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CONTENTS 1. THE PONDERABLES: -

ELEMENTS

MATHEMATICS

THE UNIVERSE

PHYSICS

PHILOSOPHY

12. THE TIMELINE HISTORY OF LONDON 13. THE TIMELINE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES 14. THE TIMELINE HISTORY OF GOLF

2. THE ROMANTIC LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

15. THE TIMELINE HISTORY OF HOCKEY

3. THE ROMANTIC LANGUAGE OF:

16. TIMELINE HISTORY OF PRESIDENTS &

HERBS & VEGETABLES

TREES

WILD FLOWERS

THEIR LADIES 17. THE TIMECHART HISTORY OF CANADA

4. JANE AUSTEN’S FLOWERS

18. CANADIAN WAR POSTERS

5. THE COMPLETE WORLD OF JANE AUSTEN

19. THE GOLDEN AGE OF EUROPEAN RAILWAYS

6. JANE AUSTEN, A LITERARY JOURNAL 7. THE CLASSIC FAIRY TALES OF ANDERSEN & GRIMM

20. THE TRADITIONAL CLUBS OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND

8. THE JOY OF FAIRY TALES

21. APOCALYPSE: THE RISE OF HITLER

9. THE WORTH PRESS DICKENS COLLECTION

22. APOCALYPSE: WORLD WAR II

10. WORTH POCKET COMPANIONS:

23. LOST NATURE

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE

CRIME

ROMANCE

TRAVEL & ADVENTURE

24. DISAPPEARING NATURE 25. THE TREASURY OF BABY NAMES / NORTH AMERICAN BABY NAMES

11. WORTH BOOKSHELF COMPANIONS: -

GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS

MASTERS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

26. DIY: ESSENTIAL QUICK FIX GUIDE 27. ON LOVE

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the elements

an illustrated history of the periodic table

Tom Jackson Here is the essential guide to the Periodic Table, an authoritative reference book and timeline with at-a-glance information for every element. The Periodic Table, set out by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, is the result of centuries of accumulated knowledge. It is a powerful yet elegant tool that opens a window onto the very stuff of nature – stars, rocks, life, and more – and it shows us the way to make ever smarter technologies. One hundred ponderables, the puzzles solved and inspirations reached, tell the story of how the Periodic Table came to be. The journey begins just as the first cities are forming and follows the contributions made by philosophers, alchemists, industrialists, and great scientists. It ends with the synthesis of superheavy elements never seen before on Earth – and an understanding of how the universe really works. X 100 milestone facts reveal the chronological history of how the weighty problems in the world of chemistry led to great discoveries. X Authoritative but lively text, first-hand imagery, and explanatory illustrations set out the reasoning behind the Periodic Table, bringing the elements into clear focus. X Includes a removable fold-out concertina neatly housed at the back of the book, with a 12-page Timeline History of the Periodic Table and a 12-page Chart of Elements in Atomic Order. specifications Trim page size: 275 x 230mm Extent: 144-page book plus a 24-page removable foldout concertina filled with 1000s of facts Illustrations: approx. 300 Publication date: October 2012 Paper for text: 157 gsm matt art ISBN: 978-1-84931-065-9 No. of words: 45,000 UK RRP: £20.00

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mathematicS an illustrated history of numbers

Editor: Tom Jackson Here is the essential guide to mathematics, an authoritative reference book and timeline that explores the work of history’s greatest mathematicians. These include the teasing genius of Pierre de Fermat, who said he knew the answers but rarely gave them up, the helpful guidance of Fibonacci, whose 13th-century compendium for bookkeepers proved to be a valuable tool for the most highminded mathematicians, and the fractal pattern discovered by Wacław Sierpinski now used to plan the route a mailman takes. With a glimpse of the abstract landscapes of infinite numbers and multi-dimensional shapes that these incredible minds explore, we can begin to get beyond school-day sums and understand the true power of mathematics. X 100 milestone facts reveal the greatest mathematical breakthroughs through the eyes of the people who made them. X Authoritative text, historical imagery, and helpful diagrams are combined with stories and everyday examples to make the complex mathematics accessible to everyone. X Includes a removable fold-out concertina neatly housed at the back of the book, with a 12 page Timeline History of Mathematics and 12 pages of Mathematical Enigmas. Specifications Trim page size: 275 x 230mm Extent: 144-page book plus a 24-page removable foldout concertina filled with 1000s of facts Illustrations: approx. 300 Publication date: October 2012 Paper for text: 157 gsm matt art ISBN: 978-1-84931-066-6 No. of words: 45,000 UK RRP: £20.00

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the univerSe

an illustrated history of astronomy

Tom Jackson Here is the essential guide to astronomy, an authoritative reference book and timeline that traces how, over many centuries, great minds have figured out where we and our planet fit in the great expanse of the Universe. Since time immemorial people have looked out into the night sky and brought back knowledge on how the Universe works. Gradually astronomers have learned how it all began – in a Big Bang – and are now faced with a variety of possible endings for space as we know it. The history of astronomy is as long as civilization itself: The megalithic cultures of Stonehenge and Carnac sought to anchor themselves to the workings of the cosmos, and as today’s astronomers search for alien planets and seek out dark matter, perhaps we are just the same. X 100 milestone facts follow the steps by scientists, ancient and modern, to build up a picture of the Universe, stars, and planets. X Authoritative text, stunning astronomical imagery, and explanatory illustrations set out the way we have pushed back the boundaries of our knowledge to reveal how the Universe formed. X Includes a removable fold-out concertina neatly housed at the back of the book, with a 12 page Timeline History of the Universe and a 12 page Gazeteer of Astronomical Bodies providing additional information on the great stargazers and what they observed. Specifications Trim page size: 275 x 230mm Extent: 144-page book plus a 24-page removable foldout concertina filled with 1000s of facts Illustrations: approx. 300 Publication date: October 2012 Paper for text: 157 gsm matt art ISBN: 978-1-84931-067-3 No. of words: 45,000 UK RRP: £20.00

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physics

an illustrated history of the foundations of science

Tom Jackson Here is the essential guide to physics, an authoritative reference book and timeline that examines the foundations upon which all scientific knowledge rests. Without physics, everything else—from astronomy to zoology—would be meaningless conjecture. Our journey begins with the first attempts to understand reality, Mother Nature—or as the ancient Greeks called it, physis. Follow the journey through history as great scientists, such as Thales, Galileo, Feynman, and many others, gradually unpick the fabric of the Universe revealing an array of fundamental forces, intangible particles and indestructible energy. Today, physics discoveries make headline news as we all grapple with the fresh mysteries of the Higgs boson, supersymmetry, and dark energy. The boundaries of physics are on the move once again. What new truths will be revealed next?

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During the 1920s, the Dimensions of the universe haD been rolleD back to a size never imagineD before. And Edwin Hubble had shown that it was getting bigger. Then, in the 1930s, a shocking discovery was reported : Most of the Universe is missing! Astronomers use spectroscopes to see what stars are made of. The gases around a star absorb certain colors of light, so starlight is filled with gaps. Each gap corresponds to an element. However, the normal wavelengths had shifted out of position. This was the Doppler effect writ large. Shifts toward blue meant the galaxy was moving toward us. Redshifts were much more common, and indicated objects moving away. In 1929, Edwin Hubble helped

u Contains 100 chronological articles that tell the story of physics from the dawn of history to the present day. u Authoritative text, exciting imagery, and helpful diagrams accompany each of the steps along the way.

Fritz Zwicky got his first evidence for dark matter from the rotation of some of the hundreds of galaxies in the Coma Cluster.

u Biographies of great physicists and a chart of the Standard Model particles boosts the contents for all readers.

by the 1930s, electrostatic generators haD moveD on since the Days of von guericke’s spinning ball

to prove that everything beyond our immediate intergalactic neighborhood is moving away from everything else: The

of sulfur. Robert Van de Graaff’s powerful design was enough to make your hair stand on end. Seeing a Van de Graaff generator in action is generally one of the more memorable events in physics class. Everyone will have seen a long-haired person touching a metal sphere with their hair sticking out in all directions. The sphere’s charge is transferred to the person, and every strand of hair repels the others, creating that memorable hairstyle. The American inventor Van de Graaff, was not intending to build a novelty. Back in 1929, he conceived of the generator to make huge voltages for use in linear particle accelerators. The immense electric fields produced by his huge machines were used to ionize particles and accelerate them at great speed into detectors. The Van de Graaff generator works in a similar way to the friction-powered devices from the early days of electrical research (like the sulfur ball). A moving belt inside the generator’s column picks up charge by rubbing

Fritz Zwicky ran the Palomar observatory in California and searched for supernovae—giant exploding stars.

Universe is expanding. In a spin Astronomers were interested to know what part gravity was playing in this expansion. The force of gravity is an attraction between all matter, so how come matter was moving apart? The big question was how much matter does the Universe contain. In 1932, Jan Oort found that the Milky

against an electrified comb contact. The charge is carried up to a dome, where the charge jumps from the belt to a similar contact. As a result, the dome can collect huge voltages and give out bolts of artificial lightning. MIT’s Van de Graaff generators were built in a disused airship hangar in 1933. They could

Way was spinning too fast for the amount of material in it. The following year, Fritz Zwicky saw the same thing in the motion of other galaxies. He reasoned there was more material in them than he could see, and named the invisible stuff dunkle materie, better known today as “dark matter.” The theory was—and still is—that the dark patches of the Universe are not empty “space.” Instead, it is filled with material that does not give out light. The only thing dark matter really does is contribute to the

generate 10 megavolts, which was used to zap particles positioned in a tube between the domes. Incredibly, both domes contained laboratories which were occupied during live experiments! being inside the dome was safe, although the same cannot be said for birds flapping between the charged towers.

gravitational field. In the 1970s, dark matter was weighed by observing how huge masses of visible matter bent space and light. It was found that there is five times as much dark matter than visible matter!

u A simple physics guide draws together current understanding to set out the basics of the science. u 100 Ponderables also contains a 12-page Timeline History of Physics.

P HYSICS

600 bce—599 ce 500 bce

Thales of Miletus suggests that the Universe is made from different forms of water; he also studies the properties of magnets and static electricity. He is one of the first philosophers to search for scientific rather than supernatural explanations of natural phenomena.

The Pythagoreans suggest that Earth is a sphere.

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Thales of Miletus

460s bce Across the ancient world, thinkers believe that our world is made of a few fundamental substances. The classical

Greek view, expounded by Empedocles, is that there are four: Earth, fire, water and air.

c.334 bce

c.445 bce

325 bce

Leucippus of Miletus proposes that the Universe is made from indivisible units called atoms; his pupil Democritus expands on this theory of atomism.

600 bce

450 bce

350 bce

By now the Chinese have been using pens for calligraphy for about four centuries, and for about 300 years Indian mathematicians have been using the concept of zero as a number.

Artists and architects of ancient Athens incorporate the golden section in their work.

Aristotle adds a fifth element, ether, to the classical four elements. He sees this as filling the Universe above the terrestial sphere.

c.600 bce

According to Herodotus, Phoenicians first sail around Africa.

c.400–340 bce

Chinese astronomers Gan De and Shi Shen create the earliest known star catalogs, describing more than 100 constellations.

Rainfall measurements are recorded in India.

Aristotle

c.563–483 bce

490 bce

c.400 bce

Life of the founder of Buddhism, the Indian prince Gautama Siddhartha.

Greeks defeat the Persian army at Marathon.

The Maya and Zapotec societies in the Americas are flourishing.

c.551–479 bce

Persia defeats Sparta at Thermopylae.

Life of Confucius, whose philosophy becomes the foundation for governments and social behavior in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam for centuries.

521–486 bce Darius the Great rules over the vast Persian empire.

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600—1599

c.585 bce

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TIMELINE HISTORY OF PHYSICS

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WIMP v. MACHO We are still in the dark on dark matter. There are two broad descriptions of what it could be: WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles), which have mass but do not interact with detectors, and MACHOs (Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects), which are big dark things like black holes and cold stars, anything too dark to see.

480 bce c.460 bce

Birth of Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine.” The Hippocratic Oath that doctors still take today is named after him.

Hippocrates

336 bce Alexander the Great of Macedonia begins his wars of conquest. His empire eventually includes Persia, Palestine, Egypt, and parts of India. In Egypt he ends the rule of the last native house of pharaohs.

429 bce The Acropolis temple complex is completed in Athens, Greece. c.387 bce

The philosopher Plato founds his Academy in Athens. Acropolis

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Aristotle says that heavy falling bodies drop faster than light ones.

c.50 ce

c.83 ce

c.1000

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Hero of Alexandria builds the first steam-powered engine that converts the expansion of hot gas into motion.

The Chinese begin to use compasses made of lodestones and needles. Fortune-tellers had previously used lodestones for divination.

The Arab scientist ibn AlHaytham or Alhazen works on optics and proves that vision is the result of light arriving from objects, not the reflection of rays originating in the eye.

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The Greek explorer Pytheas suggests that tides are caused by the action of the Moon.

c.550

Johannes Philoponus of Alexandria proposes that motion is the product of a continuous impetus acting on bodies.

250 bce Chinese philosophers note that falling bodies move at a constant velocity.

300 bce Euclid publishes Elements, a compendium of mathematical knowledge to date.

270 bc Aristarchus opposes Plato’s geocentric model of the Universe, and Euclid proposes a heliocentric theory with the Sun at the centre of the Solar System. But his view is largely dismissed.

c.240 bce

Archimedes develops the principle of hydrostatics, explaining why objects float or sink.

c.200 bce

The Rosetta Stone is carved in Egypt. Rosetta Stone

43 ce

211 bce

Roman invasion of Britain.

Hannibal crosses the Alps with war elephants and attacks Rome before being defeated.

c.45

71 bce The gladiator Spartacus leads a slave revolt against Rome.

Based on much earlier traditions, the Hindu texts are written down.

Shen Kuo writes the Dream Pool Essays, outlining Chinese knowledge such as the magnetic compass and movable printing Leonardo type. Fibonacci

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129–c.216 The Greek physician Galen pioneers dissections and medical experiments. The Indian mathematician Aryabhata promotes trigonometry, the concept of zero, and numerical place-values.

Jesus Christ is crucified. Great Wall of China

c.300 bce

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c.30 ce

Alexander founds the port city of Alexandria in Egypt. The first emperor of a united China is Qin Shi Huangdi. He has the Terracotta Army created for his monument.

Life of Roman engineer Vitruvius, who writes a ten-volume book on architecture.

c.83–c.161 ce

Ptolemy, the last of the ancient Greek astronomers, creates the first mathematical explanation of the movements of the solar system.

Vitruvius’ De Architectura

332 bce 221 bce

Hipparchus divides the night sky into longitude and latitude; he also shows that Earth wobbles on its axis as it rotates, so-called precession.

90–20 bce

215 bce The Great Wall of China reaches an extent of 2,253 km.

264 bce The first public gladiator fights take place. c.140 bce

The Greek statue the Venus de Milo is sculpted.

Al-Khazini of Merv, Persia (now Turkmenistan) suggests that gravity acts towards the center of Earth. Averroes

Hero of Alexandria’s engine

120 bce

200 bce The element chromium is used to harden metal weapons in China.

1121

St. Paul develops the doctrines of Christianity.

700–1200

1128

The Arab Golden Age is centered in Baghdad and Cordoba, Spain.

The Christian the Knights Tem

800

The first recor Moscow in Ru

Charlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor in Europe.

1147

c.900

79 The volcano Vesuvius erupts, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash.

Polynesians reach New Zealand.

1066 Norman Conquest of England.

410 Ghenghis Khan

Alaric the Goth sacks Rome.

1206 43 ce

300

The city of London is built.

The city of Axum in Ethiopia develops.

c.122

Hadrian’s Wall is built by the Romans in north England.

220 Classical Chinese landscape painting develops.

250 The great age of the Maya begins in South America.

330 Roman emperor Constantine the Great makes the city of Byzantium his capital, renaming it Constantinople.

365 The lighthouse at Alexandria— one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World—is destroyed by earthquake.

Ghenghis Khan Mongol empir peak reaches f Europe to Chi Norman Conquest

690–1

c.800

Dome of the Rock, earliest Islamic monumental building, raised in Jerusalem.

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philosophy

an illustrated history of thought

Tom Jackson Here is the essential guide to philosophy, an authoritative yet fun reference book and timeline on the compilation of human knowledge. Both art and science attempt answers to the big questions—what is truth, how to be good, and where did we come from?— but philosophy is the interpreter we turn to verify it all. We need it to make sense of the simplest math and the most esoteric of poetry and it has even created a science of information itself. We begin our journey at the boundary of myth and reason and along the way we visit the thoughts of the most high-flying of minds, Socrates, Descartes, Kant and others, who could see that nothing, not ever-changing words, limitless numbers or mystical visions, were beyond examination. And we shall see that philosophy, far from being the work of dead geniuses, is today at the heart of our battle to make sense of the quantum Universe.

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Socrates: An Examined Life SocrateS left no writingS and offered no theorieS to the world. however, hiS life and work mark a change in the direction of weStern thought: No longer were philosophers trying to explain the world at large, but they were seeking to explain how humanity should behave within it. A conversation with Socrates would have been frustrating. The only thing he ever agreed with is his oft-quoted statement: “I know one thing: I know nothing.” This skeptical approach to public life earned Socrates admirers and detractors alike. Among the admirers was Plato, from whom we get most of our information on Socrates. Among his detractors were the ruling class of Athens, who eventually were so incensed by his activities that they sentenced him to death! How could a man who just talked end up in such trouble?

these ruins in southern Greece mark one of the most sacred spots in the ancient world, the oracle at delphi, where priestesses were said to predict the future. the delphic oracle declared that socrates was the wisest man in athens— he replied that he didn’t know anything at all.

Examining everything In middle age, Socrates was wealthy enough to pursue his passion, to be a philosopher. He did not search for answers about big subjects like the nature of the Universe or the nature of material. He was interested in the virtues and vices that people use to describe themselves, such as good, bad, courage, and justice.

socratic dialogue: courage Socrates wants a definition of bravery, one aspect of goodness, and approaches Laches and Nicias, two Athenian generals. Laches: To be brave is to stand and fight. Socrates: How can you be brave when you are not fighting? Laches: Bravery is endurance. Socrates: For bravery to be a form of good it cannot contradict prudence. Sometimes it is prudent— and still brave—to not endure, but withdraw. Nicias: Bravery is knowing what is to be feared and hoped for. Socrates: Does that mean animals have courage? Can a pig be brave? Nicias: No, the brave require a wisdom that very few people have. Socrates: Being fearful is expecting a future evil and being hopeful is expecting a future good. If bravery requires an understanding of future good and evil it must also involve an understanding of good in the past and present. Your definition is really a general point about knowing good and evil, and that contradicts the assertion that courage is about understanding only future events. Therefore, the definition must be false. The discussion ends in confusion.

an 18th-century canvas by French painter Jacqueslouis david, shows socrates still talking as he prepares to drink the hemlock—and he appears to be the person the least disturbed by the events unfolding.

Condemned to death After many years of being a philosophical thorn in the sides of Athen’s elite, Socrates was put on trial. The charge was “corrupting the youth and not believing in the gods,” encouraging younger people to break with tradition and question their elders and betters. Everyone an all sides assumed Socrates would agree to end his one-man philosophical crusade, and retire quietly. However, Socrates refused, declaring, “The life which is unexamined is not worth living.” With that he chose a death sentence. According the Athen’s laws, this was suicide by poison, and Socrates willingly drunk a fatal dose of hemlock.

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31 Hobbes’s Leviathan

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Method of doubt He developed a method for finding truth. If there was the slightest hint that something might be untrue, then this doubt was enough to discount it. Descartes found that he doubted his every sensory perception. descartes’s diagram shows his theory Everything he saw, tasted, and touched that the senses were connected to the mind visa the pineal gland. was the product of a process that he did not understand, and so he had to doubt whether what his senses told him was real. Descartes accepted that his entire life and everything he had learned from it might be in some way a distortion of the truth, perhaps under the control of a demon, some kind of supernatural being. He did not put great store by this idea as being actually true but he nevertheless knew it was a possibility. So was there anything that he could know for sure? The fact that he was doubting every facet of his self and the world meant that at least his mind )if not his body) must exist. That was beyond doubt. While the hypothetical demon could alter reality, it could not make a non-existent entity doubt its own thoughts (it would have no thoughts to doubt).

thanks to the control of the state.

u Contains 100 chronological articles that tell the story of philosophy through the inspirations of great thinkers.

buT The philosophy he is mosT remembered for is summed up by the epithet “Cogito ergo sum”—I think, therefore I am.

second right) was the tutor of Queen Christina of sweden, a position that would kill him. the queen insisted that lessons begin before dawn and liked to keep the windows open

René Descartes could not help but be skeptical about what he learned from his teachers as a boy at France’s leading Jesuit school. As a young man he set out to find at least something that he could say was undoubtedly true—and failed. He

to make it uncomfortable for her courtiers. descartes was so exhausted by the experience that he caught pneumonia and died.

CARTESIAN COORDINATES Descartes is also the inventor of graphs which represent algebraic equations as lines. It is said he got the idea of what is now called Cartesian coordinates while watching a fly buzz across a ceiling.

u 100 Ponderables also contains a 12-page Timeline History of Philosophy.

had been a sickly child and not a strong man, and spent a lot of his time in bed. The story goes that he woke up one day only to do it again—his first awakening had been a dream. That got him thinking about how he could be

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sure he was awake now. Perhaps his whole life so far had been a dream from which he would awake

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900 bce—30 ce c.600 bce

c.520 bce

c.500 bce

Thales, one of the seven sages of Greece, known for his science as well as philosophy, sets out a monist principle, that all of nature is based on water as the primeval substance.

Pythagoras proposes that nature is based on whole numbers. As well as the theorem that bears his name, the Greek philosopher-mathematician and his followers discover the link between numbers and musical scales.

The chinese political philosopher Kongfuzi (known as Confucius in the West) teaches what becomes known as confucianism.

c.600 bce

in ancient china Laozi proposes the basis for daoism.

763 bce

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Only something that exists can think, and only thinking things can doubt themselves. Descartes put it this way: “Cogito, ergo sum.” meaning, “I think, therefore I am.” rené descartes (standing,

rené descarTes was a True genius who lefT many significanT legacies,

A solar eclipse is recorded by Babylonians.

Thales

c.560 bce

Anaximenes of Miletus proposes that air is the primordial substance, and that the universe is born out of a formless, unending mass. c.530 bce

The nepalese/indian prince Siddhartha Gautama begins his spiritual journey that results in the foundation of Buddhism.

6th century bce Theodorus of Samos invents the carpenter’s square, a

Babylonian astronomers

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u Philosophy embraces the paradox, and we present the most mind-boggling conundrums the last 3,000 years has to offer.

the leviathan looms over the world in Hobbes’s book from 1651. the giant’s body is made up of people, which supports the sovereign at its head.

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753 bce

599 bce

The city of Rome is founded.

Mahavira, who reforms the Jain religion, is born in india.

612 bce The city of Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian empire, is destroyed by Babylonians and other peoples. c.600

The city of Carthage in north Africa begins to flourish and grow.

c.900 bce

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u The life stories behind the great philosophers gives further insight to their work.

Despite being, by all accounts, a polite and humble man himself, Thomas Hobbes thought that given the chance, people would naturally lie, cheat, and kill to get what they wanted. This same self interest when combined with a fear of death made people form into societies. It was only a “social contract” with a sovereign power, where individuals agreed to give up some freedoms to receive protection from each other, that prevented life being a short and violent affair. Hobbes characterized the state as the Leviathan, a powerful entity composed of individuals but wielding power over them. Hobbes believed morality stemmed from the Leviathan. People did not possess souls and were complex physical machines that behaved purely in self interest.

at any moment. Unsurprisingly he was full of doubt, and that doubt became his strongest tool.

Descartes was interested in how the mind and its thoughts were related to the outside world of “real” things, as described and classified by science. He argued that the mind and body were made from different things, a concept now named dualism.

Thomas hobbes believed ThaT humans were enTirely selfish and could only live TogeTher in harmony

u Includes summaries of the fields of philosophy, setting out the basics in jargon-busting and lighthearted text.

He professed to knowing nothing about any subject, and his research took the form of asking questions, the so-called Socratic Dialogue. He would seek out the person seen as the most expert in a subject—for example, he would discuss bravery with soldiers—and then engage them in discussion. His technique was to use a line of questioning that exposed that what they thought they knew was based on false assumptions. In one such exchange, Socrates talks with Phaedrus, an aristocrat with an interest in mythology. Socrates asked if the gods know everything. Phaedrus said that they must, because they are gods. Socrates then gets Phaedrus to agree that gods sometimes argue with each other about what is good or bad. That, says Socrates, means that one of the gods must be wrong on occasions and sophists therefore cannot know everything. Chief among Socrates’s enemies were Socrates came to the conclusion that the wisest men in Athens the Sophists, a group of skilled orators only thought they knew things—but like him, they knew nothing. working in Athens. They are sometimes The men of standing that he interrogated were invariably left likened to commercial lawyers—no confused and often offended by their encounter with Socrates. one really liked what they did but were Socrates is said to have given special attention to the Sophists—tutors unable to get things done without their help. Sophists were professional arguers. and rhetoricians—who charged for their services. To Socrates, they To them everything was relative—if it were frauds using clever words to pass on false knowledge. “There could be argued well enough it was true. is only one good: Knowledge; and only one evil: Ignorance,” he In Socrates, this powerful bunch found explained. Branding the most eloquent people in Athens as evil, and an amateur arguer who time and again by association all those who used their services as well, cannot have proved their statements to be untrue. helped Socrates’s reputation among the ruling class of Athens.

The Greek poet Homer composes the Odyssey and the Iliad. c.700–600 bce

Doric and Ionic columns are built in the ancient Greek city-states.

Darius the Great rules over the vast Persian empire.

c.600 bce

6th century bce

The Greek storyteller Aesop writes his Fables.

roman architects adopt etruscan forms such as square temple foundations.

6th century bce

suicide for “corrupting the youth,” chiefly for exposing flaw after flaw in the rhetoric of the sophists at large in the city.

between the world of ideas— or forms—and the world of the senses. To this influential Greek thinker the world of forms is abstract and knowable only by reason.

c.390 bce

399 bce The Athenian philosopher Socrates is ordered to commit

Known as the “laughing 334 bce philosopher” because he sees cheerfulness as the The Greek scientisthighest good, philosopher Aristotle Aristotle Democritus of founds the lyceum, Thrace (in modern a school near Athens, which Greece) builds on the becomes the wellspring of work of his master Western philosophy. leucippus to describe c.330 bce the universe in terms in ancient Greece Diogenes of tiny indivisible dispenses with worldly units of matter called goods to free himself from atoms. discontentment, choosing to c.380 bce live in a barrel. As a result he becomes the first cynic, a Greek Plato’s theory of word meaning “dog-like.” forms differentiates

Plato

lock and key system, the turning lathe, and a water level.

c.520 bce Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon Olive trees are destroys the first imported to Jewish Temple in italy by Greek Darius the Great Jerusalem and takes settlers. many Jews into captivity. 509 bce 559 bce The kingdom of Rome becomes a republic. Cyrus the Great founds the Persian empire.

The oracle at Delphi, Greece is hugely influential. Aesop

c.480 bce

521–486 bce

586 bce

c.440 bce

The Thracian Protagoras is the c.500 bce leading figure in the Confucius Heraclitus of Ephesus believes in the unity of opposites sophist school of philosophy, where and that the universe is a truth and morality are dynamic balance of changes. By not universal, but can example, a river flows through a change as the result city and has always done so, but of good arguments. at every new moment that same river is made up of a new supply in Protagoras’s words, “man is the measure of water. of all things.” Parmenides of Elea (southern italy) says that change is impossible and our experience of the universe as involving

Pythagoras

plurality and motion is an illusion. reality is an unchanging, single being known only by reason, not through the senses.

6th century bce The veena, a plucked string instrument and the ancestor of the sitar, is developed in india.

c.500 bce

460s bce

The Pythagoreans suggest that earth is a sphere.

The indian surgeon Susrata carries out cataract operations.

Across the ancient world, thinkers believe that our world is made of a few fundamental substances. The classical Greek view, expounded by Eudoxus, is that there are four: earth, fire, water and air.

c.500 bce

499–449 bce

states around the Yellow River first use the term Zhongguo or middle Kingdom, the chinese name for china.

The Greco-Persian Wars include the Battles of marathon (490) and Thermopylae (480).

500 bce

Peloponnesian War between Athens and sparta (and their respective allies and leagues).

c.500 bce

Chinese soldiers use colorcoded kites for military communications. c.500 bce

Bantu peoples spread through east Africa.

431–404 bce

Hippocrates

390 bce

c.345–c.265 bce

The Greek physician Hippocrates is working. he gives his name to the modern medical hippocratic oath.

325 bce

Euclid writes the Elements of Geometry, one of the great mathematical texts.

Euclid

336 bce

380–343 bce

Alexander the Great begins his wars of conquest.

The Thirtieth Dynasty of egypt is the last native line of pharaohs.

319 bce Chandragupta Maurya founds the mauryan empire in northern india.

Alexander the Great

c.554–496 bce

5th century bce

377 bce

c350 bce

life of chinese general Sun Tzu who writes the world’s oldest military guide, The Art of War.

classical Greek playwrights include Aeschylus, sophocles, and euripedes.

City walls are built around rome.

Corinthian columns are developed in Greek architecture.

438 bce The Parthenon temple complex in Athens is consecrated.

Sophocles

351 bce The first mausoleum is raised, the tomb of Mausolus at halicarnassus in modern-day Turkey.

The Greek explorer Pytheas suggests that tides are caused by the action of the moon.

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c.300 bce

55 bce Lucretius, a roman philosopher, writes a poem to sum up philosophy to date. he then commits suicide, reportedly driven mad by a love potion.

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political and economic systems.

79 ce

46 bce

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Julius Caesar reforms the roman calendar, creating the Julian calendar from which the modern one is derived.

c.200 bce

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Work begins on the first Great Wall of China.

312 bce The Appian Way is constructed in rome.

c.310 bce

The Greek Epicurus advocates that the purpose of life is to find happiness, which involves satisfying the right types of desires. his philosophy is now known as epicureanism.

The Rosetta Stone is carved in egypt.

c.200 ce

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The romanTic language of flowers gIll dAvIeS And gIll SAunderS

his book offers a fresh look at the Language of Flowers which flourished during the 1800s in Great Britain and elsewhere, when various flowers and floral arrangements were used to send coded messages, allowing individuals to express feelings which could not be spoken otherwise. This means of communication spread across the English Channel to the rest of the world. Although the nuances of the language are mostly forgotten, giving gifts of flowers is a long-established custom that we continue enthusiastically today. We still use red roses to imply passionate, romantic love, pink roses a lesser affection, white for virtue and yellow roses for friendship or devotion. The concept of this book stems from some astonishing watercolours left by Victorian amateur artist Fanny Robinson, broadened by illustrations and photos on a wider range of flowers and their meaning. It will open the door to the fascinating world of language of flowers, which dates back and is linked to ancient mythology, biblical scenes, literature, traditions and folklore. The first books on the subject of language of flowers and indeed more broadly plants appeared in France and the most influential of these was by Charlotte de La Tour, under the pseudonym of Louise Cortambert. We will refer back to this important work and other contemporary publications throughout the book.

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“There’s rosemary; that’s for remembrance.”

From Ophelia’s speech in Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5

n the 1800s the Language of Flowers was a means to convey emotions, a ‘secret’ code used at a time when such matters were generally suppressed – when even piano legs were considered unseemly and had to be covered. Young men and women could express their sensual yearnings by presenting an appropriate bouquet. Herbs and vegetables were part of this scene: grass could mean homosexual love, marjoram – blushes, myrtle – marriage and love; lettuce meant cold heartedness, balm signified sympathy. Herbs stir the taste while fresh vegetables invigorate the senses and are associated with health, sexual appetites and longings. This book is an exquisite album, a ‘scrapbook’ of paintings and sketches, anecdotes and folklore that encapsulate this long-gone era of secret passions and seduction. The fascinating array of emotions the plants express is revealed. The book includes dictionaries of the plant meanings, Latin nomenclature and lists of the emotions expressed. A sprinkling of poetry and quotations adds a final flourish – allspice and passion!

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KEY SELLING POINTS Full colour throughout A plethora of charming illustrations: exquisite watercolours, paintings and sketches Quotations add piquancy Peppered with fascinating facts Captures a by-gone era of romance Dictionaries of flower meanings Ideal self-purchase or gift Others in the series include: The Romantic Language of Trees The Romantic Language of Flowers The Romantic Language of Wild Flowers The Romantic Language of Jane Austen’s Flowers AUTHOR Gill Davies is author of over 400 books for both adults and children for some 50 publishers from all around the world and is also an enthusiastic observer and photographer of the natural world. “The Fruit Seller” painted by Vincenzo Campi For further information please contact Worth Press Ltd: For Foreign Language Co-editions: Cristina Galimberti on worthpress@123media.co.uk For USA/UK/Canada & Australia: Ken Webb on jenh0507@aol.com

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rees and forests have always been magical places and hold a special place in all our hearts but back in the 1800s they were truly part of the romantic scene, an additional element to the Language of Flowers – a ‘secret’ code that expressed the emotions, and spoke volumes at a time when such matters were generally suppressed. Young men (and women) could pay court by presenting an appropriate posy that often included twigs and branches, each with its own special meaning. The book is an exquisite album, a ‘scrapbook’ of paintings, anecdotes and traditional folklore that encapsulates this longgone era. It draws upon delicate paintings and sketches of the trees featured: for example, oak leaves denoted bravery; holly meant foresight; a cedar leaf said, “I live for thee’. The fascinating array of emotions the sprays, leaves, buds and blossom expressed so eloquently is revealed, together with many anecdotes and traditions about trees and woodlands. The book includes dictionaries of the meanings and the emotions the trees denote, Latin nomenclature – plus a sprinkling of poetry and quotations to add a final flourish. AUTHOR Gill Davies is author of over 400 books for both adults and children for some 50 publishers from all around the world and is also an enthusiastic observer and photographer of the natural world.

Specification 212 x 150mm 128 pages Printing 4-colour 150gsm matt paper Jacket and PLC Approximately 25,000 words Others in the series include: The Romantic Language of Flowers The Romantic Language of Wild Flowers The Romantic Language of Herbs and Vegetables The Romantic Language of Jane Austen’s Flowers

Fruit tree in blossom depicted by Vincent van Gogh

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tep into a world of romance; thread a path through flowers and delicate watercolours to discover how, in times gone by, the Language of Flowers in wilder places (as well as in gardens) encapsulated the emotions, and spoke volumes at a time when such matters were generally suppressed. Young men (and women) could pay court by presenting an appropriate bloom or posy. The book is an exquisite album, a ‘scrapbook’ of paintings, anecdotes and traditional lore that encapsulates this long-gone era. It draws upon delicate paintings and sketches of the countless wild flowers that abound in meadow, hedgerows and woodland, on river banks, by lakes and streams, in marshland, hillsides, sand dunes and mountainside. The fascinating array of emotions they express so sweetly is revealed, together with many anecdotes and folklore about the flowers. The book includes dictionaries – with Latin nomenclature, floral meanings and the emotions the flowers express – plus a sprinkling of poetry and quotations to add a final gentle flourish. AUTHOR Gill Davies is author of over 400 books for both adults and children for some 50 publishers from all around the world and is also an enthusiastic observer and photographer of the natural world

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JANE AUSTEN’S FLOWERS THE ROMANTIC LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS AND JANE AUSTEN INCLUDING WATERCOLOURS AND PRINTS BY MANY FINE ARTISTS by Charlotte de Latour’s The Language of Flowers in 1819. Clearly, its peak was post-Austen (Jane lived “One likes to get out 1775 to 1817) but it into a shrubbery” was burgeoning in her lifetime and certainly ane Austen loved she well understood the gardens, whether emotions involved, the cottage or kitchen yearnings and the strict gardens, stately parks, codes of behaviour that little town house these flower messages gardens, flowery London sought to circumvent. squares, Kensington The book explores Gardens or Hyde Park – Jane Austen’s gardens, all were a source of joy. the flowers she loved In a letter to her sister, and those wild ones that Cassandra, she enthused she – and her captivating about mignonette, heroes and heroines – peonies at the foot of fir encountered. trees, pinks and sweet The book explores williams, columbines, Jane Austen’s gardens, lilac and crops of plums the flowers she loved and greengages. and those wild ones Meanwhile, as Jane that she – and her Key Selling Points: enjoyed the gardens, captivating heroes and a Captures a by-gone era of romance the coded language of heroines – encountered. a A plethora of charming illustrations, watercolours, paintings and sketches flowers was developing a Quotations from Jane Austen underline the emotions being discussed It looks at the history apace, as a means of and associations, the a Peppered with fascinating facts a Dictionaries of plant meanings communication that fascinating facts linked a Full colour throughout a Latin nomenclature in plant listings allowed secret feelings both to the plants and a Fascinating facts and lists of the emotions expressed. to be expressed. A to Jane Austen and a Ideal self-purchase or gift myriad flowers, trees, her novels, plus the herbs and vegetables emotions her writings represented a vast discover. Her lively array of emotions and quotations highlight the sentiments. Initially flowers or underline introduced into England the sentiments being from Turkey by Lady discussed. For instance, Mary Wortley Montagu garden anemones mean in 1717, this code forsaken and fading reached the Swedish hope, purple carnations Specification court in 1727 via Aubry hint at capricious change Printing 4-colour – 212 x 150mm 128 pages de La Mottraye and was and whimsy – while 150gsm matt paper Jacket and PLC spread through France columbines denote folly. Approximately 25,000 words “Every park has its beauty and its prospects”

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hese included her birthplace – Steventon Rectory in Hampshire – and town houses in Bath and in Castle Square, Southampton. Jane visited Adelstrop House rectory, Gloucestershire, at least three times between 1794 and 1806 and this may have been a resource drawn upon for Mansfield Park. Meanwhile, for 400 years Stoneleigh Abbey was the country seat of Jane Austen’s relatives, the Leighs; in 1806 Jane, with her mother and sister, accompanied her mother’s cousin, Reverend Thomas Leigh, on a visit there to secure his inheritance of the estate. For a time Jane lived with her brother, Frank, and his wife in their

Others in the series include: The Romantic Language of Flowers and to follow The Romantic Language of Wild Flowers The Romantic Language of Trees The Romantic Language of Herbs and Vegetables

Southampton home but in 1809 the Austen family moved to Chawton, where Jane (plus her mother and sister) were established in a large cottage in village near her brother Edward’s estate at Chawton House (the Cottage now incorporates the Jane Austen House Museum). Edward’s other estate at Godmersham Park, Kent, may have inspired the Darcy estate of Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice. Godmersham is now a college but there is a wonderful heritage centre on site. Jane’s final days were spent at College Street in Winchester where she died. Her Winchester home remains private but her grave can be seen set in the floor of the ancient Cathedral with an exhibition about her life nearby.

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ADVANCE INFORMATION SHEET: THE COMPLETE WORLD OF JANE AUSTEN ‘I write only for fame, and without any view to pecuniary emolument’ Jane Austen, letter to Cassandra January 16th, 1796 For two centuries Jane Austen has been one of the world’s most read and admired authors. Her novels are a global phenomenon and subject to countless stage and screen adaptations and her characters charming and engaging as they were two hundred years ago. But what it is that makes Jane Austen so popular and relatable even today? Jane Austen’s world was as amusing, elegant and charming as her prose. From the extravagant royals to the sensible clergymen, Jane Austen observed every level of the society of Regency England with a keen and witty eye. Be it in her quiet countryside home or in town amongst well to do relatives, Austen used every experience to enrich her novels. Such sharp attention to detail coupled with Austen’s innate skill for wit has created a set of novels that remain utterly timeless. The Complete World of Jane Austen is a compact guide to Austen’s life, family and society, filled with high colour illustrations. With detailed backgrounds and synopsis to each of her six novels, as well as a detailed Timeline, The Complete World of Jane Austen is a journey through the events, fashions and people that shaped Jane Austen as both an individual and a writer. Lauren Nixon: Lauren Nixon is a lifelong Jane Austen fan, who recently earned an English Literature degree at Bath Spa University. Her work as a guide at The Jane Austen Centre in Bath led to her first book, 'Jane Austen: A Celebration of her life and work', which commemorates the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sense and Sensibility. In addition to Austen and the Regency Lauren specialises in early Gothic writing and women's writing from the 17th to the 20th century. Her specialist knowledge and enthusiasm brings an individual touch to this title.

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‘Everybody allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. Nature may have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.’ Henry Tilney, Northanger Abbey Elegant, insightful and timeless, Jane Austen’s prose has inspired countless generations of writers. From Elizabeth Bennet’s wit to Captain Wentworth’s charm the fruits of Austen’s pen have remained a global sensation for over two centuries. From a family of novel readers herself, Jane Austen spent her life immersed in literature that would later inspire her own wonderful works. Carefully constructed and unfailing amusing, Austen’s own six novels are now as beloved as those she grew up reading. The Jane Austen Literary Journal, with its beautiful design, is the perfect place for any aspiring writer to record their thoughts and reflections or for any Austen fan seeking inspiration. Each page features a carefully selected quote from Austen’s works, so that her words might inspire your own. Be it for planning you own novel, penning down thoughts whilst reading Austen’s or, like Catherine Morland, to keep track of your daily adventures, the Jane Austen Literary Journal is a must for any Austen fan.

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Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales are among the first of their kind in this format. Unlike the old fables of tradition, these new children’s stories, starting with The Tinder Box and The Princess and the Pea in 1835, were entirely the creation of their author. Uniquely inventive and vivacious in style and with deep insight into the child’s point of view, Andersen had established a new genre in literature. Immortal classics such as The Ugly Duckling and The Emperor’s New Clothes and many others are included in this collection. Grimms’ Fairy Tales are the most famous and enchanting collection of fairytales ever written down and published. Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin and The Frog Prince form part of our common heritage: they stimulate the imagination and the heart, and linger at the back of our minds for a lifetime. Here are a hundred of Andersen and the Grimm Brothers’ best-known stories, fully illustrated and with new introductions by Charles Mosley, writer, broadcaster and historian, and acclaimed author of Worth Press’s Charles Dickens: A Celebration.

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This superbly illustrated collection includes not only an amazing gathering of fairy tales but also discovers how ancient folk tales and legends developed, changed and spread – and how in their retelling they became the familiar stories that people our children’s dreams today. As well as relating the familiar and most-loved tales (like Aladdin, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, The Emperor’s New Clothes and The Ugly Duckling) this book traces their development, discovers the compilers who researched and sought out all the fairies, princesses, witches and dwarfs that still stir our imagination, as well as authors and illustrators who made these stories their own and generated new tales too.

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This journey through the fairy world is a fascinating story in its own right – a veritable fairground carousel of magic and adventure in a worldwide setting. Its pages are peopled with elves, goblins, enchanting animals, dragons, leprechauns and trolls . . . with stories from The Arabian Nights, Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen and other imaginative authors – from many European nations, as well as Asian nations like India and China – who have contributed to this fascinatig genre. Moreover, since no single volume can encompass all the wonderful stories of the world, this book also includes guidelines on how to locate and download many more stories from the internet – as well as fascinating and fun facts about the tales and their origins.

Key Selling Points: A comprehensive selection of stories from many places around the world, including Europe, the Middle East and Asia Includes many well-loved favourites Magical folk tales, classic excerpts, verse and fairyland features Fascinating facts about stories, authors and collectors Stunning illustrations by many well-known artists, both from centuries past and today For further information please contact Worth Press Ltd: For Foreign Language Co-editions: Cristina Galimberti on worthpress@123media.co.uk For USA/UK/Canada/Australia: Ken Webb on jenh0507@aol.com All information is correct at the time of compiling this AI but subject to change without notice

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This timeline will appeal to a wide audience – Inhabitants, tourists, visitors and anyone who has an interest in the city and capital of the United Kingdom. The timeline explores the fascinating history since its earliest beginnings, how it has developed from a small town on a riverbank to the vast city of today. This unique work reveals an amazing amount of information about a city that has so many facets to reveal. London is a city of contrasts where authors, film makers, painters, playwrights and poets have all been inspired by the city and used as a setting. London’s vast variety and history are the focal points of this unique work of reference

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nights and jousting â&#x20AC;Ś castles and battles â&#x20AC;Ś ladies in wimples â&#x20AC;Ś troubadours and love songs â&#x20AC;Ś Crusades, witch hunts, torture â&#x20AC;Ś cathedrals and glorious art. It was the Age of Chivalry and a time of barbarism. While art and architecture developed into magnificent styles and Christianity flowered, the period also included the Dark Ages of ignorance and horrific tortures. Centuries of great contradictions, these were the European Middle Ages. From the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, the Middle Ages or Medieval period bridged the years from the decline of Classical Roman civilization, to the renewal of knowledge in the European Renaissance. The Timeline History of the Middle Ages explores this period of history in a way that involves the reader on every page: t A timechart flowing from page to page unfolds the historical narrative year by year t Feature pages examine separate aspects of the Middle Ages such as chivalry, tournaments, armies and armor, feudalism

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The Timeline hisTory of The middle Ages AuthorS : meredIth mAcArdle Joan of Arc to sinners such as the inquisitors. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also life histories of great rulers such as Charlemagne, Richard the Lionheart, Charles the Bold, Frederick Barbarossa, Eric the Red and Otto the Great. All the major personalities of the period are covered, from Spainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conquering hero El Cid, to great artists and philosophers. t An exploration of the various nations of Medieval Europe, including now defunct states such as Burgundy and Flanders.

and serfs, food and costume, the Church, the arts, plagues and diseases, punishments, and everyday life t Maps display the changing face of Medieval Europe t Biographies of important personalities from all European nations Although a factual historical book, The Timeline History of the Middle Ages also looks at the enduring myths and legends that helped create the mythos of the medieval period. These include stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table; Robin Hood; Childe Rolande and the Dark Tower; William Tell; and Vlad Tepes, the fearsome character behind the legendary vampire Count Dracula. Contents Cover: t Definitions of the medieval periods such as the early Dark Ages and the later High Medieval period stage. t Biographies of all the key people, from saints such as Thomas Ă Becket, Hildegarde of Bingen, and

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We borrowed golf from Scotland as we borrowed whisky; not because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scottish, but because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Horace G. Hutchinson, early English golfer and golf writer From the Origins to the Present

From the Origins to the Present

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olf has been played in Scotland certainly since the 15th century, probably longer. The game may have originated in the Low Countries and it is possible that the Chinese or even the Romans played something similar. But as a documented history golf goes back to 1457, when it was banned (along with football) by King James II of Scotland who feared that golf diverted his soldiers from practising their archery, a necessary skill to keep the English at bay. This book traces the development of golf from an amateur pursuit played by a handful of enthusiasts on the coast of Scotland into the world-wide, multi-billion Dollar business it is today. Golf was first and foremost an amateur game, early professionals being essentially cluband ball-makers. Tracing the history of such competitions as the Open

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960-1279 (Song Dynasty) Chiuwan, a golf-like game was played in China. It has been suggested that golf was introduced to Scotland by Mongolians.

1353 The first recorded reference is made to chole, a possible precursor of golf.

1470 The Parliament of James III reaffirms the golf ban.

1527 The first commoner recorded as a golfer is Sir Robert Maule, described as playing on Barry Links.

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and Amateur Championships of Britain and America reveals the rise of the professional players from Old Tom Morris and Willie Park to the fabulously wealthy world stars of today, such as Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods. The major successes of Lorena Ochoa, Annika SĂśrenstam and Karrie Webb have done much to highlight the strength in depth of the various ladiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; professional tours around the world, drawing on the pioneering work of the legendary â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Babeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Zaharias in the late 1940s. Unlike most other sports golf is played on courses which are different from each other, from the primitive desert-sand Henties Bay in Namibia to the ultra-manicured Augusta National in Georgia, from the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lowest golf course, Furnace Creek in Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Death Valley to the ultra high-altitude La Paz Country Club in Bolivia. Golf course design began almost by accident in the mid-19th century and has grown into a major international construction industry. The arrival of railways greatly improved the

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It was on March 3, 1875, at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, that hockey was born. That day, for the first time, hockey moved indoors and featured a puck instead of a ball. From that day to this, the game has evolved in some ways and never changed in others. The Timeline History of Hockey documents it all, from the introduction of the Stanley Cup in 1893 to the formation of the NHL in 1917 and the inaugural participation of the NHL players at the Olympics in 1998. Hockey started out as a Canadian game played by amateurs, but by the dawn of the 20th century players and teams in the United States took up the sport. Soon after Europeans abandoned their outdoor bandy in favor of “Canadian hockey.” While the NHL took hold in Canada in 1917, the international games started just three years later with Olympic participation. For decades the two styles and forms of hockey never met, the professional NHL and the amateur international model forbidden to fraternize. But in the early 1970s, the NHL started to welcome players from Europe, and Europe started to embrace the NHL. Today, Players are the same. They are free and able to compete one day for their NHL club team and the next for their countries on the international stage. Amazingly, the purpose of that first game in 1875 was to put the puck in the net, and that objective has remained the same through more than 130 years of play.

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Canadian War Posters A BOOKCRAFT/WORTH PRESS PROJECT This important new book explores the significance and range of poster design in Canada during both the First and Second World Wars. For the first time it reproduces, in full colour throughout, every important war poster produced in Canada during both conflicts. The author, Marc H. Choko, is the acknowledged expert in the field, bringing the context and design of these important social and economic artefacts to life. When Great Britain declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914, the Dominion of Canada found itself at war in support of the mother country, whose actions it imitated. But Canada was still a young, growing country, with a constant influx of new immigrants. The provinces jealously guarded their powers, limiting those of the central government. Posters grew in importance thanks to initiatives by various levels of government, donations by private companies and individuals, and decisions by commanders of various recruitment units. Propaganda techniques were not highly developed, the messages not well controlled, and the imagery often naive. Nevertheless, the posters of the First World War perfectly illustrate all aspects of the formidable effort that Canada devoted to the conflict, showed how Canadian society was evolving and the tensions that ran through it. When the Second World War was initiated by German troops marching into Poland on September 1, 1939, newspapers were still the dominant form of communication in Canada. However, radio was making great inroads, newsreels ran before every feature film, and advertising campaigns using posters were proliferating. The federal government felt that it had to centralize information control and undertook a propaganda campaign to increase public acceptance of a new war effort. Enormous quantities of posters, in addition to the many other means of mass communication, spread the wartime slogans urging young men to enlist, women to go out and get jobs, and everyone to save, to give financial support, to salvage materials essential to war production, and to mistrust the enemy. During both world wars, the huge number of posters produced created tremendous business for the large printing companies and for graphic designers. Some of the latter were artists who wanted to serve their country. Many were professional graphic artists, making a living through â&#x20AC;&#x153;commercial artâ&#x20AC;? and putting their expertise at the service of the two most important poster campaigns in the history of Canada.

Marc H. Choko Marc Choko is Professor of Design at the École de Design at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), where he has taught since 1977, and a former Director of Research at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique’s Centre Urbanisation, Culture et Société (1985–2005). From 1999 until 2008 he was also Director of the UQÀM Centre de Design. He is an avid poster design enthusiast and historian. He began collecting posters in the mid-1960s, conducting research into such aspects as their production in Québec and the rest of Canada, organizing exhibitions, including several in the capacity of curator, and publishing several works on the subject beginning in the early 1980s. His many books on the subject include Canadian War Posters (1994) and Posters of the Canadian Pacific (2004).

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THE GOLDEN AGE OF EUROPEAN RAILWAYS A BOOKCRAFT/WORTH PRESS PROJECT One of the most important developments in European history, the railways helped create the social and economic fabric of the continent. In the ‘Golden Age’ of the railways, from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, there was no more exciting, exotic or desirable way to travel. As the major railway companies quickly became huge industrial powers in their own right, they began to influence the infrastructure of trade, industry, agriculture and settlement. In some countries the bulk of the railway network was centralised under state control, while in others corporate and personal fortunes were won and lost as railway fever spread far and wide. Crossing stunning landscapes, linking the continent’s great cities, and bringing natural wonders within the reach of ordinary people, the railways encouraged the growth of tourism industry, which in turn spurred the development of dramatic poster art. All these aspects of the early decades of European railway history are explored in this elegant, lavishly illustrated volume. The social, economic, environmental and technological challenges and achievements are all covered, together with highlights of the routes and the experiences of eager train passengers. The Golden Age of European Railways contains more than three hundred contemporary illustrations as well as route maps, schedules, technical appendices, and the fascinating perspectives of a team of award-winning writers and acknowledged railway experts.

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ENDANGERED ANIMALS & PLANTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD Never has interest in wildlife been stronger than it is today; never has the need to preserve it been greater. With pressures from a rapidly increasing human population and the uncertainties of the effects of changes in climate, the world’s wildlife faces enormous challenges. This book highlights 50 different animals and plants that represent some of the Earth’s most vulnerable nature, from instantly recognizable and familiar creatures such as the tiger, blue whale, kiwi and California condor to more enigmatic and elusive ones like the snow leopard, which haunts in the high reaches of the Himalayas and Mongolia, the dragon that dwells on the island of Komodo, and the spoon-billed sandpiper, a migratory bird that breeds in the north-east of Russia and winters mainly in Bangladesh.

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Some species have been well studied, the stars of television film and documentary, symbols and catalysts for the entire conservation movement; others are little known and little recorded. Some have historically large ranges that have contracted in the face of inexorable pressure from humanity, through loss of habitat and food. Some have come into direct conflict with mankind and been persecuted by hunting, trapping and poisoning. Some are prized by collectors or valued for medicinal purposes. Others have always occupied only small niches, such as tiny islands, becoming highly specialized and unable to withstand depredation by introduced cats or rats. All have a fascinating story to be told about their backgrounds and the efforts to ensure they continue to be a part of the world’s natural history. Through splendid full-color images this book celebrates some of our most spectacular and important wildlife and also draws attention to some of the lesser known species. The text gives a description of each species, details of its population, geographical range, habitat, biology, threats past and present, its current status and the often dramatic and imaginative conservation attempts to ensure its survival.

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Features 50 endangered animals and plants Covers their population, habitats, ranges, biology, threats and status Describes key conservation measures Hundreds of full-color images Companion to Lost Nature For further information please contact Worth Press Ltd: For Foreign Language Co-editions: Cristina Galimberti on worthpress@123media.co.uk For USA/UK/Canada/Australia: Ken Webb on jenh0507@aol.com All information is correct at the time of compiling this AI but subject to change without notice

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T HE T RE AS UR Y OF B AB Y N AM E S & T R EA SU RY O F N O RT H A M E RIC A N B A BY N A M ES The Treasury of Baby Names Katie Martin-Doyle Meanings and derivations are described of over 2,500 names, as well as extra information on the popularity of particular names. Trim page size: 212mm x 135mm Extent: 240pp Paper: 100gsm Printing: 1-colour UK RRP: ÂŁ6.99 ISBN: To be confirmed Publication date: Summer 2013

The Treasury of North American Baby Names Katie Martin-Doyle Meanings and derivations are described of over 3,500 names, as well as extra information on the popularity of particular names. Trim page size: 212mm x 135mm Extent: 320pp Paper: 100gsm Printing: 1-colour ISBN: To be confirmed Publication date: Summer 2013

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The Essential Quick Fix Guide: 99 easy repairs and improvements for your home Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be daunted by those nagging home repairs! Replacing a cracked tile and hanging up a shelf is easier than you think. The Essential Quick Fix Guide shows you how with the no-nonsense, easy-tofollow instructions you need to tackle jobs in every part of the house, including outside areas. Ideal for every homeowner, this handy guide covers 99 of the most common DIY tasks. It includes home improvement ideas, as well, such as updating the kitchen hardware or adding moldings to doors, using the latest designs and materials. Beginning with a concise explanation of tools and their uses, the guide divides into clearly defined chapters, making it easy to find what you need. A list of materials and tools for every task ensures youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re prepared for the job at hand, and step-by-step directions take you through the process from start to finish. Photographs and expert tips throughout will furnish even novice DIYers with the expertise they need to handle tasks with confidence.

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ON LOVE A Selection of Famous Love Poems & Love Letters Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

• The book will have two sections: Famous Love Poetry and Famous Love Letters • Thoroughly explores this timeless subject

• Page size: B format – 197 x 127mm • 160 pages printed on cream woodfree paper • Paperback with full-colour, laminated cover • RRP in UK: £6.99

• Provides help and guidance to the lover lost for words and reassurance to the lover who feels no one has ever suffered as he or she does • Presents an ideal literary keepsake for those who treasure all aspects of romantic writing

• PUBLICATION: Spring 2014 • ISBN: 978 1 84931 083 3 SALES: The Manning Partnership Ltd, 7 Green Park Station, Bath BA1 1JB Phone: 01225 478444 Fax: 01225 478440 Email:sales@manning-partnership.co.uk DISTRIBUTION: Grantham Book Services

For further information please contact Worth Press Ltd For foreign language co-editions: Cristina Galimberti on worthpress@123media.co.uk For USA/UK/Canada/Australia: Ken Webb on jenh0507@aol.com All information is correct at the time of compiling this sheet but subject to change without notice.