Alun Rees

For time beyond recall Stonehenge has captured the imagination, standing remote and majestic on the horizon of England's Salisbury Plain. Now award-winning journalist and author Alun Rees has drawn together the iconic temple's astonishing secrets; secrets previously hidden from mainstream audiences in academic papers and scholarly publications. He's raised the ghosts of 4500-year-old burials to vividly portray the men and women who inhabited the world of Stonehenge, introducing the farming dynasty who built the first stone circle at the henge, the paramount kings and princesses of the Bronze Age, and the shamanic goldsmiths who crafted their stunning regalia. We learn the incredible story of two American high school students who decoded the sacred geometry of Stonehenge, and the electrifying links between the henge, ancient Sumerian astronomy, and predictive equations still used by NASA to this day. The author also proposes credible answers to the hotly debated riddles of the world's most enigmatic monument. Who built Stonehenge? How and why were eighty Bluestones brought 150 miles from Wales, and was Stonehenge a place of ritual healing? Stonehenge Deciphered offers thrilling insights into the world of prehistoric Britain, and an extraordinary vision of dramatic Solstice ceremonies where the ancients used the stones themselves to mimic constellations and play other-worldly music for their gods.

This volume considers ornamental bulbs, including the related storage organs of corms and tubers. An immense amount of research literature has been distilled, such that general principles are stressed throughout, but common examples are considered in some detail.

"I'm Cardiff born and I'm Cardiff bred, And when I die I'll be Cardiff dead" - Frank Hennessy. Life in the Welsh capital means many things to many people. Frank Hennessy loves it, but others aren't so sure... Editor Meic Stephens was born at Treforest, near Pontypridd, in 1938. Educated at University College, Aberystwyth, he was a French teacher and journalist before becoming Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council in 1967. He founded Poetry Wales in 1965 and edited the magazine for eight years. A poet and editor of numerous books, he has become a university lecturer and a literary agent since retiring from the Arts Council. He is the editor of the Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales (1986) and A Rhondda Anthology (1993), and translator of Gwynfor Evans' autobiography (1996).