In The Making of Modern Britain" Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria & the end of the Second World War the nation was shaken by war & peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known & the episodes of peace among the most turbulent & surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question How should we live? Socialism? Fascism? Feminism?. Meanwhile fads such as eugenics vegetarianism & nudism were gripping the nation while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today & the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches flappers & Spitfires this is a story of strange cults & economic madness of revolutionaries & heroic inventors sexual experiments & raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs nightclubs & celebrities to package holidays crooked bankers to sleazy politicians the echoes of todays Britain ring from almost every page." ...

In The Making of Modern Britain" Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria & the end of the Second World War the nation was shaken by war & peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known & the episodes of peace among the most turbulent & surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ' How should we live?' Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile fads such as eugenics vegetarianism & nudism were gripping the nation while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today & the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches flappers & Spitfires this is a story of strange cults & economic madness of revolutionaries & heroic inventors sexual experiments & raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs nightclubs & celebrities to package holidays crooked bankers to sleazy politicians the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page." ...

The third edition of this successful text has been revised to include a new chapter on the politics of the Second World War & to reflect recent developments in research into the period.* Third edition of this insightful survey of changes in British politics* Now extended to cover the politics of the Second World War & the election of 1945* Extensively revised in the light of recent research* Looks at the Labour Partya s evolution into a national rather than sectional party*

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Pink Floyds THE WALL is one of the most iconic & imaginative albums in the history of rock music endlessly discussed & dissected. It is loosely based on the life & experiences of Roger Waters & the stage performances & film were created in close collaboration with Gerald Scarfe. Scarfe & Waters worked together on the new version of the stage show. Gerald retains all the imagery & from this massive archive the book

Includes:: hundreds of photographs of the creation staging & filming of The Wall as well as the live stage performances. In addition Roger Waters allowed us to reproduce all the interviews & texts associated with the production of the album the stage performances & the film. This is the authorised definitive book of THE WALL.

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Edgehill 1642: Surveying the disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War Oliver Cromwell realizes that war can no longer be made in the old feudal way: there has to be system & discipline & therefore
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- a standing professional army. From the New Model Army of Cromwells distant vision former soldier Allan Mallinson shows us the people & events that have shaped the army we know today. How Marlboroughs momentous victory at Blenheim is linked to Wellingtons at Waterloo; how the desperate fight at Rorkes Drift in 1879 underpinned the heroism of the airborne forces at Arnhem in 1944; & why Montgomerys momentous victory at El Alamein mattered long after the Second World War was over. From the Armys origins at the battle of Edgehill to our current conflict in Afghanistan this is history at its most relevant
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Lydia Robyn & Dean don't know each other
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In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand & she listens to the story of his life to his regrets & to his secrets. & then he tells her about the children he has never met & never will. He talks of them wistfully. His legacy he calls them. Lydia Dean & Robyn dont know each other. Yet. & they are all facing difficult changes. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood & although she is wealthy & successful her life is lonely & disjointed. Dean is a young man burdened with unexpected responsibility whose life is going nowhere. & Robyn wants to be a doctor just like her father
- a man shes never met. But is her whole life built on an illusion? Three people leading three very different lives. All lost. All looking for something. But when they slowly find their way into each others lives everything starts to change.. .
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This title helps you construct a fleet of water-resistant paper boats using creative origami techniques. It

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In this compelling & rigorously documented exposition Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit & power & shows its devastating environmental impact. Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth & that corporate control violates all ethical & ecological limits. She takes the reader on a journey through the world's devastated eco-landscape one of genetic engineering industrial development & l&-grabs in Africa Asia & South America. She concludes that exploitation of this order is incurring an ecological & economic debt that is unsustainable. Making Peace with the Earth outlines how a paradigm shift to earth-centred politics & economics is our only chance of survival & how collective resistance to corporate exploitation can open the way to a new environmentalism. ...

This invaluable well-illustrated book is essential reading for all those who are interested in developing their modelling skills & creating realistic models of country houses cottages & farm buildings for their railway layouts. The author encourages & inspires the reader & moreover emphasizes that railway modellers can achieve their objectives without purchasing expensive materials. Indeed all the materials recommended in the book are either recycled or can be obtained quite cheaply. ...