Publication date: 1997-04-01
Price: £16.99
Review Fifty Dead Men Walking / Blake Publishing:
Authors
- Zheng Shunchao
- Chen Kaiguo
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-09-24
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.74
Review Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Tao Wizard / Tuttle Publishing,US:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2005-10
Dewey code: 790
RRP: £7.79
Price: £2.53
Review Scuse Me While I Whip This Out: Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakers / HarperCollins Publishers:
Authors
- Carol Townend
- James Blair Lovell
Publication date: 2006-09-30
Dewey code: 947.0830922
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.09
Review Royal Russia: The Private Albums of the Russian Imperial Family / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-09-01
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Goldfish Bowl: Married to the Prime Minister / Vintage:
Publication date: 2006-07-03
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.49
Review The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett / HarperPerennial:
Creator: Peter W. Sinnema
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-10-10
Dewey code: 170.44
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.41
Review Self-help (Oxford World's Classics) / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2008-03-06
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.15
Review The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole - Scoundrel, Genius and Britain's First Prime Minister / Pimlico:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-06-29
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.89
Review Britain's Last Tommies / Abacus:
Publication date: 2004-11-01
Dewey code: 974.7040924
RRP: £10.85
Price: £10.22
Review The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Urban Studies & Biography) / Random House USA Inc:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 973.923092
RRP: £10.68
Price: £8.03
Review Master of the Senate: The Years of LBJ, Vol. III (Caro, Robert a. Years of Lyndon Johnson, 3.) / Vintage Books USA:
Authors
- Jacob Weisberg
- Robert Edward Rubin
Publication date: 2004-10-31
Dewey code: 336.73092
RRP: £9.70
Price: £4.95
Review In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington / Random House Trade:
Publication date: 2008-06-06
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.65
Review One of the Few: A Triumphant Story of Combat in the Battle of Britain / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-04-29
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.38
Price: £4.63
Review Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations / Farrar Straus Giroux:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-09-25
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £9.99
Price: £27.15
Review John Major: The Autobiography / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:John Major's rise to the post of British prime minister is a puzzle of modern politics that his lengthy autobiography fails to resolve. It is clear, as we follow him from his modest origins in south London to his work as a local councillor and his remarkable ascent at Westminster under the eye of Margaret Thatcher, that he was driven by a determination to prove himself. But now that we are growing used to the messianic zeal that Tony Blair brings to the role of prime minister, it seems extraordinary that John Major should have achieved the position with such little evident vision or relish. Here is the man we thought we knew, decent, hard-working; at the mercy of events rather than their master. So we find him bowed down by the misfortunes of an ungrateful world, rendered defensive by problems with the economy, by arguments over Europe, by the intractability of politicians in Northern Ireland, by attacks from within his own party. With that same party busy airbrushing him from its history-despite his unlikely victory over Neil Kinnock in 1992-it's as well he has got his account into print, an unstuffy telling of a fascinating story that is free of the pomposity that affects so many of his political peers and which reveals a deep-seated belief in the value of basic decency. "I will not concede possession of the recent past to the mythographers of left or right who have every self-interest in retouching the history we made," he says. But how sad to find him still so defensive and so bitter about the slights of others, still anxious to explain why speeches or gestures were misconstrued. "I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. [+]Too defensive. Too reactive," he says. But could he have been anything else? -Kim Fletcher.
Authors
- Joost Elffers
- Robert Greene
Dewey code: 303.3
Price: £10.06
Review The 48 Laws of Power / Penguin Putnam Inc USA:"Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world, a shifting of perspective," writes Robert Greene. Mastery of one's emotions, and the arts of deception and indirection are, he goes on to assert, essential. The 48 laws outlined in this book "have a simple premise: certain actions always increase one's power. while others decrease it and even ruin us. " The laws cull their principles from many great schemers-and scheming instructors- throughout history, from Sun-Tzu to Talleyrand; from Casanova to con man Yellow Kid Weil. They are straightforward in their amoral simplicity: "Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit," or: "Discover each man's thumbscrew. " Each chapter provides examples of the consequences of observance or transgression of the law, along with "keys to power," potential "reversals" (where the converse of the law might also be useful), and a single paragraph cleverly laid out to suggest an image (such as the aforementioned thumbscrew); the margins are filled with illustrative quotations. Practitioners of one-upmanship have been given a new, comprehensive training manual, as up-to-date as it is timeless.
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 941.07092
Price: £16.73
Review Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire / Random House Trade:Georgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century "It Girl". She came from one of England's richest and most landed families, and married into another. She was, beautiful, sensitive, and extravagant. Acquainted fairly young with Charles James Fox, her move from parties to Parties led her to become the intimate of ministers and princes, and she canvassed assiduously for the Whig cause, most famously in the Westminster election of 1784. By turns she was caricatured and fawned on by the press, and she provided the inspiration for Lady Teazle in Sheridan's School For Scandal. But, luckily for her biographer, she also had weaknesses that were to taint her life. As gin gripped the masses, so gambling thralled the aristocracy. By 1784 Georgiana owed "many, many, many thousands", and the creditors she acquired dogged her until her death, but the sterility of her marriage meant that she never came close to disclosing the magnitude of her debts. Amanda Foreman describes astutely the mess that was personal relationships for the aristocratic subculture (Georgiana and the Duke engaged for many years in a ménage à trois with Lady Elizabeth Fraser, who inveigled her way into his bed and her heart). She is, by her own admission, a little in love with her subject, which can lead to occasional lapses of perspective, but generally it adds zest to a narrative built on, rather than burdened by, scholarship, that is at once accessible and learned. [+]An impressive debut, in every sense. -David Vincent.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2006-03-06
Dewey code: 941.081092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.87
Review Sir Robert Peel (Lancaster Pamphlets) / Routledge:
Creator: James Melvin Washington
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-09-17
Dewey code: 323.092
Price: £8.99
Review I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World / HarperCollins:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-11-04
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.54
Review President Nixon: Alone in the White House / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
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