Eine junge Britin reist in den 1920er Jahren zu ihrem Verlobten nach Indien und taucht ein in eine ihr gänzlich fremde Welt. Englisches Kolonialdenken trifft hier auf indisches Unabhängigkeitsstreben – ein Zwischenfall entlarvt schließlich die Verlogenheit und Brutalität der britischen Herrschaft.
Why Are We Always Indoors is the ex-editor of Match of the Day's personal chronicle of 105 days without MOTD during the coronavirus pandemic. Musings and anecdotes about sport, TV and music are set against an increasingly disturbing backdrop of ever-growing casualty figures and governmental failures.
Taking up the age-old question of what our ability to tell stories reveals about language and the mind, this truly interdisciplinary project should be of interest to humanists and cognitive scientists alike.
Why Are We Always On Last? After 15 years steering the BBC's iconic Match of the Day through seismic changes in sport and broadcasting, and a lifetime immersed in football. Paul Armstrong honestly and humorously recalls a career working on seven World Cups and with everyone from Coleman and Clough to Lineker and Shearer.
This book is meant to help bring world peace. It covers over a 130 countries on the planet. It provides ideas, questions and mantras to help people think for themselves. It is probably the best book on peace. My target audiences are politicians and governments.
Acquire a framework to understand, evaluate and respond to emerging technologies in order to future-proof your organization against technological disruption.
Examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. For the neuroscientific community, this book suggests that different areas of research - the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions - may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena.
Incisive new study of artillery tactics throughout the Great War Compares artillery tactics of the principal belligerent nations - Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Ital, Turkey, the United States Detailed reconstructions of the role of artillery in key battles including Le Cateau, the Somme, Valenciennes