Our knowledge about Stonehenge has changed dramatically as a result of the Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009) led by Mike Parker Pearson & included not only Stonehenge itself but also the nearby great henge enclosure of Durrington Walls. This book is about the people who built Stonehenge & its relationship to the surrounding landscape. The book explores the theory that the people of Durrington Walls built both Stonehenge & Durrington Walls & that the choice of stone for constructing Stonehenge has a significance so far undiscovered namely that stone was used for monuments to the dead. Through years of thorough & extensive work at the site Parker Pearson & his team unearthed evidence of the Neolithic inhabitants & builders which connected the settlement at Durrington Walls with the henge & contextualised Stonehenge within the larger site complex linked by the River Avon as well as in terms of its relationship with the rest of the British Isles. Parker Pearsons book changes the way that we think about Stonehenge; correcting previously erroneous chronology & dating; filling in gaps in our knowledge about its people & how they lived; identifying a previously unknown type of Neolithic building; discovering Bluestonehenge a circle of 25 blue stones from western Wales; & confirming what started as a hypothesis
- that Stonehenge was a place of the dead
- through more than 64 cremation burials unearthed there which span the monuments use during the third millennium BC. In lively & engaging prose Parker Pearson brings to life the imposing ancient monument that continues to hold a fascination for everyone.

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Bernard Cornwell's new novel following the enormous success of his Arthurian trilogy (The Winter King Enemy of God & Excalibur) is the tale of three brothers & of their rivalry that creates the great temple. One summer's day a dying stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement of Ratharryn. The three sons of Ratharryn's chief each perceive the great gift in a different way. The eldest Lengar the warrior harnesses his murderous ambition to be a ruler & take great power for his tribe. Camaban becomes a great visionary & feared wise man & it is his vision that will force the youngest brother Saban to create the great temple on the green hill where the gods will appear on earth. Saban' s love for Aurenna the sun bride whose destiny is to die for the gods finally brings the rivalries of the brothers to a head. But it is also his skills that will build the vast temple a place for the gods certainly but also a place that will confirm for ever the supreme power of the tribe that built it. Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC is first & foremost a great historical novel. Bernard Cornwell is well known & admired for the realism & imagination with which he brings earlier worlds to life. & here he uses all these skills to recreate the world of primitive Britain & to solve the mysteries of who built Stonehenge how & why. 'A circle of chalk a ring of stone & a house of arches to call the far gods home' ...

Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston & even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up. An estuary town north of Aberdeen Stonemouth with its five mile beach can be beautiful on a sunny day. On a bleak one it can seem to offer little more than seafog gangsters cheap drugs & a suspension bridge irresistible to suicides. & although theres supposed to be a temporary truce between Stewart & the towns biggest crime family its soon clear that only Stewart is taking this promise of peace seriously. Before long a quick drop into the cold grey Stoun begins to look like the soft option & as he steps back into the minefield of his past to confront his guilt & all that it has lost him Stu uncovers ever darker stories & his homecoming takes a more lethal turn than even he had anticipated. Tough funny fast-paced & touching Stonemouth cracks open adolescence love brotherhood & vengeance in a rite of passage novel like no other. ...

Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston & even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up. An estuary town north of Aberdeen Stonemouth with it's five mile beach can be beautiful on a sunny day. On a bleak one it can seem to offer little more than seafog gangsters cheap drugs & a suspension bridge irresistible to suicides. & although there's supposed to be a temporary truce between Stewart & the town's biggest crime family it's soon clear that only Stewart is taking this promise of peace seriously. Before long Stu steps back into the minefield of his past to confront his guilt & all that it has lost him uncovering ever darker stories. Soon his homecoming takes a more lethal turn than even he had anticipated. Tough funny fast-paced & touching Stonemouth cracks open adolescence love brotherhood & vengeance in a rite of passage novel like no other. ...

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life & he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet & after his death his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness compassion & intense power this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts defeats & victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history & reclaims the significance of an individual life. A reading experience like no other itself a paean to the power of literature it is a novel to be savoured. ...

'A compelling account of the Stones trashing America during 1972... Greenfield was allowed the kind of access journalists can only dream of today' The Times The Stones' 1972 tour of the States was perhaps their best
- & certainly most notorious
- ever. Their previous visit in 1969 had ended in the nightmare of Altamont; now three years later they had just recorded their two finest albums Sticky Fingers & Exile on Main Street & were musically in their prime
- if also personally at their most dissolute & debauched. Robert Greenfield one of America's finest writers went along for the ride & came back with a riveting account of high living excess & rock & roll fury from the Playboy Mansion to the jail cells of Rhode Isl&. This was an extended tour Party capital P to which all America's hip rich & glitzy were invited from Truman Capote to Stevie Wonder Annie Liebowitz to Hugh Hefner. The result has been acclaimed as one of the all-time classic music books. Published for some years by Helter Skelter under the title A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones it is now reissued by Aurum under its original title with a new introduction by the author. Robert Greenfield is also the author of Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones & biographies of Timothy Leary & Jerry Garcia. He lives in California.


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Bullying
- Repeated intimidation intentionally carried out by a more powerful person or group in order to cause physical and/or
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This book provides extensive information about the realities & the myths of endometriosis & pelvic pain. Dr. Cook explains why so many patients are misunderstood & misdiagnosed why most endometriosis surgery is done so poorly the principles & correct techniques for effective endometriosis surgery & how to find the best doctors & healthcare providers. This book embraces a womens perspective & provides much-needed support for women who have suffered from the pain of endometriosis. He also explains his comprehensive & successful program for treating endometriosis. ...

Theres never been a better time or a more urgent time to start doing the things you want to do. Perhaps you feel your career is stuck in a rut -- or maybe youre in the wrong job altogether. Or maybe you have a great business idea but something is stopping you from actually getting started. You may already be running a business but struggling to get to it to where you want it to be. Or perhaps you just want to be more successful in general -- without knowing exactly what your vision of success is
- yet! If you want to do something but secretly fear youre never going to do it whatever that might be then this will help you. Stop Talking Start Doing is a short clear & cleverly illustrated book that will inspire you to take action. Whatever you want to achieve this is the kick in the pants you need to get to where you truly want to be. Its great that you know you can do more but just thinking about it wont make it happen. Its doing that makes the difference. DO IT. If youve got something you want to do...now is a good time to start.
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Every child's dream; a robot that tidies your room! But in this wordless picture book the advantage-taking boy discovers his wised-up robot messing everything up again! Hiding the mess the boy goes out to play...before all is revealed & Mum turns to the robot herself. * Lilac/ Band 0
- wordless book that tells a story through pictures & is designed to develop understanding about how stories work. * Text type
- Fantasy * A picture summary on pages 14 & 15 provides an opportunity for children to recap & retell the story in their own words.

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