Mr Smith's Vegetable Garden

Smith, G.

BBC Worldwide

Antiques Roadshow 2: Your Complete Guide to Antiques by the BBC team of Experts

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

UNKNOWN

Antiques & Collectibles

A graphic novel based on the first animated film featuring Wallace and Gromit. Readers are invited to watch the pair building a rocket and join them in their perilous bank-holiday trip to the moon.

Wallace and Gromit Graphic Novel: A Grand Day Out

Humor & Entertainment

No-Author

Humor

The original BBC TV soundtrack starring Patrick Troughton as the second doctor in this six-episode classic adventure from 1967 which sees his first ever encounter with the deadly Yeti in Tibet, 1935. The High Lama has been taken over by the disembodied, evil Great Intelligence. Dr Who to the rescue.

Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Henry Lincoln

Mervyn Haisman

Science Fiction

Ancient Rome is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Focusing on six turning points in Roman history, Simon Baker's absorbing narrative charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower—a political machine unmatched in its brutality, genius, and lust for power. From the conquest of the Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC to the destruction of the Empire at the hands of barbarian invaders 700 years later, we discover the pivotal episodes in Roman history. At the heart of this account are some of the most powerful rulers in history: men like Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero, and Constantine. Putting flesh on the bones of these legendary figures, Baker looks beyond the dusty caricatures to explore their real motivations, ambitions, intrigues, and rivalries. Accompanying a landmark BBC television series, Ancient Rome is a fresh, fast-paced account that addresses themes as relevant today as they were 2,000 years ago.

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

History

Baker, Victor R.

Ancient Civilizations

On August 24, 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the twin Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under a shroud of volcanic debris. Undisturbed for more than 1,600 years, their eventual discovery and excavation amazed the world. In Pompeii: The Last Day, archaeologist Paul Wilkinson uses all the available evidence to piece together exactly what happened on that fateful day and to paint a vivid picture of what 1st-century Roman provincial life would have been like. The book also includes a one-day tour of Pompeii, complete with street maps and a full itinerary. A unique glimpse of a devastating moment in history. Dr. Paul Wilkinson, an archaeologist specializing in Roman studies, heads the Kent Archaeological Field School. He is a regular contributor to BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, HISTORY TODAY, and THE SUNDAY TIMES; he is also the editor of PRACTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY.

Pompeii: The Last Day

Wilkinson, Paul

In 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous survey of England and its people was made at the behest of the Norman king William the Conqueror. It was called Domesday, the day of judgement, because 'like the day of judgement, its decisions are unalterable'. 
 The Domesday Quest (previously published as Domesday) is not only a study of this ancient manuscript but also an attempt to analyse the world that Domesday Book so vividly portrayed. By skilful use of the Domesday record, historian Michael Wood examines Norman society and the Anglo-Saxon, Roman, and even the Iron Age cultures that preceded it.

The Domesday Quest: In Search of the Roots of England

Wood, Michæl

Europe

Who were the classical Greeks? Paul Cartledge examines the Greeks in terms of their own self-image, mainly as it was presented by the supposedly objective historians - Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon. The Greeks were the inventors of history as it is understood today, just as they are the cultural ancestors of the West in so many other ways. Yet their historiography remained rooted in myth. The mental and material context of many of the inventions of Greek achievement which are rightly treasured today - especially democracy, philosophy and theatre, as well as history - was often deeply alien to today's way of thinking and acting. The aim of this book is to probe fully that achievement, principally using a typical Greek mode of conceptualization - polarity or binary opposition. It explores in depth how the dominant - adult, male, citizen - Greeks sought, with limited success, to define themselves unambiguously in polar opposition to a whole series of "others" - non-Greeks, women, non-citizens, slaves and gods. Colin Burrow is co-editor of the "Key Themes in Ancient History" series.

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

paul-cartledge

In ancient North and South America extraordinary civilizations rose, flourished, and fell. The Mayan pyramids and the ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru and Teotihuacan in Mexico remain a testament to these cultures. Ancient Civilizations of the Americas tells this remarkable story-beginning when humans first ventured from Asia to Alaska more than 13,000 years ago and ending with the Indian Wars of the nineteenth century. The book traces the migration of people across North and South America, and investigates the impressive artistic and architectural achievements that followed. Civilizations emerged with well-established religions and economies, proven agricultural methods and trade routes, and craftsmen capable of producing gold, silver, and pottery artifacts of sublime beauty. By 500 BC sophisticated societies had developed as far south as Peru and by AD 500 these cultures, including the Maya of modern Mexico and Guatemala, had reached an age of maturity. The late fourteenth century saw the rise of the great imperial powers of the Aztecs in Mexico and the Inca in the Andes -- both highly organized societies with efficient bureaucracies, capable of casting the net of imperial rule over huge swathes of territory. In the end, however, the civilizations of the Americas faced a challenge different from any they had met before: the arrival of European colonists, starting with the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century. Much was swept away in the often brutal encounters that followed. Yet much also survived -- ancient crafts and customs and the remains of engineering and architectural marvels, all speaking unforgettably of these cultures' astonishing skills and organization.

Ancient Civilizations of the Americas

MASON, David

Children's Books

Goon but not forgotten! From 1951 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. Go on—join Seagoon as he is pronounced the rightful heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire in The Case of the Missing Heir (11 January 1955). Find out Moriarty's dastardly plan to shrink people to only three inches tall in The Secret Escritoire (27 September 1955). Discover the identity of the villain who is attacking Henry Crun with a piano in The Dreaded Piano Clubber (26 December 1986*), and see if Moriarty and Grytpype's scheme to find a Charlie to drown in order to claim a thousand pounds bears fruit in The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy (24 November 1958). So enjoy these previously unreleased episodes, written by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes, and featuring the inestimable performing talents of Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Peter Sellers. *This program was made for overseas broadcast in 1958, but not broadcast domestically until 1986.2 CDs. 2 hrs 1 min.

The Goon Show, Vol. 24: The Case of the Missing Heir (BBC Radio Collection)

SPIKE MILLIGAN

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