the art book a thames and hudson illustrated guide to thousands of years of art from cave art to indian installation art of 2010 as it says on the back cover easily navigatable and user friendly all types of art there in this print website format from ancient sumerian to the mannerists and onto every post war artist since 1945 totally without comment or pretension
lore of the playground by steven roud a 100 years of childrens games from tag to skipping british bulldog to marbles and tops i spent my childhood indoors reading books and memorizing king lists and dates in history so the idea of clapping games conkers and skipping rhymes new and unknown to me
warlords the struggle for power in post roman britain stuart layock some thing familiar to any reader of a Arthurian novel good on detail and heavy on sources form gildas not only imcluding the favourites Arthur, vortigern and Hengest but also Gerontius and Penda
star wars omnibus a series of three graphic novels stars wars shadows of empire, mara jade by the emperors hand and shadows of empire evolution i pickled this up and realised that i had read these in the 1990s but still remembered the story set betwen yavin and endor it told of peripheral events usually amongst galactic scum and cantina lowlife for example the adventures of boba fett transporting a big block of han solo to jabba ,the conspiracies of prince xixor and his black sun criminal gang mara jade (later of course mrs skywalker) and her early life as high kicking high kill count imperial agent and the last story shadows of the empire evolution telling the story of Guri the barbie blonde replica human assasin droid from the black sun gang sought by criminal gangs, cantina low lifes and galactic scum all of which she of course crushes underfoot wonderfully cliched and drawn colourfully if not totally to scale
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