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Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian, journalist and the author of the widely acclaimed Blood and Iron. A Visiting Research Fellow at King''s College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she is a columnist for the Washington Post and hosts the podcast Tommies and Jerries on British-German relations together with Oliver Moody. She was born in East Germany and is now based in the UK.>
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RULE, NOSTALGIA - A BACKWARDS HISTORY OF BRITAIN
Hannah Rose Woods
- Allen lane
- 2 March 2023
- 9780753558744
** A FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR ** ''A must read for anyone wanting to understand where the roots of our sense of a nation originated'' - Janina Ramirez, bestselling author of Femina ''A sharp new history of longing for the good old days'' - Financial Times ''Our national story is so much stranger than we think: this book brilliantly insists that we look at it afresh'' - James Hawes, bestselling author of The Shortest History of England ____________________________________________________ How has nostalgia shaped Britain?
Modern politicians implore us to draw on the ''Blitz Spirit'' of wartime Britain, post-war Britons mourned the lost innocence of Edwardian life, anxious Edwardians longed to return to a golden era of Victorian optimism, while Victorian artists dreamt of retreating to a medieval, pre-industrial age. Longing to go back to the ''good old days'' is nothing new, but it''s also not what it used to be.
Rule, Nostalgia is an eye-opening history of Britain''s perennial fixation with its own past that explores why nostalgia has been such an enduring and seductive emotion across hundreds of years of change. Cultural historian Hannah Rose Woods paints a novel picture of Britain, both strange and familiar, separating the fact from the fantasy, debunking pervasive myths and illuminating the remarkable influence that nostalgia''s perpetual backwards glance has had on our history, politics and society over the last five hundred years.
This is a timely and enlightening interrogation of national character, emotion, identity and myth making that explores how this nostalgic isle''s history was written, re-written and (rightly or wrongly) remembered. -
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REVOLUTIONARY SPRING - FIGHTING FOR A NEW WORLD 1848-1849
Christopher Clark
- Allen lane
- 27 April 2023
- 9780241347669
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Serhii Plokhy is Professor of History at Harvard University and a leading authority on the Cold War and nuclear history. His books include the Baillie Gifford award-winner Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, Nuclear Folly, The Gates of Europe and The Last Empire.>
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In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of Rome, and converting the Emperor Constantine in the process, it resoundingly defeated a host of other rivals. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion, ingrained within culture and society, exercised a monolithic hold over its population. But, as Peter Heather shows in this compelling new history, there was nothing inevitable about Christendom''s rise to Europe-wide dominance.br>br>In exploring how the Christian religion became such a defining feature of the European landscape, and how a small sect of isolated and intensely committed congregations was transformed into a mass movement centrally directed from Rome, Peter Heather shows how Christendom constantly battled against both so-called ''heresies'' and other forms of belief. From the crisis that followed the collapse of the Roman empire, which left the religion teetering on the edge of extinction, to the astonishing revolution of the eleventh century and beyond in which the Papacy emerged as the head of a vast international corporation, Heather traces Christendom''s chameleon-like capacity for self-reinvention and astounding willingness to mobilize well-directed force.br>br>Christendom''s achievement was not, or not only, to define official Christianity, but - from its scholars and its lawyers, to its provincial officials and missionaries in far-flung corners of the continent - to transform it into an institution that wielded effective religious authority across nearly all of the disparate peoples of medieval Europe. This is its extraordinary story.>
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Ryan Gingeras is a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, California. His previous books include Eternal Dawn: Turkey in the Age of Ataturk and Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire, which was shortlisted for the Rothschild Book Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies and the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize.>
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WHY EMPIRES FALL - ROME, AMERICA AND THE FUTURE OF THE WEST
John Rapley, Peter Heather
- Allen lane
- 25 May 2023
- 9780241407493
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COMMAND - THE POLITICS OF MILITARY OPERATIONS FROM KOREA TO UKRAINE
Lawrence Freedman
- Allen lane
- 8 September 2022
- 9780241456996
Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman argues, it is also deeply political. Command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman here takes a global perspective, systematically investigating the practice and politics of command since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam''s Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the First Chechen War and the Iraq War. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian life and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare.>
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GENERAL RELATIVITY - THE THEORETICAL MINIMUM
Léonard Susskind, Andre Cabannes
- Allen lane
- 10 January 2023
- 9780241562581
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WORK THERAPY: OR THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS JOB FOR HIS LIFE
Naomi Shragai
- Allen lane
- 5 January 2023
- 9780753558324
''Nobody understands the everyday madness of working life better than Naomi Shragai. This book should be read by everyone who ventures anywhere near an office.'' - Lucy Kellaway There''s no place like home...or work? You probably don''t realise this, but every working day you replay and re-enact conflicts, dynamics and relationships from your past. Whether it''s confusing an authority figure with a parent; avoiding conflict because of past squabbles with siblings; or suffering from imposter syndrome because of the way your family responded to success, when it comes to work we are all trapped in our own upbringings and the patterns of behaviour we learned while growing up. Many of us spend eighteen formative years or more living with family and building our personality; but most of us also spend fifty years - or 90,000 hours - in the workplace. With the pull of the familial so strong, we unconsciously re-enact our personal past in our professional present - even when it holds us back . Through intimate stories, fascinating insights and provocative questions, business psychotherapist Naomi Shragai will transform how you think about yourself and your working life. Based on thirty years of expertise and practice, Shragaiwill show you that what is holding you back is within your gift to change - and the first step is to realise how you, like the rest of the people you work with, habitually confuse your professional present with your personal past.
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THE PERSUADERS - WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS IN A DIVIDED AGE
Anand Giridharadas
- Allen lane
- 18 October 2022
- 9780241567784
Anand Giridharadas is the bestselling author of Winners Take All. He is a correspondent-at-large for Time and was a foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC. He has received the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year award, Harvard University''s Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library''s Helen Bernstein Award.>
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Thank You for Being Late
Thomas L. Friedman, Thomas L Friedman
- Allen lane
- 22 November 2016
- 9780241301449
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FIRE AND FLOOD - A PEOPLE''S HISTORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE, FROM 1979 TO THE PRESENT
Eugene Linden
- Allen lane
- 5 April 2022
- 9780241565551
The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty yearsbr>br>In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientists who had been investigating whether human activities might change the climate in harmful ways. "A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late," their report said. They were right -- but no one was listening. Four decades later, we are haunted by the consequences of this inattention, and the years of complacency, obfuscation and denialism that followed. Today, the staggering scale and scope of what we have done to the planet is impossible to ignore: the seasons of fire and flood have crossed into plain view. br>br>Fire and Flood is a comprehensive, compulsively readable history of climate change from veteran environmental journalist Eugene Linden. Linden retells the story of the modern climate change era decade by decade, tracking the progress of four ticking clocks: first, the reality of climate change itself; second, advances in scientific understanding; third, the spread of public awareness; and fourth, the business and finance response. Like no previous writer, Linden has drawn together the elements of the biggest story in the world, in a book that it is gripping as history, as economic investigation, and as scientific thriller.>
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Fiasco - the american military adventure in iraq
Thomas E. Ricks
- Lane allen
- 26 July 2006
- 9780713999587
Cutting through the headlines and spin, this book gives us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers. It provides eye-witness accounts that contradict the official stories and figures.
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ALLERGIC - HOW OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM REACTS TO A CHANGING WORLD
Theresa Macphail
- Allen lane
- 25 May 2023
- 9780241638163
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AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF EVOLUTION - THE STORY OF THE HUXLEY FAMILY
Alison Bashford
- Allen lane
- 29 September 2022
- 9780241434321
Alison Bashford is an Australian historian and Laureate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. Bashford was previously Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge. She is Fellow of the British Academy, the Australian Academy of Humanities and Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. In 2020 she was awarded the Royal Society (NSW) History and Philosophy of Science Medal for transformative historical studies of the biomedical and environmental sciences. In 2021 she was awarded the Dan David Prize for scholarship in the history of medicine.>
