THE ATLAS OF THE LAND
by Karen Wynn Fonstad

Here's the perfect companion and guide for Stephen R. Donaldson's celebrated Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.  Karen Wynn Fonstad brings out every detail of the geography of the Land in riveting graphics and engrossing text.

• TOUR THE LAND, WHOSE ONLY SALVATION LAY IN THE HANDS OF ONE UNWILLING HERO!
  Detailed two-color maps showing every place visited by Thomas Covenant in his travels across the Land
• EXPLORE REVELSTONE, ONCE LORD'S KEEP, LATER SEAT OF THE SUNBANE!
  Schematics of the fortress and villages where the people of the Land lived and worked
• FOLLOW THE TREK FROM MITHILSTONE TO REVELSTONE!
  Pathway maps detailing the routes taken by Covenant in his travels across the Land.
• LEARN HOW SOARING WOODHELVEN WAS SHAPED FROM A LIVING TREE!
  Fascinating descriptions of the geography and architecture of the Land

AND LOTS MORE COVERING ALL THE BOOKS IN THE EPIC SERIES!

Karen Fonstad is an experienced cartographer and avid SF/fantasy reader.  She combines both by producing marvelous Atlases of favorite fictional lands.  Her latest book was THE ATLAS OF PERN, published in hardcover and trade paperback by Del Rey Books.  She lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Autumn 1963: a time machine disguised as a battered blue police telephone box made its first appearance on Britain's television screens.  A quarter of a century, seven Doctors, and more than a hundred and fifty stories later, Doctor Who is still going strong.

The Doctor Who Programme Guide is the complete guide to every Doctor Who story shown on television.  The stories are listed in order of broadcasting; each entry includes the storyline, the full cast list, and the names of the producer, script editor, writer and director.

This new edition is updated and revised throughout, with a new forward by John Nathan-Turner, the man who has produced Doctor Who during the 1980's.

Essential reading for every fan of Doctor Who.

THE DOCTOR WHO PLOTS ALL IN ONE BOOK
This intergalactic guide to the adventures of Doctor Who tells the complete story of the Doctor's astounding exploits.  It gives you the plots, cast lists, production teams and dates of the Doctor Who adventures shown on television since 1963.

This book is your TARDIS.  With it you can travel through time and relive all the Doctor's past adventures.  Fight against the Daleks with the Thals!  Join forces with UNIT against the Green Death!  Discover the truth about the Curse of Peladon!  Wrestle with the brain of a renegade Time Lord!

The Doctor Who programme Guide is the key to all the Doctor's adventures.  No Doctor Who library is complete without it.

Also in this series:
The Doctor Who Programme Guide Vol. 2: What's What and Who's Who in Space and Time

WHAT'S WHAT AND WHO'S WHO IN SPACE AND TIME
This is a time-travelling A-Z of all the people, places and facts in the astounding adventures of Doctor Who.  In addition it contains a complete list of Doctor Who films and records, the names of all the Doctor Who book authors and a breakdown of who does what in the BBC Doctor Who production team.

Now at last you can discover exactly how many elephants and tigers the Doctor won at backgammon with Kublai Khan, the precise breeding speed of the Sontarans, the identities of all the Doctor's doubles, and thousands of other pieces of crucial and intriguing information!

The Doctor Who Programme Guide is the key to all the Doctor's adventures.  No Doctor Who library is complete without it.

Also in this series:
The Doctor Who Programme Guide. Vol. 1:  The Doctor Who plots all in one book.

TEACH YOURSELF BOOKS

JAPANESE

A working knowledge of Japanese is an asset that is becomming increasingly valuable all over the world.

This book is designed to take the reader with no previous experience of the language to the point where he is equipped to maintain a conversation on any non-technical subject with confidence.  Romanized spelling is used throughout, and the complexities of the language are introduced gradually, with special chapters on respect language and conversational usage.  Both the constructions and the vocabulary used in the book have been selected to give the student an essential grounding in the language.

A concise working course in Japanese invaluable to student and beginner alike.

TEACH YOURSELF BOOKS/HODDER AND STOUGHTON
Published in the USA by
David McKay Company, Inc.

"For those avid J.R.R. Tolkien fans who have spent time thinking and discussing the moral, religious, psychological, literary and political aspects of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, this book will prove a treat."
- THE A.R.E. JOURNAL
Association for Research and Enlightenment

ELEVEN ESSAYS AND ARTICLES, INCLUDING:

• GOLLUM'S CHARACTER TRANSFORMATION IN THE HOBBIT
  Examines the extensive revisions Tolkien made in the second hardcover edition of The Hobbit and demonstrates how the character of Gollum is made more evil to fit his later role in the trilogy.
  


• THE CORRUPTION OF POWER
  A fascinating study of the use and abuse of power as presented by Tolkien
  


• NARRATIVE PATTERN IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
  In this study of Tolkien's structuring of his fiction, we see how the Master has reversed the usual quest pattern and objectives: instead of seeking an object, Frodo seeks to dispose of one - the ring.
  

SPECIAL FEATURE
GUIDE TO THE NAMES IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
Here are Tolkien's own notes on the derivation and significance of the non-Elvish names in The Lord of the Rings.  Prepared merely as an aid for translators, this listing provides fascinating insight for all Tolkien fans.

TOLKIEN'S WORLD

"This survey of Tolkieniana is filled with the kind of information to gladden a hobbit fancier's heart... it delves into Professor Tolkien's life, the inspiration and sources of The Lord of the Rings, and examines the genre of fantasy romance in general..."
- San Francisco Examiner

"...certain to please the hundreds of thousands of those who have enjoyed the three novels..."
- Best Sellers

- WHAT'S INSIDE -

• The Lives and Times of Professor Tolkien
• How The Lord of the Rings Came to be Written
• The Trilogy - Satire or Allegory?
• Tolkien's Theory of the Fairy Story
• Tolkien's Basic Sources
• On the Naming of Names
• Some People, Places, and Things
• The Men Who Invented Fantasy

- And many more fascinating chapters

Your Guide to Stamp Collecting

"Warman's U.S. Stamps Field Guide, 3rd edition," features photographs of nearly 1,000 color stamps, thousands of listings values for U.S. regular-issue and Airmail stamps from 1847-2013, all providing a compact and enjoyable overview of one of the world's oldest hobbies.