Winner of the Political Book of the Year Award 2015 The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is the most significant new party in British politics for a generation. In recent years UKIP & their charismatic leader Nigel Farage have captivated British politics, media & voters. Yet both the party & the roots of its support remain poorly understood. Where has this political revolt come from? Who is supporting them, & why? How are UKIP attempting to win over voters? & how far can their insurgency against the main parties go? Drawing on a wealth of new data
- from surveys of UKIP voters to extensive interviews with party insiders
- in this book prominent political scientists Robert Ford & Matthew Goodwin put UKIP`s revolt under the microscope & show how many conventional wisdoms about the party & the radical right are wrong. Along the way they provide unprecedented insight into this new revolt, & deliver some crucial messages for those with an interest in the state of British politics, the radical right in Europe & political behaviour more generally.

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Roald Dahl`s irreverent & hilarious collection, Revolting Rhymes. This book is filled with revolting rhymes. (Be warned: It`s no ordinary Once upon a time). There`s poor Cindy whose heart was torn to shreds, because her Prince, he chops off heads! Snow White`s dwarfs although awfully nice, are guilty of one shocking vice... And what becomes of Goldilocks, that nasty thieving little louse, when she goes sneaking around the three bear`s house... Listen to REVOLTING RHYMES & other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams & Steven Fry
- plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! Look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store & Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! inspired by the revolting Twits.
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I bet you think you know this story. You don`t. The real one`s much more gory. From Cinderella & Goldilocks to Little Red Riding Hood & the Three Little Pigs, wicked beasts, brazen crooks & a ghastly giant star in these hilarious nursery rhymes with BITE! ...

Roald Dahl`s irreverent & hilarious collection, Revolting Rhymes. Read along & listen! This book is filled with revolting rhymes. (Be warned: It`s no ordinary Once upon a time). There`s poor Cindy whose heart was torn to shreds, because her Prince, he chops off heads! Snow White`s dwarfs although awfully nice, are guilty of one shocking vice.. . And what becomes of Goldilocks, that nasty thieving little louse, when she goes sneaking around the three bear`s house.. . Animated film for BBC1 based on the Revolting Rhymes by Magic Light Pictures, producers of the Oscar nominated The Gruffalo & Room On The Broom, scheduled for Christmas 2016, Roald Dahl`s centenary year. Listen to REVOLTING RHYMES & other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams & Steven Fry
- plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! Look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store & Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! inspired by the revolting Twits.
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The twentieth century was an age of revolutions. As the pace of social & economic change quickened & the savagery of technological warfare destabilized societies, intolerable pressures were created which exploded into violent political movements. These overthrew long-standing regimes & radically reshaped social orders, beginning with the monarchies in China & Russia, the latter transformed into a communist society which sought to export its revolution abroad. Towards the century`s end, the collapse of the Soviet Union fed new movements, which sought to throw off the choking legacy of earlier revolutions that turned out to have merely replaced one form of oppression with another. Revolution examines all the key revolutions of the twentieth century, from the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, through the 1917 October Revolution, which overthrew the Tsarist regime in Russia, to those which accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union at the century`s end. It also encompasses the democratic revolutions that overthrew a string of dictatorships from the 1980s onwards. Following the narrative thread through 18 revolutionary movements & illustrated with contemporary photographs & documents, this is an indispensable guide to a phenomenon that shaped & overshadowed much of the twentieth century. ...

Exile laid bare the lives of listless teenage expats in Tanzania; Revolution shifts the focus to the African & Indian Tanzanians they live among... Moses, a worker in a lethal Tanzanite mine, who risks it all every day in the hope of striking it rich; Rachel, who leaves the countryside to make a living, but finds herself in a city where everyone sees her as a whore in waiting; Shakila, who manages to escape to the States, but not from racial prejudice. This is their reality
- drowning in corruption, the need to graft & scrap, selling their morals & their bodies as needs be. The Africa Trilogy is at once epic & minutely human, because Ejersbo never fails to show compassion for his characters: however corrupted or morally blemished they may become, they are worth a better life.
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Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd`s enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution & ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange`s accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, & England was
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- at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Late Stuart & Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as was the stock exchange, the Church of England was fully established as the guardian of the spiritual life of the nation & parliament became the sovereign body of the nation with responsibilities & duties far beyond those of the monarch. It was a revolutionary era in English letters, too, a time in which newspapers first flourished & the English novel was born. It was an era in which coffee houses & playhouses boomed, gin flowed freely & in which shops, as we know them today, began to proliferate in our towns & villages. But it was also a time of extraordinary & unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly & irrevocably transformed from a country of blue skies & farmland to one of soot & steel & coal.

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The power of the people is stronger than the people in power. Social media allow ideas to be shared. They are places where people can unite, Revolutions can begin. A new type of Revolution
- Revolution 2.0 Wael Ghonim used to be a man unwilling to publicly criticise the Egyptian regime. Like many, he was silenced by the fear of reprisals. But in January 2011 Wael decided he had seen too much oppression go unchallenged & started a Facebook page calling for the people to protest. It became a rallying-point for revolution & Egyptians took to the streets, while Wael was held by security forces for a horrifying 11 days. In an attempt to quell the revolution the government moved to shut down the internet, fearful of its ability to mobilise the people. It was too late; the people were no longer afraid of making themselves heard. Revolution 2.0 is a unique insider's story from the heart of the Egyptian Spring. Wael Ghonim gives unparalleled insight into why the Egyptian people finally rejected 30 years of oppression & found a voice.
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“ This is my story about how our baby grew in the shadow of the Tien Shan mountains, we survived a revolution & I learnt to love Bishkek, even though it’s made from concrete & people spit on your feet.” Everybody has a dream, images of the fantasy life they’d lead if not trapped behind an office desk. Saffia Farr’s dream was to live in the sunshine. She didn’t realise it would lead to raising her first child up fifty-eight steps in a Kyrgyz concrete tenement. Saffia had barely heard of Kyrgyzstan when she agreed to move there with her water-engineer husb&, Matthew. Kyrgyzstan is a small country of huge landscapes, a smudge in the vastness of Central Asia. Saffia arrived in the ex-Soviet republic fifteen weeks pregnant, scared about life in a country where people eat sheep eyes, drink fermented mare’s milk & live in felt tents. When Kyrgyzstan descends into anarchy after corrupt parliamentary elections, Saffia is trapped in Bishkek. She witnesses the Tulip Revolution & the violence & insecurity which follow as politicians, mafia gangs, crime lords & Islamic militants exploit the political void. ...

On 23 October, 1956, what began as a mass rally in Bem Square, Budapest, quickly evolved into the Hungarian Revolution. It lasted until 4 November, when the Soviet tanks rolled in. Up to 50, 000 Hungarians & 7, 000 Soviets were killed, & thousands were injured. Erich Lessing, who found himself in the thick of the action, documented the cruelly short-lived revolt & its aftermath in a series of world-famous photographs, reproduced here in stunning duotone. ...