The legend of Te Hokioi, the extinct giant eagle of New Zealand, leads Peter Walker from a Canterbury sheep run to the Rare Books Room of the British Library and to ' sacred' Raiatea in Polynesia, as he uncovers the story of the predator which once ruled over the Southern Alps. Was this bird, whose existence was confirmed by scientists only in 2009, the Rukh of Arab legends? Does that mean that medieval Islamic mariners were once blown far into the Pacific, saw the great raptor and made it...

Today the "land of promise" is a spark in the tinder dry atmosphere of Middle Eastern affairs. Events there continue to wield influence among peoples and in places well beyond the region itself. This raises for Christians the acute theological problem of how to relate to the "land of promise" today and in light of the land of the Bible. Our hope is that this volume of essays will contribute to a more informed and theologically coherent response to the "Land of Promise." It is offered here ...

Un romanzo – neorealismo – in cui il dato autobiografico dell’autore (che pure traspare evidente nella dettagliata e partecipe descrizione dei personaggi, dei costumi e dei luoghi) traspare in un autonomo flusso narrativo dove il vissuto individuale assurge a dato universale. Una intensa storia d’amore che coinvolgerà il lettore dall’inizio alla fine. Il periodo di riferimento dal dopoguerra al primo lockdown del coronavirus.A novel - neorealism - in which the author's autobiographi...

**'Read this and add at least a fortnight to your life.' – Jeremy Vine'Real, down-to-earth and urgently needed.' – Oliver BurkemanWhy do we feel stress? And how can we change things?**Stress Tested is a pioneering collaboration between leading researcher Richard Mackenzie and journalist Peter Walker. Investigating the science of stress hormones, real-life case studies, the history of stress, societal factors and how they interact with stre...

'This book is pretty life-changing – encouraging, optimistic, rich with information. It got me off the sofa.' Jeremy Vine'This is such a lovely, ambitious, fascinating book. Essential lockdown reading. It allows us to reimagine our world and our bodies: we can move more.' Dr Xand van Tulleken, TV presenter'Truly uplifting' **Chris BoardmanWhat is the 'miracle pill', the simple lifestyle change with such enormous health benefits that, ...

It is 1967, and as America's allies hesitate over whether to send more troops to Vietnam and the strains of 'All You Need is Love' echo from Abbey Road, students take to the streets of Wellington, New Zealand, to protest the war. Among them are Race, Candy, Chadwick and FitzGerald and their elusive, electrifying friend Morgan Tawhai. They are young and hopeful and the world is all before them.Forty years later, in Washington DC, Race's son Toby is navigating his own path across a l...

Humanity operates like a force of nature capable of affecting the destiny of the Earth System. This epochal shift profoundly alters the relationship between humankind and the Earth, presenting the conscious, thinking human animal with an unprecedented dilemma: As human power has grown over the Earth, so has the power of nature to extinguish human life. The emergence of the Anthropocene has settled any question of the place of human beings in the world: we stand inescapably at its center. T...

The time is now.The world is in turmoil. Elias Girawong, Earth Wizard and knowledge keeper must act. His ceremony, calling the thirteen, heralds a long overdue change to shake the foundations of life itself.But there are those who covet power beyond reason.Each of the thirteen "called" have their assigned roles. Each of them must travel to join the circle of thirteen. Each of them face the challenge of their journey and the will and power of those who would thwart t...

Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity, Hunt contends that the more one knows about a site and one's own sight of it (an awareness of how one is seeing), the greater the insight. Employing the concepts, tropes, and rheto...

Millions of people across the world have heard of Jesus Christ, but how many are truly acquainted with the key locations he frequented?In the second edition of this established text, Peter Walker shares the fruits of his lifetime s research and expert knowledge to present a rich and engaging guide to the historical aspects of Jesus world. Following the chronology of Jesus life and ministry and drawing especially on the Gospel of Luke, we move from Bethlehem to Naza...

Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity, Hunt contends that the more one knows about a site and one's own sight of it (an awareness of how one is seeing), the greater the insight. Employing the concepts, tropes, and rheto...

THE NYMPHOMANIACAL MOTHER MADE HIM A WILLING SEX-SLAVE!Behind the solid stone walls of an English castle live three beautiful women--the youthful Duchess of Wellington and her two daughters--whose outward manners are beyond reproach, but whose secret lives, consumed by bizarre, festering sensual desires, infect all who enter its halls.Into this aphrodisiac atmosphere of rampant, yet unfulfilled lust, strides Peter Walker, sixteen, a cousin from America. Good-looking, "big...