|
Showing 1 - 25 of
62 matches in All Departments
The Littlehampton volume focuses on 12 parishes with particular
emphasis on seaside development from the 18th century onwards.
Covers the parishes of Angmering, Burpham, Ferring, Goring,
Kingston, Littlehampton, Lyminster, Poling, East Preston,
Rustington, North Stoke and Warningcamp, assessing their history
from the earliest times to the present day. There is a particular
emphasis on seaside coastal development from the eighteenth century
onwards.
'Crazy' Chris Lewis played in thirty-two Test Matches and
fifty-three One-Day Internationals for England. At one point he was
regarded as one of the best all-round cricketers the country has
ever produced. However, feeling at odds with the middle-class
nature of the sport, he regularly courted controversy when off the
field - and the tabloids happily lapped it up. His naming of
England players involved in a match-fixing scandal led to his early
retirement at the age of just 30. After this, he withdrew from the
limelight until, in 2008, he was arrested for importing cocaine
from the Caribbean and sentenced to thirteen years in prison. In
Crazy, Lewis recounts his remarkable, redemptive story, from his
arrival in England from Guyana, through his colourful cricketing
career, his arrest and subsequent trial, his time in prison and how
he finally put his life back together.
The true importance of cathedrals during the Anglo-Norman period is
here brought out, through an examination of the most important
aspects of their history. Cathedrals dominated the ecclesiastical
(and physical) landscape of the British Isles and Normandy in the
middle ages; yet, in comparison with the history of monasteries,
theirs has received significantly less attention. This volume helps
to redress the balance by examining major themes in their
development between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. These
include the composition, life, corporate identity and memory of
cathedral communities; the relationships, sometimes supportive,
sometimes conflicting, that they had with kings (e.g. King John),
aristocracies, and neighbouring urban and religious communities;
the importance of cathedrals as centres of lordship and patronage;
their role in promoting and utilizing saints' cults (e.g. that of
St Thomas Becket); episcopal relations; and the involvement of
cathedrals in religious and political conflicts, and in the
settlement of disputes. A critical introduction locates medieval
cathedrals in space and time, and against a backdrop of wider
ecclesiastical change in the period. Contributors: Paul Dalton,
Charles Insley, Louise J. Wilkinson, Ann Williams, C.P. Lewis,
RichardAllen, John Reuben Davies, Thomas Roche, Stephen Marritt,
Michael Staunton, Sheila Sweetinburgh, Paul Webster, Nicholas
Vincent
The question of the British presence in Anglo-Saxon England
readdressed by archaeologists, historians, linguists, and
place-name specialists. The number of native Britons, and their
role, in Anglo-Saxon England has been hotly debated for
generations; the English were seen as Germanic in the nineteenth
century, but the twentieth saw a reinvention of the German "past".
Today, the scholarly community is as deeply divided as ever on the
issue: place-name specialists have consistently preferred
minimalist interpretations, privileging migration from Germany,
while other disciplinary groups have been less united in their
views, with many archaeologists and historians viewing the British
presence, potentially at least, as numerically significant or even
dominant. The papers collected here seek to shed new light on this
complex issue, by bringing together contributions from different
disciplinary specialists and exploring the interfaces between
various categories of knowledge about the past. They assemble both
a substantial body of evidence concerning the presence of Britons
and offer a variety of approaches to the central issues of the
scale of that presence and its significance across the seven
centuries of Anglo-Saxon England. NICK HIGHAM is Professor of Early
Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester.
Contributors: RICHARD COATES, MARTIN GRIMMER, HEINRICH HARKE, NICK
HIGHAM, CATHERINE HILLS, LLOYD LAING, C.P. LEWIS, GALE R.
OWEN-CROCKER, O.J. PADEL, DUNCANPROBERT, PETER SCHRIJVER, DAVID
THORNTON, HILDEGARD L.C. TRISTRAM, DAMIAN TYLER, HOWARD WILLIAMS,
ALEX WOOLF
WINNER: Independent Press Awards 2021 - Leadership Bestselling and
award-winning author duo Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren are calling
it out. In The Infinite Leader, they argue that the spectacular
leadership failures that we have witnessed in recent history,
stretching across business, community life and politics, can be
explained by a lack of balance. Having spent centuries perfecting
processes and systems to maximize productivity and being indicted
to the shrine of numbers, KPI's and financial forecasting, we have
to admit, there are very few examples of sustainable and
inspirational leadership figures out there. By over-relying on the
hard stuff, we have disregarded whole dimensions of values that are
desperately needed when trying to engage communities of people
towards a common goal. The Infinite Leader is a roadmap to
introducing balance back into organizations. You can adapt your
stance to the infinite possibilities facing you as a leader, and
balance the main quadrants of the rational, emotional, spiritual
and physical leader, to deliver sustainable leadership with
integrity. Business is still about people - people operate across
paradoxes and opposing forces, in a world that confounds these
influences. Leaders need to continuously juggle and neutralize
these to succeed. Be what your people need you to be and learn what
they don't teach you in business schools; remain analytical and
numbers-focused when needed, but also bring your heart, person and
integrity to leadership.
A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History The
wide-ranging articles collected here represent the cutting edge of
recent Anglo-Norman scholarship. Topics include English kingship,
legends of the Battle of Bouvines, ideas of empire, the
practicalities of child kingship, and female rulership in Brittany.
The volume continues in its proud tradition of source analysis:
there are studies of northern French urban franchises, and Norman
charters and a logistical take on the making of the Domesday Book,
while narrative sources are represented in the vernacular by a
study of Herman of Valenciennes' Bible and in Latin by the
historiography of Robert of Torigni and Ralph Niger. Further
contributions focus on the twelfth-century ecclesiastical officers
Abbot Peter the Venerable and Archbishop Thomas Becket, and the
volume is completed with an analysis of the concept of economic
resources with respect to Normandy. Contributors: Mathieu Arnoux,
JamesBarnaby, Dominique Barthelemy, Thomas Bisson, Scott G. Bruce,
Francis Gingras, Frederique Lachaud, Anne E. Lester, C.P. Lewis,
Amy Livingstone, Fanny Madeline, Nicholas Vincent, Emily Ward
THE volume relates to the part of the county lying north-west of
Cambridge and includes the histories of twenty-seven parishes
forming the hundreds of Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth. The
area is bounded on the south by the road to St. Neots, on the east
by the river Cam, and on the north by the Great Ouse or Old West
River; it falls into two distinct physical landscapes, the land in
the south sloping gently from a ridge and that in the north forming
an extension of the fenlands of the Isle of Ely. Two distinct
settlement patterns reflect the geographical division. The villages
on the higher ground were mainly devoted to arable farming. Some of
the smaller parishes there came into or remained in the hands of a
single landowner between the early 16th and the mid 17th century,
and each parish tended to be dominated by its principal landowner
and the Church of England; population rose steadily in the earlier
19th century but fell sharply from the 1870s. Along the fen edge
the parishes were mostly larger and included extensive meadow and
pasture created on former marshland; numerous smallholders could
support themselves out of the resources of the fens, grazing sheep
on the commons, fishing, fowling, and cutting peat, and in the 17th
century the villagers combined to resist the attempts of new lay
lords to restore seigneurial rights and to inclose large tracts of
commons. Religious dissent was strong. From the 1870s the
establishment of orchards and market gardens and the growth of the
Chivers jam factory at Histon enabled the villages to maintain or
increase their population. The south-east corner of the area was
particularly affected by the urban and academic expansion of
Cambridge in the late 19th and the 20th century; several parishes
were largely built up, Chesterton became fully suburban, and
research organizations were established.
We're used to hearing that we live in an age of unprecedented
division, that the great storms that have engulfed British politics
over the past ten years have driven us further apart than ever,
with no hope of finding common ground. Penny Mordaunt and Chris
Lewis disagree. In this lively and insightful book, they argue that
although differences of opinion are a natural part of healthy
political debate, some of our current division is caused by a need
for political reform. A wave of scandals has corroded public
confidence in leadership in all walks of life, fuelled by a
hyper-individualistic social media landscape - but by rebuilding
public trust we can restore national pride and positive, competent
politics. Greater lays out a plan for post-Brexit Britain. Delving
into our history, our institutions and our culture, it explains how
we arrived at this point and how the British character points the
way towards practical national missions. It explores Britain's role
in the world and how to balance global and local priorities; makes
the case for the United Kingdom based on the mutuality that binds
us; and calls for modernising reform in politics, government and
markets. It describes the role of social media in culture wars and
calls for a relentless focus on aspiration and a social enterprise
revolution. Above all, it reminds us of the many reasons we have to
be optimistic.
Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using
documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence. King Edgar ruled England
for a short but significant period in the middle of the tenth
century. Two of his four children succeeded him as king and two
were to become canonized. He was known to later generations as "the
Pacific" or"the Peaceable" because his reign was free from external
attack and without internal dissention, and he presided over a
period of major social and economic change: early in his rule the
growth of monastic power and wealth involved redistribution of much
of the country's assets, while the end of his reign saw the
creation of England's first national coinage, with firm fiscal
control from the centre. He fulfilled King Alfred's dream of the
West Saxon royalhouse ruling the whole of England, and, like his
uncle King AEthelstan, he maintained overlordship of the whole of
Britain. Despite his considerable achievements, however, Edgar has
been neglected by scholars, partly becausehis reign has been
thought to have passed with little incident. A time for a full
reassessment of his achievement is therefore long overdue, which
the essays in this volume provide. CONTRIBUTORS: SIMON KEYNES,
SHASHI JAYAKUMAR, C.P. LEWIS, FREDERICK M. BIGGS, BARBARA YORKE,
JULIA CRICK, LESLEY ABRAMS, HUGH PAGAN, JULIA BARROW, CATHERINE
KARKOV, ALEXANDER R. RUMBLE, MERCEDES SALVADOR-BELLO
Our lives are getting faster and faster. We are engulfed in
constant distraction from email, social media and our 'always on'
work culture. We are too busy, too overloaded with information and
too focused on analytical left-brain thinking processes to be
creative. Too Fast to Think exposes how our current work practices,
media culture and education systems are detrimental to innovation.
The speed and noise of modern life is undermining the clarity and
quiet that is essential to power individual thought. Our best ideas
are often generated when we are free to think diffusely, in an
uninterrupted environment, which is why moments of inspiration so
often occur in places completely separate to our offices. To
reclaim creativity, Too Fast to Think teaches you how to retrain
your brain into allowing creative ideas to emerge, before they are
shut down by interruption, distraction or the self-doubt of your
over-rational brain. This is essential reading for anyone who wants
to maximize their creative potential, as well as that of their
team. Supported by cutting-edge research from the University of the
Arts London and insightful interviews with business leaders,
academics, artists, politicians and psychologists, Chris Lewis
takes a holistic approach to explain the 8 crucial traits that are
inherently linked to creation and innovation.
WINNER: Independent Press Awards 2021 - Leadership Bestselling and
award-winning author duo Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren are calling
it out. In The Infinite Leader, they argue that the spectacular
leadership failures that we have witnessed in recent history,
stretching across business, community life and politics, can be
explained by a lack of balance. Having spent centuries perfecting
processes and systems to maximize productivity and being indicted
to the shrine of numbers, KPI's and financial forecasting, we have
to admit, there are very few examples of sustainable and
inspirational leadership figures out there. By over-relying on the
hard stuff, we have disregarded whole dimensions of values that are
desperately needed when trying to engage communities of people
towards a common goal. The Infinite Leader is a roadmap to
introducing balance back into organizations. You can adapt your
stance to the infinite possibilities facing you as a leader, and
balance the main quadrants of the rational, emotional, spiritual
and physical leader, to deliver sustainable leadership with
integrity. Business is still about people - people operate across
paradoxes and opposing forces, in a world that confounds these
influences. Leaders need to continuously juggle and neutralize
these to succeed. Be what your people need you to be and learn what
they don't teach you in business schools; remain analytical and
numbers-focused when needed, but also bring your heart, person and
integrity to leadership.
'Crazy' Chris Lewis played in 32 Test Matches and 53 One-Day
Internationals for England. At one point he was regarded as one of
the best all-round cricketers the country has ever produced.
However, feeling at odds with the middle-class nature of the sport,
he regularly courted controversy off the field. The tabloids
happily lapped up Lewis' transgressions, such as missing a Test
with sunstroke, arriving late to a match due to oversleeping, as
well as naming England players involved in a match-fixing scandal,
something which led to his early retirement at the age of just 30.
From there he became a loner, before he was arrested in 2008 for
importing cocaine from the Caribbean and sentenced to 13 years in
prison. In Crazy, Lewis recounts his remarkable, redemptive story,
firstly as a child arriving in England from Guyana with his
parents, through to his burgeoning cricketing career, international
recognition, his arrest and subsequent trial, his time in prison,
and how he finally put his life back together.
A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History The
contributions collected in this volume demonstrate the full range
and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period in a
variety of disciplines. Subjects include the fables on the Bayeux
Tapestry, the piety of Earl Godwine, the feudal quota of the
pre-1066 Archbishops of Canterbury, Geoffrey Malaterra's treatment
of Roger the Great Count, mints and money in Anglo-Norman England,
the church of Lastingham, and a reappraisal of Lanfranc as
theologian. David Bates is Professorial Fellow, University of East
Anglia. Contributors: Martin Allen, Henry Bainton, Nicholas Brooks,
Jonathan Grove, Toivo Holopainen, Chris Lewis, Tom Licence,
Marie-Agnes Lucas-Avenel, Christopher Norton and Stuart Harrison,
Rebecca Slitt, Stephen D. White, Ann Williams.
How can today's business leaders keep up with seismic geopolitical and economic shifts that include Brexit, inflation and the unseating of traditional political powers, and what do these mean for their own leadership narratives? In The Leadership Lab, bestselling author Chris Lewis and superstar megatrends analyst Dr Pippa Malmgren help you lead your team through this change successfully. Covering everything from how to build a new type of leadership trust when other spheres of public power have been overturned, to robots overtaking companies and worldwide indebtedness affecting business, this book explains not only why the old rules no longer apply, but also how to blaze a trail in this new world order and be the best leader you can be.
The Leadership Lab includes exclusive interviews with top executives grappling with the new world order and discusses what key global trends keep them awake at night and how they respond to them. It is a must-read for aspiring leaders and C-level executives seeking to develop a real intuition when it comes to dealing with the global currents disrupting business and how to build an empathetic, credible, stable and strong leadership path.
Annual volume of recent research on all aspects of the Norman
World. Papers on English and Norman history from the early eleventh
to the early thirteenth centuries: castles and monasteries,
ecclesiastical administration and missionary activity, attitudes of
the aristocracy, Domesday and Textus Roffensis
`A series which is a model of its kind.' EDMUND KING, HISTORY The
latest volume in the series concentrates, as always, on the half
century before and the century after 1066, with papers which have
many interconnections and range across different kinds of history.
There is a particular focuson church history, with contributions on
an Anglo-Saxon archiepiscopal manual, architecture and liturgy in
post-Conquest Lincolnshire, Anglo-Norman cathedral chapters, and
twelfth-century views of the tenth-century monastic reform. Other
topics considered include social history (the Anglo-Norman family),
gender (William of Malmesbury's representation of Bishop Wulfstan
of Worcester), and politics (the sheriffs of Northumberland and
Cumberland 1170-1185). The volume is completed with articles on
Domesday Book and the post-Domesday Evesham Abbey surveys, and a
double paper on land tenure and royal patronage. Contributors:
STEPHEN BAXTER, JOHN BLAIR, HOWARD CLARKE, TRACEY-ANN COOPER,HUGH
DOHERTY, PAUL EVERSON, DAVID STOCKER, KIRSTEN FENTON, VANESSA KING,
JOHN MOORE, NICOLA ROBERTSON, DAVID ROFFE
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|