Beethoven string quartets (BBC music guides)

Arts & Photography

Lam, Basil

Music

BBC Publications

Time and Tune Songbook: Teacher's Book

UNKNOWN

Lovelaw: Love, Sex and Marriage Around the World

Lovelaw: Love, sex & marriage around the world

Clare, Anthony W.

You'll Never Be 16 Again: An Illustrated History of the British Teenager

History

Everett, Peter

Europe

Terry Jones, actor, director, author and Python, approaches this most `misrepresented and misunderstood' period in history through its principal characters. Accompanying a TV series, the book addresses and redresses many of the stereotypical images we have of the Middle Ages. Each chapter deals with a major `character', opening with the medieval peasant, discussing his life and work, his status, village life in general, his relationship with the Church and the Peasants' Revolt. After famine and Black Death, Jones turns his attention to secular and royal minstrels and entertainers, as well as medieval romance and epic tales. From here to the outlaws, gangs and legendary figures of the period, to the monk, the development of monasteries and religious orders, the crusades and Church power. The rest of the books is filled with tales of philosophers, alchemists, magicians, fraudsters, innovators and doctors, chivalric knights, damsels and, ultimately, the king himself. Written in an accessible and colloquial style, this is a great read for anyone wanting to get a glimpse of real Medieval Lives . Full of colour photographs and illustrations, and Terry Jones dressed up in various garbs!

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

Biographies & Memoirs

Jones, Terry

Historical

What has the great populariser of the Trojan War been doing recently? If you'd wondered, here is the answer: following the 22,000 mile track of Alexander's army as it marched from Greece to India in the 4th century BC. The television series will be on our screens soon.

In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: A Journey from Greece to Asia

Wood, Michæl

When we think of plastic surgery, vending machines, computers and fast food, many of us assume that they are modern inventions. Amazingly, these were all invented hundreds, or even thousands, of years ago. 
 In What the Past Did for Us, presenter and enthusiast Adam Hart-Davis takes us on a journey into the ancient world, revealing an astonishing array of innovations that occurred long before many of us would ever have thought they had. 
 The Greeks are well-known for inventing the Olympics, but only a few of us are aware that they were responsible for building the first known computer, around 100 BC. The Romans-famous for their road building-also gave us double glazing and central heating. All in all we owe a huge debt to the ancients-from the Chinese who invented paper money and the wheelbarrow, to the early Britons who developed the first housing estate at Skara Brae, home to the world's oldest known lavatories. 
 Based on the television series What the Past Did for Us, this book will change the way that we look at the everyday inventions we take for granted and until now thought were from the modern age.

What the Past Did for Us: A Brief History of Ancient Monuments

HART-DAVIS, Adam

Science & Math

A HISTORY OF BRITAIN;AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD? 3000BC-AD1603

SCHAMA,Simon

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