For over 40 years, Aardman has entertained and charmed the world, creating memorable stories and timeless animated characters that have gone on to become household names – including Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Morph. But how did two teenagers experimenting with animation on an old kitchen table go on to create a world-class studio that conquered Hollywood?This is an intimate, revealing ...

Christians often struggle with prayer because it has become a one-way conversation with the ceiling. It doesn't have to be this way! In this revised and updated edition of the classic bestseller, Peter Lord offers an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to developing a rich prayer life--moving believers from one-way communication to God to two-way communication with God. He answers such questions asCan I hear God's voice today?How can I discern the difference between God's voi...

Peter Lord, considered to be the greatest living scholar on Welsh visual art and culture, surveys the evolution of the visual culture of Wales from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century in this new, single-volume history. Written for everyone with an interest in the art and history of Wales, the volume illustrates some 400 landscapes and portrait paintings, prints and sculptures from artists such as Augustus John, Ceri Richards, Christopher Williams and many more. The author ...

The six sequential essays in this collection provide a narrative of a century and a half of Welsh painting, written with an emphasis on issues of social class and national identity. Through his earlier writing, Peter Lord has contributed to the establishment of an historical tradition of Welsh painting, but because it does not feature in the wider story of Western art history as presently told, the work revealed continues to be perceived as marginal, existing in isolation from ideas and mo...

A manual of constructional details which shows how successful results in acoustic design can be achieved by correct use of building materials, products and components. Details are drawn to scale and carry informative labelling and supplementary text. This updated and revised edition of an established reference book, in an improved format and layout, will be a welcome addition to current reference works on acoustic design.

Bestselling Author Shows How to Prepare for Life's 10 Inevitable ChallengesCertain kinds of things just happen--and they happen to everyone. The big question, then, is: How do we handle these inevitable challenges of life in a way that pleases God and demonstrates his character and ways in this world?Respected pastor and bestselling author Peter Lord helps readers identify ten situations everyone will face--related to choices, relationships, work, authorities, conflict, mon...

"When you bless," says Peter Lord, "dramatic, miraculous changes take place."In Bless and Be Blessed, this author and pastor shares how we often neglect to bless others until after death. But it is much more useful to give a good or well-meaning word to our loved ones while they are still alive. Coworkers, children, spouses, and friends all need uplifting messages when they can hear, receive, and be transformed by them.With wisdom, personal anecdotes, and hands-on exercises...

This fourth edition of Sir Peter Coulson's highly regarded work on construction adjudication, widely considered to be the leading authority in the field, continues to provide comprehensive analysis of the law and practice of adjudication in construction and engineering disputes. Thoroughly revised with reference to over 80 new adjudication cases, the new edition of this popular title also provides an analysis of the increase in 'smash and grab' payment claims brought by contractors based o...

When a public house was being demolished a mediaeval manuscript written in Latin was discovered in the rafters. It had lain there since AD1348 and had been written by Brother Barnabus of the local priory.It tells the story of the return to the village of Sir Enoch du Wulfrun and his squire Elijah Morgan after they had been fighting in the Holy Lands on a crusade.Lord Enoch returns hoping to marry the lady Rebecca de Darlaston but discovers that she has already been married off by her unscr...

Lady Charlotte Montgomery, a retired parliamentarian realises there is a gap in the hotel market, a hotel specifically to cater for naughty weekends by the great and the good. She takes over a hotel tucked away in the mountains of Wales; she does not open to the general public, she sells shares to MP's, Bishops, Golfers, etc offering in exchange guaranteed discretion. Unfortunately as in all good plans there is a snag. The local village church has held a fete on the front lawn of the hotel...

More From Grinding Halt carries on from where Grinding Halt left off. Nobby and Nigel are now well established in the viallge and it is generally idyllic, but trouble is brewing. Nigel's wife has heard that her ex-husband has inherited a lot of money from an uncle - Nigel usew most of it to buy the railway station - and she turns up demanding her share. Thelma devises a plan to get rid of her. She suggests that she pretends to be Nigel's girlfriend, but the fates take control and things do...

Further adventures with those lovable rogues Sir Enoch du Wulfrun and his estates manager formerly squire, Elijah Morgan in the village of Willenhalch in the early fourteenth century. We meet again Mad Peggy Clackett, her daughter Daft Alice Clackett, Sir Richard de Darlaston, his lovely daughter the Lady Rebecca, Elijah's gorgeous girlfriend Jessie as well as Eliza Highgate who is no better than she ought to be, Abe, Frank and Brother Barnabus, soon to become Father of his own priory. Add...