Автор: Heffer, Simon Название: The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880-1914 ISBN: 009959224X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099592242 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 13190.00 T Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление. 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: Heffer, Simon Название: High Minds ISBN: 0099558475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099558477 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 17600.00 T Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление. 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: Staring at god ISBN: 1786090449 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786090447 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14950.00 T Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление. Описание: Masterly.` - CHARLES VYVYAN, STANDPOINT`Fascinating stuff.` - SPECTATOR`Possibly the finest, most comprehensive analysis of the home front in the Great War ever produced.` - LITERARY REVIEW`Every bit as good as its two predecessors.
Автор: Heffer Simon Название: The Age of Decadence: A History of Britain: 1880-1914 ISBN: 1643136704 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643136707 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 36740.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A richly detailed history of Britain at its imperial zenith, revealing the simmering tensions and explosive rivalries beneath the opulent surface of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. The popular memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly, and thriving country. Britain commanded a vast empire: she bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamed of and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence can be seen in Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V's coronation, and London's great Edwardian palaces. Yet beneath the surface things were very different 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 nostalgia of A. E. Housman.
Автор: Heffer Chris Название: All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness ISBN: 0190923296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190923297 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 58230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Drawing on linguistic pragmatics, philosophy, psychology and law, All Bullshit and Lies? develops a comprehensive framework for analyzing not just the deliberate insincerity of lying, misleading, and withholding, but also pathological forms of untruthfulness such as dogma, distortion, and bullshit, deriving from an irresponsible approach to knowledge.
Автор: Heffner, Richard D. Heffner, Alexander B. Название: Documentary history of the united states ISBN: 0593439341 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593439340 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 12260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This volume is a methodologically focused book that offers rich insights into the, often secret, subjectivities of men who pay for sex in South Africa. It centres on the interview context, outlining a critical reflexive approach to understanding how knowledge is co-produced by both the interviewer and the participant in research about sex.
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) Рейтинг: Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. 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: 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 Рейтинг: Цена: 6140.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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: Heffer, Simon Название: Staring at God: Britain in the First World War ISBN: 1847948316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847948311 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 26400.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. 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.
Автор: Heffer, Simon Название: Strictly english Pb ISBN: 0099537931 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099537939 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 13190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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: Heffer Simon Название: Great British Speeches ISBN: 0857383272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857383273 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 13150.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A stirring anthology of speeches from every period of British history.
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