experiments he leads with ease from simple principles to a grasp of the logarithmic spiral the Golden Proportion the squaring of the circle & other ubiquitous ratios & proportions. Art & Imagination These large-format gloriously-illustrated paperbacks cover Eastern & Western religion & philosophy including myth & magic alchemy & astrology. The distinguished authors bring a wealth of knowledge visionary thinking & accessible writing to each intriguing subject. ...

1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara. Sixteen-year-old Serafina is fipped by her family from an illicit love affair & forced into the convent of Santa Caterina renowned for its superb music. Serafinas one weapon is her glorious voice but she refuses to sing. Madonna Chiara an abbess as fluent in politics as she is in prayer finds her new charge has unleased a power play
- rebellion ecstasies & hysterias
- within the convent. However watching over Serafina is Zuana the sister in charge of the infirmary who understands & might even challenge her incarceration.

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This book is the winner of the 1992 Booker prize. Gripping... Sacred Hunger" covers a period between 1752 & 1765...it concerns the entangled & conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp the son of a Lancashire merchant & Matthew Paris a scholar & surgeon just released from prison for denying Holy Writ...the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges & it carries the reader deep into the history of mans iniquitous greed... As regards its dramatic breadth & energy no recent domestic novel has come within a mile of it
- Anthony Quinn in the " Independent"."
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SACRED LAND will enable you to discover the hidden secrets & meaning of the landscape around you town or country modern or old wherever you live in Britain. There has been a dramatic growth in interest in our own history buildings landscape sacred places beliefs & culture over the last few years & this book will equip you with the tools to unlock the meaning stories & history that are literally embedded in our landscape. It takes us from street names to churches; from hill forts to burial mounds; from the way a road bends to the shapes of fields in order to understand better the land that lies beneath our feet. In the literal shape of our countryside can be detected the eddies of time politics belief warfare passion & the durability of the human existence. SACRED LAND is a fascinating accessible read & the perfect reference guide to have in your home or in your car. It will be of interest to everyone who loves history sacred places & sacred history & those who like to explore their ancestry & roots. ...

As humans evolved on Earth they used plants for everything imaginable
- food weapons baskets clothes shelter & medicine. Indigenous
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Masonic secrets are of great interest to a wide audience
- whether Freemasons or not. The popularity of Dan Browns books has shown
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Clive Cussler author of the bestselling Dirk Pitt" novels including " Arctic Drift" & " Black Wind" & co-author Craig Dirgo put hero Juan Cabrillo to the test once more in the second " Oregon Files" adventure " Sacred Stone". Tens of thousands of years ago: a fist of stone punches through the Earths atmosphere & falls on the snowy wastes of Greenland
- its deadly secret waiting to be found by man... The discovery of a radioactive meteorite in Greenland sends Jan Cabrillo & the crew of his hi-tech ship Oregon
- in Iceland to seize a nuclear weapon from terrorists
- on a second rescue mission: to retrieve the dangerous stellar object before someone unlocks the terrible properties it holds. Unfortunately Cabrillo is too late to prevent a fanatical group from spiriting the orb away. Now Cabrillo & his team aboard the Oregon have two problems: preventing the detonation of a nuclear bomb in London on New Years Eve & getting their hands on the meteorite before a madman uses it to start World War III..." Impossible to put down...a compelling sense of adventure that can rival any cinematic blockbuster". (" Big Issue"). " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept readers on the edges of their seats for four decades with his thrilling action novels. As well as the " Oregon Files" series there are also the "NUMA Files" the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) the Isaac Bell adventures & the " Fargo" series. The other titles in the " Oregon Files" are: " Golden Buddha" " Dark Watch" " Skeleton Coast" " Plague Ship" " Corsair" " The Silent Sea" & " The Jungle" & are all available in Penguin paperback."


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1067. In the desolate wastes of Greenland a band of hunters stumble across a strangely-shaped stone which has fallen from the sky. At first the mysterious sky-stone seems to bring good luck. But the villagers are soon cursed with violence & murder as they fight to gain control of the precious object. Over the next six hundred years the Sky-Stone will fall into the hands of crusading knights a wicked manor-lord of Devon a group of radical young kabalists the dying King Henry III & a band of travelling players. But treachery discord & violent death follow for all who seek to possess it. ...

FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT OF SCOTT MARIANIS NEW NOVEL THE ARMADA LEGACY In the seventh bestselling Ben Hope conspiracy thriller the action shoots back in time to the days of Jesus Christ
- & a buried secret that has staggering implications for the world as we know it... Returning to the UK to try to sort out his stormy personal life Ben runs into two old friends. Simeon & Michaela were once his fellow students at Oxford
- now they are The Reverend & Mrs Arundel. Ben senses that Simeon is deeply troubled & frightened but before the truth can emerge about his secretive research project concerning a mysterious ancient sacred sword both he & Michaela are killed out in a devastating road crash. Convinced that his friends deaths were no accident Ben is propelled on a global quest from the UK to France the Holy Land & America to unlock the enigma of the sacred sword. At every step he is pursued by ruthless agents of the sinister organisation that will stop at nothing to acquire it. In the course of his investigations Ben will discover an incredible secret not just about the history of Christianity but about his own past.. .

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The sixth brilliant book from Andy Mc Dermott
- Clive Cusslers heir apparent. The world is in shock when Michelangelos David is
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