This new survey from the leading authorities on the subject provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date & authoritative account available of the rapid ascendancy of the Incas, their politics, economics, religion, architecture, art & technology, & their subsequent downfall. The authors look in detail at Cusco & at the four parts of the empire, following the vast road system to explore not just famous sites such as Machu Picchu, but all the major regional settlements, on & off the Inca Trail. The concluding chapter & epilogue are devoted to the end of the empire: the arrival of the Spaniards, the assassination of the Inca ruler Atawallpa, & the final years of the rebellious, neo-Inca state in the tropical forests of Vilcabamba. ...

But this glittering culture only obscured the rich & diverse civilizations that had preceded it: Chavin, Moche, Nazca, Tiwanaku, Huari, & Chimu. Described as a ”masterly study” & an ”outstanding volume” on its first publication, The Incas & Their Ancestors quickly established itself as the best general introduction to the cultures & civilizations of ancient Peru. Now this classic text has been fully updated for the revised edition. New discoveries over the last decade are integrated throughout. The occupation of Peru`s desert coast can now be traced back to 12, 000 BC & ensuing maritime adaptations are examined in early littoral societies that mummified their dead & others that were mound builders. The spread of Andean agriculture is related to fresh data on climate, & protracted drought is identified as a recurrent contributor to the rise & fall of civilizations in the Cordillera. The results of recent excavations enliven understanding of coastal Moche & Nazca societies & the ancient highland states of Huari & Tiwanaku. Architectural models accompanying burials provide fresh interpretations of the palaces of imperial Chan Chan, while the origins of the Incas are given new clarity by a spate of modern research on America`s largest native empire. ...

When Francisco Pizarro disembarked in Peru in 1532 he found a vast empire seemingly overflowing with gold & silver. Ruled by monarchs claiming direct descent from the sun itself, its inhabitants built roads, bridge & terraced fields in the precipitous Andes, & made brilliant textiles & dazzling jewelry
- all without possessing either writing or the wheel. Within a few short months this empire had been conquered & its subjects killed or enslaved.
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” Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini
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” Maybe the earth will continue to spin, & the stars won`t implode for a bazillion more years, but I know, with a certainty my stupid brain has done its best to ignore, that this moment
- right here, with the people I love most
- is not going to last.” Alba is facing one of the most important summers of her life. School is over & while her friends want to escape their sleepy hometown, she just wants to stay put. But when a viral video about the end of the world announces that Eden Valley is the only safe place to be, thousands of people descend on the town. Amidst parties & prayer circles, Alba feels like her world has turned upside down. At least she`s got Cinnamon Girl
- the comic-strip alter ego she`s created...A funny & unique feel-good read about how to keep on being yourself when everything around you is changing, perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell, Non Pratt & John Green.


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The mouth-watering new book from acclaimed author illustrator, Oliver Jeffers. Henry loves books...but not like you & I. He loves to EAT books! This exciting story follows the trials & tribulations of a boy with a voracious appetite for books. Henry discovers his unusual taste by mistake one day, & is soon swept up in his new-found passion
- gorging on every delicious book in sight! & better still, he realises that the more books he eats, the smarter he gets. Henry dreams of becoming the Incredible Book Eating Boy; the smartest boy in the world! But a book-eating diet isn`t the healthiest of habits, as Henry soon finds out...
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It`s time to peek inside the world`s most famous museums. Welcome to Lonely Planet Kids` Incredible Cabinet of Wonders
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Prince`s College, Cambridge, is a peaceful & scholarly community, enlivened by Prudence Pinsent, the Master`s daughter. Spirited, beautiful, & thoroughly unconventional, Prudence is a remarkable young woman. One fine morning she sets out for Suffolk to join her cousin Lord Wellende for a few days` hunting. On the way Prudence encounters Captain Studde of the coastguard
- who is pursuing a quarry of his own. Studde is on the trail of a drug smuggling ring that connects Wellende Hall with the cloistered world of Cambridge. It falls to Prudence to unravel the identity of the smugglers
- who may be forced to kill, to protect their secret.

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Holly is off on her first international Dadventure! Dad`s taking Holly on one of his travel-writing trips
- to Malaysia! Holly
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The third volume of stories featuring the cunning clerical sleuth Father Brown. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of Chesterton`s original Father Brown books have been republished with charming & collectible Penguin covers. ` That sort of thing may be very well for crypts & cloisters & all sorts of moonshiny places. But ghosts can`t get through a closed door in an American hotel.` Father Brown, the shrewd & modest clerical detective, encounters miracles, ghosts & prophets in this third volume of ingeniously plotted tales. From South America to New York, his keen observation & quiet wisdom are a match for any mystery
- even when he finds himself missing, presumed dead, in his own coffin.. .G. K. Chesterton was born in 1874. He attended the Slade School of Art, where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown, before turning his hand to journalism. A prolific writer throughout his life, his best- known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922), The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) & the Father Brown stories. Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 & died in 1938.` Chesterton knew how to make the most of a detective story` Jorge Luis Borges
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