Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that's before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas Touch. And what about crocodile tears, which comes from the Greek's belief that crocodiles cried while eating their victims!This is a learned but always entertaining journey through the world of the ...

Bloomsbury presents Greek To Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World, written and read by John DavieAncient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us ‘hypocrite’; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that’s before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas Touch. And what about crocodile tears, which comes from t...

The "utterly fascinating" untold story of Soviet Russia's global military mapping program—featuring many of the surprising maps that resulted (Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian).From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full range of military planning. For big cities like Ne...

Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales.Spanning prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the series of strikes by Welsh miners in the late twentieth century, this is the definitive history of an enduring people: a unique and compelling exploration of the origins of the Welsh nation, its development and its ro...

"...incredibly well-researched historical fiction.""...high brow horror for intellectuals that intertwines the delicate art of voice with historical events and the supernatural."-THE PORTSMOUTH REVIEW. 4.5 / 5.The First Vampire provides an alarmingly plausible explanation of why and how the first human was transformed into a vampire, against a backdrop of factual Eastern European history. The historical insights clear up many of the myths and misconceptions of the Dra...

An ancient prediction will rock the modern world... Almost six thousand years ago – before the wheel, before paper – sages predicted that in the 6th part of the 6th millennium humanity would begin to tap into a well of infinite wisdom. The prediction was recorded in the Zohar, an ancient 13th century writing containing the words of sages from millennia past. Hazael, his grandfather Aaron and a Buddhist monk Vajrayogini dedicate their lives to studying and analyzing mathematical structures ...

The Complete Poems Of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 Of 2 by John Davies.

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John Davies, an inveterate traveller and unstoppable people watcher, loves to document people going about their daily business around the world. He photographs ordinary people of all cultures and climes be they from Senegal or Shanghai, London or Laos; be they workers or wood collectors, chefs or chiefs. What they all have in common in this wonderfully diverse world is that at least at some time of the day, they are getting around and about.

* Having picked up the sword of the Crusader in my last novel A PINT-SIZED WHISPERER exposing the scandalous pressure applied to pregnant women to terminate their foetus after being told their unborn babies were likely to be suffering with the dreaded Downs Syndrome, I now lighten up. Although A PINT-SIZED WHISPERER was commercially received successfully and questions raised in the House of Commons which rebuked certain sections of the NHS, I now return to my genre of easy-reading fiction....

The book presents the conclusions of a psychologist seeking to make sense of contemporary particle physics as described in a number of popular science texts and media articles, written by physicists, seeking to explain the workings of the sub-atomic world. The accounts, it is argued, are a) mutually exclusive and contradictory, and b) metaphysical or magical in essence.Themes of the book include: a discussion of the way we allow physicists to invent things that have no perceivable qualitie...

Author John Davies offers the latest in his growing portfolio of fiction novels and presents his sixth book under the prestigious Trafford publishing banner. Like many authors in the past, John Davies has chosen a moment in his writing career to put the power of the pen to a worthy cause. For instance, Charles Dickens exposed the horrors of the Victorian debtors prison to which his father was incarcerated. John opens up the can of worms that is endemic in certain sections of the NHS of per...