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  • The Town Below the Ground

    Edinburgh's Legendary Undgerground City

    by Jan-Andrew Henderson ...
    Below Scotland's capital, hidden for almost two centuries, is a metropolis whose very existence was all but forgotten.For almost 250 years, Edinburgh was surrounded by a giant defensive wall. Unable to expand the city's boundaries, the burgeoning population built over every inch of square space. And when there was no more room, they began to dig down . . .Trapped in lives of poverty and crime, ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Material Remains

    Reading the Past in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature

    Edited by Jan-Peer Hartmann, Andrew James Johnston ...
    Series series Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture
    Medieval and early modern literature was fascinated with the material remains of the past. Scenes involving the discovery, description, circulation, or contemplation of archaeological objects can be found in texts ranging from hagiography to elegiac poetry, from historiography to romance—across regions and periods. This volume gathers voices to explore the ways in which these texts employ ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Black Markers

    Edinburgh's Dark History Told Through its Cemeteries

    by Jan-Andrew Henderson ...
    Edinburgh has a unique history, darker and more unexpected than you might imagine. Fortunately, it also has a set of graveyards to match. Ancient, modern, beautiful, haunted – they are the perfect reflection of the city’s amazing past with astonishing stories of their own. Greyfriars Graveyard alone was instrumental in the creation of Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Ghost That Haunted Itself

    The Story of the Mackenzie Poltergeist - The Infamous Ghoul of Greyfriars Graveyard

    by Jan-Andrew Henderson ...
    Greyfrair's Cemetery in Edinburgh has a centuries old reputation for being haunted. Its gruesome history includes use as a mass prison, headstone removal, witchcraft, bodysnatching, desecration, corpse dumping and live burial.In 1998, something new and inexplicable began occurring in the graveyard. Visitors encountered 'cold spots', strange smells and banging noises. They found themselves overcome ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Strange matter

    Medieval disruptions of time

    Edited by Martin Bleisteiner, Jan-Peer Hartmann, Andrew James Johnston ...
    Series series Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
    Strange matter offers exciting new perspectives on the premodern fascination with materiality and the various ways in which the Middle Ages and subsequent periods experienced things in time. Drawing on a wide selection of examples that range from medieval texts and artefacts of both European and non-European origin to Macbeth’s highly evocative meditation on bubbles, the essays compiled in this ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • The Practice of Greater Kan and Li

    Techniques for Creating the Immortal Self

    by Mantak Chia, Andrew Jan ...
    A guide to Taoist exercises to return to the Wu Wei state of mind and create the immortal spirit body• Includes illustrated instructions to connect astral energy with the energies of animals, children, and plants to grow the immortal fetus, or spirit body• Provides warm-up exercises and a complete daily Kan and Li routine• Explores how these advanced formulas are used for astral flight and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Tai Chi Fa Jin

    Advanced Techniques for Discharging Chi Energy

    by Mantak Chia, Andrew Jan ...
    A guide to the seemingly effortless yet explosively powerful martial art techniques of Fa Jin• Explains how to collect energy within and discharge it for self-defense as well as healing• Explores how to counter the natural instinct to resist force with force and develop yielding softness through the 13 Original Movements of Tai Chi• Illustrates routines for the partner practice of “Push Hands” ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Dear Canada: Winter of Peril

    by Jan Andrews ...
    Series series
    Sophie Loveridge's family is uprooted from the comfort of their home in England when her eccentric father — inspired by the new novel, Robinson Crusoe — decides to move the family to the New World so he can write an epic poem about surviving the rugged winter conditions. When the only help they have — a skillful fisherman — dies, it is up to Sophie and her mother to make sure the family survives ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Medieval Bruges

    c. 850–1550

    Edited by Andrew Brown, Jan Dumolyn ...
    Bruges was undoubtedly one of the most important cities in medieval Europe. Bringing together specialists from both archaeology and history, this 'total' history presents an integrated view of the city's history from its very beginnings, tracing its astonishing expansion through to its subsequent decline in the sixteenth century. The authors' analysis of its commercial growth, industrial ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • Greatest Kan and Li

    Gathering the Cosmic Light

    by Mantak Chia, Andrew Jan ...
    A fully illustrated guide to the most advanced Kan and Li practice to birth the immortal spirit body and unite with the Tao• Explains how to establish the cauldron at the Heart Center to collect cosmic light, activate the Cranial and Sacral Pumps, and align the Three Triangle Forces• Details how to merge energy at the Heart Center to birth the immortal spirit body, allowing you to draw limitless ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Theories of the Mobile Internet

    Materialities and Imaginaries

    Edited by Andrew Herman, Jan Hadlaw, Thom Swiss ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
    This volume proposes the mobile Internet is best understood as a socio-technical "assemblage" of objects, practices, symbolic representations, experiences and affects. Authors from a variety of disciplines discuss practices mediated through mobile communication, including current phone and tablet devices. The converging concepts of Materialities (ranging from the political economy of communication ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Governance in Transition

    Edited by Andrew Ryder, Ján Buček ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book looks at experience in government restructuring and devolution from a variety of national and international perspectives, both within the European Union and elsewhere, focusing on lessons learned and ways forward.Since the 1980s, there has been a global trend to give more power to local governments. Even in Korea and the United Kingdom, the most centralised countries in the OECD, local ... Read more

    $89.09 USD