Lost City

The Fauchards, successful developers and sellers of weapons, keep their place as a major power in the industry through many centuries. Kurt Austin and his crew of trained scientists and elite fighters from the National Underwater and Marine Agency begin investigating nefarious activities of the powerful Racine Fauchard and her son. Their dastardly project involves scientific experiments on humans in order to find an elixir of eternal youth. They are also leading a team of mercenaries who are melting down a massive glacier containing the remains of a Fauchard ancestor and a metal helmet on which is recorded the formula for the elixir.

Making Sense of Everyday Life

This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying 'everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied topics as leisure, eating and drinking, the idea of home, and time and schedules in order to show how societies are created and reproduced by the apparently mundane 'micro' level practices of everyday life. Each chapter is organized around three main themes: 'rituals and routines', 'social order', and 'challenging the taken-for-granted', with intriguing examples and illustrations.

Penguin Quick Guides: Really Useful English Verbs

Do you want to learn more English verbs? This book guides you to over 200 of the most important and useful verbs in everyday English, covering the following areas: travel; work and business; law and order; entertainment, and much more.

From Pictland to Alba - Scotland 789 - 1070

During this period, Scotland first emerged on the stage of history. Beginning with the Christian kingdoms of Northumbria and Pictavia, which dominated northern Britain, Alex Woolf describes the collapse of the Old Order under the Vikings, the rise of Alba, the Gaelic-speaking kingdom, and first contact with the kingdom of England.

Architecture and Order - Approaches to Social Space

For over a decade, archaeologists have developed a language with which to describe architecture's symbolic use of space, but, as yet, there is no single study of this field nor have archaeologists sufficiently defined their discipline's interaction with architecture and anthropology. Architecture and Order addresses these and other long ignored topics. Along with architectural case studies are essays which discuss everything from studies of hunter-gatherer camp organization to the use of space in classical and medieval worlds. These essays manage to simultaneously explore aspects of social, psychiatric and architectural theory.