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A Nicaraguan Journey -
Memories from the Land of Sandino (Jan 2010) (Feb 10)
Nicaragua is a land renowned for its lakes and volcanoes. Yet in the decade of the 1980's Nicaragua became famous for something very different. Following in the footsteps of Che Guevara, Sandinista revolutionary fighters overthrew one of Latin America's oldest dictatorships in July 1979 and transformed the country from an unknown backwater into a beacon of hope for the whole continent. A Nicaraguan Journey gives an account of how Nicaraguans today make sense of those revolutionary years, which brought their country to the attention of the whole world.
by Luciano Baracco
ISBN: 978-1-85072-404-9

EUROPEAN SECURITY IN THE POST-SOVIET AGE - The case against NATO (Apr 07)
This book examines how Britain has become one of the vassals and the main European participant in NATO's illegal and misguided wars. It reviews the creation of NATO, Europe's failure to re-examine its security needs after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the way the USA changed NATO form a defensive to an aggressive organisation.
Graham Hallett
1 85072 358 5

FINISHED (Aug 07)
Geoffrey looked out of the window onto the grey slates of the surrounding houses. He glanced across the roofs towards the football stadium and tried to think of that glorious Saturday when Rovers won a cup match 4-0 against Premiership opposition. It was not Premiership in those days, just first, second, third and fourth divisions.
"Why should they change the old certainties? Money, of course. What else?" But despite his football musings, the word was still there. Finished.
Time had run out for Geoffrey, or so he thought, when his ministry was suddenly terminated. This book is a work of fiction, and was written to encourage those who feel their Christian ministry is over. The author was an Anglican parish priest, whose retirement led to a peripatetic ministry.
Peter Nobel
1 85072 353 2

THE FLOATING BRIDGE - Tanka Poems in English (Jun 07)
This is a collection of 70 short poems which I composed in Britain and other parts of Europe over the past few years, following the form and the aesthetic of traditional Japanese tanka poetry.
Tanka poetry has an unbroken history of more than 1,300 years. The highly compressed form, comprising 31 syllables, is capable of expressing a tranquil realm of sensibility based on suggestiveness, the association of ideas and symbolism. Capturing the transient nature of existence and the essential pathos of life, tanka exerted a far-reaching influence on the aesthetics of No theatre, the tea ceremony and Japanese ceramic art, on haiku poetry, which developed in the 17th century, and on British and American Imagist poets in the early 20th century.
Hisashi Nakamura
1 85072 360 8

** Available direct from the author, email: H.NAKAMURA@yorksj.ac.uk

HALL HOUSES (Oct 05)
Many houses in Medieval England were hall houses. From humble peasant’s cottages to affluent bishop’s palaces the same plan-form predominated. In its sophisticated form it included an entrance ‘screens passage’ with an Upper end at one side and a Lower end at the other. The Upper end contained the hall, the parlour and a first floor solar whilst the Lower end contained a pantry, a buttery and a passage to a kitchen.
It was asymmetrical in plan perfectly reflecting the hierarchical division of society in the Middle Ages. Although fantastic efforts were made, it was virtually impossible to make it conform to the symmetrical demands of the Renaissance. Consequently the plan was replaced, but its influence has remained and many original examples still exist, although hidden.
This book traces the remarkable saga from possible derivatives as long ago as 3000 BC in Orkney, through its popular period between 1350 - 1500, and its gradual demise. An attempt has been made to consider all aspects of life within hall houses so there are chapters on it’s historical, geographical and social contexts as well as about chronological development, types of halls, accommodation, timber framing, structural details, finishes, external works, the building process and conservation. There is also an extensive bibliography.
This A4 size soft bound limited edition contains over 200 pages and 300 illustrations with many colour plates.

A. Michael Mennim
1 85072 328 1