![]() ![]() Mary’s go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake. Mary’s (too often by the very seat of their pants) and thwarting time-travelling terrorists, all the while leaving plenty of time for tea.įrom eleventh-century London to World War I, from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria, one thing is for sure: wherever the historians at St. Markham, and many more-as they travel through time, saving St. Mary’s tells the chaotic adventures of Max and her compatriots-Director Bairstow, Chief Leon Farrell, Mr. ![]() But, as new recruit Madeleine Maxwell soon discovers, it’s not only history they’re often fighting. Mary’s is that one wrong move and history will fight back-sometimes in particularly nasty ways. The first thing you learn on the job at St. ![]() Just don’t call it “time travel”-these historians “investigate major historical events in contemporary time.” And they aren’t your harmless eccentrics either a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. “History is just one damned thing after another.” -Arnold Toynbeeīehind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. The first book in the USA Today bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I received this book for free from ABRAMS for review consideration. Coupled with riveting illustrations and Lee’s humorous and conversational storytelling style, this book is an outright celebration of the badass women who paved the way for the rest of us. Starting in the fifth century BC and continuing to the present, the book takes a closer look at bold and inspiring women who dared to step outside the traditional gender roles of their time. With tales of heroism and cunning, in-depth bios and witty storytelling, Bygone Badass Broads gives new life to these historic female pioneers. Website | Twitter | Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | The Book Depository | Indigo | Libraryīased on Mackenzi Lee’s popular weekly Twitter series of the same name, Bygone Badass Broads features 52 remarkable and forgotten trailblazing women from all over the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. ![]() With over 240 colour photographs, this is the ideal guide to take on seashore rambles. A fascinating introduction to the different habitats and creatures to be found along the coastline. ![]() This portable, informative book is perfect for any excursion to the shore. Introductions to seaweeds, worms, molluscs, arthopods, fish, birds and mammals, and many other shore-line inhabitants are presented in a clear, accessible manner. The book includes full details of the many species to be found within each habitat. Featured habitats include cliffs, rocky shores, sand dunes, saltmarsh, shingle and the strandline. Divided into different coastline habitats for ease of use, Collins Gem Seashore is the ideal guide for families and children. Ken Preston-Mafham, the author of this title, together with Rod and Jean Preston-Mafham, runs Premaphotos Wildlife, a natural history picture library based in Cornwall which boasts a stock of 75,000 colour photographs. A fascinating introduction to the different habitats and creatures to be found along the coastline. Wild Guide Seashore is the perfect introductory guide to coastline wildlife for everyone who is wild about nature. ![]() ![]() While emphasising that much remains inexpressible and inexplicable, Karl Schlögel's inventive approach to sources and narrative illuminates this time and place with startling originality. Yet this enormous corpus of texts has exacerbated the sense that neither literary nor historical narrative is adequate to represent or explain the events of 1937, which played out with especial force in Moscow. ![]() Alongside this literature (most of which was published only during or after the era of glasnost ushered in by Mikhail Gorbachev), an enormous archive-based historiography has also accumulated since the late 1980s, which has also started to explain how and why the Stalinist leadership carried out a disruptive and damaging purge even as war loomed. ![]() He is one of many Russian writers who have attempted to capture the atmosphere of the Soviet capital at the height of Stalinist terror. ![]() "It was especially terrifying to walk down Lub'ianka street and Komsomol alley in the summer nights of the year 1937.It seemed as though the entire enormous city was pinned down by the glinting glass gaze of the Lub'ianka." This was how the novelist Vasilii Grossman described the streets around the headquarters of the Moscow secret police in 1937 in his magnum opus Life and Fate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They examine the role played by new media companies and funders, showing how the confluence of the growth of big tech and falling revenues for legacy media has led to new forms of control. Contributors including Emily Bell, Felix Salmon, Joshua Marshall, Joel Simon, and Nikki Usher analyze diverse cases of media capture worldwide-from the United Kingdom to Turkey to India and beyond-many drawn from firsthand experience. This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture-how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Tech giants such as Facebook and Google have dramatically changed how people access information, with consequences that are only beginning to be felt. Corporate-owned media companies that act in the service of power increasingly exercise soft censorship. As demagogues rise, independent voices have been squeezed out. Who controls the media today? There are many media systems across the globe that claim to be free yet whose independence has been eroded. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Ascent of Money reveals finance as the backbone of history, casting a new light on familiar events: the Renaissance enabled by Italian foreign exchange dealers, the French Revolution traced back to a stock market bubble, the 2008 crisis traced from America's bankruptcy capital, Memphis, to China's boomtown, Chongqing. In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica" into a trade war, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, with his signature clarity and expert lens. " excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis." - The Washington Post The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency ![]() We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. ![]() Title: Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Something as poignant as Sandy Denny, say, from Fairport Convention. He saw Elf Holloway, a woman from the folk scene. But yet, just while that window was open, things came in which germinated and contained the seeds of the future." Sure, it was naive, sure after 18 months, two years, a more jaded reality reexerted itself. Pop got separated from rock in this time, and just a year when a critical mass of people began to believe that if only they wished it badly enough and wanted it, then society could be recalibrated and rebooted. ![]() The music - 1967 was an astonishing year. Mitchell - born just after the band Utopia Avenue would have been around - says it was the music that drew him to that era, and "the particular dark magic that was in the air at that time and place. ![]() Hah! No you don't, because Utopia Avenue is the title of David Mitchell's new novel about the rise of a psychedelic Sixties band that never was. Their great hits - "Abandon Hope," "Smithereens," "Mona Lisa Sings the Blues" - propelled Utopia Avenue from seedy Soho clubs to Top of the Pops, and then America in the enchanted times of bell bottoms, the Beatles, drugs, sex, and street protests. Griff on the drums - who didn't love gruff Griff? And of course, the peerless Jasper de Zoet, shredding, I mean shredding the guitar. Remember Utopia Avenue? Elf, their keyboardist and singer - a voice from the clouds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fawley and his team, meanwhile, have a new and perplexing care, which challenges all of them to confront their immediate reactions and assumptions.Ī male student has accused one of the female professors at his college of sexual assault, the alleged offence having supposedly taken place while he was babysitting the professor’s son. DI Adam Fawley’s wife, Alex, is still pregnant and under orders to take things easy in the middle of a long, hot summer. This feels very much like a lockdown novel – and it was indeed mostly written during the UK’s first lockdown of 2020 – although it is set in pre-pandemic times, following on almost immediately after the previous mystery in the series. Stevie‘s review of The Whole Truth (DI Adam Fawley, Book 5 ) by Cara HunterĬontemporary Crime Fiction published by Penguin 18 Mar 21 ![]() ![]() ![]() When studies on Hinduism are done using an Abrahamic / Eurocentric lens of the Trinity, naturally it becomes more convenient to re-interpret or reduce it to a religion with a trinity. Invading the Sacred is an anthology of 29 essays by Hindu scholars and Hinduism experts who attempt to present a balanced perspective of Hinduism to the global audience as opposed to the one-sided version of what Hinduism, and Indian culture is all about by the academic scholars of Hinduism in America who refuse debate or through pop-culture images like Indians eating monkey brains in the Hollywood movie “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” or images of an exotic India as a land of snake charmers, sex maniacs and elephants only or Hinduism is essentially a polytheistic religion as opposed to the Abrahamic religions. A majority of the Indians are Hindus and Hindu-Americans are a minority in the USA. In today’s global world, India is becoming a major economic player. Invading the Sacred: An Analysis of Hinduism Studies in America,Įdited by Krishnan Ramaswamy, Antonio de Nicolas, Aditi Banerjee, This article is special to World and I Online. World and I Online-review by Deepa Kandaswamy PRESS-webĭeepa Kandaswamy is a freelance writer. ![]() ![]() Crumb, this essential work covers everything from the fine points of graphic storytelling to the big picture of the medium, including how to: Filled with examples from Eisner's work as well as that of artists like Art Spiegelman and R. 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