2016 is the bicentenary of the opening of Sydney's 'Rum Hospital.' It earned its name from the partial monopoly Governor Macquarie granted to three local merchants to import rum in return for building it Prior accounts of the Hospital's origins focus on Macquarie, the merchants and their disputes. Yet John Laurie, the contractor's clerk of works, was also an interesting figure. Transported for larceny, he became a wealthy trader only to lose his fortune, become embroiled in a constitutiona...

Creative, engaging Bible study questions are hard to come by … without rewriting questions for yourself. Each book of questions leads a small group through a book (or combination of books) in the Bible—helping students become more biblically literate, and allowing them to come face-to-face with God’s Word. Students will be pushed, encouraged, and challenged by these studies. But more than all this, they will be changed. Each passage of Scripture sets the topic—and the questions are constru...

Dorothy L. Sayers' classic play cycle based on the life and times of JesusDorothy L. Sayers was best known for her mystery novels featuring aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. But she was also a poet, playwright and committed Christian, and in The Man Born to Be King she combined art and evangelism to powerful effect, making the story of Christ accessible, relevant and every bit as thrilling as her detective fiction.Written specially for...

The Heresy came to Calth without warning. In just a few hours of betrayal and bloodshed, the proud warriors of the XIIIth Legion Guilliman’s own Ultramarines were laid low by the treachery of their erstwhile brothers of the XVIIth. Now, as the planet is scoured by solar flares from the wounded Veridian star, the survivors must take the fight to the remaining Word Bearers and their foul allies, or face damnation in the gloomy arcology shelters beneath the planet’s surface. In this all-new c...

Victor Spinetti stars in this BBC radio sitcom about the hilarious misadventures of a corner-shop barberNorth London barber's shop Tony's might not be the trendiest salon in town, but it's definitely the cheapest and the cheeriest. Run by exuberant Italian Tony Fucetti, it's the place to go if you want a bargain cut and blow-dry from apprentice Maisie, or a short back and sides courtesy of Scottish hairdresser Hector (just watch out for his razor...)These 1...

Un Omnibus Horus HeresyÉtoffez votre collection avec les livres 52, 53 et 54 de la série best-seller Horus Heresy, rassemblés en un seul volume.br>POURQUOI LIRE CE LIVRECes deux romans et cette anthologie racontent les histoires finales menant au Siège de Terra, à l'heure où la cruelle armada d'Horus Lupercal déploie ses dernières manœuvres pour lui donner enfin accès au Monde-trône.br>L'HISTOIRELa...

Horus Heresy Collection XVPoursuivez votre collection avec les livres 43, 44 et 45 de la série récompensée par le New York Times, disponibles en un seul volume.POURQUOI LIRE CE LIVREDeux romans et une anthologie vous donnent un aperçu du chaos et de la confusion provoqués par le conflit fratricide qui déchire la galaxie toute entière.DESCRIPTIONL'anthologie Les Légions Brisées est un recueil...

Food and the systems that produce, disrupt, prepare it are central to all human life. Yet, scholarly analysis of the food systems that support human life are highly fragmented across a variety of disciplines. Public administration, with its focus on the doing of public policy, would seem to be a logical home for analysis of food systems in action. However, food is largely ignored by public administration scholars, and scholars from other disciplines can unintentionally draw up established ...

Early on a May morning in 1988, Laurie Dann, a thirty-year-old, profoundly unhappy product of the wealthy North Shore suburb of Chicago, loaded her father's car with a cache of handguns, incendiary chemicals, and arsenic-laced food. Driven by fear and hate, she was going to make something terrible happen.Before the end of the day, Dann had blazed a murderous trail of poison, fire, and bullets through the unsuspecting town of Winnetka, Illinois, and other North Shore suburbs. She mu...

The Horus Heresy Sammelband IXSetze deine Reise durch die Horus-Häresie fort mit Band 25 bis 27 der Bestseller-ReiheWARUM DU DIESES BUCH LESEN SOLLTESTZwei Romane und ein Erzählband offenbaren das Schicksal der Ultramarines, des unsterblichen Primarchen Vulkan und noch vieles mehr; mit Innenillustrationen und Nachwort der Autoren.BESCHREIBUNGNachdem der verräterische Überfall der Word Bearers auf dem...

The Gazette Collection is a vivid portrait of British life through the centuries, told entirely in the words of those who were there.Performed by an outstanding company of award-winning actors including Dame Eileen Atkins, Cheryl Campbell, Nigel Davenport, Alex Jennings, Richard Johnson OBE, Hugh Laurie CBE, Michael Maloney, Geoffrey Palmer OBE, Michael Pennington, Prunella Scales CBE, Samuel West & John Wood CBE & full supporting cast. Presented in six volumes:

The Horus Heresy: Sammelband XIIIErweitere deine Sammlung mit Band 37, 38 und 39 der Bestseller-Reihe "The Horus Heresy".WARUM DU DIESES BUCH LESEN SOLLTESTZwei Romane und ein Erzählband geben dir einen Einblick in das Chaos und die Verwirrung eines galaxisweiten Bruderkriegs, der die Menschheit zu zerreißen droht.BESCHREIBUNGDer Erzählband "Der Krieg in den Schatten" enthält 12 Geschichten über die ...