The 5,000-year struggle to align the heavens with the clock and what happened to the missing ten days.

This picture book is based on the children's song Today is Monday . Runner beans, zoooop, roast beef, fish, chicken and ice cream are the fare during the week, until Sunday, when the world's children are invited to come and share a meal. Animals introduce children to the days of the week.

This volume provides a 2005 almanac Terry Pratchett fans.

This is Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year, with its various observances and festivals, written in elegiacs. Ovid's design was to study the calendar in the light of old annals, and to show what events are commemorated on each day and the origins of the various events.

Aims to recover the theology and spirituality of the Christian year. As an aid to reflection, this book incorporates numerous selections of contemporary poetry, thereby demonstrating how secular poets can often hit upon a point that finds its echo in Christian life and ritual.

This second edition is a day-by-day recounting of the significant moments of Christian and Western history. In it are famous births, deaths, world events and notable anniversaries. Each day of the calendar year receives a two-page treatment, beginning with an essay about a significant event that took place on that day.

Observing many cultures - the ancient Greeks, Romans and Chinese, the Maya and the Aztec - and also looking at the modern western calendar, with its long and tumultuous history, this book traces the scientific, technical and political history of calendars.

This study covers the whole sweep of ritual history from the earliest written records to the present day. From May Day revels and Midsummer fires, to Harvest Home and Hallowe'en, to the twelve days of Christmas, Ronald Hutton takes us on a journey through the ritual year in Britain.

When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated.

Featuring colourful collage illustrations, simple story, die-cut pages and finger-sized holes, this book is suitable for children.

This is a revised version of an unrivalled small reference work for working historians.

The official Tolkien diary, this year containing magnificent landscape paintings by renowned artist Ted Nasmith, selected from 'The Silmarillion' by JRR Tolkien, together with a wealth of information and extracts from Tolkien's work.

Do you recall that Charlie Bucket found the last gold ticket for a tour of the Willy Wonka chocolate factory on January 31, or that Lemuel Gulliver departed from Lilliput on September 24, or that Jean Valjean fell into the sea and was presumed drowned on November 16? This very literary collection of 365 all-new favourite fictional dates is drawn from classic and contemporary books and movies. ...

Llewlyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything.

Issue 28, Spring 2009 to Spring 2010. The essential annual treasury of ancient lore and legend - with more than 1.5 million copies sold since its first edition in 1971.

Facsimile edition of the original book containing the calendar created by Rudolf Steinr for the year 1912-1913.