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Brand: Jeremy Paxman
EAN: 9780670919598
Categoria: Libri e riviste

From the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama and Andrew Marr.\n\nThe influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It affects everything, from Prime Ministers' decisions to send troops to war to the adventurers we admire. From the sports we think we're good at to the architecture of our buildings; the way we travel to the way we trade; the hopeless losers we will on, and the food we hunger for, the empire is never very far away.\n\nIn this acute and witty analysis, Jeremy Paxman goes to the very heart of empire. As he describes the selection process for colonial officers ('intended to weed out the cad, the feeble and the too clever') the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer's wife ('the challenge with cooking meat was \"to grasp the fleeting moment between toughness and putrefaction when the joint may possibly prove eatable\"') and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum, Paxman brings brilliantly to life the tragedy and comedy of Empire and reveals its profound and lasting effect on our nation and ourselves.\n\n'Paxman is witty, incisive, acerbic and opinionated . . . In short, he carries the whole thing off with panache bordering on effrontery' Piers Brendon, Sunday Times \n\n'Paxman is a magnificent historian, and Empire may be remembered as his finest work' Independent on Sunday\n\nJeremy Paxman was born in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge. He is an award-winning journalist who spent ten years reporting from overseas, notably for Panorama. He is the author of five books including The English. He is the presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge and has presented BBC documentaries on various subjects including Victorian art and Wilfred Owen.

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Brand: Jeremy Paxman
EAN: 9781846077449
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Jeremy Paxman's unique portrait of the Victorian age takes readers on an exciting journey through the birth of modern Britain. Using the paintings of the era as a starting point, he tells us stories of urban life, family, faith, industry and empire that helped define the Victorian spirit and imagination.\n\nTo Paxman, these paintings were the television of their day, and his exploration of Victorian art and society shows how these artists were chronicling a world changing before their eyes. This enthralling history is Paxman at his best - opinionated, informed, witty, surprising - and a glorious reminder of how the Victorians made us who we are today.

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Brand: Jeremy Paxman
EAN: 9780140237412
Categoria: Libri e riviste

In Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life Jeremy Paxman creates the perfect literary catch for fellow angling enthusiasts in this rich and varied anthology. \n\n'A superb compilation because it roams from carp to cod, trout to tarpon and does not regurgitate the same old clippings' Independent on Sunday.\n\nEach chapter is introduced by Paxman's own sharp, humorous observations and features both contemporary and historical writing about fishing in prose and verse, covering everything from tench tickling to piranha attacks. Some pieces are well known favourites, others are obscure, every one is a delight. \n\nJeremy Paxman is a journalist, best known for his work presenting Newsnight and University Challenge. His books include Empire, On Royalty, The English and The Political Animal. He lives in Oxfordshire.

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Brand: Jeremy Paxman;robert Harris
EAN: 9780099441595
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A Higher Form of Killing was first published to great acclaim in 1982. The authors have written a new Introduction and a new Epilogue to take account of the events that have happened since the early 1980s - including the break-up of the former Soviet Union and the black market that appeared in chemical and biological weapons, the acquisition of these weapons by various Third World states, the attempts of various countries like Iraq to build up arsenals of these weapons and, most recently, the use of these weapons in terrorist attacks. As the authors point out, the two generations since the Second World War lived with the threat of nuclear annihilation. Now a new generation must learn to live with weapons that are more insidious and potentially more devastating.

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Brand: Jeremy Paxman
EAN: 9780141012223
Categoria: Libri e riviste

In On Royalty Jeremy Paxman delves deep into Britain's royal past. What is the point of Kings and Queens? What do they do all day? And what does it mean to be one of them?\n\nJeremy Paxman is used to making politicians explain themselves - but royalty has always been off limits. Until now. He takes a long hard look at our present incumbents to find out just what makes them tick. Along the way he discovers some fascinating and little-known details. Such as:\n\nhow Albania came to advertise in England for a king\n\nwhich English queen gave birth in front of 67 people\n\nhow easy it is to beat up future kings of England \n\nand how meeting the Queen is a bit scary - whoever you are ...\n\nNo other book will tell you quite as much about our kings, queens, princes and princesses: who they are and what they're for.\n\n'Paxman's book is everyhing that royalty is not allowed to be - witty, stylish, intelligent, pugnacious and political. The Times\n\n'On Royalty is an absorbing, well-researched book, part serious enquiry, part rollicking anecdote' Evening Standard \n\n'Action-packed and entertaining' Sunday Telegraph\n\nJeremy Paxman is a journalist, best known for his work presenting Newsnight and University Challenge. His books include Empire, On Royalty, The English and The Political Animal. He lives in Oxfordshire.

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Brand: Jeremy Paxman
EAN: 9780008128364
Categoria: Libri e riviste

From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster\n \n 'A rich social history ... Paxman's book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES\n \n\n\n \n 'Vividly told ... Paxman's fine narrative powers are at their best' THE TIMES\n \n\n\n Coal is the commodity that made Britain. Dirty and polluting though it is, this black rock has acted as a midwife to genius. It drove industry, religion, politics, empire and trade. It powered the industrial revolution, turned Britain into the first urban nation and is the industry that made almost all others possible.\n\n\n In this brilliant social history, Jeremy Paxman tells the story of coal mining in England, Scotland and Wales from Roman times, through the birth of steam power to war, nationalisation, pea-souper smogs, industrial strife and the picket lines of the Miner's Strike.\n\n\n Written in the captivating style of his bestselling book The English, Paxman ranges widely across Britain to explore stories of engineers and inventors, entrepreneurs and industrialists - but whilst coal inevitably helped the rich become richer, the story told by Black Gold is first and foremost a history of the working miners - the men, women and often children who toiled in appalling conditions down in the mines; the villages that were thrown up around the pit-head.\n\n\n Almost all traces of coal-mining have vanished from Britain but with this brilliant history, Black Gold demonstrates just how much we owe to the black stuff.

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Brand: Jeremy Paxman
EAN: 9780141032955
Categoria: Libri e riviste

In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are?\n\nJeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions, Paxman discovers answers to a few others. Like: \n\nWhy do the English actually enjoy feeling persecuted?\n\nWhat is behind the English obsession with games?\n\nHow did they acquire their odd attitudes to sex and to food?\n\nWhere did they get their extraordinary capacity for hypocrisy?\n\nCovering history, attitudes to foreigners, sport, stereotypyes, language and much, much more, The English brims over with stories and anecdotes that provide a fascinating portrait of a nation and its people.\n\n'Intelligent, well-written, informative and funny...A book to chew on, dip into, quote from and exploit in arguments' Andrew Marr, Observer \n\n'Bursting with good things' Daily Telegraph \n\nJeremy Paxman is a journalist, best known for his work presenting Newsnight and University Challenge. His books include Empire, On Royalty, The English and The Political Animal. He lives in Oxfordshire.

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Brand: Jeremy Paxman
EAN: 9780670919635
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.\n\n'If there is one new history of the war that you might actually enjoy this is very likely it' The Times\n\n'Lively, surprising and memorable' Guardian\n\n'A procession of fascinating details' Prospect\n\n'Paxman writes so well and sympathetically and he chooses his detail so deftly' The Times\n\n'Clever, laconic and racy' Daily Telegraph\n\n\nLife in Britain during the First World War was far stranger than many of us realize. In a country awash with mad rumour, frenzied patriotism and intense personal anguish, it became illegal to light a bonfire, fly a kite or buy a round of drinks. And yet the immense upheaval of the war led to many things we take for granted today: the vote, passports, vegetable allotments and British Summer Time among them. In this immensely captivating account, Jeremy Paxman tells the entire story of the war through the experience of those who lived it - nurses, soldiers, politicians, factory-workers, journalists and children - explaining why we fought it so willingly, how we endured it so long, and how it transformed us all.\n\n\n'A profoundly personal and thought-provoking new analysis of the Great War' Mail on Sunday\n\n'One is left with a better understanding of how the Great Britain that began the war became more like ordinary Britain by its end' Sunday Times\n\n'A judicious mix between individual stories and the bigger picture ... engages the mind and emotions' Daily Telegraph\n\n'Particularly good in showing how much a modern perspective distorts our understanding' Prospect\n\n'Incisive, colourful. Paxman delves into every aspect of British life to capture the mood and morale of the nation' Daily Express\n\nJeremy Paxman is a renowned broadcaster, award-winning journalist and the bestselling author of seven works of non-fiction, including The English, The Political Animal and Empire.

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Brand: Barbara Freese
EAN: 9780099478843
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock altered the course of history, perfect for fans of Mark Kurlansky's Salt and Jeremy Paxman's Black Gold. \n\n'A passionate plea for a more considered way of treating the earth, its resources and its inhabitants' DAILY TELEGRAPH\n____________________________________________________________\n\nCoal has transformed societies, fueled economies, and expanded frontiers. It made China a twelfth-century superpower, inspired the writing of the Communist Manifesto, and helped the northern states win the American Civil War. Yet the mundane mineral that built our global economy has also caused death, disease, and environmental destruction. \n\nIn this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins three hundred million years ago and spans the globe. From the 'Great Stinking Fogs' of London to the rat-infested coal mines of Pennsylvania, from the impoverished slums of Manchester to the toxic city streets of Beijing, Coal is a captivating narrative about the simple black rock that helped build our modern world, but now endangers our future. \n____________________________________________________________\n'Elegant and engaging . . . No subject is more important for understanding the recent past, and preparing for the future.' SUNDAY TIMES\n\n'The incredible story of Britain's black goal.' DAILY MAIL\n\n'Eloquent . . . unsparing . . . The relation between carbon and climate change has seldom been so clearly and readably explained.' SCOTSMAN\n\n'As much about the growing scientific evidence of the damage coal causes to the environment as it is about the social history of the Industrial Revolution.' FINANCIAL TIMES\n\n'Freese wants readers to be clear about just how vital coal has been to our era of human development because she hopes to persuade us that it's time to enter a new one.' NEW YORK TIMES \n\n'An absorbing book that never loses its grip.' NEW SCIENTIST\n\n'Fascinating . . . It lingers hauntingly in the mind.' NEW STATESMAN\n\n'As this human history of coal makes clear, there are no easy answers. . . A welcome contribution to the search for a sustainable energy economy.' NATURAL HISTORY

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Brand: Simon Jenkins
EAN: 9781788168816
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022\n\n'Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight' Times\n\n'One of the liveliest commentators in Britain, always worth reading and pleasingly contrarian' Jeremy Paxman, Guardian\n\nWho were the Celts? Were they a people, a civilisation, an empire, or a fiction of historical imagination? They flit as ghosts through Europe's ancient past, purported ancestors of the Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Cornish and Bretons.\nYet they have never been identified with any one land, or with any one history or language.\n\nSimon Jenkins argues compellingly that the 'Celts' is a misleading concept, bundling together quite distinct peoples. The word keltoi first appears in Greek, applied generally to aliens or 'barbarians' - and theories of Celticism continue to fuel many of the prejudices and misconceptions that divide the British Isles to this day. \n\nFascinating and increasingly relevant, who the Celts were - or weren't - goes to the heart of the ongoing argument over the future of a dis-United Kingdom.

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Brand: Cherry Lewis
EAN: 9781785783364
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Billy Connolly says hes no idea who Parkinson was and just wishes he'd kept his disease to himself. He should read this book.' Jeremy Paxman\n\nParkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after. \n\nIn 1817 - exactly 200 years ago - James Parkinson (1755-1824) defined the disease so precisely that we still diagnose it today by recognising the symptoms he identified. The story of this remarkable man's contributions to the Age of the Enlightenment is told through his three passions - medicine, politics and fossils.\n\nAs a political radical Parkinson was interrogated over a plot to kill King George III and revealed as the author of anti-government pamphlets, a crime for which many were transported to Australia; while helping Edward Jenner set up smallpox vaccination stations across London, he wrote the first scientific study of fossils in English, which led to fossil-hunting becoming the nation's latest craze - just a glimpse of his many achievements.\n\nCherry Lewis restores this neglected pioneer to his rightful place in history, while creating a vivid and pungent portrait of life as an 'apothecary surgeon' in Georgian London.

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Brand: Hannah Rose Woods
EAN: 9780753558744
Categoria: Libri e riviste

** A FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR **\n\n'A must read' - Janina Ramirez, bestselling author of Femina\n\n'An eye-opening history of Britain's enduring fixation with its own past' - Jeremy Paxman\n\n'Rule, Nostalgia announces Woods as one of the most interesting new historians of her generation' - Dan Snow\n\n\nLonging to go back to the 'good old days' is nothing new. For hundreds of years, the British have mourned the loss of tradition and called for a revival of 'simpler', 'better' ways of life, from modern politicians indulging in fantasies of an imperial past, to Victorian artists yearning to retreat into a medieval dream of Merry England. But were the 'good old days' ever quite how we remember them?\n\nRule, Nostalgia is a surprising, timely new history of Britain that separates the history from the fantasy and traces back to its origins the powerful influence that nostalgia's perpetual backwards glance has had on British history, politics and society.

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