Robert Mapplethorpe's reputation rests largely on a body of black & white sexual imagery, yet he was one of the most elegant still-life photographers. His flower studies, to which he sometimes referred to as his ' New York flowers' are slightly poisonous & very sexual. This will be the most decorative of all the Mapplethorpe books. ...

Personal rivalry is the very stuff of politics. The causes & controversies, the parties & the technology have changed, but political conflict is still dramatised by the competition of ambitious individuals for the highest offices. Over the past two hundred years, the size of the electorate has grown enormously & the means of reaching it transformed out of all recognition; the chamber of the House of Commons has been usurped as the forum for national debate first by public meetings, press & television & now by the Internet. But human nature does not change. The lure of power still attracts men, & now women, keen to cross swords & bandy arguments, scheme & manoeuvre for advancement, clothing ambition in a cloak of high principle & public service. In almost every period, outstanding champions arise to embody the dominating movements & ideas of the time, defining themselves against each other & shaping the political argument of the day in their own image. Peace or war; protection or free trade; capitalism or socialism -- in every case ideology is inextricably entwined with personality.

John Campbell

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Benjamin Disraeli & William Gladstone. Edward Heath & Margaret Thatcher. Gordon Brown & Tony Blair. Personal rivalry is the very stuff of politics. The causes & controversies, the parties & technology may have changed over time but political conflict is still dramatised by the competition of ambitious individuals for the highest offices. Over the past two hundred years the size of the electorate has grown enormously & the means of reaching it transformed out of all recognition but human nature itself hasn ...

Affairs of honour between bucks & blades, rakes & rascals; & affairs of the heart between heirs & orphans, beauties & bachelors; romance, intrigue, escapades & duels at dawn: all the gallantry, villainy & elegance of the age that Georgette Heyer has so triumphantly made her own are exquisitely revived in these eleven stories of the Regency. ...

Affairs of honour between bucks & blades, rakes & rascals; & affairs of the heart between heirs & orphans, beauties & bachelors; romance, intrigue, escapades & duels at dawn: all the gallantry, villainy & elegance of the age that Georgette Heyer has so triumphantly made her own are exquisitely revived in these eleven stories of the Regency. ...

This remarkable book opens at the dawn of the British Empire
- with the great sea battle at Quiberon Bay where French ships, intended
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This remarkable book opens at the dawn of the British Empire
- with the great sea battle at Quiberon Bay where French ships, intended
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This remarkable book opens at the dawn of the British Empire
- with the great sea battle at Quiberon Bay where French ships, intended
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