Polysaccharides and related high molecular weight glycans are hugely diverse with wide application in Biotechnology and great opportunities for further exploitation. An Introduction to Polysaccharide Biotechnology – a second edition of the popular original text by Tombs and Harding – introduces students, researchers, clinicians and industrialists to the properties of some of the key materials involved, how these are applied, some of the economic factors concerning...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeOne of the Best Books of the Year: The New York TimesFrom the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. Remnick takes us through the tumultuous 75-year period of Communist rule le...

A Texas oilman. A brilliant female archaeologist. An unknown world underneath the Vatican.In 1939, a team of workers beneath the Vatican unearthed an early Christian grave. This surprising discovery launched a secret quest that would last decades a quest to discover the long-lost burial place of the Apostle Peter.From earliest times, Christian tradition held that Peter a lowly fisherman from Galilee, whom Christ made leader of his Church was executed in Rome by Emperor Nero...

**Over 800 pages of Dan Jurgen's Tomb Raider comics series collected in a colossal hardcover!When it comes to recovering priceless artifacts from lost civilizations and bygone eras, there is no one more capable than British archeologist and adventurer Lara Croft.**Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of history, years of experience, and dual pistols, Lara will go to the ends of the earth to preserve the world’s most precious treasures from a shadowy organization in...

The honeymoon with Jesus was very short-lived though; being differently viewed by his family for his religious beliefs, his life soon became a living hell. The resulting emotional torment led to involvement in Satanism, as well as occultism, and finally several suicide attempts. There was also increasing drug use through the 1980's. But along the way, he discovered some key stepping-stones to an eventual escape from the false belief-system: the Book of Enoch, the Kebra Nagast, and a book i...

Have you made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land or hope to? Why wait? Let your heart do the walking. In this fifth book in the Crucifixion series, you will follow the author as you trace Jesus' steps and stopovers during the last eighteen hours of his life. Walk with the Savior from the Upper Room to Joseph's tomb. Explore each location where he stopped historically, archaeologically, and biblically. Imagine reaching the foundation of the most important room in history--the Upper Room. Follow ...

The Jesus Family Tomb tells the story of what may be the greatest archaeological find of all time—the discovery of the family tomb of Jesus of NazarethThe Jesus Family Tomb includes:A gripping real-life detective story that combines history, archaeology and cutting-edge science, and reveals the truth behind 2,000 years of mysteryScientific details about the Jesus family tomb ossuariesResults...

This book for middle grade readers recreates the story of the blockbuster film Night At the Museum.A security guard at the museum, Larry Daly, has settled into his role as caretaker of the museum's magical inhabitants, but he's about to face his biggest challenge yet as he and his friends discover that the mysterious source that brings them to life is fading.It's up to Larry to figure out how and why his friends exist before it's too late!Includ...

Follows the discovery and excavation of the tomb of King Tutankhamen, also known as King Tut, and the myth of the curse that afflicted those involved in the tomb's exploration. Written in graphic-novel format.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft is among the greatest American masters of fantasy and the supernatural.Born in 1890, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, his health was uncertain from childhood and he led a sheltered early life. His semi-invalidism enabled him to read omnivorously, and as a shy imaginative child he began to invent what would in his adult life become a whole macabre fantastic world of his own, peopled by creatures out of his own weird imagination.As an adult he w...

Dig through the fields of the far East to unearth the huge clay army of China’s first emperor. Why were the thousands of life-sized statues built? How were they designed with such intricate detail? Travel along with scientists to find out how the Terracotta Army’s discovery sheds light on mysteries from ancient China. Unlocking the secrets of the past is just an artifact away!

If scholars no longer necessarily find the essence and origins of what came to be known as Christianity in the personality of a historical figure known as Jesus of Nazareth, it nevertheless remains the case that the study of early Christianity is dominated by an assumption of the force of Jesus's personality on divergent communities. In The Godman and the Sea, Michael J. Thate shifts the terms of this study by focusing on the Gospel of Mark, which ends when Mary Magdalene, Mary th...