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The Journey Matters. Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style (Atlantic)
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What was it really like to take the LNER’s Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King’s Cross to Edinburgh, to cross the Atlantic by the SS Normandie, to fly with Imperial Airways from Southampton to Singapore, to steam from Manhattan to Chicago on board the New York Central’s 20th Century Limited or to dine and sleep aboard the Graf Zeppelin?
In the course of The Journey Matters, Jonathan Glancey travels from the early 1930s to the turn of the century on some of what he considers to be the most truly glamorous and romantic trips he has ever dreamed of or made in real life.
Each of the twenty journeys allows him to explore the history of routes taken, and the events – social and political – enveloping them. Each is the story of the machines that made these journeys possible, of those who shaped them and those, too, who travelled on them.
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Vox Populi. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask (Atlantic)
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In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped Western imagination and been instrumental in the way we think about the world. Covering everything from philosophy, history and architecture to language and grammar, Jones uncovers their astonishing intellectual, political and literary achievements.
First published twenty years ago, this fully updated and revised edition is a must-read for anyone who wishes to know more about the classics - and where they came from.
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The Human Network. How We're Connected and Why It Matters (Atlantic)
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It's not what you know, it's who you know. Or so the adage goes. Professor Matthew Jackson, world-leading researcher into social and economic networks, shows us why this is far truer than we'd like to believe.
Based on his ground-breaking research, The Human Network reveals how our relationships in school, university, work and society have extraordinary implications throughout our lives and demonstrates that by understanding and taking advantage of these networks, we can boost our happiness, success and influence.
But there are also wider lessons to be learnt. Drawing on concepts from economics, mathematics, sociology, and anthropology, Jackson reveals how the science of networks gives us a bold new framework to understand human interaction writ large - from banking crashes and viral marketing to racism and the spread of disease. Filled with counter-intuitive ideas that will enliven any dinner party - e.g. how can our popularity in school affect us for the rest of our ...
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The Age of the Horse. An Equine Journey through Human History (Atlantic)
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Man has always been fascinated by Equus caballus, recasting horse power into many forms: a hunk of meat, an industrial and agricultural machine, a luxury good, a cherished dancer, a comrade in arms and a symbol of a mythical past. From the wild tarpans sought by the Nazis to jade-laden treasure steeds in Ancient China, broken-down nags recycled into sausages and furniture stuffing, stallions that face fighting bulls and brewery horses that charmed the founder of the Sikh Empire, The Age of the Horse knits the history of the horse into that of humans, through revolution, war, social change and uneasy peace. It also uncovers new roles for the horse in the twenty-first century as a tool in the fight against climate change and as a therapist for soldiers damaged in unwinnable conflicts.
In this captivating book, Susanna Forrest takes a journey through time and around the world, from the Mongolian steppes to a mirrored manege at Versailles, an elegant polo club in Beijing and a farm, a fort and an auc ...
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The Myths We Live By. Adventures in Democracy, Free Speech and Other Liberal Inventions (Atlantic)
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In this witty and mischievous book, philosopher Peter Cave dissects the most controversial disputes today and uses philosophical argument to reveal that many issues are less straightforward than we’d like to believe. Leaving no sacred cow standing, Cave uses ingenious stories and examples to challenge our most strongly held assumptions. Is democracy inherently a good thing? What is the basis of so-called human rights? Is discrimination always bad? Are we morally obliged to accept refugees?
In an age of identity politics and so-called ‘fake news’, this book is an essential resource for reinvigorating genuine public debate – and an entertaining challenge to accepted wisdom.
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Eureka! Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask (Atlantic)
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The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role of women, to making sense of foreigners and the best form of government, all in the most sophisticated terms.
But who were they? In Eureka!, Peter Jones tells their epic story, which begins with the Trojan War and ends with the rise of the Roman Empire, by breaking down each major period into a series of informative nuggets. Along the way he introduces the major figures of the age, including Homer, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Euclid and Archimedes; explores the Greek myths and the role of the gods;provides fascinating insights into everyday life in ancient times; and shows us the very foundations of Western culture.
Eureka! is both entertaining and illuminating, and will d ...
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Wings Over Water. The Story of the World’s Greatest Air Race and the Birth of the Spitfire (Atlantic)
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Announced in 1912, the Schneider Trophy was a series of glamorous air contests, popularly known as races, that captivated both sides of the Atlantic. While there were many other aviation competitions, the Schneider proved to be, after a rocky start, by far the most memorable attracting a hugely popular and glamorous following whether Trophy races were held in Monaco, the Venice Lido, the Solent or Chesapeake Bay.
The Schneider Trophy was a focus not just of remarkable aircraft, derring-do pilots and swooning public attention, but also of fierce rivalries between the competitors: Britain, France, Italy and the United States. It gripped the imaginations of pioneering manufacturers and two of the world’s finest aircraft designers - Reginald Mitchell and Mario Castoldi – who worked feverishly hard to outdo one another. Perhaps inevitably, the dynamism of rival engineering and politics led to the most potent military fighters of World War Two with Reginald Mitchell’s record-breaking Supermarine seapl ...
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Endell Street. The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital (Atlantic)
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When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson that meant moving to France, where they set up two small military hospitals amidst fierce opposition.
Yet their medical and organisational skills were so impressive that in 1915 Flora and Louisa were asked by the War Ministry to return to London and establish a new military hospital in a vast and derelict old workhouse in Covent Garden’s Endell Street. That they did, creating a 573-bed hospital staffed from top to bottom by female surgeons, doctors and nurses, and developing entirely new techniques to deal with the horrific mortar and gas injuries suffered by British soldiers. Receiving 26,000 wounded men over the next four years, Flora and Louisa created such a caring atmosphere that soldiers begged to be sent to Endell Street. And then, following the end of the war and the Spanish Flu outbreak, ...
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Hard Choices. The Making and Unmaking of Global Britain (Atlantic)
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After decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after World War II is rapidly coming to an end. Disastrous foreign wars, global recession, the meteoric rise of China and India and the COVID pandemic have undermined the power of the West's international institutions and unleashed the forces of nationalism and protectionism.
In this lucid and groundbreaking analysis, one of Britain's most experienced senior diplomats highlights the key dilemmas Britain faces, from trade to security, arguing that international co-operation and solidarity are the surest ways to prosper in a world more dangerous than ever.
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Led by Donkeys. How Four Friends with a Ladder Took on Brexit (Atlantic)
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The official account – complete with full-colour illustrations – of how four ordinary people managed to expose the government’s hypocrisies through a nationwide guerrilla advertising campaign.
Seeking to highlight the hypocrisy of our politicians on Brexit four friends armed with nothing more than ladders, roller brushes and a treasure trove of damning statements from our leaders slapped up the politicians’ biggest lies on billboards around the country.
This guerrilla operation wasn’t easy, but it wasn’t long before the British public enabled them to take things into their own hands – and the rest is history.
Leave the EU or remain? An apparently simple question divided the nation in historic fashion. Many of us believed the words of these politicians. By putting up their quotes as billboards, self-styled ‘Led By Donkeys’ had clear intentions – to compare the promises that have been made across the years with the damning reality.
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Memento Mori. What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death (Atlantic)
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In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two thousand years ago.
Romans inhabited a world where man, knowing nothing about hygiene let alone disease, had no defences against nature. Death was everywhere. Half of all Roman children were dead by the age of five. Only eight per cent of the population made it over sixty. One bizarre result was that half the population consisted of teenagers.
From the elites’ philosophical take on the brevity of life to the epitaphs left by butchers, bakers and buffoons, Memento Mori (‘Remember you die’) shows how the Romans faced up to this world and attempted to take the sting out of death.
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (William Collins)
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Paul Kennedy’s international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.
Kennedy’s masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great centres of power including Minh China, the Ottomans, the rising Mughal state, the nations of Europe. But it was the latter which, through competition, economic growth and better military organisation, came to dominate the globe – until challenged later by Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Now China, boosted by its own economic prowess, rises to the fore. Throughout this brilliant work, Kennedy persuasively demonstrates the interdependence of economic and military power, showing how an imbalance between the two has historically led to spectacular political disaster.
Erudite and brilliantly original, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the politics of power.
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Ten Lectures on Law. Monograph (НОРМА)
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The author views law as a unique artefact of social order (in the words of ancient Roman jurists, jus est ars boni et aequi - "law is the art of the good and justice") in humanity's struggle against the many-faced social chaos. The law is proposed to be viewed as a normative form of human freedom in personal social interactions. Key issues of the legal doctrine and practice are analysed in the sociocultural context of current national and global changes. Legal issues of Russia's development touched upon in this book are presented taking into account the amendments introduced into the Constitution in 2020.
The publication is based on the lectures delivered by the author at the St Petersburg International Legal Forum. It is intended for those specializing in the general theory and philosophy of law, constitutional and international law.
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Войско грозного царя (Прометей)
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Несмотря на огромный общественный и научный интерес к эпохе царя Ивана Грозного и множество опубликованных работ об этом времени, военная история Московского государства середины и второй половины XVI века таят еще немало загадок. Собранный автором фактический материал проливает свет на загадки данного периода, воссоздавая цельную и яркую картину ратного служения наших предков.
2-е издание, переработанное и дополненное.
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Эволюция гармонического языка джаза. Джазовые мелодии для гармонизации. Учебное пособие для СПО (Планета музыки)
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В книге рассматриваются пути развития гармонического языка джаза от истоков этого искусства по настоящее время. Во второй части книги представлены мелодии для гармонизации. Основная задача пособия – развитие гармонического мышления у студентов эстрадно-джазового профиля. Автор старался создать такой материал для гармонизации, где бы проявились гармонические принципы основных джазовых стилей, оставивших свой след в мейнстриме.
Пособие предназначено для студентов средних специальных учебных заведений.
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С моих слов записано верно. Личный опыт поиска репрессированных родственников (Музей Истории ГУЛАГа)
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"С моих слов записано верно" - такой формулировкой заканчиваются протоколы допросов в следственных делах миллионов репрессированных по политическим мотивам в годы сталинского террора. Как правило, людей заставляли подписывать эти сфабрикованные документы, не читая. После вынесения приговора их отправляли на расстрел или по этапу в лагерь.
Спустя годы потомки репрессированных - дети, внуки, правнуки - восстанавливают биографии этих вычеркнутых из памяти людей, собирая факты буквально по крупицам. Некоторые из них обращаются за помощью в Центр документации Музея истории ГУЛАГа.
В процессе консультаций мы нередко становимся свидетелями невероятных случаев восстановления семейной памяти. В этой книге собраны 19 историй поиска и возвращения имен.
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Книга пяти колец. Книга клана об искусстве войны. Миямото М. (София)
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В этой книге представлены два важнейших текста средневековой воинской культуры Японии. Книгу пяти колец написал Миямото Мусаси легендарный ронин (самурай, не имеющий господина). Книгу о воинском искусстве клана - Ягю Мунэнори - мастер-мечник, наставник самого сёгуна и глава его тайной службы.Так же как и автор древнего китайского трактата Искусство войны Сунь Цзы, Миямото Мусаси и Ягю Мунэнори говорят об универсальных принципах получения решающего превосходства в конфликтах любого уровня. При этом они достигают вершин осмысления темы, исходя из собственного опыта схваток с противником, что делает их тексты поистине уникальными. Книга знакомит с историей и культурой Японии, дает представление об истоках стойкости японского духа и актуальна для тех, кто готов увидеть в конфликте ресурс своих новых возможностей. И конечно, она будет полезна людям, практикующим боевые искусства.
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The Concise Untold History of the United States (Random House)
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Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth century right up to the Obama administration. Looking at American intervention in foreign conflicts in Latin American, Asia and the Middle East, including taking part in covert operations and interfering to overthrow elected leaders in favour of right-wing dictators, they ask whether US involvement around the globe is about democratic ideals, or political and economic gain.
From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the Watergate scandal and the transformation of America into a national security state, The Concise Untold History lays bare how US presidents have ignored the constitution and international law to influence the course of world events for the interest of the few.
Based on the critically acclaimed documentary series of the same name, this book compellingly unmasks the shocking and unforgettable truth behind the American Empire.
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Всеобщая военная история. Средние века. Комплект в 3-х томах (Академический проект)
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Свой капитальный труд "Всеобщая военная история" Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в период профессорско-преподавательской деятельности в Императорской военной академии, где он руководил кафедрой стратегии и военной истории. Работа Голицына стала первой в России и одной из первых в Европе попыткой полного и систематического изложения всеобщей военной истории. Труд представляет собой полный и подробный обзор войн и походов великих полководцев, военно-исторических событий в необходимой связи с современной автору историей: политической, военного искусства, искусства и науки ведения войны и военной литературы.
Книга не переиздавалась с момента своего первого выхода в свет. В данном издании публикуется вторая часть работы - "Средние века", посвященная анализу центральных военных конфликтов Средних времен вплоть до введения огнестрельного оружия.
Издание может быть рекомендовано историкам, культурологам и всем интересующимся историей.
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Исторические портреты эпохи Американской революции XVIII века. Монография (ИНФРА-М)
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Монография посвящена выдающимся людям XVIII века (века Разума, века Просвещения) - "отцам-основателям" США, пытавшимся воплотить идеи Просвещения в жизнь, создававшим американское государство, разрабатывавшим старейшую из действующих писаных конституций и боровшимся за ее ратификацию. Из их конфликтов и компромиссов вырастала политическая культура ранней Америки.
Предназначена для историков-американистов, научных работников, преподавателей высшей и средней школы, студентов, бакалавров, магистров и аспирантов, а также всех интересующихся проблемами истории США.
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