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Sir Francis Galton Frs: The Legacy of His Ideas
Sir Francis Galton Frs: The Legacy of His Ideas ab 201.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: The Legacy of His Ideas. Auflage 1993. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Belletristik, Briefe & Biografien,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Life Letters And Labours Of Francis Galton (Volume Ii) Researches Of Middle Life
The Life Letters And Labours Of Francis Galton (Volume Ii) Researches Of Middle Life ab 30.99 € als Taschenbuch: . Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Life Letters And Labours Of Francis Galton (Volume Iii) Characterisation Especially By Letters Index
The Life Letters And Labours Of Francis Galton (Volume Iii) Characterisation Especially By Letters Index ab 20.49 € als Taschenbuch: . Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Murderer
The portrait of a dangerous and unknowable lost soul, by "a chronicler nonpareil of 20th-century Guyanese life." (Margaret Busby, The Guardian) Quiet, reserved, painfully shy, Galton Flood arrives in the Guyanese township of Linden haunted by the death of his domineering mother. There he meets Gemma Burrowes, a vibrant young woman eager to escape the confines of her father's boarding house. They marry and make a home in the anonymous sprawl of Georgetown, Galton's native city, where Gemma starts to realize that there is something very wrong with this match, and with Galton himself. On its first publication in 1978, The Murderer was greeted as a landmark in Caribbean literature, acclaimed both for its subtle portrayal of a disturbed anti-hero and for revealing with "uncanny precision . . . the discrepancy between the personal power of a woman within the family and her lack of influence outside it" (Homi Bhabha, Times Literary Supplement).- Shop: buecher
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The Murderer (eBook, ePUB)
'A masterpiece ... complex and fascinating and memorable' Colm Tóibín 'A beautiful writer and an unforgettable book' Salman Rushdie'Guyanese authors are a radiant constellation, and Roy Heath stands rightfully among them. His unique style stands out from others of his time, and ours' Lemn Sissay'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal a hammer.'Galton Flood is a lonely man, restless and ill at ease with his family. He leaves his home in Guyana's capital, Georgetown, for a remote township, and the first of a string of precarious jobs. Meeting Gemma, his landlord's daughter, appears to offer a first chance of meaningful connection - maybe even happiness. But there is a darkness inside Galton, and soon jealousy and paranoia lead him to fatally, violently unravel.With this haunting portrait of a mind undone, celebrated Guyanese writer Roy Heath evocatively recreates the country of his youth: its rivers, townships and tenement yards, and the tensions shimmering below the surface of a community.'Enthralling ... a nuanced portrait of the disintegrating individual psyche' Fred D'Aguiar- Shop: buecher
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The Murderer
'A masterpiece ... complex and fascinating and memorable' Colm Tóibín 'A beautiful writer and an unforgettable book' Salman Rushdie'Guyanese authors are a radiant constellation, and Roy Heath stands rightfully among them. His unique style stands out from others of his time, and ours' Lemn Sissay'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal a hammer.'Galton Flood is a lonely man, restless and ill at ease with his family. He leaves his home in Guyana's capital, Georgetown, for a remote township, and the first of a string of precarious jobs. Meeting Gemma, his landlord's daughter, appears to offer a first chance of meaningful connection - maybe even happiness. But there is a darkness inside Galton, and soon jealousy and paranoia lead him to fatally, violently unravel.With this haunting portrait of a mind undone, celebrated Guyanese writer Roy Heath evocatively recreates the country of his youth: its rivers, townships and tenement yards, and the tensions shimmering below the surface of a community.'Enthralling ... a nuanced portrait of the disintegrating individual psyche' Fred D'Aguiar- Shop: buecher
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Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1181min
We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns is a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, which upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain’s prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state’s imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain’s most prominent gun makers, was condemned by his fellow Quakers that his profession violated their pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defence, Galton argued that the state’s heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs meant that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain’s near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade across the outermost edges of the British empire to illuminate the nation’s emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state’s role in economic development, and the origins of our era’s debates about gun control and the 'military-industrial complex' - that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia’s eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tania Rodrigues. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/050893/bk_adbl_050893_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hancock: A Celebration: The Very Best of Hancock's Half Hour, Hörbuch, Digital, 127min
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson present, with personal recollections, a comic feast of Hancock's Half Hour. Yes, it's the very best of the lad himself, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock the Third, radio immortal, late of 23, Railway Cuttings, East Cheam. This special compilation includes the first radio show, The First Night Party, and Hancock's last BBC television show, The Succession: Son and Heir, as well as the finest and funniest moments from programmes such as The Ladies Man, The Wild Man of the Woods, Sunday Afternoon at Home, The Emigrant, The Bowmans, and, of course, The Blood Donor. Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's marvellous scripts provided the perfect platform for one of our greatest comedians. With his impeccable timing and brilliantly subtle shifts in intonation, Tony Hancock could create sound pictures that bore the unmistakable hallmark of a genius. Enjoy that Genius again in this celebration of the very best of Hancock's Half Hour. Language: English. Narrator: Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/bbcw/000100/rt_bbcw_000100_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1073min
Named one of the best books of 2018 by the San Francisco Chronicle and Smithsonian MagazineBy a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade."A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose." (Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies)We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion.Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war.Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" - that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical m ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirsten Potter, Priya Satia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003950/bk_peng_003950_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hancock: The Missing Page, Son & Heir and Two Other TV Episodes, Hörbuch, Digital, 115min
Here are a further four original television soundtracks from the BBC's Hancock series. Once again, Tony Hancock stars as the loveable curmudgeon in four installments written by the character's creators, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The episodes featured here are "The Missing Page" (11.3.60), "Poison Pen Letters" (6.5.60), "Lord Byron Lived Here" (9.10.59), and "The Succession: Son and Heir" (30.6.61). Language: English. Narrator: various. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/bbcw/001164/rt_bbcw_001164_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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