34 Nature


fishermen see a coming storm. This charming volume celebrates Shetland’s unique community. Chapters by experts describe the animals’ special traits, a geneticist probes heredity, a historian plumbs the past and islanders offer their views and wisdom in this beautiful anthology. 180 pages, illus. £16 NOW £5


74781 DISCOVERING


HERBS: A Shire Book by Kay Sanecki


Mint, parsley, nasturtium to add colour, thyme, rosemary, sage, marjoram, nepeta, alchemilla and feverfew can all be grown very easily in hanging baskets. In troughs chives, thyme and chamomile, in window boxes basil, lavender cotton, tarragon and parsley, tubs nearly anything


including fennel, hyssop and lemon balm, and indoors even more including lemon verbena and pineapple sage. Care, cultivation, properties and propagation of medicinal plants, pot herbs, culinary delights, household sweeteners, dye plants and those with fragrance. 136pp in paperback, colour photos. £5.99 NOW £3


76056 WILDFLOWERS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND by Charles Coates


The handbook covers native and naturalised wildflowers that one is most likely to encounter in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Illustrating 553 species, grouped for direct comparison according to similar characteristics, the notes also cover superstition, folklore, medicinal, culinary and other uses, history, local names of each plant together with when and where it flowers. With natural remedies and recipes, a calendar of what to look for at different times of the year, the book is arranged by habitat. 384 tall glossy pages, softback. £14.99 NOW £5.75


74434 NATURE NEAR LONDON by Richard Jefferies


Today, interest in what Richard Mabey termed “unofficial countryside” and its inhabitants has never been higher. However, Richard Jefferies got there in 1883, which is when Nature Near London was first published. Arranged as a collection of observational pieces from locations near London, it is full of the minutest details of near-city wildlife. One bittersweet tale, A London Trout, describes an overgrown brook in which, by a small bridge, lived for four years a trout that was so wily it eluded both the eyes and lures of countless anglers and passers-by. One day the brook was dammed and the trout became trapped in a pool barely deep enough to cover its back. A further 18 similarly heartfelt tales make this book simply unique. 207pp in handsome duck-egg blue linen binding. £20 NOW £4


75108 THE ENGLISH YEAR: A Literary


Journey Through the Seasons edited by Peter Buckingham


This delightful anthology focuses on the weather and the landscape, with occasional observations about the people who inhabit it. On 15 January Coleridge sees “the brightest halo circling the roundest and brightest moon I ever beheld”, and the next day Queen Victoria regretfully leaves her private retreat at Claremont for the grandeurs of the palace at Windsor. No anthology of the seasons would be complete without Keats’s “Ode to Autumn”: “Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn”. A quotation for every day of the year. 255pp, line drawings. £9.99 NOW £3.50


75450 HARMONY: A New Way of Looking at


Our World by HRH The Prince of Wales For decades Prince Charles has studied a wide array of disciplines in his quest to understand how scientific revolution, Enlightenment and modern industrialisation and its attendant changes has led us into a state of disharmony with our world. Well-reasoned and provocative, his holistic approach points the discussion of sustainability and climate change versus man’s burgeoning thirst for energy, food and an easy life in a new direction, illuminating his reasoning and arguments with a vast array of superb colour photography and clear diagrams and charts. It also looks at the new town of Poundbury and its ‘shared space’ street designs. Stand-out photographs, aerial and satellite images and those from the world’s rainforests. 329 heavy quality pages, softback. 23.8 x 18cm. $18.99 NOW £6


75820 ON RARE BIRDS by Anita Albus Albus is a brilliant bird artist whose paintings compare with the famous ornithological artistry of John James Audubon, and in this study of four extinct birds, plus six more whose existence is threatened, she uses many of her own gorgeous illustrations. Edward Lear painted the rare Indigo Macaw and with meticulous research the author traces the history of different macaw species up to the reintroduction of Spix’s Macaw into the wild in the 21st century. Other extinct species are the Passenger Pigeon, Great Auk and the Carolina Parakeet. Among endangered species are the hermit ibis, northern hawk owl and laughing kookaburra. Albus’s own study, “Sunbathing Waldrapp in Delta-Wing Posture” is among the most original of many illustrations. Kingfishers have exerted a fascination over artists since Roman times. 276pp, colour reproductions. $24.95 NOW £7


76049 HEADWATERS: Walking to British River Sources by Phil Clayton


Few walking projects can encompass such variety of landscape as Clayton’s journey to the headwaters of 50 British rivers, lovingly described and photographed for this book. Clayton visits them all, including the confluence of the Tame and the Goyt in the middle of Stockport. High on the nearby Pennines are the sources of the Tame, close to the sources of the Calder which runs in the opposite direction and ends up in the North Sea. Featured here is the Ribblehead Viaduct, under the looming shadow of the Three Peaks, Ingleborough, Penyghent and Whernside. Scotland includes several Munros and Wales has not only Snowdonia but the Wye


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with its source on Pumlumon. In the west country Clayton visits the source of the Tamar, painted by Turner. 224pp, maps, colour photos. £18.99 NOW £5


76385 AMONG THE ISLANDS: Adventures in the Pacific by Tim Flannery


Tim Flannery is one of the world’s most influential scientists, earning praise the world over for making anthropology, biology and geology not just understandable but abundantly interesting to the layman and is also credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin. During the 1980s and 90s he led a group of researchers around the tropical islands of the southwest Pacific, looking for marsupials, bats and rats found nowhere else on earth. This is his account of that time in a great arc of nearly 4,000 miles stretching from the picture postcard perfection of Polynesia to some of the most rugged and treacherous islands in the world. Flannery and his intrepid band wrestle deadly snakes, plunge into mountains of bat poo, attempt to reason with would-be dictators of tiny republics, find themselves in a leper colony and hilariously try their hardest to concentrate on their research on Malaita Island. 246pp, colour photos. $25 NOW £5


PETS


We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.


- George Eliot


76943 EXTRAORDINARY PIGS


by Stephen Green- Armytage


Perhaps the oldest true British breed of pig is the Tamworth, descended from the Old English Forest Pig. Meet here too the Spotted Swine, Vietnamese Pot Bellied, the Wild Boar, the Red Wattle Hog, the


Poland China, Middle White, Mulefoot Hog, Oxford Sandy and Black, Pennywell Miniature, British Saddleback, British Lop, Old Gloucester Spot and the American Berkshire, all photographed in colour by a renowned US photographer and presented on big glossy pages together with a short story of each little character. And their piglets are adorable - spotted, striped, baggy faced, pot bellied, each with a wiggly tail and wet little snout. 38 varieties of swine from around the globe, these delightful piggies will bring a smile to every reader’s face. 112 very large pages, all in colour. £16.99 NOW £5


77169 BONZO’S WAR: Animals under Fire 1939-


1945 by Clare Campbell A platform for the hitherto mute voices of animals caught up in a human conflict far beyond their understanding. What was it like to be a dog or cat when the world was at war, when food was rationed and cities were bombed? With food in short supply, government officials launched a ruthless campaign


against pets. Here are harrowing yet inspiring stories of animals under fire, of evacuated and homeless pets, of brave canines who provided comfort for humans while the bombs were falling. Here, too, are tales of the 6,000 dogs recruited by the British Army, loaned by their families, many never to return. Here are the Dunkirk pets, the camp followers who switched sides to stay alive, and dogs like Tich, a stray mongrel bitch adopted by the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in Egypt in 1941, who accompanied the first battalion all the way through the desert fighting. A moving 372 pages with b/ w archive photos, source notes and notes on Animal Welfare Charities and The Naming of Pets. £14.99 NOW £5


50173 PUPPY DOG’S TALES by Cecil Aldin Scamp the Mongrel, Poppy, so-called because of her red colouring and Snowball, the white terrier, were loveable rascals. Then there was Bill, the bob-tailed pup, who tugged at the heartstrings as he sought friendship but was scorned because of his truncated rear-end. They were among the early stars of a series of eagerly-awaited books issued each year in time for Christmas in the decade before the 1914-18 war. Now in a special edition of selections by Roy Heron. 96pp, full page colour illus. £8.99 NOW £3


75119 THE RASCAL by Cecil Aldin First published in 1905 as ‘A Gay Dog’ and in New York as ‘A Conceited Puppy’, the sub-title of our British perennial bestselling edition is ‘Episodes in the Life of A Bulldog Pup’. The puppy enters the social whirl of Edwardian London. Beautiful and charming, he becomes the darling of an actress, enjoys the races at Ascot, goes punting at the Henley Regatta and holidays in Ostend. Disaster leads to discovery of new pleasures of country living, strolling across a field to greet a curious horned horse - spotty and clumsy - and a Comedian Bird. Classic old-style Punch comedy pictured by Cecil Aldin. Colour illus. £8.99 NOW £3


76043 BREAKING BAD HABITS IN PARROTS by Greg Glendell


Transplanted into captivity with no company, and no requirement for any effort in finding food, parrots are likely to became bored. Exercise for beak and brain are essential, and treats hidden in cardboard boxes or tubes fulfil both requirements. Parrots are vulnerable to phobic panic attacks, often a reaction to some object which for some reason is perceived as a threat. If a parrot self-plucks, again the answer could be simply to leave the room, denying attention. Dealing with biting, screaming and recovering a lost bird are all covered. 128pp, colour photos page. £16.99 NOW £4


RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY


Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous. - Albert Einstein


76491 STORY OF THE BIBLE: The Fascinating History of its Writing, Translation and Effect on


Civilisation by Larry Stone All the things you wanted to know about the Bible and had no idea where to look, not to mention a lot of questions you never even thought about until now, are


beautifully presented in this sumptuous and well- researched volume. This is a hands-on Bible history, and bound into the text are 10 envelopes containing facsimiles of different Bible manuscripts, starting with the Great Isaiah Dead Sea Scroll, written in the first century B.C. Other facsimiles include an illuminated page from The Morgan Crusader’s Bible, described as one of the most beautiful Gothic manuscripts in existence, together with illuminated Celtic initial pages from the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells. John Wycliffe’s Bible shows a page from the gospel of Luke, rendered into English for the first time. Alongside the illustrations the author describes the complex details of the movement to make the Bible available in the vernacular, one of the key issues of the Reformation. Printing revolutionised the Bible’s availability, and a facsimile from the Gutenberg Bible, of which there are 48 still in existence, shows the text printed in movable type with illustrations added by hand, making every one unique. Luther’s and Erasmus’s Bibles are reproduced, and other translations include the 17th century translation into Algonquin and the 20th century translation into Waodoni by the sister of a missionary who had been killed by this savage South American people. 96pp, large format with enclosures, numerous high-quality colour reproductions, timeline. £21.99 NOW £12.50


76497 COFFEE WITH ARISTOTLE


by Jonathan Barnes


From the now famous and hugely popular series, here is another fictional dialogue based on historical fact. Buy Aristotle a coffee and he’ll dazzle you with the breadth and brilliance of his thought. This dramatised biography, takes us


deep into the workings of one of the most original and challenging minds of all time - and we can even ask questions. Not many people can claim to have invented a new science, but the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle invented two - Zoology and Logic. Today we are still influenced by Aristotelian thought. When we use such words as ‘potential’ and ‘actual’, ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ we are speaking Aristotle’s language. ‘All knowledge is subjective, perhaps we know nothing at all, science is a social contract. Philosophers have said such things, but really it is appalling nonsense. Ask your skeptical philosopher why.’ 144pp. £6.99 NOW £3


76498 COFFEE WITH THE BUDDHA


by Joan Duncan Oliver Contrary to the Vedas and Upanishads, there is nothing to be reborn. You have no eternal soul or essential self dragging a suitcase of unresolved karma from lifetime to lifetime. Rather, what makes the trip is a continuity of consciousness


at a very subtle level. ‘Every time you generate fresh karma it leaves an energetic ‘stamp’ on the ever-flowing mind stream.’ Ever wondered what it would be like to meet the Buddha? Well now you can by a miracle of time travel. Listen to him talk about the Four Noble Truths, karma, and the path to Enlightenment. One of the greatest figures in spiritual history, Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, discovered the Truths 2,500 years ago which continued to guide the lives of millions of adherents in Asia and an increasing number in the West. Sit down with him for coffee and understand his philosophy for living. 144pp. £6.99 NOW £3


76051 PARROT COMPANION Caring for Parrots, Macaws, Budgies, Cockatiels and More by Rosemary Low


Parrots are highly social animals whose need for a close relationship, either with a human being or with their own kind, is central to their existence. There are approximately 250 species and the author covers a selection of those most suitable as pets, including information about their loudness and capacity for mimicry. The book covers equipment and ways of incorporating the parrot into your daily routine, together with basic training, care of plumage, diet, trimming nails and beak, and health problems. 192pp, softback. £12.99 NOW £3.25


76600 WHY DOES MY DOG DO THAT? by Caroline Spencer


Dogs communicate with body language and there is a message in everything they do. The book’s methods show your dog that you are the decision maker regarding danger, safety and food. This form of natural canine communication resolves aggression, separation anxiety, running off, excessive or attention barking, pulling on the lead, digging up the garden or your house plants, jumping up, plus the many difficulties associated with those rather special rescue dogs. Cartoons, 174pp in paperback.


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76945 SOUL SWORD by Vernon Kitabu Turner Subtitled ‘The Way and Mind of a Zen Warrior’, this is a book about conquering fear. The author began to study martial arts to defend his brother against bullying. He met a Japanese Zen Master and experienced an epiphany (satori), the realisation that it is the soul that controls the body. Subsequently, with virtually no training in the martial arts, he progressed to


become a Master and after a sensational ‘trial by combat’, he progressed to a black belt. Here he shares his secrets and explains that the power he found exists in us all. He teaches the steps that must be taken to cultivate the Warrior Mind, involving a direct flow from the Soul (your inherent spiritual power) into action. It will teach us to cut through any obstacle, even envy, prejudice or intolerance. A Watkins Spiritual Classic, 230pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £4


77179 IN THE SHADOW OF


THE SWORD by Tom Holland Three religions of the Book, Islam, Judaism and Christianity, account for the billions of people in the world today who believe in one God. The rise of Islam in the first millennium A.D. is a story that has to be read together with the history of the other two major western religions. Whoever Moses may have been, he had far-reaching effects on the culture of Judaism,


while the Christian understanding of Jesus’s mission is bound up with the ebb and flow of late Roman politics. Muslims believe that their new set of prophecies overcame those of the older religions. But does the Qur’an really date from the Prophet’s lifetime? Where did he actually live? While historians can only give provisional answers, the vision of God to which rabbis and bishops subscribed, and which the followers of Muhammad inherited, did not come from nowhere. The author focuses particularly on the struggles of late antiquity, including the Christian revolution of the Emperor Constantine and its reversal by Justinian, who used the gang warfare of the charioteers for his own ends and then lost control, with the result that Constantinople was flattened and looted by thugs. Justinian’s savage response and rebuilding of Constantinople achieved temporary stability, but the world seemed to be in apocalypse and the arrival of Islam on the scene promised a new way forward. 574pp, paperback, timeline, colour reproductions. £12.99 NOW £6.50


76611 HERETICS: The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church


by Jonathan Wright Here, the history of dissent in the Christian Church is charted through the stories of some of its most emblematic heretics - from Arius, a 4th century cleric who questioned the very nature of Christ, to firebrands like Martin Luther and


John Calvin, whose protests created new branches of the faith. As he traces the Church’s attempts, from the days of Constantine to modern times, to enforce orthodoxy, Jonathan Wright argues that, by compelling the Church to refine and impose its beliefs, heresy helped Christianity to blossom into one of the world’s most formidable and successful religions. The history of these heretics continues to raise timely questions: What is the future of heresy? Is the current mood of tolerance a fleeting historical accident? What is the role of heresy in a faith that still shapes the world? 338 pages. $28 NOW £5


76630 THOMAS AQUINAS ON FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE


by Christopher Kaczor


Using essential passages from the Summa theologiae by Saint Thomas Aquinas which contains his treatment of the theological virtues, this helpful volume is arranged primarily for beginners, although it would be of tremendous interest to professionals and scholars, it contains passages of great historical import, contemporary relevance and intrinsic interest, combined with abundant footnotes. Saint Thomas is regarded by experts not only as a sage but as the greatest philosopher and theologian in the history of the world. His typically medieval method of quoting ‘authorities’ was not mere fashion or personal penchant, rather it was a key to his success and a source of his greatness. Will assist readers to understand Aquinas more clearly, and to live by faith and hope and love themselves. 274 paperback pages with scripture index. £24.50 NOW £7


76631 THOMAS AQUINAS ON THE CARDINAL VIRTUES


by Christopher Kaczor and Thomas Sherman Saint Thomas Aquinas had one of the most influential minds of all time. He taught on a matter of central importance for all of us, the pursuit of happiness based on the four cardinal virtues of the moral life. These seven ‘virtues’ enable each person to lead a fulfilling and satisfying life. This volume is packed with footnotes which answer many of the questions that confront a non-specialist reader of the text, providing additional information, clarifications and interpretations, describing the identity of important authorities cited by Saint Thomas, such as Boethius, Aristotle, Augustine and Cicero, and explaining the meaning of important words that are used in a very precise and technical sense. A companion to code 76630. 442 paperback pages with scripture index. £24.50 NOW £7


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