D'autres livres qui pourraient vous intéresser

• 

  John Smith - Old Labour's Last...

  Kevin Hickson

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The death of John Smith on 12th May 1994 was one of those events which sticks in the memory. He was cut down at the moment that it looked as if he was set to become the next Prime Minister after a long political career and after successive electoral defeats for his party.
  This book, published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of his death, offers a comprehensive assessment of his leadership of the Labour Party, with chapters written by academic experts, on their chosen fields, and by those who knew him as advisers, MPs and journalists.
  There are two themes running through the book. The first seeks to examine the extent to which there was a John Smith 'effect' in terms of politics and policy and assess whether he succeeded in establishing his own agenda or simply followed that of his predecessor. The second examines the extent to which Smith was a representative of 'Old' Labour or 'New' Labour.

  Voir livre

• 

  Narrative of My Captivity Among...

  Fanny Kelly

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  "I was a member of a small company of emigrants, who were attacked by an overwhelming force of hostile Sioux, which resulted in the death of a large proportion of the party, in my own capture, and a horrible captivity of five months' duration. Of my thrilling adventures and experience during this season of terror and privation, I propose to give a plain, unvarnished narrative, hoping the reader will be more interested in facts concerning the habits, manners, and customs of the Indians, and their treatment of prisoners."

  Voir livre

• 

  Unended Quest: An Intellectual...

  Karl Popper

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, providing an indispensable account of the ideas that influenced him most. As an introduction to Popper's philosophy, Unended Quest also shines. Popper lucidly explains the central ideas in his work, making this book ideal for anyone coming to Popper's life and work for the first time. 
   
  PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

  Voir livre

• 

  The First 50

  Natascia Tornetta-Mallin

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  A proudly humanist portrayal of sexual impulse and impropriety in the City of Angels, The First 50 is a chronological recapitulation of fifty erotic encounters that take place between the ages of thirteen and thirty-three. Columbine, 9/11, The Iraq War, and The Great Recession set the stage as a young woman navigates the ambient decadence that has long defined Los Angeles. From hot tubs in Santa Monica mansions to bar bathrooms on Venice street corners, this book inverts Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero by replacing Gen X ennui with a Millennial zest for living. Meet "The First 50," but not the last . . .

  Voir livre

• 

  Prince - Imp of the Perverse

  Barney Hoskyns

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Originally published in 1988, and charting the first decade of Prince’s meteoric rise, Prince: Imp of the Perverse, was the earliest book to explore Prince’s prodigious and eccentric talent.  
   
  Prince Rogers Nelson stood alone as a musical maestro amongst his peers, and proved you could do it all yourself: write, play, perform, produce and take control of your career.  He took American pop by the scruff of the neck and shaped it to his own mercurial ends.  
   
  This contemporary account examines the genius, and reveals truths, behind the many masks.

  Voir livre

• 

  Summary of Carol Shaben’s Into...

  Falcon Press

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Carol Shaben’s Into the Abyss 
    
  Carol Shaben found out about her father’s plane crash two days after it went down on October 19, 1984, in Alberta, Canada. Six people were killed and four survived, including Larry Shaben, the provincial housing minister. The other survivors were the pilot, Erik Vogel; a criminal, Paul Archambault; and his accompanying cop, Scott Deschamps. All four were deeply changed by their near-death experience, and the accident brought them together. In Into the Abyss (2012), Carol reconstructs the events leading up to the crash, explores how the four men managed to survive, and details how they started over after getting a new chance at life. 
   

  Voir livre