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Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of illuminated manuscripts that were custom-made for kings and explores the medieval world they reveal. Part 1: Ruling by the Book Janina begins her journey with the first Anglo-Saxon rulers to create a united England, encountering books in the British Library's Royal manuscripts collection which are over a thousand years old and a royal family tree which is five metres long. Janina finds out about a king who had a reputation for chasing nuns and reads a book created as a wedding gift for a ten-year-old prince. She roams from Westminster Abbey to other ancient English spiritual sites such as Winchester, St Albans and Malmesbury, and sees for herself how animal skins can be transformed into the finest vellum. Part 2: What a King Should Know Janina shows how medieval manuscripts gave power to the king and united the kingdom in an age of plague, warfare and rebellion, discovers that Edward III used the manuscripts he read as a boy to prepare him for his great victory at the battle of Crecy and reveals how a vigorous new national identity bloomed during the 100 Years War with France. In the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection Dr Ramirez finds out that magnificent manuscripts like the Bedford Hours, taken as war booty from the French royal family, were adapted for the education of English princes. She also explores how knowledge spread through a new form of book - the encyclopaedia. Part 3: Libraries Gave Us Power The story of the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection reaches its end with the last great flowering of illumination, in the magnificent courts of the Tudors. She investigates astrological texts created for Henry VII, and unwraps his will - still in its original, extravagantly-decorated velvet and gold cover. She hears music written for Henry VIII, which went unperformed for centuries| and reads love notes between the king and Anne Boleyn, written in the margins of a prayer book. Nina also visits Bruges, the source of many of the greatest manuscripts, where this medieval art form collided with the artistic innovations of the Renaissance. （转自mvgroup论坛）。A escaped prisoner kills the wife and son of a former sheriff, Matt Austin, who sent him to jail long ago. Austin rides in pursuit and locates his quarry in a small town saloon. During the ensuing gunfight, an innocent bystander is shot and the murderer escapes. As a penance, the ex-lawman agrees to help the dead rancher's wife fend off a land baron's attempt to steal her property for its valuable water rights. Written by David Bassler。拒绝末日》是国内首部反恐怖巨作——某庞大跨国犯罪集团精心设计的一个震惊世界的罪恶恐怖计划；千钧一发系于一个人记忆的缺失和复原；你中有我，我中有你的情节扑朔迷离…… 美国“9.11”事件的爆发，证明了世界进入21世纪所面临的最大威胁不再是战争、瘟疫和自然灾害，而是国际恐怖主义！该跨国犯罪集团出于政治和商业上的需要决定在中国制造一起震惊世界的恐怖事件：将一向对中国持友好态度的威谦·罗姆夫妇狙杀在中国。为确保“末日行动”的实施，集团派出了世界顶级杀手“病人”和大曼谷鳄鱼，诱杀了中国警方负责保卫罗姆夫妇安全工作的刑警队长徐天昊，并将“大曼谷鳄鱼”以高科技手段整容成徐天昊的模样。当我国警方察觉这一阴谋时这伙恐怖分子已打入了我国警方高层。形势千钧一发，岂料徐天昊死里逃生并凭本能恢复了部分记忆，一场真与假、邪与正、恐怖与反恐怖的较量真正拉开帷幕……。
