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74240 YORKSHIRE CHURCHES THROUGH TIME by Alan Whitworth
Alan Whitworth has assembled this impressive collection of images both old and new to form the basis of his affectionate and often humorous tour of Yorkshire’s religious institutions. From the magnificent 180 foot spire of All Saints, Rotherham, the cruciform splendour of the Abbey Church at Selby and
the unique octagonal crenelated tower and horseshoe altar rail of St Michael’s at Coxwold, to the cliff-top isolation of St Stephen’s at Robin Hood’s Bay and the tiny undedicated chapel at Lead, which served as a final resting place for many soldiers killed at the Battle of Towton, here are almost 200 colour and b/w images. 96pp softback. £14.99 NOW £5
73137 HOLY BIBLE: NIV by Hodder & Stoughton
Revised and updated 2011 New International Version of the Holy Bible in clear, single-column, 6.75. text with shortcuts to key passages. In the standard British text, this slim line durable classic, mock brown leather Bible has gold tooling and will slip into the pocket. 1404pp, softback.
£12.99 NOW £3.50 73771 COMPACT GUIDE TO CHRISTIAN
HISTORY by Stephen Backhouse We are introduced with clarity and concision to a rich variety of Christianities that modern Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox often ignore. Full of illustrations, colour photos, timelines and fact boxes, we learn about famous popes to the Salvation Army, Protestantism to Pietism, the fall of Constantinople and the Ethiopian church in the 13th century, disastrous popes, Chinese Christianity and more in this century by century graphic tour. 208pp in softback.
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73795 NEW RELIGIONS: Religions of the World by Carol S. Matthews
This volume introduces eight new religions, some that are well established such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints, and the Baha’i faith, and some that are relatively new, such as the New Kadampa Tradition which, in 1991, was officially organised as an umbrella Tibetan Buddhist institution, and the Raelians, who founded Clonaid, the human cloning research and service facility. There is also a convincing section on why it is important for everyone to study new religions. 214 pages with colour plates, chronology and timeline, list of websites and glossary. £31.50 NOW £2.50
73800 UNSEEN FACE OF ISLAM by Bill Musk
Most ordinary Muslims live in a complex, mysterious world of which outsiders know little. The world of jinn, the evil eye, the hand of Fatima, the covenant of Suleiman, shrines, saints and festivals, curses and powerful practitioners of the occult - it is a colourful, complex world full of human hopes and fears and far removed from the Islam of the Mullahs or newspaper headlines. Dr Musk penetrates the surface levels of ritual and legalism and demonstrates that most Muslims express deep needs in their daily living. This new edition is reworked to include insights into folk Islam and includes diagrams and photos. 288pp in paperback.
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
- Jacob Bronowski
75074 IT’S ABOUT TIME: From Calendars and Clocks to Moon Cycles and Light Years - A History by Liz Evers
How many locksmiths does it take to build an atomic clock? This enthralling book is full of thought- provoking info on timekeeping, its origins, advances and impact, as well as time-related trivia from early man to the modern day.
From the instant that our alarm wakes us in the morning, through the humdrum of our daily lives, to the moment when we turn out the light, time governs our very existence. Mankind has spent millennia developing new ways of measuring time, describing and quantifying it, and such methods have given rise to some of the most technically remarkable and aesthetically beautiful devices ever created. This gripping volume is a tribute to the creation, customs and conventions of timekeeping in its myriad forms. For anyone interested in the fourth dimension. 224 pages with line drawings. £12.99 NOW £5
75067 ACCIDENTAL SCIENTIST: The Role of Chance and Luck
in Scientific Discovery by Graeme Donald
Exploring the fundamental role that trial and error has played in scientific, medical and commercial breakthroughs, this often astonishing book reveals the intriguing stories behind the origins of well-known inventions.
Encompassing everything from Botox to lobotomies,
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fingerprinting to DNA profiling and even the cellphone, it proves the theory that a little luck goes a long way. It turns out that countless everyday objects, gadgets and useful gizmos were invented entirely by accident! This book is a tribute to trial and error, and the scientists who happened to stumble upon discoveries that we cannot imagine our lives without. So the next time that you are following cat’s eyes along the motorway, using the microwave, or reaching for your mobile phone, remember that it was not only scientific brilliance but also pure chance that brought them into existence. 224 pages illustrated in b/w.
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74438 WEATHER BOOK: Why it Happens and Where it
Comes From by Diana Craig The weather affects all of us, pretty much all of the time. We grumble about it when it is too hot or too cold, and our spirits lift when we are blessed with glorious days, yet we know surprisingly little about it. This book will teach you how different forces interact to produce
the world’s changing weather, what causes extreme weather such as hurricanes and electrical storms, how weather forecasts are made and how weather can affect your mood and energy levels. 192 pages with line drawings and diagrams. £9.99 NOW £3.75
72646 THE DISCOVERY OF JEANNE BARET: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by Glynis Ridley
The mesmerising account of an intrepid, intelligent woman, who battled against 18th century male prejudice to live the life she wanted. Now, our author reveals all, including the newly discovered notebook, written in Baret’s own hand, that proves her scientific acumen, recording the thousands of specimens she collected, most famously the vine bougainvillea. Jeanne Baret was the mistress of an eminent botanist. When her lover was appointed as ship’s naturalist, she disguised herself as a teenage boy and signed on as his assistant. 288 pages. $25 NOW £2.75
73073 FATE OF THE SPECIES: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and
How we can Stop It by Fred Guterl Are we really approaching a new ice age, global warming, nuclear winter or worldwide drought? Will our immune systems be overwhelmed by so-called super- bugs or will the disappearance of numerous species cripple the biosphere? Technology helped to get us into a mess, but it is the only thing that can help us to survive it. From machines to synthetic biology, from reverse genetics that create a deadly flu virus to the possibility of human extinction, and from ecosystems to climate change. 209 pages.
£18.99 NOW £4.50 73118 PUSHING THE LIMITS: New
Adventures in Engineering by Henry Petroski Here are the stories of significant and daring enterprises. Among these achievements are Philadelphia’s landmark Benjamin Franklin Bridge, London’s incomparable Tower Bridge and China’s ambitious Three Gorges Dam Project. But pushing the limits of technology does not come without risk. Also chronicled are great technological disasters, such as the 1928 failure of California’s St Francis Dam, the 1999 tragedy of the Texas A&M Bonfire, and the September l l collapse of New York’s World Trade Center towers. 288 roughcut pages, illus.
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73337 BOOK OF THE MOON by Rick Stroud
Today the moon presents a moral challenge as humankind is planning to go there again to exploit its resources. The book is organised thematically, starting with facts and figures, and including Astronomers, Gods and Myths, Astronauts, Cosmonauts and Lunar Exploration, Magic, Medicine, Werewolves and Science. The space race between
the United States and the Soviet Union is narrated in detail with a timeline, then a few pages later we see a 17th century etching of an astrologer selling his soul to the devil. 368pp, numerous illus, colour.
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73854 DRY STOREROOM NO. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey
Fortey is one of the world’s most gifted natural scientists and he describes his splendid book as ‘a museum of the mind.’ At the same time it is a perfect behind-the-scenes guide to London’s Natural History Museum. He places well known exhibits in a new and often comical light and notes that eccentricity flourishes unchecked among the staff. Fortey has amassed a brilliant collection of anecdotes about their habits and his stories are quite wonderful. He gives us a virtual tour of the museum’s hidden stores and retired displays and his words are filled with a passion for nature and pride in this institution. Colour plates, 338pp, paperback.
£9.99 NOW £5 73976 ONE, TWO, THREE: Absolutely
Elementary Mathematics by David Berlinski With broad culture and wry humour, the author of ‘A Tour of the Calculus’ Berlinski takes a look at some basic concepts in maths, clashing symbols with history and displaying the inner soul of simple arithmetic. He asks what is a number? How do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division actually work? What are geometry and logic? He lucidly describes the beauty and complexity of these mercurial and often slippery concepts and the foundations of mathematics - how it originated, who thought of it, and why it matters. 210pp.
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73923 A MORE PERFECT HEAVEN: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
In a book as unusual and compelling as her much-acclaimed history of John Harrison’s success in computing longitude, Sobel brings alive the thrilling story of Nicolaus Copernicus who controversially stated that the Sun was at the centre of our universe, with the planets, including
the Earth, revolving round it. In 1539, a young German mathematician, Georg Joachim Rheticus, drawn by rumours of a celestial revolution, travelled to Poland to find Copernicus. He spent two years collaborating with his mentor in expanding the brief sketch into a full manuscript, then carried the finished work to a printer in Nueremberg for publication. This book De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) forever changed humankind’s understanding of its place in the universe. In an unforgettable portrait of the key characters at a moment of great scientific change. Science made fascinating. 273 pages, illus, map, chronology.
£14.99 NOW £6.50 73935 BOLTZMANN’S TOMB: Travels in
Search of Science by Bill Green C. P. Snow once claimed that science and art are separate and mutually incomprehensible cultures.
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with lyrical meditations on the tragic life of Galileo, the mystical Johannes Kepler, the wildly eccentric Tycho Brahe and the universal vision of Sir Isaac Newton, the author’s ruminations return throughout to the lesser- known figure of Ludwig Boltzmann. He shows us that science, like art, is a lived adventure or as an equation - particularly the one that Boltzmann formulated, S=k log W, that he thought of ‘in terms of molecules, of caged birds trying to escape confinement, of wolves set free on to a thousand square miles of tundra’. 208 pages, illus.
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74025 THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF THE ELEMENTS OF EUCLID
by Werner Oechslin Red, yellow, blue - and of course black - are the colours that Oliver Byrne employs for the figures and diagrams in his most unusual 1847 edition of Euclid. Oliver Byrne (c. 1810-c. 1880) was an Irish author
and civil engineer. Little is known about his life, though he wrote a considerable number of books. As Surveyor of Her Majesty’s Settlements in the Falkland Islands, Byrne had already published mathematical and engineering works, but never anything like his edition on Euclid. This remarkable example of Victorian printing has been described as one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the 19th century. Each proposition is set in Caslon italic, with a four-line initial, while the rest of the page is a unique riot of red, yellow and blue. On some pages, letters and numbers only are printed in colour, sprinkled over the pages like tiny wild flowers and demanding the most meticulous alignment of the different colour plates for printing. Elsewhere, solid squares, triangles and circles are printed in bright colours, expressing a verve not seen again on the pages of a book until the era of Dufy, Matisse and Derain. Hardcover, 396pp. 8.1" x 10.1". Text in in English, French and German.
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I can bowl so slowly that if I don’t like a ball I can run after it and bring it back.
- J. M. Barrie
75171 COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FORMULA 1
by Tim Hill and Gareth Thomas
More than a century has passed since the days of the spectacular inter-city races which launched a new field of sporting endeavour. When the internal combustion
engine was developed in the late 19th century, there were those who wanted to test their vehicles and themselves to the absolute limit. Today the raw appeal remains the same - man and machine operating as one high-risk high-reward gladiatorial combat. The chase for the victors’ laurels gained fresh momentum in 1950, when the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile launched the World Championship. The men who held the coveted title to date include legendary names Fangio, Brabham, Clark, Stewart, Senna, Prost and Schumacher. Others came agonisingly close - Stirling Moss missed out narrowly on several occasions and Wolfgang von Trips was killed when the 1961 title lay within his grasp. The book chronicles the history of the World Championships from the Alfa Romeo victory at Silverstone on 13th May 1950 right up to 2011 with the drivers, the constructors, the circuits and the statistics. Big glossy pages packed with colour photos, archive black and white, biographical information on the drivers, their racing teams, and thrills on the track down the years. 256 large pages. Limited stocks.
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74481 ECLIPSE by Nicholas Clee A ripping yarn, part Flashman, part Sea Biscuit. Epsom Downs, 3rd May 1769 and a chestnut with a white blaze scorches across the turf towards the finishing post. His four rivals are so far behind him that, in racing terms, they are ‘nowhere’. Watching Eclipse is the man who wants to buy him, an adventurer who has made his
money through roguery and gambling. Dennis O’Kelly is also the companion of the madame of one of London’s most notorious brothels. While he is destined to remain an outcast to the racing establishment, his horse will go on to become the undisputed, undefeated champion of his sport. Eclipse’s male-line descendants will include Desert Orchid, Arkel and all but three of the Derby winners of the past 50 years. And his astonishing life will be only matched by that of the rogue who owned him. 344pp, paperback. Colour photos.
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73936 BYRNE’S TREASURY OF TRICK SHOTS IN POOL AND BILLIARDS by Robert Byrne
Robert Byrne illustrates 350 shots with diagrams, 100 have never been published anywhere before. With classic shots and their variations by such names as Jump- Out-Of-The-Rack shot, the Scenic Railroad, the Machine Gun, Shoot-
Off-Your-Mouth, the Turn-Left Foot Ball, the Central Cluster Railroad, Escape Over The Wall, the Relocation Kiss-Forward and The Triangular Draw, the Fifteen-Ball Combination, Pocket Point Kick Shot, A Subtle Four-Ball Cluster, the Optical-Illusion Bank, the Sliding Triangle, Mike Massey’s Shuttle Shot, Mosconi’s Hustler Shot, Charlie Webster’s Houdini Shot, here are novelty shots, jump shots, shots with one ball, stroke shots, hot lips and magic fingers and showstoppers before we even get on to book two entitled Billiards. One per page. Photos. 292 huge pages.
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73645 THE ECCENTRIC ENTREPRENEUR: Sir Julien Cahn: Businessman, Philanthropist, Magician and Cricket-Lover by Miranda Rijks
Sir Julien Cahn (1882- 1944) was a real one-off, one of the most successful and certainly the most eccentric businessmen of 1930s Britain. He established and funded the Sir Julien Cahn’s XI cricket team, an internationally renowned group of players who regularly bested national teams on lavish world tours, and he indulged his passion for stage magic by building an art deco theatre at his residence, Stanford Hall near Loughborough. His largesse was legendary, lending huge support to causes such as medicine and agriculture. He received a baronetcy in 1934. 218pp Paperback, photos. £12.99 NOW £2.50
74484 FLYING STUMPS AND METAL BATS
by Wisden Cricketer and Simon Lister Subtitled ‘Cricket’s Greatest Moments by the People Who Were There’, here is the revised and updated tour of cricket’s most memorable moments. Since 2003 the Wisden Cricketer has run a monthly feature called ‘Eyewitness’ in which each article takes a seminal moment in the history of cricket and invites the key protagonist to reminisce, relive and reflect on it. Here are the very best collected into one volume from David Steele’s remarkable Test summer of 1975 to Brian Lara’s awe-inspiring first season with Warwickshire, from the Packer Revolution to Michael Holding kicking down John Parker’s stumps in 1979 and other memories. Great occasions, politics, nail-biting finishes, bad behaviour, great performances, oddities and innovations, upsets, and extreme conditions and interviews. 343pp in paperback.
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73914 C.L.R. JAMES: Cricket’s Philosopher King
by Dave Benton
Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989) was a leading black intellectual, a Marxist theorist of the first rank and one of the finest ever cricket writers, the author of 1963’s seminal “Beyond a Boundary”. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, home to the ground that features on every West Indies Test Series, his was a very British- style education and he never forgot the importance of cricket and the set of values the game inculcated in him, even when being expelled from the USA during the McCarthy era for his Trotskyite views or providing help and inspiration to the newly independent nations of Ghana and Tanzania in the 1960s. His 1938 book about the 18th century slave revolt on Haiti, “The Black Jacobins” is regarded as one of the great historical works of the last century. He lived his life by the ethos of fair play and honour. 202pp, photos. £16.99 NOW £6.50
74430 BRITIAN’S MOST ECCENTRIC SPORTS
by Richard O. Smith In Cumbria they hold the World’s Biggest Liar
Championships, in Dorking a wife carrying race, or have
you ever heard of underwater hockey, the Stone Skimming World Championships, pram racing at Hastings, onion eating, gravy wrestling, custard pie throwing, and or course, our cheese rolling, open crabbing, men’s netball, korfball and crazy golf? Britain is a nation of good sports and the venue for world
championships in shin kicking, medieval football enactment, Pooh Sticks and the pantomime horse grand national.
Madcap, hilarious and sometimes downright dangerous. 160pp in paperback, colour photos.
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