A Very British Monster
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A Very British Monster
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Author : Stanley Hope
language : en
Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
Release Date : 1997
A Very British Monster written by Stanley Hope and has been published by Wild Goose Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Emigration and immigration categories.
The author questions the government's immigration policy, maintaining that it is racist and has trickled down and tainted British society in all its spheres. Stanley Hope is secretary of Christian Action for Justice in Immigration (CAJIL).
A Very British Murder
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Author : Lucy Worsley
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-09-12
A Very British Murder written by Lucy Worsley and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-12 with History categories.
This is the story of a national obsession. Ever since the Ratcliffe Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in 'a good murder'. This fascination helped create a whole new world of entertainment, inspiring novels, plays and films, puppet shows, paintings and true-crime journalism - as well as an army of fictional detectives who still enthrall us today. A Very British Murder is Lucy Worsley's captivating account of this curious national obsession. It is a tale of dark deeds and guilty pleasures, a riveting investigation into the British soul by one of our finest historians.
A Very British Ending
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Author : Edward Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-07-15
A Very British Ending written by Edward Wilson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-15 with Fiction categories.
A gripping espionage thriller about an establishment plot to take control of 1970s Britain, by a writer who is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre' 'The thinking person's John le Carré' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Irish Independent 'More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers' Publishers Weekly An MI6 officer, haunted by the ghosts of an SS atrocity, kills a Nazi war criminal in the ruins of a U-boat bunker. The German turns out to be a CIA asset being rat-lined to South America. As a hungry Britain freezes in the winter of 1947, a young cabinet minister negotiates a deal with Moscow trading Rolls-Royce jet engines for cattle fodder and wood. Both have made powerful enemies with long memories. The fates of the two men become entwined as one rises through MI6 and the other to Downing Street. And as Britain stumbles into the mid-1970s, a coup d'etat is imminent. A Very British Ending is the Wolf Hall of power games in modern Britain. Senior MI6 officers, Catesby and Bone, try to outwit a cabal of plotters trying to overthrow the Prime Minister. The author once again reveals the dark underside of the Secret State on both sides of the Atlantic. 'A fantastic read' Culture Matters 'The best espionage story you'll read this year or any other' Crime Review Praise for Edward Wilson: 'Stylistically sophisticated . . . Wilson knows how to hold the reader's attention' W.G. Sebald 'A reader is really privileged to come across something like this' Alan Sillitoe 'All too often, amid the glitzy gadgetry of the spy thriller, all the fast cars and sexual adventures, we lose sight of the essential seriousness of what is at stake. John le Carré reminds us, often, and so does Edward Wilson' Independent
A Very British Family
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Author : Laura Trevelyan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-11-10
A Very British Family written by Laura Trevelyan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-10 with History categories.
'It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the “right people”. The world has given us money enough to enable us to do what we think is right. We thank it for that and ask no more of it, but to be allowed to serve it' G.M. Trevelyan The Trevelyans are unique in British social and political history: a family which for several generations dedicated themselves to the service and chronicling of their country. Often eccentric, priggish, high minded and utterly self-regarding, they have nonetheless left their mark on our past. This engaging history dispassionately explores the lives and achievements of this unique family and the part they played in shaping the history of Great Britain. From their inauspicious beginnings in a small dwelling in Cornwall to the present day, some Trevelyans have been famous and distinguished, others less so, but for a hundred years from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century family members from Lord Macaulay to G.M. Trevelyan contributed to both the writing and the making of history. This book is primarily the tale of the five men who flourished during this period – Charles Edward, George Otto, Charles Philips, George Macaulay and Humphry Trevelyan – and the clever and formidable women they married. Including many vivid portraits of the most influential members of this remarkable family, The Trevelyans casts light on the period of enormous social and cultural change in which they lived and examines why they chose not to simply exploit their position as landed gentry but instead to take their place at the centre of scholarship and politics.
A Very British Crossing Of The Usa
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Author : Clive Randall
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2006-05-01
A Very British Crossing Of The Usa written by Clive Randall and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-01 with Travel categories.
Middle age calls for an adventure. Not an earth shattering adventure, but something a 40 year old father of two can handle. Drive around the United States in a 1948 open top tourer, for more than 9000 miles? It turned out to be a lot harder than it seemed....
Monsters In The Movies
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Author : John Landis
language : en
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Release Date : 2011-12-13
Monsters In The Movies written by John Landis and has been published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-13 with Performing Arts categories.
Be afraid, be very afraid...a century of cinema nightmare with John Landis, in ePub format for iPad From B-movie bogeymen and outer space-oddities to big-budget terrors, Monsters in the Movies by horror film maestro John Landis celebrates the greatest monsters ever to creep, fly, slither, stalk or rampage across the Silver Screen. Feast your eyes on a petrifying parade of voracious vampires, flesh-eating zombies and slavering werewolves as Landis explores the historical origins of archetypal monsters. Now in an ePub-friendly condensed format, Monsters in The Movies is filled with the author's own fascinating and entertaining insights into the world of movie-making along with contributions from some of the world's leading directors including Joe Dante and Guillermo del Toro, actors and special-effects wizards. Illustrated with movie stills and posters from the unrivalled archives of the Kobal Collection, the book will keep you entertained right until the curtain comes down. Get ready to sit on the edge of your seat - Monsters in the Movies is a gripping read.
The Very British Quiz Book
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Author : Geoff Tibballs
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-08-13
The Very British Quiz Book written by Geoff Tibballs and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-13 with Games & Activities categories.
Will you be flummoxed by this Great British distraction? Do you know queuing etiquette? Twenty-one different ways to describe rain? Then this quiz book might be just your cup of tea. Politely challenge yourself, your family and your friends with questions on British culture, language, etiquette, of course, the weather, as well as lots of other essential, quintessential British subjects. Each quiz comprises 21 questions and answers are based on the real results from national surveys and polls. Hours of brain-bamboozling fun for all the family!
Talking With Psychopaths A Journey Into The Evil Mind
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Author : Christopher Berry-Dee
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date : 2024-06-18
Talking With Psychopaths A Journey Into The Evil Mind written by Christopher Berry-Dee and has been published by Diversion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-18 with True Crime categories.
For decades, renowned criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee has interviewed imprisoned, infamous serial killers and now he peels back the curtain, engaging with the psychiatrists tasked to understand their deviant minds. As Berry-Dee dives deeper than ever before, he uncovers a disturbing pattern: the utter lack of remorse displayed by these individuals is often more horrifying than the crimes they’ve committed. Even more alarming, psychoanalysts admit that these murderers have an insidious ability to mask their true nature behind a facade of normalcy. Their behavior defies comprehension, even to the professionals who spend their livelihoods studying these aberrant minds. With gripping narrative and a wealth of research, Talking with Psychopaths: A Journey into the Evil Mind analyzes the darkest corners of the human brain. As Berry-Dee recounts his interviews, he exposes each layer of deception, seeking the best path to find the truth behind a psychopath’s mask.
Secular Foundations Of The Liberal State In Victorian Britain
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Author : William C. Lubenow
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2024-04-16
Secular Foundations Of The Liberal State In Victorian Britain written by William C. Lubenow and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-16 with History categories.
Examines the entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state in Britain. "Modern" Britain emerged from the outcome of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The rather standard Whig account of the long nineteenth century is one of growing stability, progress and improvement. And yet nothing was preordained or inevitable about the period's stability. Ruling elites felt the constant anxieties of revolutionary terrorism. As Lubenow argues, it was a period of disorganization seeking organization. The great nineteenth-century reform acts against religious monopoly were aspects of this process of political organization. While religion did not disappear, these political actions gradually changed the constitutional position of religion. As a result, a political vacuum was created which was then filled by a secular "clerisy". These "fit and proper persons", educated in the reformed universities, qualified by success in competitive examinations, began to fill positions in the Civil Service and in the professions. The effect was to replace the eighteenth-century system of confessional loyalties with a liberal political culture based on merit. Lubenow's latest study examines the work of these intertwining nineteenth-century secular-liberal processes. Steeped deeply in archival research, this book considers biographical characteristics such as education, political connections and social associations, but it is equally conceptually guided by categories such as liberalism and secularism. It fills an important gap in the political history of nineteenth-century British liberalism by taking up the question of entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state.
The Great War
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Author : Herbert Wrigley Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917
The Great War written by Herbert Wrigley Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.