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  • British Spy Fiction and the End of Empire

    by Sam Goodman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    The position of spy fiction is largely synonymous in popular culture with ideas of patriotism and national security, with the spy himself indicative of the defence of British interests and the preservation of British power around the globe. This book reveals a more complicated side to these assumptions than typically perceived, arguing that the representation of space and power within spy fiction ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The imperial premiership

    The role of the modern Prime Minister in foreign policy making, 1964–2015

    by Sam Goodman ...
    Recent votes in the House of Commons on British military intervention have put foreign policy at the heart of public consciousness. This book spans British foreign policy over the last fifty years and nine premierships from Harold Wilson to David Cameron. Based on the author's first-hand interviews with former foreign secretaries, Cabinet ministers, senior civil servants, party officials, military ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Medicine, Health and the Arts

    Approaches to the Medical Humanities

    Edited by Victoria Bates, Alan Bleakley, Sam Goodman ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
    In recent decades, both medical humanities and medical history have emerged as rich and varied sub-disciplines. Medicine, Health and the Arts is a collection of specially commissioned essays designed to bring together different approaches to these complex fields. Written by a selection of established and emerging scholars, this volume embraces a breadth and range of methodological approaches to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group

    Edited by Victoria Rosner ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Named after a small neighborhood in London where its members settled as young adults, the Bloomsbury Group produced an impressive body of work that yielded British Post-Impressionist painting, literary modernism, the field of macroeconomics, and a new direction for public taste in art. This Companion offers a comprehensive guide to the intellectual and social contexts surrounding Bloomsbury and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • A Sense of Balance

    by John Howard ...
    On how our sense of balance has defined us as a nation and will safeguard our future.In the years that John Howard served in the national parliament he came to understand the special character of Australia; to appreciate its strengths and weaknesses; and most importantly to respect the sense of balance in the formulation of public policy that has long defined us as a nation and made Australia an ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Downing Street Years

    1979–1990

    by Margaret Thatcher ...
    This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers. ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Samuel Beckett

    by Andrew Gibson ...
    Series Book 25 - Critical Lives
    The life of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) has been the subject of exhaustive scholarship, yet by contrast Beckett himself was a spare, minimalist writer who deeply distrusted the techniques of biography. In this new, concise, critical account of Beckett’s life and work, Andrew Gibson seeks to remain faithful to the writer’s artistic aims, staying close to Beckett’s style of thought and work in his ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • What I Came To Say

    by Raymond Williams ...
    A collection of the writings of Raymond Williams, who many considered to be the most significant post-war intellectual in Britain. He wrote on diverse subjects, and his books included "Culture and Society", "The Long Revolution", "The Country and the City", "Towards 2000" and "The Black Mountain". ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Margaret Thatcher

    The Autobiography

    by Margaret Thatcher ...
    Published in a single volume for the first time, Margaret Thatcher is the story of her remarkable life told in her own words--the definitive account of an extraordinary woman and consummate politician, bringing together her bestselling memoirs The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power.Margaret Thatcher is the towering political figure of late-twentieth-century Great Britain. No other prime ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence

    Edited by Wesley K. Wark ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This book won the Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Genre Criticism/Reference book of 1991. This collection of essays is an attempt to explore the history of spy fiction and spy films and investigate the significance of the ideas they contain. The volume offers new insights into the development and symbolism of British spy fiction. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • My Life, Our Times

    by Gordon Brown ...
    This revelatory memoir from Britain's former Prime Minister offers vital insights into our extraordinary times.Former Prime Minister and the country's longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story.In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the son of a minister, the near loss ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Ministry of Nostalgia

    Consuming Austerity

    by Owen Hatherley ...
    Why should we have to “Keep Calm and Carry On”?In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a “make do and mend” aesthetic to the growing nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed, a cultural distraction scam prevents people grasping the truth of their condition.The Ministry of Nostalgia ... Read more

    $9.99 USD