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SCREAMING LOON by Niall Edworthy


How do birds avoid bumping into each other? How do they have sex? The answer to these questions and to many others which you may not have asked yourself are to be found in the pages of this exhaustive collection of bird lore. Birds have much more sophisticated colour vision than humans, with the


exception of the owl, for whom monochrome vision is more efficient in the dark. This book is divided between science and bird lore, with medieval bestiaries being a rich source of information in the latter category: a bird with three toes is mean, with six toes gentle, and the dove is the only bird whose form the devil is unable to assume. 196, line drawings. £10.99 NOW £4


73776 FLOWERING PLANT FAMILIES OF THE WORLD


edited by Heywood, Brummitt, Culham, Seberg This major new reference book is a revised and updated successor to a leading work on the subject, Flowering Plants of the World. The authors have not offered a completely new taxonomy but 200 new plant families have been identified and analysed for this volume, giving a total of 506, drawing on recent understandings of molecular and structural evidence resulting from the availability of DNA and studies on morphology, anatomy and distribution. The plants are arranged alphabetically within the two traditional major groups, dicotyledons and monocotyledons. An initial classification list is complemented by a table relating the families to the widely used APG II scheme. The book is remarkable for its superbly detailed studies of many of the plants, some in monochrome, some in colour. Particularly beautiful are the studies of peonies, milkwort, saxifrage, Lauraceae (avocado, cinnamon, bay, laurel), and the spurge family. Each entry starts with the Latin and English names and a brief overview, followed by paragraphs on distribution (including a small world map), description, classification, economic uses and references to the literature on the subject. Sandalwood, for example, has a worldwide distribution with tropical concentrations, and is mostly a root-parasite. 424pp, illus. £32 NOW £18.50


73751 THE BEAUTY OF TREES by Michel


Jordan and Tony Kirkham Trees are nature’s ultimate works of art. The ‘lungs of the world’, 100 of which from around the globe feature in this unique volume. The remarkable details of the


photography capture the spectacular diversity of different forms, from the jewel-like shades of the Persian silk


tree’s flowers to the fine patterns on the trunk of the lacebark pine and from the immense American coast redwood, which is the world’s tallest organic life form, to the iconic English oak. Here is India’s banyan tree, with its twisted, hanging roots. Here is the intricate crimson blossom of Australia’s red flowering gum, and here the unusual fruit and lush leaves of the South American cashew. In addition to the superb pictures, there is also an exploration of the botany of the plants, with their measurements, as well as the legends, facts and stories surrounding each one, revealing their untold ecological and cultural significance. All are arranged alphabetically by Latin names, their English appellation and page number. 224 pages 30cm x 26cm, 200 photos in unbelievably glorious colour. £20 NOW £8.50


74070 COLLINS COMPLETE GUIDE TO BRITISH WILD


FLOWERS by Paul Sterry The book has been designed so that the text and photographs for each species are on facing pages. A system of labelling clearly states the flower’s identity. At the start of each species, description the plant’s most commonly used and current English name is given followed by the scientific name and any


references. However with orchids the author has used the most up-to-date classification system which differs from that in most currently available floras. The map provides invaluable information about the distribution and occurrence of each species. The regions covered are the whole of mainland England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland as well as the offshore islands and the coverage is restricted to what most people understand to be wild flowers. Over 1,600 detailed photos and 1,100 features on species of wild flower including aquatic plants, grasses, sedges and rushes. A gorgeous book. 304pp in softback. £16.99 NOW £6.50


71916 SOME WE LOVE, SOME WE HATE, SOME WE EAT Why It’s So Hard to Think


Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog Why is it wrong to eat the family dog? Which lived the better life - the chicken on your dinner plate or the rooster that died in a cock fight? Herzog has worked with the full spectrum of animal-human interactions from animal rights activists to bloodsports enthusiasts, and dog handlers to vets and biomedical researchers in a mix of anthropology, behavioural economics, evolutionary psychology and philosophy. £16.99 NOW £2.75


72549 THE FROG WITH SELF-CLEANING FEET and Other Extraordinary Tales from the


Animal World by Michael Bright The caterpillar of the Large Blue Butterfly persuades red ants to take it into their nest by making sounds like a Queen Ant. If a threat arises the ants will protect the bogus Queen and they will even escort the hatched butterfly to an airy place for it to take off. In fact they believe it is an ant. Blue monkeys have two calls, one for aerial predators such as eagles and the other for threats on the ground such as leopards. For speed of


movement the shark takes the laurels, with a tagged female Great White Shark making a round trip from South Africa to Australia and back in nine months. 288pp.


£12.99 NOW £3


73183 HOW TO PLANT A TREE: A Simple Celebration of Trees and Tree-Planting Ceremonies by Daniel Butler


We all know that trees are the ‘lungs of the planet’ and we need them to live and breathe. This book is a celebration of our love of trees as well as practical advice on how to grow, protect, graft and fertilize a tree, how to keep it healthy, timber responsibly, encourage wildlife and even clone it. 128 pages, line drawings. £9.99 NOW £3.25


NEW AGE AND OCCULT


I know that queer things happen in this world. It’s one of the few things I’ve really learnt in life.


- Ludwig Wittgenstein


74089 ANGEL EXPERIENCE: Your Complete Angel


Workshop in a Book by Hazel Raven


Going far beyond a reference guide, the book and CD are more like a personal tutor, leading you through key ideas and concepts via inspirational and practical, holistic,


hands-on exercises - in other words, more like attending an angel seminar. Users of the book and CD are taught how to release their emotional blocks by opening the channels of Divine communication so that they can more clearly see, hear, feel and know celestial beings. The step-by-step programme gradually guides readers, while exercises help to tailor the book to their own personal needs. Special sections allow participants to write their own experiences directly into the book. There are also revision work and more advanced exercises and the CD features meditations and inspirational music. 257 softback pages with glossary of terms and FREE CD. £12.99 NOW £5


74380 FAIRY BIBLE: The Definitive Guide to the World


of Fairies by Teresa Moorey According to the author, proper fairies are beings who inhabit the Otherworld - a dimension of existence close to our own, which overlaps with ours from time to time and from place to place. They are


nature spirits, who tend growing things. They are the elemental entities of Air, Fire, Water and Earth - the ancient goddesses and gods. Many are mighty and awesome. Some are terrifying. Plenty are helpful and playful. All are mysterious. In 1917, two girls claimed to have had encounters with the Fair Folk, and convinced Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, no less, of their truthfulness. Later in life, they both owned up to having faked four out of the five photos of their little friends, but one of them - a woman with a reputation for total honesty - insisted that the fifth was real. To help readers to make their own relationship with the fairies, this book is rich in meditations, spells and exercises. 400 paperback pages, colour illus with a dictionary of different kinds of fairies. £12.99 NOW £6


74210 STONEHENGE: Exploring the Greatest Stone Age Mystery by Mike Parker Pearson and the Stonehenge Riverside Project


Was Stonehenge a temple of the sun, a megalithic calendar, a centre for druidic worship or something much more complex? For centuries, historians and archaeologists have speculated about its true purpose.


Now, through a combination of years of excavation, cutting-edge technology and sophisticated analysis, Professor Pearson’s team has completely re-told the story, changing forever the way in which readers will think about Britain’s most iconic and enduring prehistoric monument. During seven years of work, the team explored the enigmatic timber and earthen monuments that surround the main site and, for the first time, revealed details of the lives of the Neolithic people who built them. They excavated the settlement where the builders lived, and retrieved dozens of Neolithic cremation burials indicating that Stonehenge was a resting place for the dead. The team also made the remarkable discovery of Bluestonehenge, a monument that was once a stone circle of bluestones from west Wales. They located the quarries from which the Welsh bluestones came, and presented an illuminating new analysis of how the megaliths were transported to their final destination. Readers may be surprised by the Professor’s total debunking of the myths about the great monument’s druidic identity and by his completely new theory about Stonehenge’s true significance. 406 pages with colour plates, diagrams, maps. £25 NOW £7


74173 ATHANASIUS


KIRCHER by Joscelyn Godwin Subtitled ‘A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge’, Athanasius Kircher (1602-80) stands out as one of the last all- encompassing minds. He was a Jesuit, an archaeologist, a phenomenal linguist and at the same time an avid collector of scientific experiments and geographical


exploration. He probes the secrets of the subterranean world, deciphered archaic languages, experimented with alchemy and music-therapy, optics and magnetism. Egyptian mystery wisdom, Greek, Cabbalistic and Christian philosophy met on common ground in Kircher’s work as he reinterpreted the history of man’s scientific and artistic collaboration with God and Nature. His sumptuous, encyclopaedic volumes were revered throughout Europe. His gigantic oeuvre is approached here through the engravings that are such a striking feature of his books. Most are reprinted now for the first time in this Thames & Hudson 96 page huge softback. First edition 1979 with 105 illustrations. £9.95 NOW £4


74407 PARANORMALITY:


Why We See What Isn’t There by Professor Richard Wiseman


A wild ghost chase into a new science of the supernatural that is rich in activities that will allow you to experience the impossible. Research into telepathy, fortune- telling and out-of-body feelings has produced remarkable insights into our brains, behaviour and beliefs. For 20 years, Professor Wiseman


has spent sleepless nights in haunted castles, investigated gurus in India, attempted to talk to the dead and even examined psychic dogs. Now he reveals how to learn to control your dreams and leave your body behind, how to convince complete strangers that you know all about them, how to unleash the power of your unconscious mind and much, much more. 340 gripping paperback pages packed with tests, experiments, exercises and demonstrations. £12.99 NOW £4.50


71946 CLASSIC BLACK


MAGIC by Dennis Wheatley Three famous bestsellers bound in one haunting volume. In ‘The Devil Rides Out’, the aristocratic Duc de Richleau and Rex van Ryn rescue a friend from a satanic cult in Southern England. They do battle with the Angel of Death and race across Europe to Greece. ‘To The Devil A Daughter’ involves sinister skulduggery on the French Rivera


where Christina, young and beautiful, is being groomed to meet her fate as a sacrificial virgin at a ceremony in England that will give life to the hideous homunculus Devil creatures. The Duc de Richleau and his friends are back in ‘Gateway to Hell’ when Rex van Ryn makes off with a fortune from the family bank in Buenos Aires. Brutal thugs, former Nazis and Devil worshippers indulge in depraved Satanic rituals. Beautifully bound, 702pp. £20 NOW £3


73821 PREHISTORIC ASTRONOMY AND RITUAL by Aubrey Burl


Archaeologists are recognising that orientation is as important as architecture and artefacts to anyone examining the ritual centres of prehistory. Did people align some of their burial places and shrines on the risings and settings of the sun and moon, or is this just an illusion created by mistaken interpretations of Stonehenge and other monuments? Here a well-known archaeologist explains how people in the British Isles identified life and death with the cycle of midwinter and midsummer and why so many megalithic monuments have astronomical sightlines built into them. Technical explanations about azimuths and declinations are kept to their simplest. 72 glossy pages, Shire paperback, colour photos. £5.99 NOW £2.50


55436 COUCHING AT THE DOOR by D. K. Broster


Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, glimpsed in her early poems - ‘The Second of September 1792’ is a fine example - and finding full expression in the stories she wrote after she had become a highly successful novelist. An elegant reworking of the ‘Persephone’ myth, ‘The Taste of Pomegranates’, the downright bloodthirsty ‘Clairvoyance’, and the psychological studies, ‘The Promised Land’ and ‘The Pavement’ which so well merit the heading ‘Madness and Obsession’, you have here a collection to unsettle the strongest nerves. 192pp. Paperback. ONLY £3


62716 VARNEY, THE VAMPYRE by James Malcolm Rymer


James Malcolm Rymer’s epic 220 chapter saga first appeared between 1845-7 in a series of ‘Penny Dreadfuls’. Bannerworth Hall, Hampshire, Midnight. The night is woken by screams from the bedroom of the beautiful and noble-hearted Flora. To their horror, her family discover that she has been the victim of a murderous attack. The Bannerworths are about to lose their home to pay the debts of their dead father. The hunt is on for his missing gold, but then they begin to have their doubts about their repulsive, hissing new neighbour, Sir Francis Varney, who is so eager to purchase the Hall - and to marry the fair Flora. Their quest will take them from hall to charnel-house, and from village inn to deserted chancel. 1166 pages, paperback. ONLY £4


71003 COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO TAI CHI: A Step-By-Step Approach to the


Ancient Chinese Movement by Angus Clark Written by a recognised instructor of the Tai Chi Union of Great Britain who learned from Grandmaster Dr Chi Chiang Tao, this must be the most comprehensive guide to Tai Chi that we have ever come across. This book provides a complete introduction to the discipline, outlining the seven qualities and the seven steps to progress, before dealing in detail with health and body awareness, and describing how the moves and postures act on the skeleton, muscles, circulation, digestion, sensory systems, breathing and energy centres. 287 softback pages, colour photos, useful addresses. £12.99 NOW £6


New Age and Occult 31 73585 BUDDHIST MANDALA COLORING KIT


by Duncan Baird Publishers Diamond Thunderbolt, Tree of Enlightenment, Dreamflag, Wheel of Dharma, Jewelled Lotus, Watchful Peacock and Cosmic Eye are among the other 12 fine, line art designs on these quality blank notecards. Best of all you can colour them in for yourself by using the ten wooden colouring pencils included with the kit. Complete with white envelopes for the cards the pack also contains a visually enticing book with each design coloured in for you to either copy or adapt. Colour handbook accompanied by a powerful meditation. Recloseable box. $19.95 NOW £5


71409 AN A TO Z OF THE OCCULT


by Simon Cox and Mark Foster This A-Z takes the broad definition of the word and covers the writings of William Blake, Nostradamus, Pythagoras, the I Ching, Gnosticism, Druidism and Taoism which are freely available for anyone to read. At a more secret level they delve into writings such as the Kabbalah and Tarot, as well as movements like The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Rosicrucianism and the Roman Mystery cults. Additionally we look at Necromancy, Ouija, Satanism, Shamanism, Vampires and Voodoo. 50 entries. 239pp, colour photos. £12.99 NOW £2.50


72790 TAI CHI FOR YOU: The Step-by-Step Guide to Tai Chi at Home for Everybody by Ronnie Robinson


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This book introduces you to the core principles of Tai Chi, the ancient Chinese exercise system. Focusing on 200 movements, all illustrated with specially commissioned photographs, the expert author shows you how to perform the sequences with ease. He also clarifies how each movement can improve your strength, flexibility and posture, as well as boosting your energy levels, self-confidence and overall vitality. Strengthening exercises complement the postures to bring you a complete system of harmony and well- being. 144 pages 24cm by 29cm, colour and list of organisations. ONLY £5


72337 GEOMANCY FOR BEGINNERS by Richard Webster


Geomancy is a 3,000 year old form of earth divination, which can answer your questions about relationships, career, money and all aspects of life. This easy-to- follow introduction presents eight different methods you can try from astrological geomancy to Arthurian divination, to aversion attributed to Napoleon. Each method begins with making a random number of marks, then interpreting the message based on the resulting pattern. With sample readings and diagrams and instructions on how to craft your own geomantic tools, chapters include the Hermatic Order of the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley, Cornelius Agrippa and Gerard of Cremona. 252pp in paperback with diagrams. £12.99 NOW £3.75


72735 THE ONLY BOOK YOU’LL EVER NEED: Meditation


by David Dillard-Wright and Ravinder Jerath Meditation is an ancient tradition that can aid concentration, relieve stress and help prevent or ease a variety of medical conditions, from high blood pressure and perhaps even cancer. The advice includes fitting meditation into a busy schedule, posture and breathing techniques, various cultural and religious approaches to meditation, and creative visualisation. The book demystifies the language of Zen, Buddhism, Tao, cosmology. 296 page large softback. £9.99 NOW £5


73167 MEDITATION EXPERIENCE by Madonna Gauding


There are four major ways into meditation: using an object to focus on, practising mindfulness of your body and mind in relation to what is going on around you, and thirdly focusing on a specific topic which for Christians might be Bible-based and for Buddhists awareness of qualities such as patience or generosity. The fourth way in is through the use of the senses, visualising the reality you want to inhabit, perhaps with the help of a mantra. Following the preparation, there is a series of meditations with different objectives, for instance opening the heart, being mindful, visualising the Buddha. CD with helpful music and ideas. 256pp, chunky softback, colour photos. £12.99 NOW £4


73194 APOCALYPSE: A History of the End of Time by John Michael Greer


Human beings seem to be obsessed with predicting that their time will soon be up. The ancient Egyptians called it the Sixth Day of Pachon. The Mayans named it 4 Ahau 3 Kankin. For the Jehovah’s Witnesses, it has constantly to be recalculated. This fascinating volume covers each and every one of our possible dooms, religious and secular, past and present, whether they are asteroids, the Antichrist, solar flares, the Singularity, Zoroastrians, Zapotecs, or merely global warming. 229 paperback pages. £7.99 NOW £3


73470 SPELLS by Emily Gravett As a child, the author was desperate to become a witch. She spent her time trying to fly and attempting to cast spells on people who called her sweet. After many years, and a particularly nasty incident involving a broomstick and some stairs, she decided to become an illustrator. Her pictures reflect her quirkiness. We have to admit to a sense of amazement at seeing the Handsome Prince’s naked buttocks for the first time, but soon recovered and became enthralled by the tale of the frog who finds a book of spells. 27cm x 23cm with adorable illus in colour and b/w. £10.99 NOW £2.50


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