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El verano antes de la guerra

Autor: Helen Simonson

Número de Páginas: 531

La luminosa historia de una familia, una ciudad y un mundo en sus últimos momentos de inocencia. «Una novela para curar la ausencia de Downton Abbey.» The Washington Post El verano de 1914 es uno de los más bellos que se recuerdan en la idílica ciudad inglesa de Rye. Allí acaba de llegar Beatrice Nash con un gran baúl de libros, ansia de independencia y nuevas ideas que pocos en Rye asocian a una profesora de latín. En un descanso de sus estudios de medicina, Hugh Grange se encuentra también en la ciudad visitando a su tía Agatha, una verdadera institución local que se ha jugado su cuidadosamente construida reputación con la contratación de la joven maestra. Pero mientras Beatrice se prepara para descubrir una nueva vida, y quizá el amor, en esta pintoresca comunidad, el verano parece a punto de acabar y lo inimaginable está a punto de comenzar... La crítica ha dicho... «Memorable.» Daily Mail «Un libro con un precioso envoltorio que se convierte en una historia de dignidad y coraje... Simonson tiene una mirada observadora y un don para la comedia... Los seguidores de Downton Abbey suspirarán de placer.» Kirkus Reviews «Hay un resplandor nostálgico y...

Los hombres de Wilmet

Autor: Barbara Pym

Número de Páginas: 262

Cumplidos los treinta, la seducción es también un ejercicio de voluntad, y casi cualquier mujer agradece el cumplido de un hombre que casi no conoce. Eso es el caso de Wilmet Forsyth, casada con Rodney, un funcionario más pendiente de su trabajo que de su esposa. Esa señora alta y distinguida, que ama los trajes color café y los collares de coral, lleva una vida de lo más convencional, confortable y, ante todo, aburrida: va de compras, asiste regularmente a la iglesia y pasa más tiempo con su suegra que con su marido. Para entretenerse, decide asistir a las clases de portugués que imparte Piers Longridge, el hermano de una de sus mejores amigas. Justo cuando el profesor comienza a flirtear con ella, el marido de su amiga también decide citarla y dedicarle todo tipo de halagos. Un tanto sorprendida, Wilmet acepta el juego de ambos y empieza a fantasear con la posibilidad de un romance extramatrimonial, pero más allá de un par de paseos y de alguna llamada telefónica, nada parece concretarse. Finalmente, un buen día otro hombre aparece en el horizonte... Algo ha cambiado, así que Wilmet vuelve a su vida matrimonial con un entusiasmo renovado y sin renunciar nunca a esa ...

El ladrón de tatuajes

Autor: Alison Belsham

Número de Páginas: 404

El thriller más impactante y adictivo de la temporada. Un inspector al frente de su primer caso.Una tatuadora con un oscuro secreto.Y un asesino afilando su cuchillo para volver a la caza. Un cuerpo desollado en un contenedor de Brighton es una mala noticia. Pero también la oportunidad perfecta para que un ambicioso policía recién ascendido pueda demostrar a sus superiores que la confianza que han depositado en él está justificada —y de paso cerrar la boca a su compañero, con más años de servicio y resentido por no haber sido promocionado para el puesto—. Así que el inspector Francis Sullivan necesita a toda costa resolver el crimen, obra de uno de los más salvajes y retorcidos asesinos en serie de la historia del país. Como descubrirá enseguida, la pieza clave tiene nombre y apellido, Marni Mullins, la tatuadora que encontró el cadáver y que lo sabe absolutamente todo sobre la extraña alquimia de la sangre y la tinta. Pero Marni tiene un tormentoso pasado y motivos de sobra para desconfiar de la justicia... El ladrón de tatuajes es un vertiginoso y adictivo thriller rebosante de oscuridad y con toda la potencia narrativa de los mejores exponentes del género.

La institutriz real

Autor: Wendy Holden

Número de Páginas: 437

Wendy Holden revive en esta novela los años de infancia de la reina Isabel II y da a conocer a la vivaz institutriz que la convirtió en el icono que hoy conocemos. En 1933 la joven Marion Crawford acepta el empleo de su vida como institutriz de las princesas Lilibet y Margarita. La única condición que pone a los padres de las niñas, los duques de York, es poder aportar ciertas dosis de normalidad a sus protegidas y privilegiadas vidas. En el palacio de Buckingham, el castillo de Windsor y Balmoral, Marion desafía el estricto protocolo para llevar a las princesas en metro, a nadar en piscinas públicas y en divertidas salidas para hacer compras navideñas en Woolworths. Desde un lugar privilegiado en el corazón de la monarquía británica, Marion es testigo de los acontecimientos más trascendentales de la historia del siglo xx: el impacto de la abdicación, el glamur de la coronación, el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial… Ella acompaña a las princesas en esos momentos cruciales y se convierte en una figura tan cercana como una madre. Aun en los días más oscuros de Gran Bretaña, con los aviones de Hitler sobrevolando Windsor, Marion protege a las niñas en las...

QualityLand 2.0

Autor: Marc-uwe Kling

Número de Páginas: 456

¿Todavía no conoces QualityLand? Es ese universo descacharrante que tanto se parece a nuestro mundo actual. «Delirante a la par que escalofriante.» Laura Fernández, El País «Una novela que renueva la sátira europea, entre Orwell y Monty Python ... De esos títulos llamados a marcar a una generación de lectores.» Xavi Ayén, La Vanguardia «Sátira distópica, inquietante y visionaria sobre un mundo 'perfecto' donde los poderosos algoritmos hacen realidad todos los caprichos del ciudadano.» Anna Abella, El Periódico En QualityLand —ese maravilloso lugar donde los algoritmos deciden qué quieres o qué pareja te conviene—, las aguas parecen haber vuelto a su cauce y Peter Sinempleo (recuerden, en QualityLand el apellido es el oficio de tu padre cuando te concibió) trabaja ahora como terapeuta de máquinas con graves problemas psicológicos. Martyn (presidente de la Fundación del Consejo de Administración del Comité Directivo de la Oficina Presidencial), después de su «pequeño incidente» con el presidente anterior (bueno, al fin y al cabo solo era un androide), trata desesperadamente de subir niveles para tener derecho al olvido. Pero Kiki, esa atractiva joven ...

Coloso

Autor: Niall Ferguson

Número de Páginas: 1598

Un recorrido por la historia del poder de los Estados Unidos a lo largo del siglo XX. ¿Puede Estados Unidos considerarse el imperio decisivo de las últimas décadas? A lo largo de la Historia sus presidentes lo han negado reiteradas veces, algo totalmente absurdo para Ferguson que, en este brillante y provocativo ensayo, argumenta que Estados Unidos no solo responde a las características propias de un imperio sino que posiblemente representa el mayor poder imperial que haya conocido el mundo, tanto en los ámbitos económico como militar. Imitando al Imperio Británico del siglo XIX, Estados Unidos aspiró a globalizar el libre mercado, el mandato de la Ley, y el modelo de democracia representativa. Sin embargo el imperio americano carece de tres de los rasgos básicos que conformaron el imperialismo británico: necesita importar capital del resto del mundo para financiar su déficit fiscal y comercial, no posee el número necesario de militares y diplomáticos para hacer de policía del mundo, y no tiene la voluntad decidida para perseverar en sus aventuras internacionales. En Coloso, Niall Ferguson traza la historia del poder de Estados Unidos a lo largo del siglo XX y revela ...

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

Autor: Janice Hadlow

Número de Páginas: 860

An intensely moving account of George III’s doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer.

LOS MALVADOS DE BATTERSEA

Autor: Joan Aiken

Número de Páginas: 0

Después de la inolvidable Los lobos de Willoughby Chase , esta es la siguiente entrega de la serie que Joan Aiken ambientó en una imaginaria Inglaterra del siglo XIX, en la que gobierna un rey estuardo y los lobos corren a sus anchas por los valles y bosques de la isla. Un auténtico clásico moderno de la narrativa de aventuras. Simon llega a Londres con la ilusión de estudiar pintura, pero el amigo que debía acogerlo en su habitación ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Convencido de que los caseros ocultan algo, Simon se propone aclarar el misterio y pronto se verá envuelto en un maquiavélico complot ideado por un grupo de rufianes que intentan derrocar al rey Jacobo y acabar con los duques de Battersea, en cuya mansión trabaja su vieja amiga Sophie. Es una época de villanos implacables, en la que los peligros afloran por doquier, entre ellos los lobos salvajes, pasteles envenenados y hasta un naufragio. Aun así, lo más inesperado está por llegar: tras el laberinto de intrigas e infortunios que lo acosan, Simon descubrirá una verdad tan asombrosa como desconcertante. La crítica ha dicho... «Sencillamente, una maravilla.» The New Yorker «Un derroche de insólitas...

Spectacles

Autor: Sue Perkins

Número de Páginas: 274

Discover the woman behind the spectacles in the hilarious, incredibly moving memoir from much loved comedian, writer and presenter Sue Perkins, star of Mel & Sue and The Great British Bake Off 'Very funny. Reading her memoir is very like meeting her' Sunday Times 'Tight & bright & full of inspiration' Chris Evans, Radio 2 When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. What I found was that she hadn't kept some of it. She had kept all of it - every bus ticket, postcard, school report - from the moment I was born to the moment I finally had the confidence to turn round and say 'Why is our house full of this shit?' Sadly, a recycling 'incident' destroyed the bulk of this archive. This has meant two things: firstly, Dear Reader, you will never get to see countless drawings of wizards, read a poem about corn on the cob, or marvel at the kilos of brown flowers I so lovingly pressed as a child. Secondly, it's left me with no choice but to actually write this thing myself. This, my first ever book, will answer questions such as 'Is Mary Berry real?', 'Is it true you wear a surgical truss?' and 'Is a non-spherically symmetric gravitational pull from ...

The Routledge History of Loneliness

Autor: Katie Barclay , Elaine Chalus , Deborah Simonton

Número de Páginas: 711

The Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development across cultures from the seventeenth century to the present. Bringing together thirty scholars from various disciplines, including history, anthropology, philosophy, literature and art history, the volume considers how loneliness was represented in art and literature, conceptualised by philosophers and writers and described by people in their personal narratives. It considers loneliness as a feeling so often defined in contrast to sociability and affective connections, particularly attending to loneliness in relation to the family, household and community. Acknowledging that loneliness is a relatively novel term in English, the book explores its precedents in ideas about solitude, melancholy and nostalgia, as well as how it might be considered in cross-cultural perspectives. With wide appeal to students and researchers in a variety of subjects, including the history of emotions, social sciences and literature, this volume brings a critical historical perspective to an emotion with contemporary significance. Chapter [#] of this book is freely ...

A History of Britain - Volume 1

Autor: Simon Schama

Número de Páginas: 386

Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties. What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? Has British history unfolded 'at the edge of the world' or right at the heart of it? Schama delivers these themes in a form that is at once traditional and excitingly fresh. The great and the wicked are here - Becket and Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn - but so are countless more ordinary lives: an Irish monk waiting for the plague to kill him in his cell at Kilkenny; a small boy running through the streets of London to catch a glimpse of Elizabeth I. The first in a series, this volume paints a rich and vivid portrait of the life of the British people and their nation.

La dieta FastDiet

Autor: Dr Michael Mosley , Mimi Spencer

Número de Páginas: 240

¿Es posible comer normalmente cinco días por semana y, como resultado, volverse más delgado y más sano? La respuesta sencilla es, sí. Lo único que hay que hacer es limitar el número de calorías que ingiere durante dos días a la semana a 500 calorías para las mujeres y 600 para los hombres. Perderá peso rápidamente y sin dificultades con la dieta FastDiet. Estudios científicos de ayunadores intermitentes demuestran que si come 5 días a la semana y ayuna 2, no sólo perderá libras rápidamente, sino que también reducirá su riesgo de una serie de enfermedades como la diabetes, la enfermedad cardiovascular e incluso el cáncer. Basándose en los resultados recogidos a partir de una nueva investigación sin precedentes este libro crea un programa de dieta que se puede incorporar a una vida ocupada. Incluye: • Cuarenta menús de 500 y 600 calorías que son rápidos y fáciles de preparar. Lejos de ser una dieta más, la dieta FastDiet es una forma nueva de pensar sobre la comida, un estilo de vida que podría transformar su salud. Esta es su guía indispensable para la pérdida de peso simple y eficaz, sin aspavientos y sin la necesidad de privarse.

La neuva vida de Miss Bennet

Autor: Colleen Mccullough

Número de Páginas: 429

Las protagonistas de Orgullo y prejuicio, veinte años después. Mary, la pequeña de las hermanas Bennet, no quiere llevar una vida sujeta a las convenciones sociales: no contempla casarse, como han hecho sus hermanas, ni desea caer en la rutina de una existencia oscura e infeliz. Sin responsabilidades familiares, aprovechará su libertad para viajar y escribir un libro que denuncie la situación de los más desfavorecidos. Su peregrinaje será mucho más complicado de lo que ella nunca imaginó...

Blood and Guts

Autor: Richard Hollingham

Número de Páginas: 267

Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other previously undreamed of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of selfless men working tirelessly in the pursuit of medical advancement. Instead it's a bloodstained tale of blunders, arrogance, mishap and murder. In trying to keep us alive, surgeons have all too often killed us off, and life-saving solutions have often come from the most surprising places. Accompanying a BBC series, Blood and Guts is an incredible story of stolen corpses, medical fraud, lobotomized patients - and every now and then courageous advances that have saved the lives of millions around the world. You may think twice before going under the knife...

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Autor: Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey

Número de Páginas: 320

"This work explores how, through shifts in narrative tone and pacing at the conclusions of her novels, Jane Austen gives her readers the happy ending they crave, but leaves its price tag attached"--

Guida pettegola al Settecento inglese

Autor: Francesca Sgorbati Bosi

Número de Páginas: 310

Episodi, aneddoti, scandali ed esistenze più o meno note, racconti vivaci che riservano più di qualche sorpresa, utili a sfatare gli stereotipi sugli inglesi e sull’Inghilterra del diciottesimo secolo. Una Guida in grado di restituire lo spirito del tempo, di fornire un affresco ampio e particolareggiato di un’epoca, di un popolo, di una società.

El nazi perfecto

Autor: Martin Davidson

Número de Páginas: 575

Todas las familias tienen sus secretos. ¿Pero qué sucede cuando, investigando a un abuelo encantador, el detective se encuentra con una ilustración del mal? Durante más de cincuenta años, la familia de este nazi perfecto había conseguido guardar el secreto, hasta que su nieto escocés decidió enfrentarse a la verdad. Y se dedicó a investigar quién y qué había sido realmente su abuelo materno, un joven dentista de Berlín que a los diecinueve años ya era un nazi ferviente y militante. Pero el propósito de su autor también es iluminar el mal que hasta los hombres insignificantes pueden hacer en las épocas en que la historia enloquece... «Un libro valiente y repulsivo a la vez... sobre las circunstancias que llevaron a personas comunes y corrientes a hundirse en la locura hitleriana, y convertirse en monstruos» (Mark Smith, Herald Scotland).

Nyxia

Autor: Scott Reintgen

Número de Páginas: 0

"Olvida tu idea de lo imposible."--Subtitle from cover.

El imperio británico

Autor: Niall Ferguson

Número de Páginas: 717

El brillante historiador británico, Niall Ferguson, muestra cómo en la historia del imperio británico se encuentran numerosas lecciones aplicables a la realidad histórica de nuestros días. ¿Cómo una pequeña y lluviosa isla del norte del Atlántico pudo construir el imperio más grande de la historia? El imperio británico logró, desde las primeras rutas marítimas y comerciales del siglo XVIII hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la independencia de la India, uno de los dominios más impresionantes que ha conocido la historia de la humanidad. Gracias a una magnífica flota mercantil y militar y a una innegable voluntad política, los británicos consiguieron extender su poder desde sus escarpadas costas hasta los remotos confines de Asia, África y la India, logrando una unidad geopolítica y administrativa pocas veces vista. Polémico y apasionado, este brillante trabajo de síntesis histórica aborda temas como el auge del consumismo provocado por la demanda de café, té, tabaco y azúcar, la mayor migración en masa de la historia, el impacto de los misioneros, el triunfo del capitalismo o la extensión de la lengua inglesa. Prestando atención a los detalles sobre el...

Presenting History

Autor: Peter J. Beck

Número de Páginas: 357

Who reads academic histories? Should historians reach out more beyond academia to the general public? Why do Hollywood films, historical novels and television histories prove more successful in presenting the past to a wider audience? What can historians do to improve their effectiveness in reaching and engaging their target audience in a digital age? The way history is presented to an audience is often taken for granted, even ignored. Presenting History explores the vital role played by presenters in both establishing why history matters in today's world and communicating the past to audiences within and outside academia. Through case studies of leading historians, historical novelists, Hollywood filmmakers and television history presenters, this book looks critically at alternative literary and visual ways of presenting the past as both academic history and popular history. Historians discussed include Stephen Ambrose, Niall Ferguson, Eric Hobsbawm, Robert A. Rosenstone, Simon Schama, Joan Wallach Scott and A.J.P. Taylor. Chapter topics include Hollywood and history; Michael Bellesiles' controversial history of gun rights in the USA; Philippa Gregory's historical novels;...

La historia de los judíos

Autor: Simon Schama

Número de Páginas: 1332

La esperada segunda entrega de la inteligente y apasionada cronología sobre el pueblo judío. La historia de los judíos también es la historia de la humanidad. Ahora que miles de personas se están viendo obligadas a abandonar su país de origen y recorrer un angustioso trayecto en busca de un nuevo hogar, cabe contemplar con un renovado interés el exilio que tuvieron que emprender los judíos hace más de quinientos años. Este segundo volumen titulado Pertenencia es una magnífica historia cultural de una intensa viveza, llena de energía, carácter y color. En él, Simon Schama abarca varios siglos y continentes: a partir de la expulsión de los judíos de España en 1492 navega entre milagros y masacres, pasando por el vagabundeo, la discriminación, la armonía y la tolerancia, y llega al inicio del siglo XX, que marcará un punto de inflexión al antojarse en sus primeros años profundamente esperanzador Aquí se relatan no solo las historias de rabinos y filósofos, sino también de una poetisa en el gueto de Venecia, un boxeador en la Inglaterra georgiana, un general en la China de los Ming o un compositor de ópera en la Alemania del siglo XIX. La narración se...

A Blackmailer at Frogmore

Autor: James Travers

Número de Páginas: 402

Explore the compelling story of royal scandal and the power of blackmailing literature in the Regency era.

Wordy

Autor: Simon Schama

Número de Páginas: 438

‘Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall for memory pieces. And informing everything a rich sense of the human comedy and the ways it plays through historical time. It's also a reflection on writers who have been shamelessly gloried in verbal abundance; the performing tumble of language - those who have especially inspired me - Dickens and Melville; Joyce and Marquez.’ Simon Schama Sir Simon Schama has been at the forefront of the arts, political commentary, social analysis and historical study for over forty years. As a teacher of Art History and an award-winning television presenter of iconic history-based programming, Simon is equally a prolific bestselling writer and award-winning columnist for many of the world’s foremost publishers, broadsheet newspapers, periodicals and magazines. His commissioned subjects over the years have been numerous and wide ranging – from the music of Tom Waits, to the works of Sir...

History on Television

Autor: Ann Gray , Erin Bell

Número de Páginas: 258

This interdisciplinary study of history programming identifies and examines different genres employed by producers and tracks their commissioning, production, marketing and distribution histories. With comparative references to other European nations and North America, the authors focus on British history programming over the last two decades and analyse the relationship between the academy and media professionals. They outline and discuss often-competing discourses about how to 'do' history and the underlying assumptions about who watches history programmes. History on Television considers recent changes in the media landscape, which have affected to a great degree how history in general, and whose history in particular, appears onscreen.

The Story of the Jews

Autor: Simon Schama

Número de Páginas: 516

It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents – from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to unimagined places: to a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia; a Syrian synagogue glowing with radiant wall paintings; the palm groves of the Jewish dead in the Roman catacombs. And its voices ring loud and clear, from the severities and ecstasies of the Bible writers to the love poems of wine bibbers in a garden in Muslim Spain. Within these pages, the Talmud burns in the streets of Paris, massed gibbets hang over the streets of medieval London, a Majorcan illuminator redraws the world; candles are lit, chants are sung, mules are packed, ships loaded with spice and gems founder at sea. And a great story unfolds. Not – as often imagined – of a culture apart, but of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyptians to the Greeks, from the Arabs to the Christians. Which makes the story of the Jews...

Making History

Autor: Richard Cohen

Número de Páginas: 686

A “supremely entertaining” (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history—from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns—and how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as “objective” history? In this “witty, wise, and elegant” (The Spectator), book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses, such as the writers of the Bible, novelists, and political propagandists, influence what becomes the accepted record. Cohen argues, for example, that some historians are practitioners of “Bad History” and twist reality to glorify themselves or their country. “Scholarly, lively, quotable, up-to-date, and fun” (Hilary Mantel, author of the bestselling Thomas Cromwell trilogy), Making History investigates the published works and private utterances of our greatest chroniclers to discover the agendas that informed their—and our—views of the world. From the origins of history writing, when such an activity itself seemed revolutionary, through to...

George III

Autor: Andrew Roberts

Número de Páginas: 741

The Times Book of the Year *Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, 2022* *Winner of the General Society of Colonial Wars' Distinguished Book Award, 2021* *Winner of the History Reclaimed Book of the Year, 2022* *Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, 2021* Andrew Roberts, one of Britain's premier historians, overturns the received wisdom on George III George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king' (W.E.H. Lecky, nineteenth century), 'one of England's most disastrous kings' (J.H. Plumb, twentieth century) and as the pompous monarch of the musical Hamilton (twenty-first century). Andrew Roberts's magnificent new biography takes entirely the opposite view. It portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty. He was a devoted husband and family man, a...

A History of the British Isles

Autor: Kenneth L. Campbell

Número de Páginas: 479

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 A History of the British Isles is a balanced and integrated political, social, cultural and religious history of the British Isles in all its complexity, exploring the constantly evolving dialogue and relationship between the past and the present. A wide range of topics and questions are addressed for each period and territory discussed, including England's Wars of the Roses of the 15th century and their influence on court politics during the 16th century; Ireland's Rebellion of 1798, the Potato Famine of the 1840s and the Easter Rising of 1916; the two World Wars and the Great Depression; British cultural and social change during the 1960s; and the history and future of the British Isles in the present day. Kenneth Campbell integrates the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales by exploring common themes and drawing on comparative examples, while also demonstrating how those histories are different, making this a genuinely integrated text. Campbell's approach allows readers to appreciate the history of the British Isles not just for its own sake, but for the purposes of understanding our current political divisions, our world and...

The First World War

Autor: Hew Strachan

Número de Páginas: 528

‘Quite simply the best short history of the war in print . . . Strachan has emerged as the master of us all who write of war in English’ Dennis Showalter A brilliant and penetrating new history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued with a new introduction from the author. The popular view of the First World War is dominated by cliché: young British soldiers, many of them budding poets, led to early and ghastly deaths in muddy wastes by incompetent generals for reasons that were seemingly futile. As this magisterial new one volume history of the war illustrates, however, the cliché is only part of the truth. Hew Strachan argues that the war had become a ‘world war’ long before the involvement of the United States, and that for those liberal countries struggling to defend their freedoms, the war was far from futile. Accessible, compelling and utterly convincing, this is modern history writing at its finest. Accessible, compelling and utterly convincing, this is modern history writing at its finest.

The FastDiet - Revised & Updated

Autor: Dr Michael Mosley , Mimi Spencer

Número de Páginas: 256

The #1 New York Times bestseller Is it possible to eat normally, five days a week, and become slimmer and healthier as a result? Simple answer: yes. You just limit your calorie intake for two nonconsecutive days each week—500 calories for women, 600 for men. You’ll lose weight quickly and effortlessly with the FastDiet. Scientific trials of intermittent fasters have shown that it will not only help the pounds fly off, but also reduce your risk of a range of diseases from diabetes to cardiovascular disease and even cancer. “The scientific evidence is strong that intermittent fasting can improve health,” says Dr. Mark Mattson, Chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences, National Institute on Aging, and Professor of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University. This book brings together the results of new, groundbreaking research to create a dietary program that can be incorporated into your busy daily life, featuring: • Forty 500- and 600-calorie meals that are quick and easy to make • 8 pages of photos that show you what a typical “fasting meal” looks like • The cutting-edge science behind the program • A calorie counter that makes dieting easy • And much more. Far...

Empire

Autor: Niall Ferguson

Número de Páginas: 681

Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire 'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan Morris Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. 'The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson examines the roles of "pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts" in the creation of history's largest empire ... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit' Andrew Roberts 'Dazzling ... wonderfully readable' New York Review of...

Coast: Our Island Story

Autor: Nicholas Crane

Número de Páginas: 340

Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports share waterfronts with imposing fortifications. And the people who have lived, worked and played on this spectacular coast - from Stone Age fishermen to seafarers, chart-makers and surfers - have an incredible tale to tell. Coast: Our Island Story is an enthralling account, sparkling with geography, history, adventure and eccentric characters, told with Nick Crane's trademark charisma and wit.

Getting Our Way

Autor: Christopher Meyer

Número de Páginas: 387

A highly informed insider's account of some of the 'honest men' as they sought, by fair means or foul, to get Britain its way in the world. GETTING OUR WAY recounts nine stories from Britain's diplomatic annals over the last five hundred years, in which the diplomats themselves are at the centre of the narrative. It is an inside account of their extraordinary experiences, sometimes in the face of physical danger, often at history's hinge. Be it Henry Killigrew's mission to Edinburgh in 1572, Castlereagh at the Congress of Vienna, Our Man in Washington and the Nassau Deal, or the handover of Hong Kong to China, we can see how Britain has viewed its interests in the world and sought to advance them. Some of these dramatic episodes record triumph, some failure, but all of them illustrate how the three pillars of the national interest - security, prosperity and values - have been the foundation of British foreign policy for half a century. Each story is illuminated by colourful anecdotes and insights drawn from Christopher Meyer's first-hand experience of international relations. Moreover, the book is a salutary reminder that foreign policy and diplomacy begin and end with the...

Televising History

Autor: E. Bell , A. Gray

Número de Páginas: 278

This volume brings together scholars from across Europe to critically examine TV history programming in a period of political, economic and cultural change. They look at links between programming and national identity, consider the representation of minorities, and explore a range of televisual genres and techniques.

The Long Shadow

Autor: David Reynolds

Número de Páginas: 488

In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to personal tragedies, however moving, we have lost the big picture: the history has been distilled into poetry. In TheLong Shadow, critically acclaimed author David Reynolds seeks to redress the balance by exploring the true impact of 1914-18 on the 20th century. Some of the Great War's legacies were negative and pernicious but others proved transformative in a positive sense. Exploring big themes such as democracy and empire, nationalism and capitalism and re-examining the differing impacts of the War on Britain, Ireland and the United States,TheLong Shadowthrows light on the whole of the last century and demonstrates that 1914-18 is a conflict that Britain, more than any other nation, is still struggling to comprehend. Stunningly broad in its historical perspective, The Long Shadowis a magisterial and seismic re-presentation of the Great War.

The Politics of English Nationhood

Autor: Michael Kenny

Número de Páginas: 321

Provides an overview of the evidence, research, and major arguments relating to the revival of Englishness and its varied political ramifications and dimensions.

The Top Gear Story - The 100% Unofficial Story of the Most Famous Car Show... In The World

Autor: Martin Roach

Número de Páginas: 210

From humble beginnings as a 1970s motoring show, Top Gear has gone on to achieve diesel-powered world domination. After Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman successfully pitched a new format to BBC bosses, Top Gear returned to become the irreverent, funny and often controversial show we now know and love. The Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, the Cool Wall and Power Laps by the mysterious Stig have all become staples of Britain's favourite Sunday evening entertainment. Recent series have been defined by their madcap challenges such as driving across Africa in clapped-out bangers - with predictably hilarious results. However, the show's most shocking moment came in 2006, when Hammond suffered serious head injuries while driving a Vampire turbojet drag racing car at over 300mph. Clarkson, Hammond and May; they are the politically-incorrect-joking, stone-washed-denim-wearing, bloke-hero trio for the modern(ish) age. This brilliant, detailed book is fitting tribute to the show, its presenters and its most memorable moments.

George IV (Penguin Monarchs)

Autor: Stella Tillyard

Número de Páginas: 122

George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad. 'The days are very long when you have nothing to do' he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. He presided over the creation of the Regency style, which came to epitomise the era, and he was, with Charles I, the most artistically literate of all our kings. Yet despite his life of luxury and indulgence, George died alone and unmourned. Stella Tillyard has not written a judgemental book, but a very human and enjoyable one, about this most colourful of all British kings.

Miranda Hart - The Biography

Autor: Sophie Johnson

Número de Páginas: 288

With no fewer than three gongs at the 2011 British Comedy Awards, Miranda Hart was crowned the Queen of Comedy. She had become something of a national treasure, yet thrust into the nation's living rooms (and hearts) with her self-titled sitcom; her success did not happen over night. For the first time, author Sophie Johnson reveals the story behind Miranda's rise to fame. The comedian was born in Torquay in 1972, yet despite graduating in politics from Bristol Polytechnic, she always wanted to be a comedian. Her inspiration includes the likes of Joyce Grenfell and Eric Morecombe. Miranda's story is followed through other TV roles such as The Vicar of Dibley, Nighty Night, Hyperdrive and Not Going Out--before Miranda Hart's Joke Shop was commissioned by BBC Radio 2 and the first episode of her sitcom finally broadcast in November 2009. Miranda Hart is the newest comedy legend to capture the imagination of the public--this is her full, unauthorized story.

The Fast Diet

Autor: Dr Michael Mosley , Mimi Spencer

Número de Páginas: 177

**AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4** Is it possible to eat well, most of the time, and get slimmer and healthier as you do it? With The Fast Diet it is. Dr Mosley's Fast Diet has become the health phenomenon of our times. And for good reason. This radical approach to weight loss really is as simple as it sounds. You eat normally for five days a week, then for just two days you cut your calorie intake (600 for men, 500 for women).In this fully revised edition, Michael Mosley introduces the science behind the diet, with exciting new research into the wider health benefits of intermittent fasting including studies on asthma, eczema and diabetes. Mimi Spencer, award-winning food and fashion writer, then explains how to incorporate fasting into your daily life, with a wealth of new detail on the psychology of successful dieting. She presents a range of enticing new recipes, along with an easy Fast Diet shopping list and a user-friendly calorie counter to help you sail through your Fast Days. Whether you're a committed faster or a new recruit to the Fast Diet, this revised edition is a must.