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William the Conqueror's cruel reign over England is in its sixteenth year. His armies had destroyed much of northern England several years earlier, but the land still remains barren and lifeless. The Pedlar suspects that a Gateway to the Spirits, who are responsible for regenerating the natural world each springtime, has been destroyed and their powers stolen. When he hears that Bishop Vermilus is back in the King's favour he knows that it is ...

The Lost Treasure is a thriller about four young adolescents who come together to solve a deadly mystery. The spirit of a long-dead pirate seeks his 300-year-old buried treasure through the possessed body of a diabolical descendant. It's up to Bobby Holmes from England, his American cousin Brenda Watson, and a couple of unlikely heroes, one of whom has Asperger Syndrome, to traverse the darkened halls of a school at night, and the suffocating ...

The brewery is not what you think..." Dig Buckley is the dependable son, honest and hard-working. But after a tragic accident, he is unnerved by his dad's dying words. Without his father, it falls to Dig and his belligerent brother Jake to put aside their differences and get the successful family brewery running again-or their mother will be forced into bankruptcy and lose the family home. The Buckley Brewery makes Australia's most popular cra...

Bobby Holmes, his cousin Brenda Watson and friends are embroiled in a deadly mystery in the North York Moors of England. An old beggar warns Bobby to stay away, and another stranger appears to be at the center of it all. Bobby and his mates travel to the seaside town of Whitby, where a puzzling tattoo on the stranger is revealed to mean Wolf Slayer. Their goal, to track him down, leads them to baffling clues: the appearance of a group of gypsi...

Bobby Holmes, Brenda Watson, and friends are embroiled in a deadly mystery. A vicious beast roams the eerie North York Moors of England in search of blood, controlled by the ancient, evil Witches of Westerdale. While searching for their missing friend, they rely on information from a librarian who is much more than he seems, a gypsy king with magical gifts, and a mysterious stranger at the center of it all. The climax builds as they race to a ...

Fallen Guardian, Festulantus, betrayed by his henchman Jake and captured by the three Recruits Harry, Bethany and Abigail, is now imprisoned by the Guardians. Their mentor Mrs Regnad (Arbiter second tier) is on the track of Jake who has escaped with Parthinia Impson's lifebox and the Paradoxery, a book of malevolent Jinxes, banned many centuries ago. From his lair deep in the Swiss mountains Jake is using the Paradoxery for his own evil ends.T...

Readers of Jinxerypokery 2 and Jinxerypokery 3 often ask how old Agatha Pandora Goodfellow is, since she often talks of people who lived hundreds of years ago as friends of hers. Unfortunately, she is not always completely truthful (and sometimes not truthful at all) and combined with her habit of changing her accent (she says it is more interesting than changing her clothes) and her name whenever she feels inclined, readers are a little unsur...

History of Mt. St. Mary's Seminary of the West, Cincinnati, Ohio is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as a...

Over the last 25 years, the performances of semiconductor devices have improved greatly, this book describes the science and technology that have made these advances possible. While mainstream silicon memory and microprocessor chips still work with uniform silicon as the starting point, the whole of both electronic and optical communication relies on multilayer semiconductor structures. The book provides a unified overview of the devices, incl...

Over the last century the discharge of crude or partially treated sewage has probably been the most widespread, most documented and certainly the best understood form of pollution entering the aquatic environment. In the past two decades, however, there has been an increasing public aware­ ness of the potential hazards that exist from the contamination of the freshwater environment by toxic substances associated with the mining industry. World...

This unique publication outlines the development of legal theory from pre-Roman times through the twentieth century. It relates the evolution of legal theory to parallel developments in political theory and history. This work also discusses the relevant contemporary events in politics, economics, and religion. Each chapter begins with a synopsis of related historical background for the period, going on to discuss how these events are related t...

Demonstrates that separatist thinking in Ireland was crucial even when the political focus was on home rule.

In the thirteenth century the Guardians gave the three families in the tiny hamlet of Oakhobgate special powers to protect the Spirit Gateway in Lycan's Forest. The spirits ensured that the natural world was safe, for without them regeneration was imp

Over the last century the discharge of crude or partially treated sewage has probably been the most widespread, most documented and certainly the best understood form of pollution entering the aquatic environment. In the past two decades, however, there has been an increasing public aware­ ness of the potential hazards that exist from the contamination of the freshwater environment by toxic substances associated with the mining industry. World...

..".offers an interesting, new dimension to an ongoing discussion.' John P. McCall, "Speculum, 1989.

Harry, Bethany and Abigail continue their training to become Recruits under the not very watchful eyes of their mentor Mrs Suo Regnad (Arbiter Third Tier) who changes her accent as often as she changes her name. The three have been chosen by the Guardians to keep the Spirit Gateways safe as if they are destroyed the natural world will not regenerate. This time Mr Hobson (Arbiter First Tier) arranges a student exchange for the three to a famous...

Analyses Fenian influences on Irish nationalism between the Phoenix Park murders of 1882 and the Easter Rising of 1916. This book challenges the convention that Irish separatist politics before the First World War were marginal and irrelevant, showing instead that clear boundaries between home rule and separatist nationalism did not exist.

It began long before man ever took his first breath. Somewhere beyond the Great Barrier of our own existence, an uprising broke out in Heaven as Immortals fought for the very Kingdom of God. In the end the rebellion was quelled. The traitors were tried and sentenced. But though the battle had been won, the war had just begun. Now that same war that started so long ago could threaten the delicate balance between good and evil. A storm is coming...