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Eighth EditionThe Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New World’s greatest ancient civilization. In The Maya Michael D. Coe distils a lifetime’s scholarship for the general reader and student.This, the eighth edition of the book, incorporates the lat..

These awe-inspiring images present a harmonious mosaic of the unmatched richness of the civilizations on the Roof of the World.The beauty of the Himalayan landscape, of the Tibetan people and of their sacred places all inspire a desire to look within, in search of an understanding of the essence..

In July 1999 Michael Jackson summoned the 23-year-old Arno Bani to a secret photo shoot, having seen and admired his photographs in the Sunday Times fashion pages.700 photographs were the result, originally intended for the cover of Jackson’s 2001 album Invincible, but ultimately by-passed by hi..

This book is an inspirational exploration of the signs and symbols of a wealth of global cultures from ancient times to the present day, bringing together together some of the world’s most potent sacred images.Through a rich array of fascinating images drawn from ritual, myth and the natural wor..

'I will journey to the black heart of a corrupt Empire to root out my foes. But Rome wasn't built in a day and it won't be restored by a lone assassin. I am Ezio Auditore da Firenze. This is my brotherhood.'Rome, once mighty, lies in ruins. The city swarms with suffering and degradation, her cit..

Lemuel Gulliver is a ships surgeon whose amazing story begins with a shipwreck on the high seas and continues as he encounters a race of miniature people known as Lilliputians. A second journey takes him to Brobdingnag, kingdom of giants, and eventually to the land of the Houyhnhms, horses with reas..

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered c..

Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the treasure will have to tur..

The original Orcs trilogy ended with Stryke and his band of Orcs finding the ancestral Orc home hidden in another dimension. Orcs Bad Blood will tell the story of their hectic adventures in the other dimensions as they attempt to find peace for their race and escape the ever greedy, savage expansion..

The disappearance of one of Jupiter's moons, the appearance of "little green men" in Australia and the American Southwest, and the sudden presence of unidentifiable objects on a collision course inside the Earth's core add up to the inescapable conclusion that the Earth has been invaded by an enemy ..

Do you dream of a city at the end of time? In a time like the present, on a world that may or may not be our own, three young people-Ginny, Jack, and Daniel-dream of a fabulous, decadent city in the distant future: the Kalpa. The dreams of Ginny and Jack overtake them without warning, leaving their ..

There's been rising concern in Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city's young bohemians. An intrepid newspaper reporter, Zhemailo, begins to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon - that the victims are linked by a secret society, the Lovers of Death. But Zhemailo is not the only investigato..