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A new and fresh roll of Papal Arms from 1012 to Benedict XVI.

Although the College of Cardinals is the most prestigious and venerable body at the heart of the Catholic Church, no consolidated work on its members had appeared in well over 150 years. This volume finally presents an authoritative roll of the college and of the coats-of arms used by the members of the College, and will therefore be warmly welcomed. MICHAEL McCARTHY was a recognised expert in the field of ecclesiastical heraldry.

By the author of Ashes Under Water (Lyons, 2014), here is one of the great untold stories of World War II. The Hidden Hindenburg finally catches up with a German conman who mislead the world about the Hindenburg to bury his own Nazi connections.

If we could see it as a whole, if they all arrived in a single flock, say, we would be truly amazed: sixteen million birds. Swallows, martins, swifts, warblers, wagtails, wheatears, cuckoos, chats, nightingales, nightjars, thrushes, pipits and flycatchers pouring into Britain from sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of the enduring wonders of the natural world. Each bird faces the most daunting of journeys -navigating epic distances, dependent on bodily fuel reserves. Yet none can refuse. Since pterodactyls flew, twice-yearly odysseys have been the lot of migrant birds. For us, for millennia, the Great Arrival has been celebrated. From The Song of Solomon, through Keats' Ode To a Nightingale, to our thrill at hearing the first cuckoo call each year, the spring-bringers are timeless heralds of shared seasonal joy. Yet, migrant birds are finding it increasingly hard to make the perilous journeys across the African desert. Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo is a moving call to arms by an impassioned expert: get outside, teach your children about these birds, don't let them disappear from our shores and hearts.

A sweeping and detailed, history of one of Scotland's oldest families and clans set against events national and local, political and social from the Norman Invasion until the present day. Capturing the highs and lows of family, clan, estate and community within the formation, struggles and advancement of the Scottish nation.

This book argues for putting spoken language at the centre of the syllabus.

The material in this book reviews work dating to the vocabulary control movement of the 1930s, and also refers to more recent work on the role of lexis in language learning. The main foundations of lexical semantics described, as are relevant research and pedagogical studies in vocabulary and lexicography.

A practical introduction to the field of discourse analysis and its relevance for language teaching.

This book provides a wide-ranging treatment of the major issues in applied linguistics.

A great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love . . . A must-read' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for HawkNature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in its beauty, in the wonder it can offer us, in the peace it can provide - feelings stemming ultimately from our own unbreakable links to nature, which mean that we cannot be fully human if we are separate from it. In The Moth Snowstorm Michael McCarthy, one of Britain's leading writers on the environment, proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened, and which, he argues, is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem services.Drawing on a wealth of memorable experiences from a lifetime of watching and thinking about wildlife and natural landscapes, The Moth Snowstorm not only presents a new way of looking at the world around us, but effortlessly blends with it a remarkable and moving memoir of childhood trauma from which love of the natural world emerged. It is a powerful, timely, and wholly original book which comes at a time when nature has never needed it more.

This second supplement of the Heraldica Colegii Cardinalium continues the planned publication of that roll of arms as Cardinals are created by the Sovereign Pontiff, this time giving the arms of all but one of the Cardinals created on 21st October 2003.

Authoritative roll of the coats-of-arms of the College of Cardinals.

Codifies coats of arms used by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran Churches of Scandinavia dioceses worldwide.

Gathers into one volume a complete record of the armorial bearings of all Ordinaries of the Holy Roman Catholic Church used since the founding of the Hierarchy.

By the author of Ashes Under Water (Lyons, 2014), here is one of the great untold stories of World War II. The Hidden Hindenburg finally catches up with a German conman who mislead the world about the Hindenburg to bury his own Nazi connections.

"Michael McCarthy's volume ... deserves an important place in the growing body of scholarly literature devoted to ... the image of the black in Western consciousness.' Although this excellent book touches on diverse aspects of African-American relations, it is primarily concerned with the origins and development of American perceptions of an alien environment and people--perceptions, as McCarthy amply demonstrates, that were shaped as much by expectations and predispositions of Americans traveling and living in Africa over almost a century and a half as by the actual characteristics of the land and people they encountered there. Through a careful examination and sophisticated interpretation of the voluminous writings of dozens of Americans, McCarthy explains how a language of discourse' about the continent and its people evolved in the United States and ultimately shaped the nation's ideas about both in a particular way. ... [This] work ... provides rich insight into the complex relation between the physical and metaphysical Africa.' The significance of McCarthy's study is much larger than its brevity suggests."-American Historical Review

The words you need to communicate with confidence.

The words you need to communicate with confidence.

Improve your understanding of idioms in English.

Improve your understanding of phrasal verbs in English.

Improve your understanding of phrasal verbs in English.

In the early 1980s the author was asked to investigate the newly discovered wreck of the Xantho, an iron screw steamship active off the Australian coast during the period 1848 to 1872, and to develop a strategy to stop the looting that was occurring at the site.