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Book The Toadstone

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Gumley
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2012-10
  • ISBN : 1466964634
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book The Toadstone written by Anne Gumley and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What had a toadstone ring got to do with the homicides that Detective Sergeant Lisa Pharies found herself investigating? With the help of her mentor, the now-retired detective inspector Heath, her journey leads back to the curse Beth Simkins uttered on the Ravenscroft family as she was being burnt at the stake, accused of witchcraft, four hundred years ago by England's witch-finder general, Mathew Hopkins. Has a descendant of the witch, the frail Jenny Simkins, anything to do with the burnt body of a Ravenscroft or the murder of an Oxford professor who wore a toadstone ring? Detective Sergeant Pharies is confronted by dark secrets of land ownership alongside the river in Danesbury that spans four centuries to the present day.

Book Bulletin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1904
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 816 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Geologists  Association

Download or read book Proceedings of the Geologists Association written by Geologists' Association and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain

Download or read book The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain written by Archibald Geikie and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Northern Europe Including Examples from the USSR in Both Europe and Asia

Download or read book Northern Europe Including Examples from the USSR in Both Europe and Asia written by Bozzano G Luisa and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides bibliographic and textual information about the principal ore deposits of Northern Europe, plus descriptions of 30 selected deposits from the USSR. Each deposit is introduced by a selected bibliography listing the most important literature followed by a reasonably detailed discussion covering geological characteristics and how the deposit was formed. The general bibliographic introduction to Ireland, Sweden and Finland covers many deposits with insufficient literature to justify separate coverage.

Book Temple Bar

Download or read book Temple Bar written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sorcerer s Companion

Download or read book The Sorcerer s Companion written by Allan Zola Kronzek and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller, now fully updated to include the complete seven-volume series. Who was the real Nicholas Flamel? How did the Sorcerer’s Stone get its power? Did J. K. Rowling dream up the terrifying basilisk, the seductive veela, or the vicious grindylow? And if she didn’t, who did? Millions of readers around the world have been enchanted by the magical world of wizardry, spells, and mythical beasts inhabited by Harry Potter and his friends. But what most readers don’t know is that there is a centuries-old trove of true history, folklore, and mythology behind Harry’s fantastic universe. Now, with The Sorcerer’s Companion, those without access to the Hogwarts Library can school themselves in the fascinating reality behind J. K. Rowling’s world of magic. Newly updated to include Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Sorcerer’s Companion allows curious readers to look up anything magical from the Harry Potter books and discover a wealth of entertaining, unexpected information. Wands and wizards, boggarts and broomsticks, hippogriffs and herbology, all have astonishing histories rooted in legend, literature, or real-life events dating back hundreds or even thousands of years. Magic wands, like those sold in Rowling’s Diagon Alley, were once fashioned by Druid sorcerers out of their sacred yew trees. Love potions were first concocted in ancient Greece and Egypt. And books of spells and curses were highly popular during the Middle Ages. From Amulets to Zombies, you’ll also learn: • how to read tea leaves • where to find a basilisk today • how King Frederick II of Denmark financed a war with a unicorn horn • who the real Merlin was • how to safely harvest mandrake root • who wore the first invisibility cloak • how to get rid of a goblin • why owls were feared in the ancient world • what really lies beyond the Veil • the origins of our modern-day “bogeyman,” and more. A spellbinding tour of Harry’s captivating world, The Sorcerer’s Companion is a must for every Potter aficionado’s bookshelf. The Sorcerer's Companion has not been prepared, approved, or licensed by any person or entity that created, published, or produced the Harry Potter books or related properties.

Book DK Eyewitness Books  Fossil

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Books Fossil written by Paul Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an original and exciting new look at fossils - the remains of long-vanished animals and plants. Stunning real-life photographs of the spectacular remains of ancient lives offer a unique "eyewitness" view of what fossils are, how they were formed, and how they lived millions of years ago. See pearls that are 50 million years old, a dinosaur''s toe, a troublesome "snake" that was turned to stone, a fossilized human being, and a snail made of precious stones. Learn howfossils are formed, how trilobites have been preserved for 590 million years, where to look for a belemnite, and how fossils helped the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. Discover which are the most precious fossils in the world, where ammonites lived, how big mammoths were, what a devil's toenail looks like, and much, much more.

Book The Philosophical Magazine

Download or read book The Philosophical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philosophical Magazine

Download or read book Philosophical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hundredfold Problem

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Grant
  • Publisher : 2000 AD Books
  • Release : 2015-08-12
  • ISBN : 1849979642
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book The Hundredfold Problem written by John Grant and published by 2000 AD Books. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four million years ago a Dyson sphere was built on the fringes of our solar system. A few thousand early homind species were transported from the third planet to colonise the vast spaces of the hollow world. On the third planet, and within the Dyson sphere, mankind evolved separately. For years Mega-City One has secretly been sending its most dangerous criminals through a matter transmitter to the sphere nicknamed Big Dunkin Donut. But now arch-villain Dennis the Complete Bloody Sadist is threatening to destroy the sphere - and Judge Dredd is sent to stop him. Dredd thinks his biggest problem will be Dr Petula McTavish, the xenotheologist appointed to accompany him - until a matter transmitter malfunction splits him into a hundred Dredds. And within the sphere, the immortal queen-goddess Korax knows the apocalyptic doom awaiting mankind . . .

Book The Bearer of Crazed and Venomous Fangs

Download or read book The Bearer of Crazed and Venomous Fangs written by Vincent DiMarco and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries prior to the development of an effective vaccination against rabies, the bite of a mad dog was linked to a horrific ailment marked by convulsions, an utter dread of swallowing liquids, uncontrollable thrashing, and even the tendency to bark and attempt to bite othersa horrid prelude to an agonizing death. Drawing on learned theories of medical practitioners and beliefs of the common people, The Bearer of Crazed and Venomous Fangs investigates the cultural mythology of the ailment known today as rabies. By exploring the cultural history of science, traditional belief, and folk medicine, it reveals the popular myths and learned delusions that came to define the disease. Among the arresting topics explored are the attribution of rabies to a worm beneath the tongue, the notion that the disease could arise spontaneously, the idea that it could be cured by the application to the wound of special stones or animal parts, and, if all else failed, the treatment of it by the suffocation of the human victim. Rich in detail and brimming with historical intrigue, The Bearer of Crazed and Venomous Fangs engages students of medicine and the history of science, veterinary studies, folklore, psychology, and anyone interested in how mankinds best friend could be thought of as its cruelest, fiercest enemy.

Book General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire

Download or read book General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire written by John Farey and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agricultural Surveys  pts  1 3  Derbyshire  1811 17

Download or read book Agricultural Surveys pts 1 3 Derbyshire 1811 17 written by Great Britain. Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stones

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cally Oldershaw
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2023-08-25
  • ISBN : 1789148189
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Stones written by Cally Oldershaw and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of our deep and multifaceted connections to geological matter—the very bedrock of our lives. From small beach pebbles to huge megaliths, stones have been revered, collected, enhanced, sculpted, or engraved for practical and artistic purposes throughout the ages. They have been used to delineate boundaries and to build homes and shelters and utilized for cooking, games, and competitions. This surprising and fascinating compendium of stone facts, myths, and stories reveals the impact and importance of stones in our history and culture. Cally Oldershaw introduces the science in an accessible way and covers the aesthetic appeal of stones, their practical uses, and metaphysical properties. With an eclectic mix of examples from the Stone Age to the present, Stones engagingly excavates the story of this essential matter.