Tom and his companions have arrived in a strange new land - Tavania. Wizard Malvel's evil magic has enraged six terrifying new Beasts. To restore harmony, Tom must first face Convol the Cold-blooded Brute in a deadly desert duel.
This work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script.
Covering nearly 4,000 years, this fascinating, copiously illustrated book traces the history of Jewish art from its origins -- the Temple in Jerusalem, c. 2000 B.C. -- up through the work of 20th-century artist Marc Chagall.
In the first of L. Frank Baum's time-honored Oz novels, country girl Dorothy Gale gets whisked away by a cyclone to the fantastical Land of Oz. Dropped into the midst of trouble when her farmhouse crushes a tyrannical sorceress, Dorothy ...
The arrival of a new baseball season serves to rekindle an old question: Which was the most exciting season ever played? This book comes up with an answer that will startle many fans: the season of 1908.