Alan James

The Costa Blanca has long been the best known winter sun venue for travelling climbers from all over Europe. The main attraction is the amazing amount of fantastic climbing on everything from small roadside cliffs to magnificent mountains. The added benefit of easy access quality accommodation and a benign winter climate adds to the overall appeal of the area. This new guide will be the sixth edition that Rockfax have produced to the 'White Coast', with over 36,000 copies already sold over the years. This completely revised and updated volume will build on the success of the earlier ones with increased coverage of the most popular areas and the addition of several new crags. A complete new set of aerial crag shots and action pictures will ensure the book stays fresh for years to come. Areas Murcia - La Panocha, Rincón de Bonanza, Rédovan - El Rut, Rédovan - La Pancha, Callosa, Alicante - Crevillente, Sierra de Enmedio, Marín, Salinas, Peña del Corb, Peña Rubia, Rincón Bello, Foradà, Reconco, Cocentaina, Cabezon de Oro, Busot Benidorm - Sella, Puig Campana, Ponoch, Vall de Guadar, BAbdet, Guadalest, Las Cerezas Calp - Bernia, Altea, Mascarat, Castellet de Calp, Sierra de Toix, Peñón de Ifach, Olta, Pinos, Morro Falqui, Ambolo Xaló Valley - Murla, Alcalalí, La Solana, Peña Roja, Poet, L'Ocaive, Font d'Axia Gandía and Xativa - Gandía, Bovedón, Salem, Bellús Baranco Fondo, Bellús Pechina/Altet, Aventador, Montesa, Tierra de Nadie, Vallada

This summer, Rockfax will be producing an exciting new book covering the trad sea cliff climbing of Pembroke and Gower. This will be their third book to Pembroke and a huge update on the previous edition from 2009. The Gower trad will be appearing in a Rockfax print publication for the first time. The emphasis in these guides is to cover the best routes but to increase the focus on the easier grades of HVS and below to help open up these magnificent areas to even more climbers. The crags have been photographed using the latest technology resulting in some incredible photo-topos and overview shots. There is a new set of maps throughout and detailed text descriptions making locating your chosen route easier than ever. To inspire you is a stunning set of stunning action shots ever used

The biggest ever book to bouldering in the Peak District. It covers all the areas from Wimberry in the north, through the Eastern Edges, to the Central Gritstone and Limestone and the grit of Staffordshire. The depth of coverage will be more extensive and detailed than anything attempted before with many areas appearing for the first time in print. The main areas have been completely re-worked with all the new developments. Areas Covered Northern Peak, Sheffield Area, Stanage, Burbage Millstone Area, Froggatt to Birchen, Central Limestone, Central Gritstone, Matlock Area, Staffordshire Gritstone

Formula for Wealth by Alan James details realistic and measurable ways to achieve certain financial goals. As clearly stated by the author, it is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Rather, it is a book for the wealth builders who are willing to put in the effort and the time it takes. A wide range of subjects that determine wealth is examined: personal finance, wealth management, spending habits, lifestyle choices, unplanned expenses, assets and liabilities, and much more. As the title suggests, Formula for Wealth includes some calculations, which would help in mapping out plans with specific time frames for achieving financial goals. In his richly packed book about acquiring wealth, Alan James leaves nothing untouched.. . . I recommend Formula for Wealth to anyone who is serious about taking their financial condition to the next level. Foluso Falaye for Readers' Favorite

European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European navies operated over a period of 500 years culminating in World War Two, the greatest war ever fought at sea. Taking a predominantly continental point of view, the book moves away from the typically British-centric approach taken to naval history as it considers the role of European navies in the development of modern warfare, from its medieval origins to the large-scale, industrial, total war of the twentieth century. Along with this growth of navies as instruments of war, the book also explores the long rise of the political and popular appeal of navies, from the princes of late medieval Europe, to the enthusiastic crowds that greeted the modern fleets of the great powers, followed by their reassessment through their great trial by combat, firmly placing the development of modern navies into the broader history of the period. Chronological in structure, European Navies and the Conduct of War is an ideal resource for students and scholars of naval and military history.

European Navies and the Conduct of War considers the different contexts within which European navies operated over a period of 500 years culminating in World War Two, the greatest war ever fought at sea. Taking a predominantly continental point of view, the book moves away from the typically British-centric approach taken to naval history as it considers the role of European navies in the development of modern warfare, from its medieval origins to the large-scale, industrial, total war of the twentieth century. Along with this growth of navies as instruments of war, the book also explores the long rise of the political and popular appeal of navies, from the princes of late medieval Europe, to the enthusiastic crowds that greeted the modern fleets of the great powers, followed by their reassessment through their great trial by combat, firmly placing the development of modern navies into the broader history of the period. Chronological in structure, European Navies and the Conduct of War is an ideal resource for students and scholars of naval and military history.

Narrative cycle of poems detailing an alternative relationship.

Jesus' last journey from Galilee to Jerusalem was a journey of destiny that was rich with kingdom ministry. It was a journey into confrontation and suffering and crucifixion. It was a journey into victory and vindication. It was a journey he took in order to win our salvation. But how well do we know that journey?" The Messiah must suffer and rise" retraces Jesus' steps as it takes the reader on a tour of some of the powerful scriptures that tell of the action-packed last days of the Son of Man, the Messiah, the King of the Jews, the Son of God. Easy-to-read daily gospel readings guide the reader clearly and caringly, offering refreshment, nourishment, explanation, encouragement. The readings will serve as an engaging, faith-invigorating companion for the Ash Wednesday-to-Easter season. Charles Price, who serves internationally as a Christian conference speaker and who broadcasts teaching programmes on Living Truth radio and television in some 70 countries, has commented as follows: "This series of readings by Alan James, leading through the Lenten season to Easter, present a heart-warming, mind-stimulating journey tracing the familiar story which surrounds the preparation, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus with fresh insights. This is scripture interpreted in a wider theological context, and reaching beyond the mind to the heart. For those who wish to go deeper, there are footnotes to enable a fuller study, which gives these studies a very wide sphere of usefulness. For those sceptical about Christianity and Easter, to go through these readings daily will give your mind and soul something to grapple with, andthe hope of a new freedom to enjoy."

We look forward to Christmas. We prepare for Christmas. We celebrate Christmas. But do we read the Christmas scriptures? Do we really know and understand and embrace them?" They will call him Immanuel" takes on that challenge as it accompanies the reader on a tour of the two gospel stories of Jesus' conception and birth - stories that are short and sweet, but packed with incident and surprise, with angels, miracles, prophecies and songs, and with history and theology, and with so much more. Easy-to-read daily bible readings guide the reader clearly and caringly, offering refreshment, nourishment, explanation, encouragement. The readings will serve as an engaging, faith-invigorating companion for the Advent-Christmas-Epiphany season. _______________________________________Charles Price has commented: "This series of readings by Alan James, leading up to and beyond Christmas, present a heart-warming, mind-stimulating journey tracing the familiar story that surrounds the birth of Jesus, with fresh insights. This is Scripture interpreted in a wider theological context, and reaching beyond the mind to the heart. For those who wish to go deeper, there are footnotes to enable a fuller study, which gives these studies a very wide sphere of usefulness. For those sceptical about Christianity and Christmas, to go through these readings daily will give your mind and soul something to grapple with, and the hope of a new freedom to enjoy." Charles Price, who has authored seven books, serves internationally as a Christian conference speaker, and broadcasts teaching programmes on Living Truth radio and television in many countries. He was formerly the Senior Pastor of The People's Church in Toronto, and, before that, was the Principal of Capenwray Bible School, Lancashire.

This controversial study takes the provocative line that the French monarchy was a complete success. James turns the idea of royal absolutism on its head by redefining the French monarchys success from 1598 - 1661. The Origins of French Absolutism, 1598-1661 maintains that building blocks were not being laid by the so-called architects of absolutism, but that by satisfying long-established, traditional ambitions, cardinal ministers Richelieu and Mazarin undoubtedly made the confident, ambitious reign of the late century possible.

This is the story of what really happened to the wreckage found at the two crash sites outside of Roswell in 1947, as told to me by a retired Air Force pilot some forty years ago. It may sound a bit "far fetched", but, in the end it is the only story I've ever heard that really makes sense of it all. After you read his tale, you will have to decide for yourself. I (for one) am a believer.

The Costa Blanca has long been the best known Hot Rock winter sun venue for climbers. It has easy access, loads of quality accommodation, and an amazing amount of fantastic climbing on everything from roadside boulders to magnificent mountains. This edition features 4,000 routes and a complete new set of crag shots along with action pictures.

Iceland, about 1270 AD. A Christian scribe writes down a heathen poem composed three centuries earlier. He probably thinks the verse exposes inadequacies in the old northern gods and goddesses. But does it? Alan James' essay explores the Old Norse poem Lokasenna and was first published as a booklet in 1997. This second and fully revised Australian edition includes a new introduction and a rollicking translation of the poem. James shows Lokasenna to be "the psychological tale of the progressive deterioration of a sociopathic, perhaps psychopathic personality, from mere heavenly mischief-maker to deicide bound down on a rock for the crime of conspiring to destroy the cosmos for the gratification of his own sick monster ego" (Garman Lord, reviewing the first edition, Theod, volume 14, number 3, 1997).

In 1788 Britain founded a tiny new colony half a world away. For the next two centuries millions of young men and women from all over the British Isles - but mostly from England - settled in Australia. They brought with them the best traditions of the "mother country", believing that their manifest destiny was to create a new and better Britannia. Yet for the last forty years the cultural fire that these young pioneers carried with them from the British Isles hearth has been assailed from all sides. Whether Anglo-Australia eventually survives or succumbs, its fate may well be a microcosm of what awaits the rest of the British diaspora.