Explores the history, ecology, and physical features of English commons, focusing on Norfolk’s landscapes.Commons are an important part of the English landscape. Survivors from a once more extensive network otherwise eroded by the inexorable progress of enclosure, they provide a taste of wildness, crucial habitats for wildlife and valued spaces for recreation. To many people they seem to offer a tangible link with happier, more egalitarian times, when communities c...

Highlights Tom Williamson’s influential research on the development of England’s landscapes from the Iron Age onward.Tom Williamson is a landscape historian and archaeologist whose wide-ranging interests have long placed him at the forefront of research into many aspects of the English countryside from the Iron Age to the post-medieval period. His interests include the origins and development of systems of territorial organisation in early England; the history of t...

Oxbow says: For many years hedges have been the most common field boundary in rural Britain, providing a stock-proof barrier, a field boundary and a haven for wildlife. Despite this, they are rarely studied in any detail in landscape archaeology. The authors of Hedgerow History rightly argue that hedges, as an essential feature of the landscape, their origins and development, are as worthy of study as any other part of the landscape. Their book focuses on the species content and diversity ...

Explores the rediscovery of Rendlesham, revealing its role in early East Anglian power.Lost for centuries, the site of the East Anglian royal settlement at Rendlesham is now giving up its secrets. Noted by the Venerable Bede as a place of royal baptism in the seventh century CE, its location has been pin-pointed and its archaeology investigated. The settlement flourished from the early fifth century CE, but was at its peak between the late sixth and early eighth ce...

Codename G.I. Joe Begins HERE.?? Conrad Hauser made first contact with an alien being and lived to tell the tale. But no one, not even Colonel Hawk, will believe the story of the colossal transforming robot that nearly killed the man known as Duke.?? Now, one of the U.S. Army's most decorated soldiers is on the hunt for answers, drawn into a conflict that no amount of training could ever prepare him for. A war that only a real American hero has any chance of surviving… Superstar writer JOS...

OPTIMUS PRIME! MATT TRAKKER! STORM SHADOW! SCARLETT! The worlds of G.I. Joe, Cobra, the Autobots, and beyond collide as the biggest stars of the Energon Universe meet-and battle-for the very first time! Superstars JOSHUA WILLIAMSON (Superman), TOM REILLY (DUKE), ANDREA MILANA (COBRA COMMANDER), and LEE LOUGHRIDGE (SCARLETT) deliver stunning returns, unexpected meetings, and shocking secrets that no fan can afford to miss! Collects G.I. JOE #19-24

Humphry Repton is one of England’s most interesting and prolific garden and landscape designers. Renowned for his innovative design proposals and distinctive ‘before and after’ images, captured in his famous ‘Red Books’, Repton’s astonishing career represents the link between the simple parklands of his predecessor Capability Brown and the more elaborate, structured and formal landscapes of the Victorian age. This lavishly illustrated book, based on a wealth of new research, reinterprets R...

From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve, who carries "a sumptuous secret in her hands / And a tempting truth hidden in her heart," to the trust of Noah who builds "a sea-floater, a wave-walking / Ocean-home with rooms for all creatures...

As a teenager, were you ever the NEW KID on the block? Even the thought of that situation starts to generate feelings of insecurity and cause anxieties to flood in.Take that circumstance, add a number of other teenage issues and you have the backdrop for Jake Kelley, Hoosier Point Guard the compelling, exciting, heart-warming story of a teenager who finds himself facing a number of "coming-of-age" issues that are so familiar to all of us as we navigate that unique period of our liv...

ADVANCE SOLICIT THE RECORD-BREAKING ENERGON UNIVERSE SERIES IS HERE! In the aftermath of the Autobots and Decepticons' arrival on Earth, the mysterious organization known as Cobra begins their rise to power. Conrad Hauser, Codename: Duke, leads a special forces team known as G.I. Joe to combat them. But what will the newly formed group do when the enigmatic Cobra Commander unleashes the terrifying power of Energon on humanity? Find out in the comic that will change everything you think you...

The Westminster Confession of Faith is an unsurpassed summary of biblical truth and should be familiar ground to people of Reformed and Presbyterian conviction. For decades, G. I. Williamson's guide to the Confession has been an invaluable resource used in churches and colleges throughout the world.

From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve, who carries "a sumptuous secret in her hands / And a tempting truth hidden in her heart," to the trust of Noah who builds "a sea-floater, a wave-walking / Ocean-home with rooms for all creatures...