Coe & Houston update this classic account of the New Worlds greatest ancient civilization, incorporating the most recent research in a fast-changing field. New discoveries of spectacular stucco sculptures at El Zotz & Holmul reveal surprising aspects of Maya royalty; the Classic Maya themselves can be understood as occupants of royal courts, full of Machiavellian intrigue yet operating in close communion with gods & cosmos. Just-discovered texts at Xultun show a strong concern with astronomy & numerology, as well as evidence of lost books. Other finds include the discovery in an underwater cavern of the earliest known occupant of the region, the Hoyo Negro girl, & new evidence for the first architecture at Ceibal. The Maya highlights the vitality of current scholarship into this brilliant civilization. ...

Get ready for Time Riders: The Mayan Prophecy, the 8th book in Alex Scarrow`s numbered 1 bestselling time-travel adventure series. Liam O` Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance
- to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history... When Maddy finally unlocks fragments of the secret that Becks has been holding on to, the Time Riders start to piece together their true purpose. Racing through time to connect the clues, the team discover a Mayan tribe & an ancient relic provides a vital link to the past.. .and future. But not all the Time Riders can cope with the discovery, & one threatens to bring them all down if they can act out their revenge... Book eight in the bestselling Time Riders series by Alex Scarrow. It is perfect for fans of Doctor Who & Indiana Jones. Time Riders (Book 1) won the Red House Book Award older readers category, & was Penguin UK`s first ever number one on the i Bookstore. Alex Scarrow is a World Book Day 2013 author with Time Riders: The Nearly Girl on the WBD Movellas app. Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist, then he became a graphic artist, then he decided to be a computer games designer. Finally, he grew up & became an author. He has written a number of successful thrillers & several screenplays, but it`s YA fiction that has allowed him to really have fun with the ideas & concepts he was playing around with designing games.
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This globe measures 30 cm (12”) diameter & features clear political mapping, a wooden ring base & a brass effect stem. The countries are distinguished by different colour borders & the topography is represented by relief shading. The warm tonal red colour way is a more unique design feature that is sure to add something special to a room. Available to order on dem&. Please contact our sales team for more information: sales@stanfords.co.uk. ...

The voyage of the Mayflower & the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly-equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn of 1620 had no sense they would pass into legend. They had eighty casks of butter & two dogs but no cattle for milk, meat, or ploughing. They were ill-prepared for the brutal journey & the new land that few of them could comprehend. But the Mayflower story did not end with these Pilgrims` arrival on the coast of New England or their first uncertain years as settlers. Rebecca Fraser traces two generations of one ordinary family & their extraordinary response to the challenges of life in America. Edward Winslow, an apprentice printer born in Worcestershire, fled England & then Holland for a life of religious freedom & opportunity. Despite the intense physical trials of settlement, he found America exotic, enticing, & endlessly interesting. He built a home & a family, & his remarkable friendship with King Massassoit, Chief of the Wampanoags, is part of the legend of Thanksgiving. Yet, fifty years later, Edward`s son Josiah was commanding the New England militias against Massassoit`s son in King Philip`s War. The Mayflower Generation is an intensely human portrait of the Winslow family written with the pace of an epic. Rebecca Fraser details domestic life in the seventeenth century, the histories of brave & vocal Puritan women & the contradictions between generations as fathers & sons made the painful decisions which determined their future in America. ...

This is the ” Penguin English Library Edition” of ” The Mayor of Casterbridge” by Thomas Hardy. ` Here
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In 1940s Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod, poet Toby Maytree falls in love with Lou Bigelow at first sight. His slow courtship gradually wins her over, & so begins a love story that lasts decades. But when a friend comes between them, they must each renegotiate what it means to love. ...

In 1992, Lucy Rees's journey on horseback across Arizona became a quest for spiritual enlightenment. A carving of a Cretan maze near Tintagel in Cornwall had always fascinated Lucy's companion Rick. In Arizona they were surprised to find from an illustration in a book, that this same carving could be found on a rock on one of three barren mesas in north-east Arizona where the last remaining Hopi native Americans had built their villages. The search for the maze announced itself as the purpose of their journey. But beyond their shared love of wild places, & this finishing point, they had a third, less clear purpose, an agenda only gradually revealed to them as events unfolded. They entered upon this journey in a spirit of exploration knowing that somewhere there was a centre, but uncertain as to what it was or what mysteries it might uncover. ...

1944. Sent to Spain to arrest a rogue spy, British agent Peter Cotton expects an easy first assignment. But he arrives to find his quarry dead & all of Cadiz awaiting his arrival. In a hotbed of scandal & murder, Cotton must navigate through a labyrinth of international conspiracies, shifting political allegiances & a mysterious local expatriate community to discover the truth. What he unearths could just tilt the emerging balance of post-war power & the course of history for ever. ...

When the doors of the lift crank open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name. But he`s not alone. He`s surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade
- a walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre & terrible stone maze. Like Thomas, the Gladers don`t know why or how they came to be there
- or what`s happened to the world outside. All they know is that every morning when the walls slide back, they will risk everything
- even the Grievers, half-machine, half-animal horror that patrol its corridors, to try & find out.


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When the doors of the lift crank open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name. But he`s not alone. He`s surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade
- a walled encampment at the centre of a bizarre & terrible stone maze. Like Thomas, the Gladers don`t know why or how they came to be there
- or what`s happened to the world outside. All they know is that every morning when the walls slide back, they will risk everything
- even the Grievers, half-machine, half-animal horror that patrol its corridors, to try & find out.


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