Nelson, Navy & Nation seeks to explore the Royal Navy`s relationship with Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the Napoleonic Wars, encompassing three central themes: the realities of naval life in this period, the navy`s connection to society, culture & national identity, & the story of Nelson`s life & career. A series of chapters contributed by a distinguished panel of leading authors & historians will illuminate these themes through discrete but interconnected topics to give a fascinating contextual overview of life in Nelson`s Navy, internal & external perceptions of the Royal Navy & changes in these perspectives throughout the period 1688
- 1815, & the life & career of Admiral Horatio Nelson himself. Replete with stunning imagery featuring historical artworks, paintings & objects from the collections of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, the book will combine accessible narrative history for the general reader with superb visual appeal, forming an ideal companion to the Museum`s new permanent ` Nelson, Navy & Nation` gallery, which is scheduled to open in October 2013.
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` Fascinating... Shot through with fresh insights... No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.` Observer Nelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest practitioner of naval command the world has ever seen. It explores the professional, personal, intellectual & practical origins of one man`s genius, to understand how the greatest warrior that Britain has ever produced transformed the art of conflict, & enabled his country to survive the challenge of total war & international isolation. In Nelson, Andrew Lambert
- described by David Cannadine as `the outstanding British naval historian of his generation`
- is able to offer new insights into the individual quality which led Byron rightly to celebrate Nelson`s genius as ` Britannia`s God of War`. He demonstrates how Admiral Nelson elevated the business of naval warfare to the level of the sublime. Nelson`s unique gift was to take that which other commanders found complex, & reduce it to simplicity. Where his predecessors & opponents saw a particular battle as an end in itself, Nelson was always a step ahead
- even in the midst of terrifying, close-quarters action, with officers & men struck down all around him. ` Excellent... Worthy of the stirring events [it celebrates].` Independent


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Each of these 101 strange & curious objects from British history has an extraordinary story to tell. Many royal possessions are inside, including the shirt of that Charles I was wearing when he was executed & Queen Victoria`s dancing shoes, along with curiosities such as Darwin`s walking stick, the last letter that Dickens ever wrote, the handwritten report (by the captain of the Carpathia) on the rescue of the Titanic`s survivors & Emily Wilding Davidson`s return ticket to Epsom. Each offers a fascinating snapshot of Britain`s amazing history. ...

Summer, 1944. In the `stifling heat of equatorial Newark`, a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. Vigorous, decent, twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges & disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war. As polio begins to ravage Bucky`s playground, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering & the pain. Through this story runs the dark question that haunts all four of Roth`s late short novels, Everyman, Indignation, The Humbling, & now, Nemesis: what choices fatally shape a life? How powerless is each of us up against the force of circumstances? ...

His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem. From the infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, he was a hardworking young father forced to make a decision that would turn his world upside down. Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel & perhaps Brazil`s most wanted criminal. A man who tried to bring welfare & justice to a playground of gang culture & destitution, while everyone around him drew guns & partied. It`s a gripping tale of gold-hunters & evangelical pastors, bent police & rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians & drug lords with maths degrees. Traversing through rainforests & high-security prisons, filthy slums & glittering shopping malls, this is also the story of how change came to Brazil. Of a country`s journey into the global spotlight, & the battle for the beautiful but damned city of Rio, as it struggles to break free from a tangled web of corruption, violence, drugs & poverty. With Nem at its centre, locked in a fight for his country`s soul. ...

HUSB&. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel & Brazil`s most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to bring welfare & justice to a playground of gang culture & destitution, while everyone around him drew guns & partied. DRUG LORD. It`s a story of gold-hunters & evangelical pastors, bent police & rich-kid addicts, politicians & drug lords & the battle for the beautiful but damned city of Rio. MOST WANTED CRIMINAL. ...

You might recognise:` It was a bright day in April, & the clocks were striking thirteen.` But what about:` Time, like an ever-rolling stream` Or even:`I am soft sift / In an hour-glass-at the wall / Fast, but mined with a motion, a drift, / & it crowds & it combs to the fall.` Can you match each to their author? What about their book or poem? Welcome to Nemo`s Almanac, the ultimate quiz for bibliophiles. Wonderful, maddening, enlightening, Nemo`s Almanac has been the well-guarded secret of the literary world for over one hundred years, beloved by authors & booksellers alike. Now in book form for the first time, with an account of its quirky history from Alan Hollinghurst, you can experience its fiendishly addictive qualities for yourself. With tantalising"es on themes from breakfast to bonfires, winter to sunshine, & including authors from Aldous Huxley to Zadie Smith, each chapter will put your knowledge & literary instinct to the test as you search for the origins to each"e. & if that tip-of-your-tongue feeling doesn`t transform into the names of authors & works, you can always check the back of the book for answers that will send you on fresh journeys of literary discovery. So curl up by a fire with your wits about you, stuff the book in your pocket for a trip to the library, or quiz the whole family after dinner. Answers: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four; Isaac Watts, `O God, Our Help`; Gerard Manley Hopkins, ` The Wreck of the Deutschland` ...

Nenthead in 1898 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map is double-sided & covers the village of Nenthead which in the 19th century grew into a mining town of over 2, 000 people, developed by the Quaker London Lead Company, & with pensions, education & health resources that foreshadowed the Welfare State. By the time of this map it was in rapid decline, & during the 20th century the population sank to around 350. The main map covers the northern part of the village, including Whitehall, Holmsfoot, Wellgill Dykehead, Brownleyhill Dressingfloor, Greenends, Foulard, & stretching east to Haggs Mine & Nentsberry. On the reverse is a large section of adjacent sheet 42.03 which covers the village centre & the Rampgill Mine, part of which forms today's Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Nenthead in 1898 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map is double-sided & covers the village of Nenthead which in the 19th century grew into a mining town of over 2, 000 people, developed by the Quaker London Lead Company, & with pensions, education & health resources that foreshadowed the Welfare State. By the time of this map it was in rapid decline, & during the 20th century its population sank to around 350. The main map covers the northern part of the village, including Whitehall, Holmsfoot, Wellgill Dykehead, Brownleyhill Dressingfloor, Greenends, Foulard, & stretching east to Haggs Mine & Nentsberry. On the reverse is a large section of the adjacent sheet 42.03 which covers the village centre & the Rampgill Mine, part of which forms today`s Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...