MANCHESTER: IT NEVER RAINS...
Author : Gareth Ashton
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2019-08
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ISBN : 9781909360662
Author : Gareth Ashton
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2019-08
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ISBN : 9781909360662
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Page : 604 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Railroads
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Author : Harold Evans
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 031609207X
A vivid and whip-smart memoir from the legendary editor who spent decades leading newspapers in London and New York. In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life. His story stretches from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and off the map. He discusses his passion for the crusading style of reportage he championed, his clashes with Rupert Murdoch, and his struggle to use journalism to better the lives of those less fortunate. There's a star-studded cast and a tremendously vivid sense of what once was: the lead type, the smell of the presses, eccentrics throughout, and angry editors screaming over the intercoms. My Paper Chase tells the story of Evans's great loves: newspapers and Tina Brown, the bright, young journalist who became his wife. In an age when newspapers everywhere are under threat, My Paper Chase is not just a glorious recounting of an amazing life, but a nostalgic journey in black and white.
Author : Cynthia Barnett
Publisher : Crown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 0804137110
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.
Author : Jonathan Barnes
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191515744
Truth, etc. is a wide-ranging study of ancient logic based upon the John Locke lectures given by the eminent philosopher Jonathan Barnes in Oxford. Its six chapters discuss, first, certain ancient ideas about truth; secondly, the Aristotelian conception of predication; thirdly, various ideas about connectors which were developed by the ancient logicians and grammarians; fourthly, the notion of logical form, insofar as it may be discovered in the ancient texts; fifthly, the question of the 'justification of deduction'; and sixthly, the attitude which has been called logical utilitarianism and which restricts the scope of logic to those forms of inference which are or might be useful for scientific proofs. In principle, the book presupposes no knowledge of logic and no skill in ancient languages: all ancient texts are cited in English translation; and logical symbols and logical jargon are avoided so far as possible. There is no scholarly apparatus of footnotes, and no bibliography. It can be read in an armchair. Anyone interested in ancient philosophy, or in logic and its history, will find it interesting.
Author : Stuart Maconie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0091930308
A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clichés end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile. The bestselling Pies and Prejudice is a hugely enjoyable journey around the north of England.
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Page : 494 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 1857
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Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : John F. Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199655111
However, in the second half of the twentieth century co-operatives experienced a protracted period of decline, facing a series of internal structural challenges, fierce competition amongst food retailers, and a rapidly-changing marketplace.
Author : Kevin Cummins
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Manchester (England)
ISBN : 9780571283385
The definitive photographic history of Manchester pop from 1976 to today, featuring some of the most iconic music photographs of all time.