George Iii: The Last King Of America, Roberts, Andrew

Автор: Roberts, Andrew
Название: Churchill
ISBN: 0141981253 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141981253
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesA magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historiansWinston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill.

Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. The book in no way conceals Churchill's faults and it allows the reader to appreciate his virtues and character in full: his titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks and insistence on being where the action was, his good humour even in the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father's death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the present.

During the Second World War, Churchill summoned a particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice. 'It was the same whenever we met', wrote the young man, 'I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.' Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's emissary, wrote 'Wherever he was, there was a battlefront.' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill's essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in private, wrote in his diary, 'I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this earth.'

Автор: Roberts, Rachel Preshous, Andrew Gakonga, Joanne
Название: IELTS Foundation Student`s Book
ISBN: 1405013923 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405013925
Издательство: Macmillan ELT
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Описание: IELTS Foundation Study Skills are easy-to-use self-study books for students aiming at IELTS band 4-6. They provide clear and practical information on the IELTS exam and teach students and the skills they need to succeed in the general.

Автор: Andrew Roberts
Название: Napoleon the Great
ISBN: 0141032014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141032016
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Presents the biography of Napoleon who lived one of the extraordinary of all human lives. This book shows how after seizing power in a coup d`etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended.

Автор: Roberts, Andrew
Название: History of the English Speaking Peoples
ISBN: 0297850768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780297850762
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: Prize-winning British historian tells the story of the English-speaking peoples in the 20th century

Автор: Copson, Andrew Roberts, Alice
Название: Little book of humanist weddings
ISBN: 0349429731 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349429731
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Universal guidance and wisdom on celebrating love and partnership, inspired by humanist thought

Автор: Papanicolaou Andrew C., Roberts Timothy P. L., Wheless James W.
Название: Fifty Years of Magnetoencephalography: Beginnings, Technical Advances, and Applications
ISBN: 0190935685 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190935689
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Fifty Years of Magnetoencephalography celebrates the first half century of research in and clinical applications of magnetoencephalography (MEG). It catalogs and documents its evolution as a means of imaging the ongoing activity of the brain and the activation of particular neuronal networks
within it that mediate sensory motor and higher functions like language. The volume's first section looks at the discovery of MEG and its first tentative applications by three of its founders. The following sections detail the rapid progress in the development of the instrumentation necessary for
recording noninvasively the magnetic signals on the head that are associated with the brain activity; improvements in the techniques for analyzing the magnetic signals and reconstructing, on their basis, the functional images of brain activity; and improvements in our understanding of the nature and
significance of those signals. Subsequent sections of the book detail the main clinical applications of MEG in localizing brain areas that contain sources of epileptiform activity and areas encompassing parts of functional networks essential for motor and sensory function as well as for language
that have become an essential part of planning for brain surgery in many epilepsy and tumor surgery centers around the world. In addition, several chapters describe the most current efforts aiming at expanding the utility of MEG in clinical diagnosis and theoretical research.

Автор: Roberts, Andrew
Название: Holy habits: following jesus
ISBN: 0857469940 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857469946
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Описание: Eight weeks of material for church groups to use during Lent, exploring the Holy Habits through the life of Jesus and encouraging us to model them too.

Автор: Roberts, Andrew Michael
Название: Geoffrey hill
ISBN: 0746308795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780746308790
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Описание: A clear introductory account of the work of Geoffrey Hill.

Автор: Roberts, Andrew
Название: Idols of the odeons
ISBN: 1526147033 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526147035
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: This book provides an extensive overview of the British actors who achieved their greatest stardom during the 1950s. This was a transitional period for the British cinema, when the major studios faced growing competition from television and Hollywood increasingly dominated the UK film industry. -- .

Автор: Roberts Andrew Michael
Название: Strangeness and Power: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill
ISBN: 1848616007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848616004
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"In one of his final publications, Geoffrey Hill asserts his commitment to 'the strangeness and the power of poetry'. The words accord with many readers' responses to Hill's own poetry. It is generally seen as 'powerful', in rhetorical, formal, intellectual and emotional terms, and is much concerned with issues of political and aesthetic power. ... 'Strangeness' may here stand for the remarkable distinctiveness of his poetry, which over more than sixty years, from the mid-1950s to his death in 2016, followed a trajectory of development and innovation which engaged in unique ways with many of the crucial questions in late twentieth century and early twenty-first century poetics: the lyrical and the anti-lyrical, Romantic, Modernist and earlier inheritances; form and formal innovation; the personal and the impersonal; history and ethics. But more than that, the word suggests the way in which that poetry is somehow 'strange' and much concerned with strangeness, in both negative and positive terms: estrangement, peculiarity, revelation. Hill's writing fulfils to a high degree the Russian Futurist aim of 'making strange' the familiar, as well as bringing to the reader's attention, through its learning and allusion, aspects of history and culture which are likely to be unfamiliar to many. For some readers, Hill's late work in particular is simply too 'strange' too resistant to reading and understanding. Both his admirers and his detractors, and those who come somewhere between, might acknowledge qualities of strangeness, even that if judgment would carry different implications and values in each case. A number of essays in this volume pair Hill with another poet, or poets, to consider his 'strange likeness' with contemporaries and predecessors." --from the editor's Introduction to this volume

Автор: Roberts, Alice,Copson, Andrew
Название: The Little Book of Humanism
ISBN: 0349425469 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349425467
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: An approachable, uplifting guide to finding happiness and leading a fulfilling life through the wisdom of famous humanists from the past and present

Автор: Roberts, Andrew
Название: Leadership In War
ISBN: 0525522409 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525522409
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique strengths--and weaknesses--shaped the course of human history, from the bestselling, award-winning author of Churchill and Napoleon

"Has the enjoyable feel of a lively dinner table conversation with an opinionated guest." --The New York Times Book Review

Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Andrew Roberts presents a bracingly honest and deeply insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George C. Marshall, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Margaret Thatcher.

Each of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the war in which their nation was embroiled. Is war leadership unique, or did these leaders have something in common, traits and techniques that transcend time and place and can be applied to the essential nature of conflict?

Meticulously researched and compellingly written, Leadership in War presents readers with fresh, complex portraits of leaders who approached war with different tactics and weapons, but with the common goal of success in the face of battle. Both inspiring and cautionary, these portraits offer important lessons on leadership in times of struggle, unease, and discord. With his trademark verve and incisive observation, Roberts reveals the qualities that doom even the most promising leaders to failure, as well as the traits that lead to victory.