Staring at god, Heffer, Simon

Автор: Heffer, Simon
Название: The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880-1914
ISBN: 009959224X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099592242
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: `A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . .

The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times`A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.' Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce.

Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence is familiar from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V's coronation and the London's great Edwardian palaces. Yet things were very different below the surface.

In The Age of Decadence Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how, despite the nation's massive power, a mismanaged war against the Boers in South Africa created profound doubts about her imperial destiny. He shows how attempts to secure vital social reforms prompted the twentieth century's gravest constitutional crisis and coincided with the worst industrial unrest in British history.

He describes how politicians who conceded the vote to millions more men disregarded women so utterly that female suffragists' public protest bordered on terrorism. He depicts a ruling class that fell prey to degeneracy and scandal. He analyses a national psyche that embraced the motor-car, the sensationalist press and the science fiction of H.

G. Wells, but also the Arts and Crafts of William Morris and the nostalgia of A. E.

Housman. And he concludes with the crisis that in the summer of 1914 threatened the existence of the United Kingdom - a looming civil war in Ireland. He lights up the era through vivid pen-portraits of the great men and women of the day - including Gladstone, Parnell, Asquith and Churchill, but also Mrs Pankhurst, Beatrice Webb, Baden-Powell, Wilde and Shaw - creating a richly detailed panorama of a great power that, through both accident and arrogance, was forced to face potentially fatal challenges.

`A devastating critique of prewar Britain . . .

disturbingly relevant to the world in which we live.' Gerard DeGroot, The Times`You won't put it down . . .

A really riveting read.' Rana Mitter, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking

Автор: Donofrio-ferrezza, Lisa (fashion Institute Of Technology Usa) Hefferen, Marilyn (drexel University Usa)
Название: Designing a knitwear collection
ISBN: 1501317857 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501317859
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Designing a Knitwear Collection, 2nd Edition, is an essential and comprehensive overview of the knitting design and development process. Featuring more than 475 color images, emerging fashion designers will find inspiration from the work of featured knitwear designers and practical information to design their own knitwear collection. The book follows the history of the industry to present day, introducing yarn and stitch basics, knitting methods, and machinery. It explores the process of preparing the design package from initial concept and sketches to specifications of samples and documents for production-through the presentation of a final collection. Updates to this edition include advances in technology in the knitwear industry, expanded coverage of sample development, and more than 50% new images including new designer profiles and current knitwear designs.

New to this Edition
New Chapter 6, Sample Development, includes step-by-step diagrams and knitwear samples, plus coverage of sustainable methods of knitwear design
Updated Chapter 7 on CAD covers current software programs and technologies such as 3D printing for knitwear
Updated Chapter 8, Presentation Trends For Knitwear, emphasizes concept and journal development with all new examples

Introducing Designing a Knitwear Collection STUDIO:
Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips
Review concepts with flashcards of terms and definitions
Access downloadable sample documents for production, including line sheets, specification sheets, cost forms, and color information sheets
View timelines tracing milestones in knitwear design from the early 20th Century to the present

This bundle includes Designing a Knitwear Collection, 2nd Edition and Designing a Knitwear Collection STUDIO Access Card.

Автор: Heffer, Simon
Название: High Minds
ISBN: 0099558475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099558477
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: That it should have changed so radically was very largely the work of an astonishingly dynamic and high-minded group of people - politicians and philanthropists, writers and thinkers - who in a matter of decades fundamentally remade the country, its institutions and its mindset, and laid the foundations for modern society.

Автор: Heffer, Simon
Название: Strictly English HB
ISBN: 1847946305 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847946300
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Makes an impassioned case for an end to the sloppiness that has become such a hallmark of everyday speech and writing. This title shows how accuracy and clarity are within the grasp of anyone who is prepared to take the time to master a few simple rules.

Автор: Kinney Jeff
Название: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 2)
ISBN: 0241355729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241355725
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Penguin presents the audio CD edition of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney, read by Dan Russell. Whatever you do, don't ask Greg about his summer vacation because he definitely doesn't want to talk about it . .

. It's a brand-new year and a brand-new journal and Greg is keen to put the humiliating (and secret!) events of last summer firmly behind him. But someone knows everything - someone whose job it is to most definitely not keep anything embarrassing of Greg's private - his big brother, Rodrick.

How can Greg make it through this new school year with his not-quite-cool reputation intact?

Автор: Heffner Richard D., Heffner Alexander B.
Название: A Documentary History of the United States (Revised and Updated)
ISBN: 0451490010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451490018
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Here, in a single volume, are the documents, speeches, and letters that have forged American history, now updated with new content such as Trump's inaugural address.

Accompanied by interpretations of their significance by noted historian Richard D. Heffner and journalist Alexander Heffner, this book includes important documents such as:

* The complete text of the Declaration of Independence
* The complete Constitution of the United States
* The Monroe Doctrine
* The Emancipation Proclamation
* Woodrow Wilson's War Message to Congress
* Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" Speech
* John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
* Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech
* Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Addresses
* Documents relating to September 11, 2001 and the Iraq War

This edition has been expanded and updated to include a chapter on the Presidency of Donald Trump.

Автор: Heffer Simon
Название: Great British Speeches
ISBN: 0857383272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857383273
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: A stirring anthology of speeches from every period of British history.

Автор: Heffer, Simon
Название: Strictly english Pb
ISBN: 0099537931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099537939
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The author`s incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the "The Daily Telegraph" about grammatical mistakes and stylistic slips have attracted a growing band of ardent fans over the years. In this book, he makes an impassioned case for an end to the sloppiness that has become such a hallmark of everyday speech and writing.

Автор: Kinney Jeff
Название: Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: How Greg Heffley Went Hollywood
ISBN: 0141345152 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141345154
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Imagine all the Wimpy Kid laughs you`ve had from reading the diaries, all the best bits you talk about with your friends and all the cartoons of Greg Heffley you`ve had a go at drawing yourself. Now imagine it all - on screen. This title tells the story of Greg Heffley from the cartoon character ever, to a real live person on the big screen.

Автор: Heffer, Simon
Название: Staring at God: Britain in the First World War
ISBN: 1847948316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847948311
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Drawing heavily on original material - letters, diaries, official papers - Simon Heffer`s hugely ambitious new book follows Britain`s path from the day the fatal shots were fired at Sarajevo in June 1914 to the moment the guns finally fell silent on 11 November 1918.