2012, ISBN: 9781780763552

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Tight and unmarked-" The name Waterloo has become synonymous with a final, crushing defeat. Now, this legendary battle is re-created in a groundbreaking book by an eminent British militar… Mehr…

Tight and unmarked-" The name Waterloo has become synonymous with a final, crushing defeat. Now, this legendary battle is re-created in a groundbreaking book by an eminent British military historian making his major American debut. Revealing how and why Napoleon fell in Belgium in June 1815, The Battle of Waterloo definitively clears away the fog that has, over time, obscured the truth. With fresh details and interpretations, Jeremy Black places Waterloo within the context of the warfare of the period, showing that Napoleon's modern army was beaten by Britain and Prussia with techniques as old as those of antiquity, including close-quarter combat. Here are the fateful early stages, from Napoleon's strategy of a surprise attack perhaps spoiled by the defection of one of his own commanders to his younger brother's wasteful efforts assaulting the farm called Hougoumont. And here is the endgame, including Commander Michel Ney's botched cavalry charge against the Anglo-Dutch line and the solid British resistance against a series of French cavalry strikes, with Napoleon repeating defeat and reinforcing failure. More than a masterly guide to an armed conflict, The Battle of Waterloo is a brilliant portrait of the men who fought it: Napoleon, the bold emperor who had bullied other rulers and worn down his own army with too many wars, and the steadfast Duke of Wellington, who used superior firepower and a flexible generalship in his march to victory. With bold analysis of the battle's impact on history and its lessons for building lasting alliances in today's world, The Battle of Waterloo is a small volume bound to have a big impact on global scholarship." About the Author: "Jeremy Black is a professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.", Random House, 2010, 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] NMINT/NMINT.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt colour mannequin figures illustrated dw/dj panels with b/w embossed letters (author in white,title in black) to front,white lettered spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine but for a pair of tiny accidental,consecutive corner tips creases to lower corners of pp1-4 inclusive - but no other dog-ear reading creases to any other pages' corners - else would appear unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a black headband and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-305pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,Rudyard Hipling epigraph (from 'The Secret of the Machines'),2pp blanks at the rear,followed by acknowledgements and then a further 2pp blanks. Britain has lost the Falklands War,Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence.In a world not quite like this one,two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. 'Machines Like Me' occurs in an alternative 1980s London.Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment,is in love with Miranda,a bright student who lives with a terrible secret.When Charlie comes into money,he buys Adam,one of the first batch of synthetic humans.With Miranda's assistance,he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever a love triangle soon forms.These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control. Want more Ian McEWAN titles? For similar and other titles please search my MODERN FIRSTS,MODERN FIRSTS2,1001 books You Must Read Before You Die and SIGNED catalogues. View my 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die catalogue for other books and suggested reading in it. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included or FREE. That offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** This item offered P+p included.Available UK only. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,2019., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten,black felt-tip ink signature - without dedication to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj, with b/w and yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Minimal,minor,light scoring to both panels of dw/dj but without penetration,nor affecting boards beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-vipp+1-405pp [paginated] includes author's note,prologue,27 chapters and an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED title page,an epigram (Winston Churchill quote),separator page and b/w author on-line site advert as last page. In Paris,an elderly man is assassinated as he takes his morning walk.In the war-torn cities of Syria,government forces wage a bloody war against their own people.The Russians are propping up the government,the French are backing one rebel faction and the British are backing another.And in north Africa,young SAS trooper Danny Black is coming to the end of a gruelling tour of duty,or so he thinks.Danny has a new mission.An MI6 agent needs to make contact with Syrian rebel forces, and also with the private military contractors who are - unofficially - training this faction as it struggles to bring down their government and establish a new regime that will be favourable to British business interests.As they travel deep into rebel heartland,Danny will learn who the masters of war,the men who call the shots,really are.As Danny finds himself sucked into the murky orbit of the private military,he discovers a world where death is dispensed by the highest bidder and individuals will betray anybody if the price is right.And where a secret lurks that will change the course of Danny's own life,however long that might last. . . Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.CORONET,2013., 5, UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj by Ronald Searle; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to top edges and corners.Top edge minisculely,lightly dust-soiled,fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,unblemished, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain red endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,80pp [unpaginated] includes verso coloured illustrated,colour illustrated frntis,title page and a mixture of full-colour,full-page illustrations and full-page b/w illustrations - majority though,are in colour. Have you ever witnessed the Ancient,Noble (and Secret) Ceremony of Slashing the Trockenbeerenauslese? Or the Inauguration of the First Authentic (and Indisputable) Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita? Have you attended the Vinolympics,tasted Ptolemy Nouveau or watched the Uncorking of the Kangarouge? Unless you can answer 'yes' to at least one of these questions,your initiation into the mysteries of wine and its production has scarcely begun. Let Ronald Searle,in his own inimitable way,introduce you to the time honoured Wine Ceremonies of the World: from the USA (Blessing the Grapes - California Style) to the Far East (the Japanese Wine Ceremony); from Scotland (the Squeezing of the Bonnie Malted Grape) to South Africa (Colourful Ceremony of Offering Limited Recognition to the Black Grape) - and,in passing,let him show you how many ways there are to open a bottle of wine.A brilliant successor to 'The Illustrated Winespeak',its outrageously perceptive humour makes it a must for vintners and wine imbibers throughout the world. Some of these drawings have appeared first in The Subtle Alchemist (1973),Pariscope magazine (1973), Paris! Paris!(NY,1977) and R.S's aforementioned Illustrated Winespeak (1983). The rest of the drawings are new and appear for the first time in this collection. Ronald William Fordham Searle (b. March 3rd,1920 - d. Dec 30th ,2011.) He was an English artist and satirical cartoonist,comics artist,sculptor,medal designer and illustrator.He is best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the 'Molesworth' series. Works as Ronald Searle.Born in Cambridge.Studied at Cambridge School of Art (1936-39).Served in the Army during WW2 and was interned in Japanese PoW camps in Siam and Malaysia for three and a half years.On his release,he settled in London and began working as a humorous illustrator and carciaturist for books and magazines, including 'Punch' and 'Lilliput'.In 1959,at the invitation of the United Nations' High Commissioner for Refugees,he visited camps in Austria, Italy and Greece,and published a book illustrating his impressions. The following year he settled in France,where he lived until his death. Searle has illustrated over 60 books.'Hurrah for St. Trinian's!' (1948) was among the first of many giving a mock-horrific view of private schools and their denizens; in these and many of his other books,the predominant mood of effervescent humour is offset by sinister or macabre overtones. He early developed a fanciful and strikingly individual graphic manner,subjecting the human form to grotesque distortions (bristling brows, hunched shoulders,matchstick legs and stiletto feet) and by the mid 1950s had become virtually a household name in Britain.He succeeds both at character-invention (favouring a number of well-defined types) and at caricature.He is also a painter in watercolour and gouache, etcher and lithographer and has worked on several films including Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! * * N.B. 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If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.SOUVENIR PRESS,1986., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat handwritten,black ink signature - without dedication - to title page.Bright, crisp,clean,colour illustration+photographic illustrated dw/dj,with red+ white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.An adhesive 'Signed Copy' label to front panel of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges lightly aged - as usual normal - but clean,contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, author SIGNED,1st edn,1-343p [paginated] includes prologue,20 chapters and an epilogue,plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,acknowledgements and an epigram. Former SAS captain Will Jackson is a man with nothing to lose.A veteran of the most dangerous missions the regiment could throw at him,his life was torn apart the day a terrorist attack killed his family.Now he leads a life of grief-stricken obscurity,the world of warfare nothing but a distant memory.People higher up the chain of command have other plans, however.They're in a mess of their own making,and unless they sort it out,thousands of innocent people will pay the price.And so they make Jackson an offer he can't refuse.An offer that will take him straight back into a brutal theatre of war.Only one person can help prevent the disaster that is waiting to happen,and that person is being held by the Taliban insurgency in the depths of a harsh Afghanistan winter.As Will reluctantly prepares to undertake this final mission,he does so in the knowledge that it will stop a devastating terrorist attack - as well as satisfy an ulterior motive of his own.But in the murky world of international terrorism,things are very seldom what they seem.And as events begin to unfold,Will starts to learn that someone,somewhere is playing a game with him; that nobody can be trusted; and that sometimes,you just have to fight fire with fire. . . Want more Chris RYAN titles? For other or similar titles,pleases search my SIGNED and MODERN FIRSTS2 catalogues. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the value of this item, for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.CENTURY,2008., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj - virtually as new.Laid in loosely,a publisher's unused advertising pre-paid postage postcard.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated b/w+sepia photographic montage'd illustrated dw/dj,with b/w+orange lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.A very small closed tear/nick to upper dw/dj panel,in gutter of spine/backstrip - no other nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread example? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered (apart from rear bd's lower corner - minisculely bumped - others unaffected),publisher's original dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, vii-xiipp+1-243pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,intro,13 chapters,16pp contemporary wartime (the majority) and modern,b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp84/5,bibliography and sources,and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a contents list/table. The extent to which the rules of war,or conventions as they are more usually referred to,were broken during naval actions in the Second World War is the gripping subject of 'Waves of Hate',naval historian Tony Bridgland's latest work. Contrary to comfortable mythology, unchivalrous or even downright disgraceful acts amounting to culpable war criminality were not the sole preserve of our enemies.All sides stand accused of lapses of conduct which had appalling consequences for their hapless victims.Nor did these only occur in the heat of battle when fear and adrenalin-rush may have confused judgement; all too often there is a strong suspicion of calculated and cold pre-meditation. Thanks to his meticulous research,the author's selection of a wide variety of incidents at sea makes for vivid and compelling,if uneasy, reading.Amid all the drama of action there is much on which to reflect.It is the moral questions that these accounts raise that make 'Waves of Hate' so much more than a mere catalogue of atrocities at sea. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, UK.BARNSLEY,S.YORKS.LEO COOPER,2002., 5, UK,12mo p/back 1st edn.[Originally and first published,UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,GOLLANCZ,(London),1997.This the first true,UK p/back, 1st edn appearance,1998.] FINE+.Wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase.so no owner inscrptn and no price removal from card cover.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy,wrap-around,vibrant colour pictorial artwork by Josh Kirby,illustrated covers with black and gilt letters to front,gilt letters to flat spine with NO reading creases, white+pale blue lettered story blurb within a blue-green panel, superimposed over colour illustration; with negligible shelf-wear,NO bumping.creasing to edges and corners - NO nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned and without blemish; contents otherwise bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation.UK,12mo p/back 1st edn,9-413pp [unpaginated] includes story; plus [unpaginated] author's b/w,thumbnail,photograph portrait to reverse/inside of front cover, author's potted biography,title page,title separator page,and to the rear,2pp adverts; one for 'Discworld' character models,the other for publisher's other titles,and 14 colour illustrated covers of previous Pratchett titles to inside of rear cover. It is only the degree of ageing/toning that prevents it being listed Near MINT. A weathercock has risen from the sea of Discworld, and suddenly you can tell which way the wind is blowing. A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds. Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen, squid and at least one very camp follower. As tow armies march,Commander Vimes of Ankl-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him. . . .and that's just the people on his side.The enemy might be even worse. The 21st in Pratchett's phenomenally successful 'Discworld' series, makes the World Cup look like a friendly five-a-side. Want more Terry PRATCHETT titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2 and CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogues. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct,insured (optional) shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,p/backs' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if p/back is offered P+p free. * This item offered P+p FREE - offer available UK only. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always., LONDON.CORGI,1997., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1-10.] FINE+/FINE+. Wrapped,protected and then stored from day of issue/release - so an unread - apart from my own collation,and a minimally handled copy.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj,with pinkish-brown and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean but lightly aged; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's plain maroon paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a maroon+white striped headband,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xii-xivpp+4- 361pp [paginated] includes preface,13 chapters,8pp b/w illus reproductions and contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp178/9,and notes.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, a dedication,contents list/table,a b/w map of Burma,acknowledgements as last page,and 6pp blanks at rear. For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma - through sanctions and boycotts - only to see an apparent slide towards even harsher dictatorship.But what do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past tell us about the present and even its future? In 'The River of Lost Footsteps',Thant Myint-U relates the story of modern Burma,in part through a telling of his own family's history,in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical,dramatic and appalling. His maternal grandfather: U Thant,rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become Secretary General of the United Nations in the 1960's.And on his father's side,the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries.Through their stories and others,he portrays Burma's rise and decline in the modern world,from the time of Portuguese pirates and renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism,the devastation of WW2,and a sixty-year civil war that continues today (then 2007) and is the longest-running conflict anywhere in the world. 'The River of Lost Footsteps' is a work both personal and global: a distinctive contribution that makes Burma accessible and enthralling. Please contact selle @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.FABER and FABER LIMITED,2007., 5, London: I.B.Tauris, 2012. 9781780763552. 1st edition. "The period 1928-1942 saw some of the greatest political and social upheavals in modern British history. Lang, as Arhcbishop of Canterbury, led the Church of England through this tumultuous period and was a pivotal influence in political and religious decision making....Drawing on previously unseen material and first-hand interviews, Beaken tells the story of a fascinating and complex man, who was, he argues, Britain's first 'modern' Archbishop of Canterbury." Pp.xx/300, 22 black & white photos and illustrations, owner's name to reverse of frontispiece and final page of index. Black boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG. ., London: I.B.Tauris, 2012. 9781780763552, 0<

2012, ISBN: 9781780763552

Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961. Book Club Edition. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. good condition/fair. 88 p. 21 cm. Notes. Name of previous owner writt… Mehr…

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961. Book Club Edition. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. good condition/fair. 88 p. 21 cm. Notes. Name of previous owner written in book. DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and some tears. Some pages soiled The Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen, at Harvard University, 1960. From Wikipedia: "Charles Percy Snow CBE (15 October 1905-1 July 1980), who was raised to the peerage as Baron Snow, of the City of Leicester, was an English chemist and novelist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as "Strangers and Brothers", and for "The Two Cultures", a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and "literary intellectuals". Born in Leicester to Ada and William Snow (a church organist and choirmaster), Charles was the second of four boys (his brothers being Harold, Eric and Philip Snow). Snow was educated at the Leicestershire and Rutland College, now the University of Leicester, where he read chemistry for two years and proceeded to a master's degree in physics. From Leicester, Snow went on a scholarship to Cambridge and gained his PhD in physics (Spectroscopy). In 1930 he became a Fellow of Christ's College. He served in several senior civil service positions: as technical director of the Ministry of Labour from 1940 to 1944, and as civil service commissioner from 1945 to 1960. Snow's was among the 2, 300 names of prominent persons listed on the Nazi's Special Search List, GB of those who were to be arrested on the invasion of Great Britain and turned over to the Gestapo. As a politician he was parliamentary secretary in the House of Lords to the Minister of Technology from 1964 to 1966 in the Labour administration of Harold Wilson. He was knighted in 1957 and made a life peer, as Baron Snow, of the City of Leicester, in 1964. Snow married the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson in 1950. They had one son. Friends included the mathematician G. H. Hardy, for whom he would write a biographical foreword in A Mathematician's Apology, the physicist P.M.S. Blackett, the X-ray crystallographer J.D. Bernal and the cultural historian Jacques Barzun. At Christ's he tutored H. S. Hoff later better known as the novelist William Cooper. The two became friends, worked together in the civil service and wrote versions of each other into their novels: Snow was the model for the college dean, Robert, in Cooper's Scenes from Provincial Life sequence. In 1960, he gave the Godkin Lectures at Harvard University, about the clashes between Henry Tizard and F. Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), both scientific advisors to British governments around the time of World War II. The lectures were subsequently published as Science and Government. For the academic year 1961 to 1962, Lord and Lady Snow served as Fellows on the faculty in the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University. Snow's first novel was a whodunit, Death under Sail (1932). In 1975 he wrote a biography of Anthony Trollope. But he is better known as the author of a sequence of novels entitled Strangers and Brothers depicting intellectuals in academic and government settings in the modern era. The Masters is the best-known novel of the sequence. It deals with the internal politics of a Cambridge college as it prepares to elect a new master, and has all the appeal of being an insider s view. The novel depicts concerns other than the strictly academic influencing the decisions of supposedly objective scholars. The Masters and The New Men were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1954. Corridors of Power added a phrase to the language of the day. In 1974, Snow's novel In Their Wisdom was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In The Realists, an examination of the work of eight novelists Stendhal, Honore de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Benito Perez Galdos, Henry James and Marcel Proust Snow makes a robust defence of the realistic novel., Harvard University Press, 1961, 2.25, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj - virtually as new.Laid in loosely,a publisher's unused advertising pre-paid postage postcard.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated b/w+sepia photographic montage'd illustrated dw/dj,with b/w+orange lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.A very small closed tear/nick to upper dw/dj panel,in gutter of spine/backstrip - no other nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread example? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered (apart from rear bd's lower corner - minisculely bumped - others unaffected),publisher's original dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, vii-xiipp+1-243pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,intro,13 chapters,16pp contemporary wartime (the majority) and modern,b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp84/5,bibliography and sources,and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a contents list/table. The extent to which the rules of war,or conventions as they are more usually referred to,were broken during naval actions in the Second World War is the gripping subject of 'Waves of Hate',naval historian Tony Bridgland's latest work. Contrary to comfortable mythology, unchivalrous or even downright disgraceful acts amounting to culpable war criminality were not the sole preserve of our enemies.All sides stand accused of lapses of conduct which had appalling consequences for their hapless victims.Nor did these only occur in the heat of battle when fear and adrenalin-rush may have confused judgement; all too often there is a strong suspicion of calculated and cold pre-meditation. Thanks to his meticulous research,the author's selection of a wide variety of incidents at sea makes for vivid and compelling,if uneasy, reading.Amid all the drama of action there is much on which to reflect.It is the moral questions that these accounts raise that make 'Waves of Hate' so much more than a mere catalogue of atrocities at sea. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, UK.BARNSLEY,S.YORKS.LEO COOPER,2002., 5, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1-10.] FINE+/FINE+. 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In Paris,an elderly man is assassinated as he takes his morning walk.In the war-torn cities of Syria,government forces wage a bloody war against their own people.The Russians are propping up the government,the French are backing one rebel faction and the British are backing another.And in north Africa,young SAS trooper Danny Black is coming to the end of a gruelling tour of duty,or so he thinks.Danny has a new mission.An MI6 agent needs to make contact with Syrian rebel forces, and also with the private military contractors who are - unofficially - training this faction as it struggles to bring down their government and establish a new regime that will be favourable to British business interests.As they travel deep into rebel heartland,Danny will learn who the masters of war,the men who call the shots,really are.As Danny finds himself sucked into the murky orbit of the private military,he discovers a world where death is dispensed by the highest bidder and individuals will betray anybody if the price is right.And where a secret lurks that will change the course of Danny's own life,however long that might last. . . 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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961. Book Club Edition. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. good condition/fair. 88 p. 21 cm. Notes. Name of previous owner writt… Mehr…

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961. Book Club Edition. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. good condition/fair. 88 p. 21 cm. Notes. Name of previous owner written in book. DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and some tears. Some pages soiled The Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen, at Harvard University, 1960. From Wikipedia: "Charles Percy Snow CBE (15 October 1905-1 July 1980), who was raised to the peerage as Baron Snow, of the City of Leicester, was an English chemist and novelist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as "Strangers and Brothers", and for "The Two Cultures", a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and "literary intellectuals". Born in Leicester to Ada and William Snow (a church organist and choirmaster), Charles was the second of four boys (his brothers being Harold, Eric and Philip Snow). Snow was educated at the Leicestershire and Rutland College, now the University of Leicester, where he read chemistry for two years and proceeded to a master's degree in physics. From Leicester, Snow went on a scholarship to Cambridge and gained his PhD in physics (Spectroscopy). In 1930 he became a Fellow of Christ's College. He served in several senior civil service positions: as technical director of the Ministry of Labour from 1940 to 1944, and as civil service commissioner from 1945 to 1960. Snow's was among the 2, 300 names of prominent persons listed on the Nazi's Special Search List, GB of those who were to be arrested on the invasion of Great Britain and turned over to the Gestapo. As a politician he was parliamentary secretary in the House of Lords to the Minister of Technology from 1964 to 1966 in the Labour administration of Harold Wilson. He was knighted in 1957 and made a life peer, as Baron Snow, of the City of Leicester, in 1964. Snow married the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson in 1950. They had one son. Friends included the mathematician G. H. Hardy, for whom he would write a biographical foreword in A Mathematician's Apology, the physicist P.M.S. Blackett, the X-ray crystallographer J.D. Bernal and the cultural historian Jacques Barzun. At Christ's he tutored H. S. Hoff later better known as the novelist William Cooper. The two became friends, worked together in the civil service and wrote versions of each other into their novels: Snow was the model for the college dean, Robert, in Cooper's Scenes from Provincial Life sequence. In 1960, he gave the Godkin Lectures at Harvard University, about the clashes between Henry Tizard and F. Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), both scientific advisors to British governments around the time of World War II. The lectures were subsequently published as Science and Government. For the academic year 1961 to 1962, Lord and Lady Snow served as Fellows on the faculty in the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University. Snow's first novel was a whodunit, Death under Sail (1932). In 1975 he wrote a biography of Anthony Trollope. But he is better known as the author of a sequence of novels entitled Strangers and Brothers depicting intellectuals in academic and government settings in the modern era. The Masters is the best-known novel of the sequence. It deals with the internal politics of a Cambridge college as it prepares to elect a new master, and has all the appeal of being an insider s view. The novel depicts concerns other than the strictly academic influencing the decisions of supposedly objective scholars. The Masters and The New Men were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1954. Corridors of Power added a phrase to the language of the day. In 1974, Snow's novel In Their Wisdom was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In The Realists, an examination of the work of eight novelists Stendhal, Honore de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Benito Perez Galdos, Henry James and Marcel Proust Snow makes a robust defence of the realistic novel., Harvard University Press, 1961, 2.25, London: I.B.Tauris, 2012. 9781780763552. 1st edition. "The period 1928-1942 saw some of the greatest political and social upheavals in modern British history. Lang, as Arhcbishop of Canterbury, led the Church of England through this tumultuous period and was a pivotal influence in political and religious decision making....Drawing on previously unseen material and first-hand interviews, Beaken tells the story of a fascinating and complex man, who was, he argues, Britain's first 'modern' Archbishop of Canterbury." Pp.xx/300, 22 black & white photos and illustrations, owner's name to reverse of frontispiece and final page of index. Black boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG. ., London: I.B.Tauris, 2012. 9781780763552, 0<