This book is intended for the residents and visitors to Yorkshire who have an interest in the prehistory of Britain’s largest county. It provides a layman’s guide to the sites which are considered worth visiting and puts those sites into their prehistoric context. The aim is to produce an accessible synthesis which will appeal to interested members of the general public, rather than the expert, yet without loss of content or accuracy.

This new fully, illustrated, history of Hull, in the United Kingdom, traces the story of the city from its beginnings as a haven for the transportation of goods to one of the main medieval harbours of England. The town was a key player in the Civil War of the seventeenth century and grew to become one of the country's major cities and ports following rapid expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author, Alan Avery, was educated in Hull and at King's College London. He has ...

This book is written for men over 65 who want to lose weight and improve their fitness and sense of well-being.The author has been on the journey over the last three years, losing weight, improving his fitness and gaining a sense of well-being.The book is realistic, understanding the demands of a busy life or a life which has been largely sedentary. It does not make excessive claims or make rash promises. Improvements are achieved gradually following exercises and diets sui...

The Story of London spans two thousand years of history and traces the origins of London from its beginnings as a Roman fort to one of the world’s great cities. Alan Avery studied history at Kings College London and is the author of The Story of York, The Story of Hull and The Story of Bradford.

This new history traces the development of Bradford from its first settlement in Anglo-Saxon times on the banks of the Bradford beck to the present day. For hundreds of years it was a small Pennine village associated with the making of cloth. Despite the disruption of the Civil War in the seventeenth century, which saw Bradford at the centre of major battles, it continued to grow steadily in the eighteenth century. It was the nineteenth century, which saw Bradford transformed from a small ...

This new, full colour, history of York takes the reader from the foundation of York by the Romans in the first century AD to the present day, taking in Vikings, the Civil War and modern developments. When King George VI visited York in 1923 he proclaimed that 'The history of York is the history of England' and this ebook confirms that statement.

This book of British Historical Documents covers the period from 325 B.C. to 2006 A.D. with a selection of over one hundred key documents from Pytheas of Massalia to Tony Blair's farewell speech to the Labour Party in 2006. Whilst concentrating on the written word, examples of paintings, coins, cartoons and photographs are included as examples of the historian's sources.

These five one-act plays were written to stimulate debate in the faith community over such topics as the after-life (Stardust Melody), growing old (Now We Are Sixty), faith (The Word), pacifism (George Fox and Margaret Fell Get Stuck in a Lift) and Christian beliefs (One of that Despised People). All the plays have benefited from tours throughout the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark where the after-show discussions informed the author and casts and resulted in changes in the fin...

The stories published in this ebook were chosen as the ten best from the many entries for the 2018 Ryedale Book Festival short story competition, sponsored by the Blackthorn Press.The authors range from the established writers to new-comers who are seeing their words in print for the first time but all show originality on their choice of theme and skill and subtlety in thier choice of words and phrasing.

Compiled by two internationally renowned experts, and with over 600 wide-ranging and informative entries, The Routledge Dictionary of Judaism provides the reader with an invaluable reference aid to all areas of the religion. Topics covered include:*The religion's forms and history*Its institutions, religious practices and life cycle rites*Key texts and people, symbols and holy days*An understanding of theological terms, doctrine and philosophy.

A groundbreaking mind-body protocol to heal chronic pain, backed by new research.Chronic pain is an epidemic. Fifty million Americans struggle with back pain, headaches, or some other pain that resists all treatment. Desperate pain sufferers are told again and again that there is no cure for chronic pain.Alan Gordon, a psychotherapist and the founder of the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles, was in grad school when he started experiencing chronic pain a...

For more than 45 years, Avery & MacDonald’s Neonatology has been the premier text on the pathophysiology and management of both preterm and full-term neonates, trusted by neonatologists, neonatology fellows, pediatricians, neonatal nurse practitioners, and ob/gyn practitioners worldwide. Continuing the tradition of excellence established by Drs. Gordon B. Avery and Mhairi G. MacDonald, this fully revised eighth edition features three new lead editors, numerous new chapters, reorganized and...