The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there... Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see & hear & smell? Where would you stay? What are you going to eat? & how are you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague? In The Time Travellers Guide... Ian Mortimers radical new approach turns our entire understanding of history upside down. History is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived whether thats the life of a peasant or a lord. The result is perhaps the most astonishing history book you are ever likely to read; as revolutionary as it is informative as entertaining as it is startling. ...

We think of Queen Elizabeth I as ' Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes like Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Richard Grenville & Sir Francis Drake & of great writers such as Edmund Spenser Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson & William Shakespeare. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past & walk the streets of London in the 1590s where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? & if so how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants diseases violence sexism & famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England the Elizabethan" world unfolds around the reader. He shows a society making great discoveries & winning military victories & yet at the same time being troubled by its new-found awareness. It is a country in which life expectancy at birth is in the early thirties people still starve to death & Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language & some of the most magnificent architecture & sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America & circumnavigate the globe. Welcome to a country that is in all its contradictions the very crucible of the modern world." ...

The past is a foreign country
- this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what
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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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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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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? ...

In The Time-Crunched Cyclist: Fit Fast & Powerful in 6 Hours a Week" Lance Armstrongs personal coach Chris Carmichael presents a revolutionary new approach to cycling training. " The Time-Crunched Cyclist" reveals the quickest way to get faster so that busy cyclists can build competitive cycling fitness on a realistic schedule. Complete with training plans case studies nutritional guidelines & success stories " The Time-Crunched Cyclist" is the book busy working professionals have been waiting for. Its proven concepts & training programmes enable cyclists to push the pace in the local group ride have fun & perform well in local races or tackle a challenging 100-mile fundraiser ride without committing to a high-volume training programme. Carmichaels popular time-crunched training programme shows cyclists how to build fitness fast by tapping the power of high-intensity interval workouts. Through 8 proven training plans beginning & experienced cyclists will take a low-mileage route to new speed. Each plan

Includes:: effective time-crunched workouts nutrition guidelines & supplemental strength training. " The Time-Crunched Cyclist" will help former racers bicycle commuters cross fans & mountain bikers capture their best performance
- all in the time they have right now. This new edition

Includes:: plans for road cyclocross mountain bike events & multi-day tours
- & even shows how to turn your daily bicycle commute into a time-crunched workout."





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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? ...