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Little Englanders - Alwyn Turner - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Little Englanders - Alwyn Turner - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''For sheer entertainment, this rollicking account of Britain before the Great War is hard to beat, brimming as it is with swindlers, murderers and charlatans, imperialist fantasies and saucy innuendos'' ''History Books of the Year'', The Times''The very best sort of panoramic portrait'' David Kynaston''The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets the record straight, bringing its characters, strains and stresses brilliantly to life'' Simon JenkinsWhen Queen Victoria died in 1901 it was the end of an era. Many later remembered the era that followed as the long afternoon of an empire where the sun never set. Yet the Edwardians knew the country was in a state of flux; the seismic change that they felt would transform modern Britain forever.In Little Englanders, Alwyn Turner reconsiders the Edwardian era as a time of profound social change, bringing their history alive through music halls and male beauty contests, the 1908 Summer Olympics and the real Peaky Blinders. In this colourful, detailed and hugely entertaining social history, Turner shows that, though the golden Victorian age was in the past, the birth of modern Britain was only just beginning.

DKK 134.00
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Little Englanders - Alwyn Turner - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Little Englanders - Alwyn Turner - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Telegraph and The Times Book of the Year 2024''There have been plenty of books on the Edwardians before, but never one as richly enjoyable as this'' Dominic Sandbrook, Book of the Week, Sunday Times''A page turner of a popular history'' Andrew Marr, New Statesman''The very best sort of panoramic portrait'' David KynastonWhen Queen Victoria died in 1901 it was the end of an era. Britain''s dominance stretched across seven continents and its ruling classes were wealthier than ever before. Many later remembered the decade or so that followed as the long afternoon of an empire where the sun never set. Yet the Edwardians themselves were acutely aware that the country was in a state of flux; the seismic change that they felt would transform modern Britain forever.In Little Englanders, Alwyn Turner reconsiders the Edwardian era as a time of profound social change, with the rise of women''s suffrage and the labour movement, unrest in Ireland and the Boer republics, scandals in parliament and culture wars at home. He tells the story of the Edwardians through music halls and male beauty contests, the real Peaky Blinders and the 1908 Summer Olympics. In this colourful, detailed and hugely entertaining social history, Turner shows that, though the golden Victorian age was in the past, the birth of modern Britain was only just beginning.

DKK 241.00
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John Muir - Frederick Turner - Bog - Hachette Books - Plusbog.dk

John Muir - Frederick Turner - Bog - Hachette Books - Plusbog.dk

In his stirring biography, Frederick Turner, the distinguished writer and cultural historian, captures the legendary scale of the life of an American icon. Immigrant, inventor, botanist, and founder of the conservation movement, John Muir (1838-1914) truly led those of his time-and now ours-to rediscover the natural beauty of this land. From his harsh childhood in Scotland and on a Wisconsin pioneer farm, to his rugged, solitary explorations all over America and especially in the Sierras, to his passionate battle, in person and in his writings, to save and celebrate our wilderness, Muir was a heroic figure. Turner''s biography is every bit as monumental and inspiring as its subject.

DKK 190.00
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Phantom Noise - Brian Turner - Bog - Bloodaxe Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Phantom Noise - Brian Turner - Bog - Bloodaxe Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize Brian Turner''s first book of poems, Here, Bullet , was a harrowing, first-hand account of the Iraq War by a soldier-poet. In Phantom Noise he pumps up the volume as he faces and tries to deal with the traumatic aftermath of war. Flashbacks explode the daily hell of Baghdad into the streets and malls of peaceful California, at the same time sending Turner''s imagination reeling back to Iraq. If he thought he had written all he could of his Iraq experiences in Here, Bullet , he was mistaken, for what he saw and felt there affected him so profoundly that more poems had to be written, years later, from a place of apparent safety. Brian Turner writes a powerful poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty and skill. Like Keith Douglas''s poems from the North African desert in the Second World War, Turner''s testament from the war in Iraq offers unflinchingly accurate description but no moral judgement, leaving the reader to draw any conclusions. Repetitive media reports show little of people''s daily experience of the war and occupation. In Phantom Noise , as in Here, Bullet , we see and feel the devastatingly surreal reality of everyday life and death for soldiers and civilians through the eyes of an eloquent writer who served in the US Army for seven years, with a year''s tour of duty in Iraq as an infantry team leader.

DKK 134.00
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Heart of Lightness - Edith L. B. Turner - Bog - Berghahn Books - Plusbog.dk

Heart of Lightness - Edith L. B. Turner - Bog - Berghahn Books - Plusbog.dk

"Edith and Victor Turner were among the most influential researchers and teachers and social and cultural anthropology in the twentieth century. Together they, and Edie alone after Vic''s death, raised the idea of participant observation (and indeed of team learning) to heights and depth most anthropologists never achieve." [From the Foreword] This fascinating memoir is a lively testimony to a remarkable partnership and to Edie Turner''s own achievements during more than two decades after Victor''s untimely death.

DKK 1069.00
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The Queen of Attolia - Megan Whalen Turner - Bog - Hodder & Stoughton - Plusbog.dk

The Queen of Attolia - Megan Whalen Turner - Bog - Hodder & Stoughton - Plusbog.dk

''The Queen''s Thief books awe and inspire me'' Laini Taylor Revenge, but at what price? When Eugenides, the Thief of Eddis, stole Hamiathes''s Gift, the Queen of Attolia lost more than a mythical relic. She lost face.So when Eugenides taunts her by brazenly breaking into her stronghold one more time, she is willing to do anything - even risk her country - to execute the perfect revenge . . . Praise for Megan Whalen Turner ''The Queen''s Thief books awe and inspire me'' Laini Taylor ''Megan Whalen Turner writes vivid, immersive, heartbreaking fantasy'' Leigh Bardugo ''Endlessly entertaining, deeply deceptive, and very, very clever'' Garth Nix ''Romance, intrigue, mystery, surprises, and sheer beautiful writing'' Cassandra Clare ''The world Turner creates is so tangible that not only do I believe in its characters, I almost believe in its gods'' Kristin Cashore ''Megan Whalen Turner is one of my all-time favorite writers . . . impossible to put down'' Holly Black

DKK 112.00
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All In It Together - Alwyn Turner - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

All In It Together - Alwyn Turner - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Turner''s seductive blend of political analysis, social reportage and cultural immersion puts him wonderfully at ease with his readers'' David Kynaston''Reading Alwyn Turner''s account of life in the first two decades of the 21st century is a bit like trying to recall a dream from three nights ago ... uncannily familiar, but the details are downright implausible '' Kathryn Hughes, GuardianWeaving politics and popular culture into a mesmerising tapestry, historian Alwyn Turner tells the definitive story of the Blair, Brown and Cameron years. Some details may trigger a laugh of recognition (the spectre of bird flu; the electoral machinations of Robert Kilroy-Silk). Others are so surreal you could be forgiven for blocking them out first time around (did Peter Mandelson really enlist a Candomblé witch doctor to curse Gordon Brown''s press secretary?). The deepest patterns, however, only reveal themselves at a certain distance. Through the Iraq War and the 2008 crash, the rebirth of light entertainment and the rise of the ''problematic'', Turner shows how the crisis in the soul of a nation played out in its daily dramas and nightly distractions.

DKK 120.00
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Mental Health among African Americans - Erlanger A. Turner - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Mental Health among African Americans - Erlanger A. Turner - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

In Mental Health among African Americans: Innovations in Research and Practice, Erlanger A. Turner presents a new theoretical framework for understanding mental health disparities that emphasizes the need for culturally sensitive clinical practices and integration of Afrocentric values in order to address the lower rates of African Americans seeking treatment in the United States. Turner traces this reluctance to the unethical scientific research practices that characterized experiments in recent history, like the well-known Tuskegee Syphilis study, and stresses the need for providers to address race-related stress.

DKK 361.00
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Elegy for Mary Turner - Rachel Marie Crane Williams - Bog - Verso Books - Plusbog.dk

Elegy for Mary Turner - Rachel Marie Crane Williams - Bog - Verso Books - Plusbog.dk

In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not, when white citizens baked pies and flocked to see black corpses, and when black people fought to make their lives—and their mourning—matter. With introductions from C. Tyrone Forehand, great grand-nephew of Mary and Hayes Turner, whose family has long campaigned for the deaths to be remembered; abolitionist activist and educator Mariame Kaba, reflecting on the violence visited on black women’s bodies; and historian Julie Buckner Armstrong, who opens a window onto the broader scale of lynching’s terror in American history.

DKK 167.00
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Turner - Franny Moyle - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Turner - Franny Moyle - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The man behind the paintings: the extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain''s most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain''s most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mother to a lunatic asylum, the personal sacrifices he made to effect his stratospheric rise, and the bizarre double life he chose to lead in the last years of his life.A near mythical figure in his own lifetime, Franny Moyle tells the story of the man who was considered visionary at best and ludicrous at worst. A resolute adventurer, he found new ways of revealing Britain to the British, astounding his audience with his invention and intelligence. Set against the backdrop of the finest homes in Britain, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, this is an astonishing portrait of one of the most important figures in Western art and a vivid evocation of Britain and Europe in flux.

DKK 152.00
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