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From Jon Sopel bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast The News Agents comes an incisive examination of post Brexit Britain and what it means for our future I like and trust Jon Sopel and you should too JOE LYCETT A thrilling nerve wracking book You couldn t make the last ten years up thanks to Jon Sopel you don t have to PETER FRANKOPAN A hugely entertaining and quite traumatic rollercoaster ARMANDO IANNUCCI Acute and unflinching Sopel deploys his foreign correspondent skills on home shores as well as far ones and brings together the story of a tumultuous few years on both sides of the Atlantic MISHAL HUSAINReturning to the UK in some ways has been disconcerting or maybe discombobulating would be a better word It is after all my home it is where I grew up a country I love and am proud of But either it s changed or I have Maybe both It just feels like a strange land After eight years of political reporting in the US Jon Sopel returned home to the UK to find a very different place than the one he left In his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents Jon explores what has happened to the country he once knew Either Britain has changed dramatically or he has Perhaps it s both As a second Trump administration be

Ma non pezzi di costume. Chi se ne frega del costume? Lascia che se ne occupino quelli che fanno le colonnine sul Mondo (Italo Calvino a Leonardo Sciascia, 25 novembre 1957) Ci sono molti modi per raccontare il Novecento: e il secolo della violenza; il secolo delle masse, delle religioni politiche, degli esperimenti totalitari, del welfare state, della democrazia. Ma esiste anche - cosi visibile da passare quasi inosservato - un Novecento effimero nel quale cio che cambia e la vita privata delle italiane e degli italiani: il loro modo di pensarsi, vestirsi, vivere il corpo e la sessualita, organizzare la propria vita, i propri consumi, le case, i viaggi, le citta. Attraverso il prisma delle cronache di costume, questo libro descrive appunto mutamenti e permanenze quotidiane dagli ultimi anni dell'Ottocento fino alla grande trasformazione degli anni Sessanta del Novecento. La storia pubblica delle nostre storie private.

Dans cet ouvrage monumental, Michel Winock — historien éminent de la République — explore deux siècles et demi de crises politiques françaises, de la Commune à la Ve République. Il analyse la "fièvre

Henri Pirenne (1862–1935) foi um dos maiores historiadores belgas, conhecido por sua abordagem inovadora da história europeia. Este volume reúne seus textos mais influentes, incluindo:- Histoire de l

From medieval to modern exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets diagrams concepts methods and disciplines Opening up the instrumental condition of the human for critical reflection and renewal Instrumentality illuminates key moments in the intellectual history of the European Middle Ages J Allan Mitchell reveals how in the predigital past we can recognize many of the operative technics analytics and metaphorics that continue to shape human sense and cognition today Exploring the diverse modalities of medieval instruments Mitchell s case studies encompass techniques as seemingly distinct as time keeping mechanisms mathematical diagrams logical syllogisms and the literary devices of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower A cultural and intellectual history Mitchell s work leads readers from three dimensional objects physical mechanisms to two dimensional inscriptions maps and diagrams and onward to overarching disciplinary norms in the early liberal and mechanical arts Prying loose the subtle adaptable and generative concept of technical objects from limiting contemporary frameworks he shows how these instruments are indispensable to the past and the future of the arts and culture at large

A Times Best Art Book of the Year 2024 A riot of a book Country Life s Books of the Year 2024The modern art market was born on a single night On 15 October 1958 Sotheby s of Bond Street staged an event sale of Impressionist paintings from the collection of an American banker Erwin Goldschmidt three Manets two Cezannes one Van Gogh and a Renoir Movie stars and other celebrities attended in black tie and saw the seven lots go for 781 000 at the time the highest price for a single art sale Overnight London became the world centre of the art market and Sotheby s an international auction house The event signalled a shift in power from dealers to auctioneers and pointed the way for Impressionist paintings to dominate the market for the next forty years In this climate Sotheby s and Christie s became a great business duopoly as aggressive dominant and competitive in the field of art sales as Pepsi and Coca Cola were in soft drinks The resulting expansion of the market was accompanied by rocketing prices colourful scandals and legal dramas Over the decades London transformed itself from a place of old master sales to a revitalised centre of contemporary art a process crowned by the opening of Tate Modern in 2000 James Stourton tells the story of th

Os diários de Conta-Corrente constituem um dos documentos mais impressionantes da vida cultural dos anos setenta e oitenta (cobrindo os anos de 1969 a 1992), com especial destaque para os anos da resistencia e os da revoluço. A importancia documental e literaria deve-se quer a qualidade dos textos do autor, quer a natureza das suas confisses, reflexes e revelaçes sendo uma extraordinaria fonte de dados para o conhecimento da vida e historia portuguesas desses anos.Tal como os grandes diarios de autores como Franz Kafka, Lev Tolstoi, Raul Brando, Miguel Torga, Thomas Mann ou Virginia Woolf, Conta-Corrente no e importante apenas do ponto de vista literario. Pela abundancia de pequenas historias sobre o meio literario e politico portugues da epoca, bem como pela acuidade, autenticidade e profundidade das suas opinies, a obra constitui um enorme espolio de testemunhos sobre o seu tempo real. A sua leitura e uma extraordinaria fonte documental para compreender um periodo to importante como decisivo na vida da sociedade portuguesa, alem de nos dar uma imagem intima pessoal, familiar, geracional de um dos maiores autores portugueses do seculo XX.

[…] Politicamente, seria homem-forte no distrito de Braga do Partido Evolucionista, um dos principais partidos políticos da Primeira República. Essa posição permitiu-lhe ser protagonista da luta que

Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time the eclipse of the rural world by the urban In this new history of peasantry Patrick Joyce tells the story of this lost world and its people In contrast to the usual insulting stereotypes we discover a rich and complex culture traditions songs celebrations and revolts across Europe from the plains of Poland to the farmsteads and villages of Italy and Ireland through the nineteenth century to the present day Into this passionate history written with exquisite care Joyce weaves remarkable individual stories including those of his own Irish family and looks at how peasant life has been remembered and misremembered in contemporary culture This is a people whose voice is vastly underrepresented in human history Yet for Joyce we are all the children of peasants who must respect the experience of our ancestors This is particularly pressing when our knowledge of the land is being lost to climate crisis and the rise of industrial agriculture Enlightening timely and vital thi

Historia de la unificación de Alemania (en el siglo XIX en el período Bismark), su asentamiento como nuevo imperio y el conflicto (e invasión) de Francia, a través de gran cantidad de documentos originales, tematicamente presentados. Los comentarios e introducciones del autor, asi como sus didacticas preguntas de recapitulacion de lo expuesto a lo largo del libro constituyen la trama sobre la que se situa dicha documentacion original.

Mi gran odisea griega es el relato de la historia de amor de Mary Norris con la lengua, la mitología y la cultura griega que arranca con la negativa paterna para poder estudiar latín. ¿Que hace la gran dama de la correccion del The New Yorker atrapada por esa lengua inmortal y sus dioses? Lo iremos descubriendo a traves de su periplo por esta tierra de olivos, tragos de ouzo y mitos, la fascinacion por ese alfabeto exotico que ha llegado a nuestros tatuajes, la interpretacion de Atenea como un icono feminista, el acercamiento a referencias culturales como los titanes y el descubrimiento de las multiples huellas que el griego ha dejado en nuestro vocabulario. Un relato lleno de memorables anecdotas que consigue que nos reconozcamos como herederos del mundo clasico.

Moss, Walter G.In this fully updated second edition of Volume II of his two-volume" A History of Russia," Walter G Moss has significantly revised his text and bibliography to reflect new research findings and controversies on numerous subjects. He has also brought the history up to date by revising the post-Soviet material, which now covers events from the end of 1991 up to the present day. This new edition retains the features of the first edition that have made it a popular choice in universities and colleges throughout the US and Canada, and around the world. Moss's accessible history includes full treatments of politics, economics, foreign affairs and wars, and also of everyday life, women, legal developments, religion, literature, art, and popular culture. In addition, it provides many other features that have proven successful with both academics and students, including a well-organized and clearly written text; references to varying historical viewpoints; numerous illustrations and maps that supplement and amplify the text; fully updated bibliographies accompanying each chapter as well as a general bibliography of more comprehensive works; a glossary; and a chronology of important events. Moss's "A History of Russia" will appeal to academics, students, and general readers alike.