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Montefiore, S: Young Stalin

Stalin remains one of the creators of our world - like Hitler, the personification of evil. Yet Stalin hid his past and remains mysterious. This enthralling biography that reads like a thriller finall...

1917

How did two men move the world away from wars for land and treasure to wars over ideas and ideologies-a change that would go on to kill millions? In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson-champion of American...

Life in 1950s London

After the trauma of the Blitz and wartime restrictions, London embraced the arrival of a new decade. Austerity was slow to loosen its grip, but the Festival of Britain pointed a tentative way forward....

Housewives and Citizens

This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women's organisations made to women's lives and to the campaign for women's rights throughout the period 1928-64. The...

Children's Exodus

In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories. Through the unprecedented cooperation of religio...

Der Sozialstaat

Juke Box Britain

British teenagers witnessed immense cultural change in the period following the second world war. There were fewer than 100 juke boxes in Britain in 1945 and over 15,000 by 1958. Over the same period...

The Seventies Unplugged

'We all disappeared,' wrote the Sixties flower child Andrea Adam of her friends who once marched for peace and love. 'Suddenly ... everybody had gone their own way. Suddenly everyone was knee-deep in...

Social Movement Studies in Europe

Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specific...

Glengarry Glen Ross

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never...

Writing for the Media

This is a media writing guide for PR people. The media use one per cent of the material PR people send them. What can we do to increase the hit-rate of the stories we write on behalf of our clients o...

Servant Of Two Masters

Over two hundred and fifty years after it was written, this classic Italian comedy remains blisteringly hilarious and relevant. The plight of Truffaldino, desperately trying to keep two jobs afloat, h...