Spearpoint the last human city is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones a series of semi-autonomous city-states each of which enjoys a different
- & rigidly enforced
- level of technology. Horsetown is pre-industrial; in Neon Heights they have television & electric trains.. . Following an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong Quillon has been living incognito working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table Quillons world is wrenched apart one more time for the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoints Celestial Levels
- & with the dying body comes bad news. If Quillon is to save his life he must leave his home & journey into the cold & hostile lands beyond Spearpoints base starting an exile that will take him further than he could ever imagine. But there is far more at stake than just Quillons own survival for the limiting technologies of the zones are determined not by governments or police but by the very nature of reality
- & reality itself is showing worrying signs of instability.. .



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The world has been overrun by a lethal infection ravaged by a pathogen that leaves its victims locked half-way between life & death. New York bombed to prevent the spread of the disease has been reduced to radioactive rubble. A rescue squad enters the subway tunnels beneath Manhattan searching for the one man who can create an antidote. The squad battle floodwaters lethal radiation & infected irradiated survivors as they race against the disease that threatens to extinguish the human race. ...

This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds
- the first book on the natural history
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This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds
- the first book on the natural history
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No-one trusts humanity. No-one can quite understand why we're intent on destroying the only place we have to live in the Universe. No-one thinks we're worth a second thought. & certainly no-one is about to let us get off Rrth. That would be a complete disaster. But one alien thinks Rrth is worth looking at. Not humanity obviously we're appalling but until we manage to kill every other living thing on the planet there are some truly wonderful places on Rrth & some wonderful creatures living in them. Best take a look while they're still there. But on one trip to Rrth our alien biologist causes a horrendous accident. The occupants of a car travelling down a lonely road spot his ship (the sort of massive lemon coloured lemon shaped starship that really shouldn't be hanging in the sky over a road). Understandably the Bradbury's crash (interrupting the latest in a constant procession of bitter rows). & in the wreckage of their car our alien discovers a baby girl. She needs rescuing. From the car. From Rrth. From her humanity. & now eleven years later a girl called Terra is about to go to school for the first time. It's a very alien experience...T ERRA is a charming & hilarious satirical fable. A story about how odd & alien we are. & a story about how human odd aliens are. It tells the story of a girl who grows up in a very different world who gains a unique perspective on our world & a unique perspective on her new home. A girl who can teach us & them a lot. A girl living in an extraordinary world that is spiralling into a terrible war. ...

After writing two highly praised travel books Sara Wheeler was accepted by the American government to be the first foreigner on their National Science Foundations Antarctic Artists & Writers Program. She spent seven months on the continent travelling from the fabled Ross Ice Shelf to the Pole itself the remoter reaches of the West Antarctic ice sheet & the balmy Antarctic Peninsula. Terra Incognita is a meditation on the landscape myths & history of one of the remotest parts of the globe as well as an encounter with the international temporary residents of the region
- living in close confinement despite the surrounding acres of white space
- & the mechanics of day-to-day life in extraordinary conditions. Through Sara Wheeler the Antarctic is revealed in all its seductive mystery.

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Meet the men who for decades have ruled the football terraces. They are the faces behind the biggest firms in football history; behind the rucks the rules & the respect. They have caused chaos for the public & the press & struck fear into rival fans that have crossed their path. In this ground-breaking book the men behind the mobs have joined forces to reveal their experiences as key figures in the most notorious terrace fights. Never before has such a wide-ranging book on this phenomenon appeared because never before have the men of violence been prepared to co-operate. From the bovver boys of the sixties & seventies to the football casuals of the eighties the names central to the biggest firms
- the names that were to become the stuff that terrace legends were made from
- have all been tracked down & interviewed. They tell their stories in this essential book.

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The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest & most famous archaeological discoveries of all time. 6 000 life-size figures of warriors & horses were interred in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of China
- each is individually carved & they are thought to represent real members of the emperors army. This is the remarkable story of their creation the man who ordered them made their rediscovery & their continuing legacy as a pre-eminent symbol of Chinese greatness. The First Emperor Qin Shi Huang was king of the Chinese state of Qin & the first man to unite China into a single empire. He built the first Great Wall & brought a single written script to the whole country. He was an inspired & ruthless ruler but one also beset by paranoia & a desire for immortality. He is still considered the founding father of the modern state of China. On his death in 210 BC he was buried in a giant mausoleum near modern-day Xian. Legends of the treasures contained therein still tantalize the imagination today. In 1974 local farmers digging a well for water broke through into the burial mound & found the first of the Terracotta warriors. Further excavations have revealed the full splendour of the buried army. But the majority of the mausoleum is yet to be opened including the burial chamber itself
- myth tells us that amongst the treasures yet to be uncovered is a vast map of the First Emperors kingdom with rivers marked with channels of flowing mercury. The story of the First Emperor & the Terracotta Army is a fascinating one not least for the discoveries yet to be made.

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The Terracotta Dog opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a Mafioso some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist & some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers dead fifty years & still embracing are watched over by a life-size terracotta dog. Montalbanos passion to solve this old crime takes him heedless of personal danger on a journey through the islands past & into a familys dark heart amid the horrors of World War II. Andrea Camilleris Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic engaging take on Sicilian small-town life & his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of crimes. The novels of Andrea Camilleri breath out the sense of place the sense of humour & the sense of despair that fill the air of Sicily. To read him is to be taken to that glorious tortured island Donna Leon Both farcical & endearing Montalbano is a cross between Columbo & Chandlers Philip Marlowe with the added culinary idiosyncrasies of an Italian Maigret Guardian ...

A beautiful terracotta clock with roman numeral numbers around the dial & a centre sun suitable for outdoor use. A perfect addition to your garden. Approx. 30cm (12 in diameter). Please note this product cannot be returned to store. Please refer to your delivery paperwork for the returns procedure." ...