Prepare to enter a world full of richly imagined mythology
- a world where dark & dangerous heroes fight to protect us. Prepare
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The grassroots movement that started Sept. 17 2011 with a protest in a park near Wall Street has mushroomed into a series of demonstrations in hundreds of cities around the world. In a year of protests from the Middle East to Madison Wis. the Occupy uprising a passionate outcry for economic justice has been defined by its lack of definition. Now from TIME comes an illuminating collection of stories that answers many of the key questions about Occupy: How did it get started? What's behind the anger of the so-called 99% this group claims to represent? Who leads this leaderless movement? What should its agenda be? How can it transcend the occupation of tiny Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan? What Is Occupy? "
Includes: chapters from the pages of TIME by columnists like Joe Klein & Rana Foroohar as well as new chapters original to the book plus the results of exclusive TIME polls. "
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Zig-zagging between prehistoric stone tools & Tudor theatre primal wildwood & mass-produced cars TIMES ANVIL is a book like no other. Richard Morris brilliantly weaves a series of interconnecting studies of apparently unrelated things & periods that are normally considered in isolation. In the process he re-examines aspects of Englands story from the end of the last glacial period 12 500 years ago to the present touching upon such things as Britains apparent emptiness for long stretches of deep prehistory battlefields & the human element of the Industrial Revolution. Morris not only describes the evolution of archaeologys craft but also explores an awakening curiosity & an open embrace of the mystery of the identity of the early inhabitants of our land who have disappeared & left little trace of themselves but were more like us than we think. Combining the personal with the academic amalgamating literature & myth with science & reflecting on how & why archaeology goes about its business the result is a fresh account of who we are & our relationship with Nature. Humanitys achievement writes Morris is to be the one animal out of one & a half million currently living on the planet to have discovered this story; its weakness is to suppose itself to be the storys subject. TIMES ANVIL challenges some popular assumptions of history such as Domesday Books comprehensiveness or the Romans as civilising colonists. The threads come seamlessly together a mile from where the book began at the graveside of Cardinal Newman. The result is provocative compelling & salutary. ...

A Sunday Times top 10 hardback bestseller. Ancient secrets buried deep in Glastonburys past. & one womans quest to finally set them free. Cambridge present day: Following the death of her mother Abi Rutherford receives a mysterious bequest -- a misshapen sphere of crystal known as the Serpents Stone which seems to hold echoes of concealed mysteries long covered up by the church. Western England 25AD: A stranger has come to the chilly Somerset wetlands with a story of hope & reconciliation. But he is being followed by powerful forces determined that he will not undermine Roman rule in Britain. What connects these ancient events & Abis gift? & why do so many people seem desperate to hide the truth? A strange shadow has fallen across the centuries & a woman is in fear of her life. But is it danger that awaits her or the final truth so long whispered across the echoes of time? ...

York 1577: Hawise Aske smiles at a stranger in the market & sets in train a story of obsession & sibling jealousy of love & hate & warped desire. Drowned as a witch Hawise pays a high price for that smile but for a girl like her in Elizabethan York there is nowhere to go & nowhere to hide. Four & a half centuries later Grace Trewe who has travelled the world is trying to outrun the memories of being caught up in the Boxing Day tsunami. Her stay in York is meant to be a brief one. But in York Grace discovers that time can twist & turn in ways she never imagined. Drawn inexorably into Hawise's life Grace finds that this time she cannot move on. Will she too be engulfed in the power of the past? ...

Topher Hope is distraught when Ka his devoted cat disappears leaving a word on his computer: TENOCHT*I*TLa N. Wasnt that the home of the blood thirsty Aztecs? Then she must be in dreadful danger. But when Topher travels back to the time of the Aztecs he finds trouble from another source. The Aztecs think Ka is one of their gods but El Sol a piratical Spanish conquistador thinks she is a witch. Can Topher save Ka from El Sol rescue Pima a girl the Aztecs want to Sacrifice & escape from the wondrous floating city of Tenochtitlan before it is destroyed? ...

Topher & his father are trying to get over the death of Topher's mother an Egyptologist when they take in a stray cat. This cat bears an uncanny resemblance to a cat ornament given to Topher by his mother & so they name it ' Ka' meaning 'double'. Topher becomes very attached to Ka & is puzzled by her mysterious absences. One day when he is playing a computer game with an Egyptian theme Ka jumps on the keys & spells out the name Bubastis which was the centre of cat worship in Ancient Egypt. Could Ka really be leading a double life & what is she trying to tell Topher? ...

Ka the time-travelling cat has disappeared leaving just one clue
- a word on Tophers computer screen: R*iche mou*nt. When Topher
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Topher is planning a trip to London to visit his friend Ellie
- but will it be safe with all the terrorist threats? It worries
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Alexia Tarabotti Lady Maccon has settled into domestic bliss. Of course being Alexia such bliss involves integrating werewolves into London High society living in a vampire's second best closet & coping with a precocious toddler who is prone to turning supernatural willy-nilly. Even Ivy Tunstell's acting troupe's latest play disastrous to say the least cannot put a dampener on Alexia's enjoyment of her new London lifestyle. Until that is she receives a summons from Alexandria that cannot be ignored. With husband child & Tunstells in tow Alexia boards a steamer to cross the Mediterranean. But Egypt may hold more mysteries than even the indomitable Lady Maccon can handle. What does the vampire Queen of the Alexandria Hive really want from her? Why is the God-Breaker Plague suddenly expanding? & how has Ivy Tunstell suddenly become the most popular actress in all the British Empire? *** Also available as a manga adaptation*** ...