Penguin Who Dares Wins. Britain, 1979-1982 Sandbrook Dominic

«Чрезвычайное положение: Великобритания 1970-74» — это блестящая история яркой, шизофренической атмосферы начала семидесятых • Начало 1970-х годов было эпохой мрака и гламура. При Эдварде Хите оптимизм шестидесятых стал далеким воспоминанием. Теперь в заголовках преобладали социальные волнения, нехватка топлива, безработица и инфляция • Семидесятые годы принесли нам забастовки шахтеров, отключения электроэнергии, зверства ИРА, многоэтажные дома и трехдневную неделю, но они также были годами ошеломляющих перемен и культурного динамизма, предвещавших социальную революцию, которая дала нам знаменитых футболистов, карри на центральных улицах, путевки, права геев, зеленых активистов и прогрессивный рок; мир Еноха Пауэлла и Тони Бенна, Дэвида Боуи и Брайана Клафа, Жермен Грир и Мэри Уайтхаус

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true • 'His mind was clear. It was time to go east. Time to march into Asia, to confront the Persians and to meet his destiny...' • Alexander has one, wild dream: to rule the world. And with his childhood friends and his beloved horse Bucephalas, he sets out from his home in Ancient Greece to do just that. With historian Dominic Sandbrook as our guide, join Alexander on his incredible journey through the deserts of Egypt and over the snow-capped mountains of Persia all the way to India, defeating all who stand in his way. For anything is possible with the help of the gods • The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children

"Времена года под солнцем. Битва за Британию, 1974-1979" - это великолепный рассказ Доминика Сэндбрука о конце 1970-х годов в Великобритании • Конец 1970-х годов был для Британии временем раздоров и хорошей жизни. Они видели инфляцию, бунты, пик могущества профсоюзов, а также рождение домашних компьютеров, расцвет готовой еды и триумф дочери бакалейщика из Грэнтема, которая изменит все. Доминик Сэндбрук воссоздает этот экстраординарный период во всем его хаосе и противоречиях, раскрывая его как поворотный момент в нашей недавней истории, когда во всем, от семей и школ до панков и "Доктора Кто", решалось будущее нации • Книга на английском языке • Dominic Sandbrook's magnificent account of the late 1970s in Britain • The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life

Britain's empire has gone. We no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim superpower status: our popular culture • It is extraordinary to think that one British writer, J. K. Rowling, has sold more than 400 million books; that Doctor Who is watched in almost every developed country in the world; that James Bond has been the central character in the longest-running film series in history; that The Lord of the Rings is the second best-selling novel ever written (behind only A Tale of Two Cities); that the Beatles are still the best-selling musical group of all time; and that only Shakespeare and the Bible have sold more books than Agatha Christie. To put it simply, no country on earth, relative to its size, has contributed more to the modern imagination

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME* series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true • Prepare to enter the most dramatic conflict the world has ever seen, as historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a spine-tingling, heart-stopping adventure. We witness the Second World War first-hand through the eyes of ordinary people living in extraordinary times, from the women who worked all night in factories to the chess players who cracked unbreakable codes. Because in total war, no life is left untouched • The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood. The only difference is they actually happened

Take a journey to a vanished world with the Adventures in Time series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true • 'The whistles blew, the cheers went up, and thousands of men were scrambling up into the rolling fields of No Man's Land . . .' • Travel back in time to The First World War, as historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us from the soaring heights of an aeroplane cockpit to the desperate depths of the enemy trenches. We are plunged first hand into a conflict like no other as, amid the greatest clash of empires ever known, the future of the world hangs in the balance • The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood

Шестая часть девятитомной серии издательства Penguin об истории Британии. Из этой книги вы сможете узнать побольше о неспокойной эпохе династии Стюартов. Она рассказывает о ходе правления шести монархов и двух революциях, а также религиозных волнениях и коренных изменениях, которые претерпели верования британцев семнадцатого века • Книга на английском языке • The sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous political events of the Stuart dynasty. It charts the reigns of six monarchs, and the course of two revolutions as well as religious upheavals that shook the beliefs of seventeenth-century Britons to the core

The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain • Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter Hennessy's magnificent new history - famously said in 1960 that the wind of change was blowing over Africa and the remaining British Empire. But it was blowing over Britain too - its society; its relationship with Europe; its nuclear and defence policy. And where it was not blowing hard enough - the United Kingdom's economy - great efforts were made to wipe away the cobwebs of old industrial practices and poor labour relations. Life was lived in the knowledge that it could end in a single afternoon of thermonuclear exchange if the uneasy, armed peace of the Cold War tipped into a third world war. As with his acclaimed histories of British life in the two previous decades, Never Again and Having it so Good, Peter Hennessy explains the political, economic, cultural and social aspects of a nation with inimitable wit and empathy

As you read this, thousands of remote computers are refining secret models of who you are, using the information to make huge fortunes for a few people. Does the future have to be this way? How can we change it? In this visionary book Jaron Lanier imagines an alternative, where economic power is given back to creators. Drawing on sources ranging from ancient philosophy to the latest technology, he proposes a radical system that truly rewards endeavour - whether it's in the media or manufacturing - and ultimately preserves human dignity

'Thunder crashed across the sky. Fire-dragons soared through the heavens. And then, one fine June day, came the warriors from the north - the Vikings...' • Prepare to meet the most terrifying raiders the world has ever known, as historian Dominic Sandbrook plunges us back into the thrilling drama of the Viking Age. We'll encounter gods and giants, axemen and shield-maidens, from the warlords rampaging through King Alfred's England to the sea-captains who first glimpsed the mountains of Iceland. For even in the most glittering cities on earth, no one is safe from the Northmen's fury • The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood

Take a journey to a vanished world with the Adventures in Time* series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true • 'Winter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior queen is expecting a child...' • Step through these pages into the Tudor world: a dangerous place, where one miss-step could cost your life. Through the eyes of Henry VIII's six very different queens, from a brave Spanish princess to a wise English widow, historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a thrilling journey through the twists and turns of a dramatic age. For no one is safe from the wheel of fortune: it can take you from a golden throne to the Tower of London • The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood