John Morrison
After a long career as a foreign correspondent in Russia, Europe and Africa, John Morrison spent two years reporting at Westminster for Reuters and travelled with Tony Blair to China, Japan and the United States. His 1991 biography of Boris Yeltsin was translated into several languages and in 2001 he published Reforming Britain, an analysis of constitutional reform under Labour. He is now an independent author, playwright and publisher. Anthony Blair Captain of School is his first novel.
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Anthony Blair, Captain Of School
John Morrison
Price: £7.49 - Saving £2.50 (25%)Try to imagine if Lord Baden Powell (author of 'Adventuring to Manhood') worked with Enid Blyton (The Famous Five) to write a book set in a fictional school that looks alarmingly like the Houses of Parliament. Suspend disbelief, crack open...
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/09/2005
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Modern Physics
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Intended for a first course in modern physics, following an introductory course in physics with calculus, Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers begins with a brief and focused account of the historical events leading to the formulation of modern quantum...
Format: eBook - Released: 01/01/2010-
Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers
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Intended for a first course in modern physics, following an introductory course in physics with calculus, Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers begins with a brief and focused account of the historical events leading to the formulation of modern quantum...
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Windermere
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When Wainwright made his first visit to the Lake District in the summer of 1930, aged just twenty-three, he was unprepared for what he found when he left the train at Windermere station. 'That week changed my life,' he wrote...
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Morecambe Bay
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Morecambe Bay is usually claimed to be the largest bay in the United Kingdom at over 200 square miles, and over half of this area is revealed as sand at low tide. The resulting landscape of channels, quicksands and tidal...
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The Age of the Galley Mediterranean Oared Vessels Since Pre-classical Times
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'The work that gave me most pleasure last year was undoubtedly the on-going Conway's History of the Ship...intoxicating' Jan Morris in The Independent. The Age of the Galley charts the development from the earliest paleolithic craft to the classical tireme...
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Painting the Nation Identity and Nationalism in Scottish Painting, 1800-1920
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This pioneering account of painting in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Scotland is a compelling history of the most vibrant period in the nation's art history. It also casts a new and revealing light on the nature and evolution of Scottish...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/07/2003
