Continuing the epic saga of Alexander the Great, Alexander: The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes Alexander's quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persians. In a seemingly impossible venture, Alexander & his men storm Persian fortresses & harbours, crippling King Darius' domain of land & sea. Even the legendary Halicarnassus is defeated by the Macedonian armies. Ruthlessly, Alexander's war machine moves ever onward taking him up into the snow-covered Anatolian highlands. But there is danger ahead. Despite the defeat of Darius, the Island City of Tyre & the Towers of Gaza prove to be formidable obstacles. Undeterred, Alexander surges forth over land & sea to the mysterious land of Egypt. & there, in the sands, lies the Oracle of Ammon, waiting to reveal an amazing truth to Alexander. One that will change his already amazing life. ...

From Zemlinsky's early success as a composer & widely recognized achievements as a conductor to his eventual descent into obscurity, this new biography places Zemlinsky (1871-1942) against the backdrops of Vienna, Prague & Berlin & illuminates his relationships with figures like Johannes Brahms, Alma Schindler, Gustav Mahler & Arnold Schoenberg. Moskovitz's exploration of Zemlinsky's songs, operas, choral works, chamber music & symphonic compositions follows the composer's search for a distinctly personal sound, revealing an artist caught up in the music of his time yet unwilling to abandon his 19th century roots. ' Alexander Zemlinsky: A Lyric Symphony'

Includes:: an Afterword by conductor James Conlon & a complete discography of Zemlinsky recordings. MARC D. MOSKOVITZ is principal cellist of the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Ohio & has written for various music journals & the ' New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians'.

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After the success of his first assignment from the UNICORNE agency, fourteen-year-old Michael Malone is given another unexplained mystery to solve. When UNICORNE detect strange goings-on in a comic book shop, Michael is sent to investigate
- a task which is made all the more difficult by allies he can no longer trust, & an enemy he can't actually see.
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Flame Tree: The Art of Fine Gifts. Flame Tree Publishing has produced calendars & diaries for over twenty years. Now the UK's premier art calendar producer, we work in the global market online & in retail. Each year we spend many hours creating new designs with artists, photographers, licensors, museums & galleries to bring beautiful art into the homes & offices of our customers around the world. This charming calendar contains a selection of Alexandra Milton's atmospheric collages of birds. As a descendant of two generations of artists, Alexandra Milton was sure to pick up a brush herself. Working primarily in collage, Milton uses handmade papers from around the globe to render images of animals. Informative text accompanies each work & the datepad features previous & next month's views. ...

The whole of Fairyland is very excited
- there's going to be a new royal baby! But when Foster the stork fails to deliver the new
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The last of Alexandre Dumass many mistresses, the American actress Adah Menken, called him "the king of romance." She was not thinking only of his immensely popular novels The Three Musketeers & The Count of Monte Cristo
- everything about Dumas was touched with the spirit of romance, & it is that spirit which this exhilarating biography captures.

There was romance in Dumass ori A-gins. He grew up in the country, the son of a general who fought under Napoleon in Egypt & Italy & whose own parents were a French marquis & a slave from Haiti. As a boy, Dumass closest friends were local poachers & a gardener whom he once watched cut open a grass snake to lib A-erate a frog. The world was full of magical possibilities, &, in his twen A-ties, after moving to Paris & working as a clerk under the Duc d Orleans, Dumas established himself, with Victor Hugo, as one of the leading Romantic playwrights.

In its scope & richness, Dumass life bears comparison to those of his fictional heroes. Drawing on Dumass memoirs & surviving correspon A-dence, Professor Hemmings constructs a fascinating story, first published in 1979, of a writer whose novels continue to excite our imagi A-nation.




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Since 2003, Alexandre Gauthier has been the chef at La Grenouillere, a sixteenth-century farmhouse by the river Canche. There, he creates a highly personal cuisine, a snapshot of every season. Powerful, warm, sensuous, earthy yet delicate, it rests on the building blocks of a classic French cuisine that he has stripped of its formality & unnecessary intricacies. Gauthier has received the distinction of being named a Chevalier de L' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government & is one of the leading figures of new European cooking. Through this book, he offers a hundred of his culinary creations to read, to cook, to consider. superb photographs by Marie Pierre Morel showcase Gauthier's food & the beauty of the region, where La Grenouillere has become an important destination for foodlovers from all over the world. ...

For Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, Alexandria holds fascination & a hint of fear. Beautiful, historic & famously unruly, the great cosmopolitan city wears Roman rule lightly. While his wife, Helena Justina, wants to see the Lighthouse & the Pyramids, Falco has a mission at the Great Library that soon turns out to involve much more than stock-taking its innumerable scrolls. A mysterious death in the world-famous library bring him into immediate conflict with the darker side of academic life. With forensic science in its infancy, even an illegal autopsy fails to find real answers. To solve the crime for the Roman Prefect
- if indeed it is a crime
- Falco will have to draw on his own doggedness & intuition, at first supported only by Helena's commonsense & the loyal backup of her brother Aulus, who goes under cover as a student among the in-fighting academics. The philosophers lust after fame & fortune so ruthlessly there is soon another terrifying death, this time at the royal zoo. At the same time, his original innocent mission is overshadowed by the machinations of his Uncle Fulvius, who is living in Alexandria with his partner Cassius for obscure reasons. Their involvement in local affairs already seems shady when they are joined by their crony, Falco's father, Geminus, a man well known for disreputable business practices. If the irrepressible Pa has had any hand in what has gone wrong at the Library, Falco knows he stands no chance...

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Peter Stothard, Editor of the TLS, finds himself in Alexandria in the winter of 2010, after his flight to South Africa has been cancelled due to severe weather. Minded by two tourist guides/informers, he traces his own life-long interest in the history of Cleopatra, & his repeated failure to write about her. In this book, part memoir & part travel literature, we learn about his childhood on the Marconi estate in Essex, his schooling & education, & his jobs as journalist & editor. ...

Alexandria is still alive & alters even when one tries to sum her up... Only the climate, only the north wind & the sea remain as pure as when Menelaus, the first visitor, landed three thousand years ago... In the autumn of 1915, in a slightly heroic mood, E.M. Forster arrived in Alexandria, full of lofty ideals as a volunteer for the Red Cross. Yet most of his time was spent exploring the magic, antiquity & complexity of the place in order to cope with living in what he saw as a funk-hole. With a novelist's pen, he brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light & culture symbolised by the Pharos, where the doomed love affair of Antony & Cleopatra was played out & the greatest library the world has ever known was built. Threading 3, 000 years of historyith vibrant strands of literature & puncutating the narrative with his own experiences, Forster immortalised Alexandria, painting an incomparable portrait of the great city &, inadvertently, himself. ...