Boudica Iron Age Warrior Queen by Richard Hingley with graphics from Christina Unwin. This is a very informative and understandable history of Boudica. It sets the scene by giving some background about life in Iron Age and Roman Britain. It knocks on the head the idea that Iron Age Britain was some kind of barbarian... Read More »
Thich Nhat Hhan is a Vietnamese Zen master, poet, peace activist, author and founder of the Plum Village Tradition. He coined the term “Engaged Buddhism” in his book ‘Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire‘. He promotes non-violent solutions to conflict through deep listening and loving speech. During his 1966 stay in the US he... Read More »
Thich Nhat Hhan is a Vietnamese Zen master, poet, peace activist, author and founder of the Plum Village Tradition. He coined the term “Engaged Buddhism” in his book ‘Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire‘. He promotes non-violent solutions to conflict through deep listening and loving speech. During his 1966 stay in the US he... Read More »
Thich Nhat Hhan is a Vietnamese Zen master, poet, peace activist, author and founder of the Plum Village Tradition. He coined the term “Engaged Buddhism” in his book ‘Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire‘. He promotes non-violent solutions to conflict through deep listening and loving speech. During his 1966 stay in the US he... Read More »
Lord Foul’s Bane is the first novel in the ‘First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant’ series by Stephen Donaldson. Stephen Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy novelist. He spent part of his youth in India, where his father was an orthopaedic surgeon who worked extensively with Lepers. It was after hearing one of... Read More »
This is a nice little book that has several X-mas project in Arts and Crafts It explain how to do a variety of x-mas themed items such as how make pop-up cards and Wrapping paper; make you x-mas stoking with felt and green tree; cook with mommy Christmas gingerbread angels, stars and marzipan fruits; cut... Read More »
This lovely paperback of Hello Kitty has 6 Christmas themed chapters. In the first one ‘Let it snow’ Hello Kitty is resting her injured leg while outside is snowing and she is thinking a bout her after school club and her best friends that were out ice-skating but would visit her afterwards. Hello Kitty started... Read More »
As Dante had Virgil for his guide through Hell and Purgatory so Mary Beard had Cicero as her guide through the Roman republic. This is an important point and what makes the book so good. Instead of starting with the end of the Etruscan kings, through the republic and finishing with the Empire, Mary Beard... Read More »
Tales of the City is the first of a series of nine novels by Armistead Maupin. The first four novels were originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle. The fifth one was serialized in the San Francisco Examiner. The remaining books were written directly as novels. The book opens with the arrival of Mary Ann... Read More »
The Once and Future King was written by T H White and published in 1958. It is based on his previous works written between 1938-41. These consist of four parts, The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill Made Knight and The Candle in the Wind. A final part, written... Read More »
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