This book provides all the information a student of Britain and British culture needs to know. What`s it like living in Britain today? Find out about the country and its people in this new edition of Britain. All the information is completely up-to-date and illustrated with new colour photographs. • Understand the attitudes and beliefs that shape Britain`s character. • Discover the history and cultural background to British society and institutions such as the NHS and the BBC. • Find out about people`s daily lives from charts, graphs, and extracts from popular fiction and newspapers. • Use the questions at the end of each chapter to consider what you have read and to make comparisons with your own culture. • NEW Workbook Pack...
ISBN: 978-0-194-30644-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The history of democratic politics in Britain since the coming of universal male suffrage in 1918 is a dramatic one, crowded with events and colourful figures. As well as the great events of war and economic crises, and the quieter drama of constitutional change, this era has been studded with democratic protests of every sort. The story opens more than 350 years ago. The Levellers of the 17th century, 18th-century radicals, the Chartists and the Reform Acts are all part of the unsteady and fiercely contested progress towards a democratic constitution. Dreams, visions and ideals are important too - of George Orwell, and Enoch Powell, Milton, Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke, Churchill and Lord Salisbury, Aneurin Bevan and Tony Benn - for...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2606-5
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: август 2011
Данная книга является своего рода мини-энциклопедией, в которой представлен широкий фактический материал, поданный в систематизированном виде и содержащий лингвистические, страноведческие и культурологические сведения о современной Англии. Одновременно учебное пособие позволяет активизировать и углубить знания и навыки в области собственно английского языка. Учебное пособие предназначено для...
ISBN: 5-16-000480-7
Издательство:
Инфра-М
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Level: Pre-intermediate (B1) British History Seen Through Art relates the significant events of British history with a detailed commentary on the most important works of art of the period, which are beautifully presented in full colour. Starting with Stonehenge, we see history unfold before our eyes. We observe how the religious art of the Middle Ages became more secular after the reign of Henry VIII, and how continental European art influenced British architecture and painting. We witness important changes in British society: the rise in power of the middle classes in the Georgian Age and how this influenced British painting; the new artistic expression brought by the Industrial Revolution; and the advent of technology of the 20th and...
ISBN: 978887754-618-0
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This book is a riotous, irreverent account of the people and events that have shaped Britain. Always getting those kings and queens confused? Never sure what happened when? Then you need this book. Inside you`ll find rip-roaring stories of power-mad kings, executions, invasions, high treason, global empire building, and forbidden love - not bad for a nation of stiff upper lips! * Revised and expanded to include the historical parliamentary elections of 2010 and the British mission in Afghanistan * Accompanied by access to a timeline and `Who`s Who in British History` section on * This new edition contains an 8-page color insert so you can see who, what and where the ensuing historical action takes place.
Why do we celebrate Halloween? Do you want to surprise your sweetheart with a special Valentine card from Loveland, USA? Who invented the Christmas card? This unique book explores the origins of our festivities, their historical significance, and how we celebrate them today.
ISBN: 978-8-853-00194-8
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: январь 2011
A reference guide to the British way of life which explains the often puzzling and confusing terms and phrases used routinely in Britain and by British people. This easy-reference alphabetical guide sheds light on a comprehensive selection of words, phrases, organizations and institutions. All these are fundamental features of British civilization and society, and include aspects of politics and government, the law, economics and industry, education, the media, religion and social welfare, health and housing and leisure and transport.
This superbly illustrated book draws on highlights from the V&A`s fabulous collection of woven, printed, and embroidered textiles and their designs. Based on the V&A`s British Textiles series, with a new introduction, this comprehensive compendium brings together a visual history of British fabrics with over 1,000 lush color images. The fabrics showcase the amazing creative abilities of professional and amateur designers over three centuries. International experts introduce each period and the textiles produced in it, with a short text followed by a plate section for each theme. The book includes technical and artistic innovations and provides an invaluable reading list, glossary of terms, and biographies of the chief figures of the era.
ISBN: 978-1-85177-618-4
Издательство:
V&A Publishing
Дата выхода: август 2011
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. David Lodge`s The British Museum is Falling Down was published in 1965 and is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. It tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on `Vatican roulette` to avoid a fourth child.
ISBN: 978-0-14-104669-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Who are the British? This book will tell you about their lives, TV programmes, business, family, life, pets – and the food. This is a book about real people and real life in Britain today
ISBN: 978-1-4479-2539-2
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2012
"The British Museum is Falling Down" is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on `Vatican roulette` to avoid a fourth child.
ISBN: 978-0-09-955422-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The British Library Diary 2008 is illustrated with works from the Topographical Collection of George III, now held by the British Library. The collection of some 50,000 items, dating back from 1824 to around 1588, includes printed maps and topographical drawings, watercolours and prints. There are works by leading 18th-century watercolourists, among them Paul Sandby, William Pars, Samuel Hieronymus Grimm and Michelangelo Rooker. This evocative collection is far more than a mere accumulation of maps and views, it is an expression of British patriotism and it breathes the interests, activities and attitudes of the British people.
ISBN: 978-0-7112-2725-5
Издательство:
Frances Lincoln
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
What does Cymru mean? What did Emperor Hadrian build in England nearly 2000 years ago? What do competitors throw at the Highland games? Why do people ‘kiss the Blarney Stone’? The British Isles tells the story of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It includes the most important events in their history from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century, as well as key information about their cultures. The British Isles is full of interesting, and sometimes surprising, facts about the people and their way of life.
ISBN: 978885301-098-8
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
The definitive, acclaimed history of the Britpop era, when English music, celebrity, and politics co-mingled in a manner that was as unprecedented as it was fascinating
The ultimate code of conduct for young men-written by TV character Barney Stinson-describes how a true "bro" will behave in any and all situations, describing the history of the "Bro Code," a profile of a "bro," the essential principles and tenets of the code, amendments and violations, and more. Original. 100,000 first printing.
ISBN: 978-1-84739-930-4
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
THE BRO CODE provides men with all the rules they need to know in order to become a bro and behave properly among other bros. THE BRO CODE has never been published before. Few know of its existence, and the code, until now, has been verbally communicated between those in the `bro`. Containing approximately 150 unspoken rules, this code of conduct ranges from the simple (bros before hos) to the complex (the hot-to-crazy ratio, complete with bar graphs and charts). With helpful sidebros THE BRO CODE will help any ordinary guy become the best bro he can be. Let ultimate bro and co-author Barney Stinson and his book, THE BRO CODE share their wisdom, lest you be caught making eye contact in a devil`s three-way (two dudes, duh.) Sample...
ISBN: 978-1-847-39931-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: апрель 2011
