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On the Road

Introduction: Journeying Into the Pickle Barrel Floodtide The Pursuit of Happiness The Genial Revolution The Roaring Nineties Wartime Two Races of a Lifetime A Culture of Contempt ‘Don’t You Know Me, I’m Your Native Son’ From Venus to Mars Decadence and Vitality  

Spitfire

Prologue Introduction Birth of a Fighter The Fall of France The Battle for Britain Rhubarbs, Ramrods and Circuses Spitfire Women Malta Dieppe, August 1942 North Africa The Relentless Fight in Europe Italy Spitfires Out East A Foothold in France The Beginning of the End The Last Salute

Touched with Fire

That Fine Madness: Introduction Ednless Night, Fierce Fires and Shramming Cold: Manic-Depressive Illness Could It Be Madness—This?: Controversy and Evidence Their Life a Storm Whereon They Ride: Temperament and Imagination The Mind’s Canker in Its Savage Mood: George Gordon, Lord Byron Genealogies of These High Mortal Miseries: The Inheritance of Manic-Depressive Illness This Net Throwne …

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Prime Movers

Introduction: The fatal blandishing Pericles (495BC-429BC) and the invention of democracy Jesus (7/2BC-AD 30/33) and the brotherhood of man Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) and the self supreme Adam Smith (1723-90) and the invisible hand Edmund Burke (1729-97) and the stickiness of society Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and the endless of revolution Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and the management …

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Shylock

originally published in UK as Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend Part One: Shakespeare’s Shylock Where Does He Come From? Jews Three Thousand Ducats “Shylock Is My Name” Wife and Daughter “I Stand for Judgement” Christians Part Two: Interpretations (1600-1939) From Comical to Tragical Romantics and Revisionists Henry Irving Stage and …

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Robin Cook: The Point of Departure

“This is the job for you”, 8 June–24 July 2001 Why Parliament must Modernise Democracy and the House of Lords The Siege of Derry, 9 August 2001–22 January 2002 The US Neo-Con Battle Plan Parliament and Press: A Vicious Cycle Lords Reform: From Heredity to Patronage? A Bridge Too Far, 23 January–14 May 2002 Britain …

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Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East

Introduction Pre-war Day One: 5 June 1967 Day Two: 6 June 1967 Day Three: 7 June 1967 Day Four: 8 June 1967 Day Five: 9 June 1967 Day Six: 10 June 1967 Consequences Legacy Signed copy, purchased S/H