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Faber & Faber Access All Areas
Book Synopsis** PRE-ORDER LENNY HENRY''S NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY RISING TO THE SURFACE NOW ** Sir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They told him that only 29.5% of the United Kingdom's population is made up of white, heterosexual, able-bodied men; so, he wonders, why do they still make up the vast majority of people we see in our media?Joining forces with the former Chair of the Royal Television Society's Diversity Committee Marcus Ryder, he draws on decades of experience to reveal why recent efforts to diversify media have been thus far ineffective, and why they are simply not enough. With wit, humour and unflinching gravitas they analyse the flaws of current diversity initiatives, point out the structural and financial imbalances working against the cause, and provide clear solutions to get the media industry back on track.Access All Areas is an urgent, actionable manifesto that
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Faber & Faber Teenage
Book SynopsisONE OF DAVID BOWIE''S TOP 100 MUST READ BOOKSTHE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE 2013 DOCUMENTARY FILM TEENAGEWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHORThe acclaimed history of the century and a half of ferment, folly and angst that resulted in the arrival of the teenager' in 1945, from award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage. ''One of Britain''s most trusted cultural historians.''THE FACERinging with music, from ragtime to swing, Teenage roams London, New York, Paris and Berlin with hooligans and Apaches; explores free love and eternal youth; meets flappers and zootsuiters, the Bright Young People and the Lost Generation. The stories come fast and furious, comic, poignant, painfully moving; Savage fuses popular culture, politics and social history into a stunning chronicle of modern life. ''Compulsive reading . . . a rich, rewarding book that makes an important contribution to cultural histo
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Faber & Faber Hollywood
Book SynopsisHollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century.What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood''s history is that it is the history of an art form through the words of those people who created it - from Harold Lloyd to Katharine Hepburn to Warren Beatty to Jane Fonda and beyond, including directors, writers, producers, editors, designers of sets and costumes.As such, the authenticity of the text is irrefutable.The material in the book - gathered over the decades by the American Film Institute - has never been published before, has never been heard before.It is comprehensive - a monument that will never age nor be surpassed.
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Faber & Faber Hollywood
Book SynopsisEssential . . . thrilling . . . invaluable.' Irish TimesAbsorbing . . . rippling with fun and atmosphere.' Sight & SoundHollywood''s ultimate oral history.' New YorkerThe greatest conversation in the history of Hollywood.From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present day. Hollywood: The Oral History, lets a reader listen in' on candid remarks from the biggest names in front of the camera Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Jane Fonda, Harold Lloyd the biggest behind it Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Jordan Peele, as well as the musicians, writers, sound men, editors, make-up artists, and even script timers, messengers, and publicists who shaped what was heard and seen on screen.Legendary film scholar Jeanine Basinger and New York Times bestselling author Sam Wasson have undertaken the monumental task of weaving these thousands of hours of talk into a conversation that is lively, funny, insightful, historically accurate and authentically honest in its portrait of workaday Hollywood.
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Faber & Faber Revolutionary Acts
Book SynopsisA TLS AND GQ BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESAnnouncing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures Black gay Britain as never before.''A fascinating, lively and illuminating social history . . . remarkable.'' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, TLS (Books of the Year)''Extraordinary.'' SHON FAYE''Groundbreaking.'' GUARDIAN''Beautifully woven.'' i NEWS''Gorgeous, gossipy.'' EVENING STANDARD''A rich, vital story.'' FRIEZE''A triumph.'' GAY TIMES***In this landmark work, Jason Okundaye meets an elder generation of Black gay men and finds a spirited community full of courage, charisma and good humour, hungry to tell its past of nightlife, resistance, political fights, loss, gossip, sex, romance and vulgarity. Through their conversations he seeks to reconcile the Black and gay narratives of Britain, narratives frequently cleaved as distinct and unrelated.Tracing these men's journeys and arrivals to South London through the seventies, eighties and nineties from the present day, Okundaye relays their stories with rare compassion, listening as they share intimate memories and reflect upon their lives. They endured and fought against the peak of the AIDS epidemic, built social groups and threw underground parties; they went to war with institutions (and with each other) and created meaning within a society which was often indifferent to their existence.Revolutionary Acts renders a singular portrait of Britain from the perspective of those buffeted by the winds of marginalisation and discrimination. It is a portrait marked by resilience and self-determination, inspired by the love and beauty Black men have found in each other.***A sparkling book that is all the more remarkable for being the author''s first. Okundaye is an outstanding guide to what it means to be black and gay in Britain, providing a perspective to the last four decades that is as revelatory as it is important.'PETER FRANKOPAN''In this seminal book Okundaye gives us juicy dialogue, tears and laughter, and vivid landscapes of memory.'MENDEZ, author of Rainbow MilkThis groundbreaking debut tells the stories of seven radicals who were among the first out Black gay men in Britain . . . Okundaye's research and interviews completely recast key moments in Black British history . . . We should be grateful that he has managed to capture a vital moment that at so many points could have been lost for ever.'LANRE BAKARE, GUARDIAN
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Faber & Faber Great Hatred The Assassination of Field Marshal
Book SynopsisTHE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLERA gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to ever have been committed on British soil.'Heart-stopping .
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Faber & Faber Fanny and Stella
Book SynopsisUproarious.' The TimesTerrifically entertaining.' Evening StandardIrresistible.' Daily MailGripping.' Sunday Telegraph''A scintillating gem: a cracking page-turner, historically illuminating, culturally fascinating, and a book which effortlessly passes comment on today.'' HeraldLondon, April 1870: Fanny and Stella were no ordinary Victorian women. They were young men who liked to dress as women: Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton. Stella was the most beautiful female impersonator of her day, Fanny her inseparable companion.But the Metropolitan Police were plotting their downfall. Fanny and Stella were arrested and subjected to a sensational trial where every lascivious detail of their lives was lapped up by the public.With a cast of peers and politicians, detectives and drag queens, Fanny and Stella is a dazzling and enthralling story of cross ex
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Faber & Faber A Kidnapped West
Book SynopsisA provocative and rousing essay collection from one of Europe's greatest writers.The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and outsiders.In a moment of historic peril and uncertainty in mainland Europe, Milan Kundera makes the case for Central Europe as the nucleus of European values and as a lightning rod for its potential dangers.For the countries that make up this region where democracy is under continued threat from Russian oppression, language and culture play an active role in affirming national identity. And each of these countries Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia has been historically overlooked by the major powers of Western Europe. But Kundera cautions that this blindness puts Europe's cultural and political independence at risk, a warning that feels increasingly relevant to our current m
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Britain before the Reform Act Politics and
Book SynopsisIn the years1815-1832, Britain came close to revolution. Fewer than twenty years separate the Battle of Waterloo from the passing of the Great' Reform Act but during this period Britain's political elite was challenged as never before. In rising to that challenge, the political elite attempted, with considerable success, to ensure that Britain engineered that most perilous of transitions, from a less complex and more deferential society into a modern urban and industrial one, while avoding political revolution. In this extensively revised 2nd edition Evans engages with a welter of new material and fresh interpretations. The book sheds light both on the challenges to existing political and social authority and why those challenges were seen off. Evans examines: The composition of Britain's political elite and how this elite coped with the problems thrown up by a society urbanising and modernising atTable of ContentsChronology. Who's Who. Glossary. Part One: Analysis. 1. Introduction. 2. Britain in crisis? 1815-20. 3. The achievement of stability? 1821-7. 4. Britain's influence abroad. 5. Stability shattered 1827-32. 6. Conclusion. Part Two: Documents. Further Reading. References. Index.
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Taylor & Francis The American Civil War 18611865 Seminar Studies
Book SynopsisThe American Civil War caused upheaval and massive private bereavement, but the years 1861-1865 also defined a great nation.This book provides a concise introduction to events from the secession to the end of the war. It focuses on the military progress of the war Union and Confederate politics social change - particularly the emancipation of North American slaves The social history associated with the war is dealt with alongside the familiar military and political events. This inclusive approach allows the reader to consider equally the history of men and women, blacks and whites in the conflict. It deals with both the Union and the Confederacy, integrating the latest literature on the war and society into a clear account. The book concludes with an assessment of emancipation, the rebuilding of the economy, and the war's consequences.An array of primary documents supports the text, together with a chronology, glossary and Who's Who guide to key figures.Table of ContentsPart one Background; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Problem; Chapter 2 Origins of the Civil War; Part two Analysis; Chapter 3 The War, 1861–62; Chapter 4 The Union Homefront; Chapter 5 The South and the Confederacy: Institutions and Allegiance; Chapter 6 War and Politics, 1863–64; Chapter 7 A More Perfect Union?; Part three Assessment; Chapter 8 Emancipation and Reconstruction; Part four Documents;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Muslim Spain and Portugal A Political History of
Book SynopsisThis is the first study in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on Arab sources. It provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492. Up till now the history of this region has been badly neglected in comparison with studies of other states in medieval Europe. When considered at all, it has been largely written from Christian sources and seen in terms of the Christian Reconquest. Hugh Kennedy raises the profile of this important area, bringing the subject alive with vivid translations from Arab sources. This will be fascinating reading for historians of medieval Europe and for historians of the middle east drawing out the similarities and contrasts with other areas of the Muslim world.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Medieval Church A Brief History
Book SynopsisThe Medieval Church: A Brief History argues for the pervasiveness of the Church in every aspect of life in medieval Europe. It shows how the institution of the Church attempted to control the lives and behaviour of medieval people, for example, through canon law, while at the same time being influenced by popular movements like the friars and heresy. This fully updated and illustrated second edition offers a new introductory chapter on the Basics of Christianity,' for students who might be unfamiliar with this territory. The book now has new material on some of the key individuals in church history: Benedict of Nursia, Hildegard of Bingen, Bernard of Clairvaux and Francis of Assisi as well as a more comprehensive study throughout of the role of women in the medieval church.Lynch and Adamo seek to explain the history of the Church as an institution, and to explore its all-pervasive role in medieval life. In the course of the thousand years covered in this book,Trade Review"Both editions constitute the best "brief'' history of this subject that is presently available.Summing up: Highly recommended"G.H. Shriver, emeritus, Georgia Southern University in CHOICE. "The book is readable, wise in its judgments and broader statements, written with an eye on students who know little of the topic and not much more about the Middle Ages in general, and outstanding for its presentation of a tale of change and transition and the interplay of faith and practice: Christianity as a religion and the church as an institution. Pithy statements, often with a touch of humor and irony, enhance its readability. Lynch's first edition (of 1992) was very good and this new version more than matches the original standard."Joel T. Rosenthal, emeritus, Stony Brook Univeristy in The Medieval Review.Table of ContentsList of figures. List of maps. Preface to the 1st edition. Preface to the 2nd edition. Publisher’s acknowledgements. Glossary. Chapter 1: The basics of Christianity. Chapter 2: Ancient Christianity. Chapter 3: Beginnings of the medieval church. Chapter 4: The conversion of the west (350–700). Chapter 5: The Papal-Frankish Alliance. Chapter 6: The church in the Carolingian Empire. Chapter 7: The Carolingian Renaissance. Chapter 8: The collapse of the Carolingian world. Chapter 9: The church in the year 1000. Chapter 10: The eleventh-century reforms. Chapter 11: The rise of Christendom. Chapter 12: The age of the papacy. Chapter 13: The New Testament revival. Chapter 14: Monastic life in the twelfth century. Chapter 15: The heretics. Chapter 16: The friars. Chapter 17: The schools. Chapter 18: The sacramental life. Chapter 19: Crisis and calamity. Chapter 20: The church in the fifteenth century. Chapter 21: Epilogue. Index.
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Transworld The Arcadian Friends
Book SynopsisTim Richardson has been writing about the English landscape garden for over 14 years. he was gardens editor of Country Life from 1995-99 and is the author/editor of The Garden Book (Phaidon), as well as author of English Gardens in the Twentieth Century (Aurum) and The Vanguard Landcapes and Gardens of Martha Schwartz (Thames and Hudson). He is also the world's foremost confectionery historian and author of Sweets: A History of Temptation. He lives in north London.Trade ReviewWonderfully rich and packed with vivid details...The Arcadian Friends deserves to become a classic * Guardian *The Arcadian Friends offers an invigorating new approach to familiar garden history territory. In the company of his large cast, Richardson guides us deftly through varied landscapes full of surprises. * Sunday Telegraph *Replete with first-rate scholarship... there are many delights here * Literary Review *Richardson explains this with verve and enthusiasm, and a measure of his success is that he makes the reader want to visit, or revisit, the gardens he describes * Telegraph *Wonderfully engaging... This book gives us a way to read the landscape and see again what the original owners intended. * Spectator *
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Random House USA Inc The Divider
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published.—The Washington Post • A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times • The book everyone is talking about.—PoliticoThe inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker—an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious.A sumptuous feast of astonishing tales...The more one reads, the more one wishes to read.—NPR.com • A beautifully written, utterly dispiriting history of the man who attacked democracy. &mdash
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Penguin Putnam Inc Against All Odds
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Penguin Publishing Group Pattons Prayer
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Penguin Random House Group Pattons Prayer
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Penguin Publishing Group Three Roads to Gettysburg
Book SynopsisAn epic, revelatory account of the Battle of Gettysburg, where George Meade, Lincoln's unexpected choice to lead the Union army, defeated Robert E. Lee and changed the course of the Civil War, from the award-winning author of James Monroe: A Life By mid-1863, the Civil War, with Northern victories in the West and Southern triumphs in the East, seemed unwinnable for Abraham Lincoln. Robert E. Lee’s bold thrust into Pennsylvania, if successful, could mean Southern independence. In a desperate countermove, Lincoln ordered George Gordon Meade—a man hardly known and hardly known in his own army—to take command of the Army of the Potomac and defeat Lee’s seemingly invincible Army of Northern Virginia. Just three days later, the two great armies collided at a small town called Gettysburg. The epic three-day battle that followed proved to be the turning point in the war, and provided Lincoln the perfect opportunity to give the defining speech of the war—and a challenge to each generation of Americans to live by. These men came from different parts of the country and very different upbringings: Robert E. Lee, son of the aristocratic and slaveholding South; George Gordon Meade, raised in the industrious, straitlaced North; and Abraham Lincoln, from the rowdy, untamed West. Lincoln’s election to the presidency in 1860 split the country in two and triggered the Civil War. Lee and Meade found themselves on opposite sides, while Lincoln had the Sisyphean task of reuniting the country. With a colorful supporting cast second to none, Three Roads to Gettysburg tells the story of these consequential men, this monumental battle, and the immortal address that has come to define America.
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Penguin Random House Group The Determined Spy
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Midnight Kingdom
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Penguin Putnam Inc To the End of the Earth
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Penguin Putnam Inc Tablets Shattered
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Random House USA Inc The 1619 Project A Visual Experience
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Random House USA Inc The Loom of Time
Book SynopsisA stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century?Engaging . . . Even those who resist Kaplan?s tragic sensibility have much to learn from his look at the emerging Middle East and its recent history.??National ReviewFINALIST FOR THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB?S CORNELIUS RYAN AWARDThe Greater Middle East, which Robert D. Kaplan defines as the vast region between the Mediterranean and China, encompassing much of the Arab world, parts of northern Africa, and Asia, existed for millennia as the crossroads of empire: Macedonian, Roman, Persian, Mongol, Ottoman, British, Soviet, American.But with the dissolution of empires in the twentieth century, postcolonial states have endeavored to maintain stability in the face of power struggles between factions, leadership vacuums, and the arbitrary borders drawn by exiting imperial rulers with little regard for geography or political groups on the ground. In the Loom of Time, Kaplan explores this broad, fraught space through reporting and travel writing to reveal deeper truths about the impacts of history on the present and how the requirements of stability over anarchy are often in conflict with the ideals of democratic governance.In The Loom of Time, Kaplanmakes the case for realism as an approach to the Greater Middle East.Just as Western attempts at democracy promotion across the Middle East have failed, a new form of economic imperialism is emerging today asChina''s ambitions fall squarely within the region as the key link between Europe and East Asia. As in the past, the Greater Middle East will be a register of future great power struggles across the globe. And like in the past, thousands of years of imperial rule will continue to cast a long shadow on politics as it is practiced today.To piece together the history of this remarkable place and what it suggests for the future, Kaplan weaves together classic texts, immersive travel writing, and a great variety of voices from every country that all compel the reader to look closely at the realities on the ground and to prioritize these facts over ideals on paper. The Loom of Time is a challenging, clear-eyed book that promises to reframe our vision of the global twenty-first century.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Under Jerusalem
Book SynopsisA spellbinding history of the hidden world below the Holy City—a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers, and political upheaval “A sweeping tale of archaeological exploits and their cultural and political consequences told with a historian’s penchant for detail and a journalist’s flair for narration.”—Washington PostIn 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that, he claimed, belonged to an Old Testament queen. News of his find ricocheted around the world, evoking awe and envy alike, and inspiring others to explore Jerusalem’s storied past. In the century and a half since the Frenchman broke ground, Jerusalem has drawn a global cast of fortune seekers and missionaries, archaeologists and zealots, all of them eager to extract the biblical past from beneath
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group This Fierce People
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking, important recovery of history; the overlooked story—fully explored—of the critical aspect of America’s Revolutionary War that was fought in the South, showing that the British surrender at Yorktown was the direct result of the southern campaign, and that the battles that emerged south of the Mason-Dixon line between loyalists to the Crown and patriots who fought for independence were, in fact, America’s first civil war.The famous battles that form the backbone of the story put forth of American independence—at Lexington and Concord, Brandywine, Germantown, Saratoga, and Monmouth—while crucial, did not lead to the surrender at Yorktown.It was in the three-plus years between Monmouth and Yorktown that the war was won.Alan Pell Crawford’s riveting new book,This Fierce People, tells the story of these missing three years, long ignored by historians, and of the fierce battles fought in the
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Penguin Putnam Inc Sinkable
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Random House USA Inc The Year God Died
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking account of how the Roman Empire shaped the life and death of Jesus, overturning centuries of historical beliefs around the world?from the New York Times bestselling author of The First Clash.?Skillfully guides readers on a journey through the complexity and tumult of the Roman occupation of first-century Judea and its inevitable collision with the Jesus Movement.??Dr. T. J. Wray, professor of religious and theological studies and author of Good Girls, Bad Girls of the New Testament: Their Enduring LessonsIn late 31 AD, after the Roman senators murdered Lucius Sejanus, the Roman Emperor Tiberius''s closest confidant, the Empire was forever changed. If Sejanus had not been murdered, Jesus would never have been crucified.This profound connection between the lives of Sejanus and Jesus is the first of many revelations in this startling reexamination of the Roman world in which Jesus walked. With new evidence and meticulous research, Dr. James Lacey weaves a majestic and accurate description of who Jesus was.The Year God Died contradicts longstanding historical beliefs to reveal the most comprehensive and accurate view of the New Testament. Lacey explains how the events in Rome drove events in Judea?which is directly linked to Jesus'' crucifixion. He uncovers a vibrant and rich world, but one still coming to grips with the reality of Roman power. He introduces ten-year-old Boadicea, who is destined to lead Britain?s tribes in a great revolt against Rome. He depicts Varus marching his legions past a four-year-old Jesus on his war to Jerusalem. And he describes how Herod prospered by appeasing some of the most dangerous people in history?Pompey, Julius Caesar, Mark Anthony, Cleopatra, and Augustus.In this sweeping chronicle, Lacey dissects reams of misinformation to reveal, for the first time, Jesus, as he was born and lived within the grand spectacle of the Roman world.
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Random House Publishing Group Paris Undercover
Book SynopsisTwo women in Nazi-occupied Paris created a daring escape line that rescued dozens of Allied servicemen. With one still in a German prison camp, the other wrote a book about it—a memoir built on fabrications. Now the bestselling author of Eighty Days shares their incredible, never-before-told full story.“A heart-pounding tale of betrayal that is impossible to put down.”—Lynne Olson, author of Madame Fourcade's Secret WarEtta Shiber and Kate Bonnefous are the unlikeliest of heroines: two seemingly ordinary women, an American widow and an English divorcée, living quietly together in Paris. Yet during the Nazi occupation, these two friends find themselves unexpectedly plunged into the whirlwind of history. With the help of a French country priest and others, they set out to rescue British and French soldiers trapped behind enemy lines—some of whom they daringly smuggle through Nazi checkpoints hidden insi
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Random House USA Inc The Infernal Machine
Book Synopsis?A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.??ERIK LARSONA sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat?a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ? LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONSteven Johnson?s engrossing account of the epic struggle between the anarchist movement and the emerging surveillance state stretches around the world and between two centuries?from Alfred Nobel?s invention of dynamite and the assassination of Czar Alexander II to New York City in the shadow of World War I.April 1914. The NYPD is still largely the corrupt, low-tech organization of the Tammany Hall era. To the extent the police are stopping crime?as opposed to committing it?their role has been almost entirely defined by physical force: the brawn of the cop on the beat keeping criminals at bay with nightsticks and fists. The solving of crimes is largely outside their purview.The new commissioner, Arthur Woods, is determined to change that, but he cannot anticipate the maelstrom of violence that will soon test his science-based approach to policing. Within weeks of his tenure, New York City is engulfed in the most concentrated terrorism campaign in the nation?s history: a five-year period of relentless bombings, many of them perpetrated by the anarchist movement led by legendary radicals Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman. Coming to Woods?s aide are Inspector Joseph Faurot, a science-first detective who works closely with him in reforming the police force, and Amadeo Polignani, the young Italian undercover detective who infiltrates the notorious Bresci Circle.Johnson reveals a mostly forgotten period of political conviction, scientific discovery, assassination plots, bombings, undercover operations, and innovative sleuthing. The Infernal Machine is the complex pre-history of our current moment, when decentralized anarchist networks have once again taken to the streets to protest law enforcement abuses, right-wing militia groups have attacked government buildings, and surveillance is almost ubiquitous.
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Penguin Books Ltd Len Lomell
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Penguin Publishing Group El Paso
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Penguin Putnam Inc Above the Pacific
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Penguin Books Ltd Nagasaki
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Random House USA Inc Fighting Fifteen
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Penguin Putnam Inc A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) The Fifteen
Book SynopsisThe revelatory true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown. ?In the pantheon of American history, it?s very hard to find compelling, original stories, and even harder to find authors worthy of them. In The Fifteen, William Geroux delivers the goods.??John U. Bacon, New York Times bestselling author of The Great Halifax ExplosionThe American government was faced with an unprecedented challenge: where to house the nearly 400,000 German prisoners of war plucked from the battlefield and shipped across the Atlantic. On orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Department of War hastily built hundreds of POW camps in the United States. Today, traces of those camps?which once dotted the landscape from Maine to California?have all but vanished. Forgotten, too, is the grisly series of killings that took place within them: Nazi power games playing out in the heart of the United States.Protected by the Geneva Convention, German POWs were well-fed and housed. Many worked on American farms, and a few would even go on to marry farmers? daughters. Ardent Nazis in the camps, however, took a dim view of fellow Germans who befriended their captors.Soon, the killings began. In camp after camp, Nazis attacked fellow Germans they deemed disloyal. Fifteen were sentenced to death by secret U.S. military tribunals for acts of murder. In response, German authorities condemned fifteen American POWs to the same fate, and, in the waning days of the war, Germany proposed an audacious trade: fifteen German lives for fifteen American lives.Drawing on extensive research, journalist and author William Geroux shines a spotlight on this story of murder and high-stakes diplomacy, and on the fifteen American lives that hung in the balance?from a fearless P-51 Mustang fighter pilot to a hot-tempered lieutenant colonel nicknamed ?King Kong.?Propulsive and vividly rendered, The Fifteen reminds us that what happens to soldiers after they exit the battlefield can be just as harrowing as what they experience on it.
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Penguin Publishing Group Until the Last Gun Is Silent
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Horizontal Vertigo
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Penguin Putnam Inc The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
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Crown From These Roots
Book SynopsisOne woman’s unrelenting mission to reclaim her ancestors’ history and honor their lineage pits her against one of the country’s most powerful institutions: Harvard UniversityTamara Lanier grew up listening to her mother’s stories about her ancestors. As Black Americans descended from enslaved people brought to America, they knew all too well how fragile the tapestry of a lineage could be. As her mother’s health declined, she pushed her daughter to dig into those stories. Tell them about Papa Renty, she would say. It was her mother’s last wish. Thus begins one woman’s remarkable commitment to document that story. Her discovery of a nineteenth-century daguerreotype at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, one of the first-ever photos of enslaved people from Africa, reveals a dark-skinned man with short-cropped silver hair and chiseled cheekbones. The information read “Renty, Cong
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Random House Publishing Group Spellbound
Book SynopsisWhat happens when Americans lose faith in their religious institutions?and politicians fill the void? From the Puritans to Donald Trump, this sweeping history will change your understanding of the forces that create leaders and hold their followers captive.Everyone feels it. Cultural and political life in America has become unrecognizable and strange. Firebrands and would-be sages have taken the place of reasonable and responsible leaders. Nuanced debates have given way to the smug confidence of yard signs. How did we get here?In Spellbound, historian Molly Worthen argues that we will understand our present moment if we learn the story of charisma in America. From the Puritans and Andrew Jackson to Black nationalists and Donald Trump, the saga of American charisma, Worthen argues, stars figures who possess a dangerous and alluring power to move crowds. They invite followers into a cosmic drama where hopes are fulfilled and grievances are put right?and these charismatic leaders insist that they alone plot the way.The story of charisma in America reveals that when traditional religious institutions fail to deliver on their promise of a meaningful life, people will get their spiritual needs met in a warped cultural and political landscape dominated by those who appear to have the power to bring order and meaning out of chaos. Charismatic leaders address spiritual needs, offering an alternate reality where people have knowledge, power, and heroic status, whether as divinely chosen instruments of God or those who will restore national glory.Through Worthen?s centuries-spanning historical research, Spellbound places a crucial religious lens on the cultural, economic, and political upheavals facing Americans today.
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Alfred A. Knopf The Great Contradiction
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Batya Bricker Book Projects Mensches in the Trenches
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Broken Middle
Book SynopsisThe Broken Middle offers a startlingly original rethinking of the modern philosophical tradition and fundamentally rejects the anti--philosophy and anti--theory of post--modernity.Trade Review"... This book is one of the most important written by a British philosopher and social theorist in recent times." John MilbankTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: Diremption of Spirit. Part One From the Middle in the Beginning. 1. Personae of the System: Kierkegaard, Hegel and Blanchot. 2. Regina and Felice - In Repetition of Her: Kierkegaard and Kafka. 3. Anxiety of Beginning: Kierkegaard, Freud and Lacan. Part Two From the Beginning in the Middle. 4. Repetition in the Feast: Mann and Girard. 5. Love and the State: Varnhagen, Luxemburg and Arendt. 6. New Political Theology - Out of Holocaust and Liberation: Levinas, Rosenzweig and Fackenheim. Preface: Pathos of the Concept. Select Bibliography. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles
Book SynopsisThis is the first survey of religious beliefs in the British Isles from the Old Stone Age to the coming of Christianity, one of the least familiar periods in Britaina s history. Ronald Hutton draws upon a wealth of new data, much of it archaeological, that has transformed interpretation over the past decade.Trade Review"An excellent, up-to-date compendium of British pagan religions based primarily upon recent archaeological findings. Hutton has contributed a well documented resource which has popular interest." Library Journal "Brilliant ... Hutton's book gives us by far the best, most level-headed overview of this fascinating but contentious subject." Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface. Preface to the Paperback Edition. 1. The Mysteries Begin (c.30,000 - c.5000 BC). 2. The Age of The Tombs (c.5000 - c.3200 BC). 3. The Coming of the Circles (c.3200 - c.2200 BC). 4. Into the Darkness (c.2200 - c.1000 BC). 5. The People of the Mist (c.1000 BC - c. AD 500). 6. The Imperial Synthesis (AD 43 - 410). 7. The Clash of Faiths (AD c.300 - c. 1000). 8. Legacy of Shadows. Notes. Additional Source Material. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of the Modern British Isles 16031707
Book SynopsisThis is a survey of a seminal and intensely controversial period in British history, from the union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1603 to the union of the Kingdoms in 1707. The book explores the intersecting histories of the Stuart monarchies and considers how events in each nation were shaped by being part of a multiple kingdom as well as by their own internal dynamics. Throughout, special attention is given to the personalities and political style of successive rulers. Their role in precipitating two revolutions is examined against the background of longer term constitutional, religious and social themes. In particular, the parallels between James I and Charles II, and between Charles I and James II, are clearly drawn out.Trade Review"Dr Nicholls has proved to be a resourceful choice ... he delivers an accurate, sensitive and engaging account, never allowing the reader to be lost in the quagmires of scholarly debate." The Historical AssociationTable of ContentsList of Plates ix List of Maps xi Preface xii List of Abbreviations xv Genealogical Tables xvi 1 1603 Union of the Crown 1 2 Great Britain’s Solomon 29 3 The Ascendency of Buckingham 51 4 The Personal Rule of Charles I 77 5 The Collapse of Multiple Monarchies 105 6 War in Three Kingdoms 131 7 The British Republic 165 8 The Restoration of the British Monarchies 197 9 Court and Country 221 10 Exclusion and Reaction 254 11 A Glorious Revolution? 267 12 Britain Under William and Anne 299 13 1707 Union of the Kingdoms 329 Notes 349 Bibliographical Essay 359 Appendix 1: Glossary 382 Appendix 2: Archbishops of Canterbury, 1603-1707 392 Appendix 3: Lord Chancellors and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, 1603-1707 393 Appendix 4: Lord Treasurers of England, 1603-1707 395 Appendix 5: Principal Secretaries of State of England, 1603-1707 397 Appendix 6: Chief Governors of Ireland, 1603-1707 402 Appendix 7: Scottish Secretaries, 1603-1707 405 Appendix 8 (A): English Parliamentary Sessions, 1604-1707 407 Appendix 8 (B): Irish Parliamentary Sessions, 1613-1713 410 Appendix 8 (C): Scottish Parliamentary Sessions, 1604-1707 407 Appendix 9 (A): The Population of England and Wales, 1601-1706 415 Appendix 9 (B): The Population of Ireland, 1603-1712 416 Appendix 9 (C): The Population of Scotland, 1603-1707 417 Appendix 10: Prices in England, 1601-1700 418 Appendix 11: Wage-rates in England, 1580-1710 419 Index 420
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Geography Militant
Book Synopsis* New perspective on the history of geographical exploration (concerned with the relationships between culture, science and empire). * Brings together a wealth of unpublished and published material in an engaging, well--illustrated and accessible book.Trade Review"A valuable contribution to the 'culture of exploration'. Geography militant lives on in advertising, photography, guide books, magazines and- virtually- in our imaginations." Traveller Magazine "Expoliting the divide 'twixt' science and the sensational and pointing to differing geographies of various periods , this well wrought, closely knit book of nine illustrated chapters dwells on the age of exploration, colonization and the concomitant rise of the British Empire and its institutions. A listing of manuscripts consulted, extensive bibliography, and an index complete this rigorous work." Choice "...consistently thoughtful and lively; Felix Driver produces a powerful sense of the complexity and strangeness of his material." Times Literary Supplement. "extremely wide ranging book which raises a multitude of issues", Journal of European Studies. " This book adds effectively to the traditional accounts of exploration known to so many of us" International Journal of Environement Studies "a lot of material, many interesting ideas and observations, some fascinating juxtapositions, tantalizing suggestions, rich references, and polished prose ..." Environment and Planning A "wonderful book [...] with Geography Militant Felix Driver has dined sumptuously at the Ritz-Carlton. To great advantage, he has quite successfully mined many veins of knowledge far bayond those disciplines where geographers normally toil. Each place is revealed as pertinent and fascinating [...] This volume contains so many meaty ideas, it is difficult [...] to give them the attention they properly deserve. Suffice to say, Felix Driver's Militant Geography is a tour de force. The research conducted to write this remarkable book is impeccable" Terrae Incognitae, the journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries "The range of material included in this book, only a portion of which can be covered here, is exceptional. Geography Militant is a welcome contribution and will certainly spark a reconsideration of assumptions in a number of fields, including the history of science, cultural history and the history of imperialism." Susan Schulten, the History of Science Society "this splendid book describes the culture of exploration and the making of he discipline of Britain in the 'militant' epoch. So many themes and substantive descriptions tumble from these pages that summary is difficult" Christopher Lawrence, Medical History [Driver contributes] to the ongoing project of reevaluating the history of Empire, demonstrating that the science of location and its graphic productions were far less stable and effective than postcolonial critics have claimed" Robert D. Aguirre, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Geographical Knowledge, Exploration and Empire. 2. The Royal Geographical Society and the Empire of Science. 3. Hints to Travellers: Observation in the Field. 4. Missionary of Science: David Livingstone and the Exploration of Africa. 5. Becoming an Explorer: The Martyrdom of Winwood Reade. 6. Exploration by Warfare: Henry Morton Stanley and his Critics. 7. Making Representations: From an African Exhibition to the High Court of Justice. 8. Exploring Darkest England: Mapping the Heart of Empire. 9. Geography Militant and its After-life. Index.
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