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A History of the County of Sussex V.ii - Littlehampton and district: Arundel Rape (south-eastern part) (Hardcover, New): Chris... A History of the County of Sussex V.ii - Littlehampton and district: Arundel Rape (south-eastern part) (Hardcover, New)
Chris Lewis
R2,841 Discovery Miles 28 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 - My Road to Redemption (Paperback, New Ed): Chris Lewis Crazy - My Road to Redemption (Paperback, New Ed)
Chris Lewis 1
R314 R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Save R56 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'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.

Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World (Hardcover): Paul Dalton, Charles Insley, Louise J. Wilkinson Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World (Hardcover)
Paul Dalton, Charles Insley, Louise J. Wilkinson; Contributions by Ann Williams, Charles Insley, …
R2,334 Discovery Miles 23 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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

Anglo-Norman Studies XL - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2017 (Hardcover): Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts Anglo-Norman Studies XL - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2017 (Hardcover)
Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts; Contributions by Amy Livingstone, Anne E. Lester, Chris Lewis, Dominique Barthelemy, …
R2,189 Discovery Miles 21 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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

Irresistible Apps - Motivational Design Patterns for Apps, Games, and Web-based Communities (Paperback, 1st ed.): Chris Lewis Irresistible Apps - Motivational Design Patterns for Apps, Games, and Web-based Communities (Paperback, 1st ed.)
Chris Lewis
R2,140 R1,837 Discovery Miles 18 370 Save R303 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When you create an app, a website, or a game, how do you attract users, and perhaps more importantly, how do you keep them? Irresistible Apps explains exactly how to do this using a library of 27 motivational design patterns and real-world examples of how they work. As a developer, you need to retain users in the new economy of advertisements, subscriptions, and in-app purchases, but how do you do this? How do some applications keep users coming back? Why do people spend hours and hours playing World of Warcraft? Why do people care about Reddit karma? What makes customers keep buying from Amazon? Why do so many people love Khan Academy? The answers are found in Gameful, Social, Interface, and Information patterns. Not only will you learn about these patterns, you'll also learn why they work using psychological theories of intrinsic motivation, behavioral psychology, and behavioral economics. Good and bad implementations of the patterns are shown so practitioners can use them effectively and avoid pitfalls along the way.

The Infinite Leader - Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership (Paperback): Chris Lewis, Pippa Malmgren The Infinite Leader - Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership (Paperback)
Chris Lewis, Pippa Malmgren
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R385 R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Save R81 (21%) Ships in 3 - 5 working days

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.

Britons in Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover): Prof. Nick Higham Britons in Anglo-Saxon England (Hardcover)
Prof. Nick Higham; Contributions by Alex Woolf, Catherine Hills, Chris Lewis, Damian Tyler, …
R2,326 Discovery Miles 23 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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

Too Fast to Think - How to Reclaim Your Creativity in a Hyper-connected Work Culture (Paperback): Chris Lewis Too Fast to Think - How to Reclaim Your Creativity in a Hyper-connected Work Culture (Paperback)
Chris Lewis 1
R535 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Infinite Leader - Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership (Hardcover): Chris Lewis, Pippa Malmgren The Infinite Leader - Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership (Hardcover)
Chris Lewis, Pippa Malmgren
R1,532 Discovery Miles 15 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely - Volume IX: Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds (North and... A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely - Volume IX: Chesterton, Northstowe, and Papworth Hundreds (North and North-West of Cambridge) (Hardcover)
A.P.M. Wright; Chris Lewis
R2,318 Discovery Miles 23 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Edgar, King of the English, 959-975 - New Interpretations (Paperback): Donald Scragg Edgar, King of the English, 959-975 - New Interpretations (Paperback)
Donald Scragg; Contributions by Alexander R. Rumble, Barbara Yorke, Catherine E. Karkov, Chris Lewis, …
R846 Discovery Miles 8 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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

The Leadership Lab - Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century (Paperback): Chris Lewis, Pippa Malmgren The Leadership Lab - Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century (Paperback)
Chris Lewis, Pippa Malmgren 1
R541 R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Save R34 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

A Beginner's Guide to the Traditional Latin Mass (Paperback): Derya Little A Beginner's Guide to the Traditional Latin Mass (Paperback)
Derya Little; Illustrated by Chris Lewis
R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Haskins Society Journal 5 - 1993. Studies in Medieval History (Hardcover): Robert B. Patterson The Haskins Society Journal 5 - 1993. Studies in Medieval History (Hardcover)
Robert B. Patterson; Contributions by C.Warren Hollister, Chris Lewis, David Crouch, George Beech, …
R1,896 Discovery Miles 18 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Studies in medieval history including papers on King Stephen, 12c crusaders and a portrait of a medieval anti-semite. The Haskins Society 11th International Conference, University of Houston 1992 produced a varied collection of papers including Domesday Jurors, presenting new evidence on landownership in 1086; an essay reassessing the impact of the early explorers arguing that Columbus and Vasco de Gama were simply a phase in a history of European expansion; and an unusual paper on the twelfth-century biography of William Marshal (d. 1219) asking what it reveals about the context of its composition. Contributors: HUGH THOMAS, C.P. LEWIS, J.R.S.PHILLIPS, GEORGE BEECH, C. WARREN HOLLISTER, ROBERT HELMERICHS, THOMAS KEEFE, DAVID CROUCH.

Edgar, King of the English, 959-975 - New Interpretations (Hardcover): Donald Scragg Edgar, King of the English, 959-975 - New Interpretations (Hardcover)
Donald Scragg; Contributions by Alexander R. Rumble, Barbara Yorke, Catherine E. Karkov, Chris Lewis, …
R2,467 Discovery Miles 24 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 because his 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, SHASHIJAYAKUMAR, C.P, LEWIS, FREDERICK M. BIGGS, BARBARA YORKE, JULIA CRICK, LESLEY ABRAMS, HUGH PAGAN, JULIA BARROW, CATHERINE KARKOV, ALEXANDER R. RUMBLE, MERCEDES SALVADOR-BELLO.

Crazy - My Road to Redemption (Hardcover): Chris Lewis Crazy - My Road to Redemption (Hardcover)
Chris Lewis 1
R627 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R112 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'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.

Anglo-Norman Studies XVII - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1994 (Hardcover, 17th 1976. Corr. 5th Ed.): Christopher... Anglo-Norman Studies XVII - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1994 (Hardcover, 17th 1976. Corr. 5th Ed.)
Christopher Harper-Bill; Contributions by Andrew Wareham, Charles Coulson, Chris Lewis, Daniel Power, …
R2,319 Discovery Miles 23 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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

The Book of the Blessed - Being the Second Part of the Longbook of Locrys (Paperback): Chris Lewis Gibson The Book of the Blessed - Being the Second Part of the Longbook of Locrys (Paperback)
Chris Lewis Gibson
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIV - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2011 (Hardcover, New): David Bates Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIV - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2011 (Hardcover, New)
David Bates; Contributions by Ann Williams, Chris Lewis, Christopher Norton, Henry Bainton, …
R2,343 Discovery Miles 23 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Anglo-Norman Studies XXXI - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2008 (Hardcover): C.P. Lewis Anglo-Norman Studies XXXI - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2008 (Hardcover)
C.P. Lewis; Contributions by Ad Putter, Bjoern Weiler, Catherine A. M. Clarke, Chris Lewis, …
R2,182 Discovery Miles 21 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY The contemporary historians of Anglo-Norman England form a particular focus of this issue. There are contributions on Henry of Huntingdon's representation of civil war; on the political intent of the poems in the anonymous Life ofEdward the Confessor; on William of Malmesbury's depiction of Henry I; and on the influence upon historians of the late antique history attributed to Hegesippus. A paper on Gerald of Wales and Merlin brings valuable literary insights to bear. Other pieces tackle religious history (northern monasteries during the Anarchy, the abbey of Tiron) and politics (family history across the Conquest, the Norman brothers Urse de Abetot and Robert Dispenser, the friendship network of King Stephen's family). The volume begins with Judith Green's Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, which provides a wide-ranging account of kingship, lordsihp and community in eleventh-century England. CONTRIBUTORS: Judith Green, Janet Burton, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Sebastien Danielo, Emma Mason, Ad Putter, Kathleen Thompson, Jean A. Truax, Elizabeth M. Tyler, Bjoern Weiler, Neil Wright

Greater - Britain After the Storm (Hardcover): Penny Mordaunt, Chris Lewis Greater - Britain After the Storm (Hardcover)
Penny Mordaunt, Chris Lewis 1
R639 R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Save R114 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Family Trees and the Roots of Politics - The Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century... Family Trees and the Roots of Politics - The Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century (Hardcover)
K.S.B. Keats-Rohan; Contributions by Alan V. Murray, Ann Williams, Chris Lewis, Christian Settipani, …
R3,983 Discovery Miles 39 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Articles on the significance of genealogy and kinship ties in determining political events in the middle ages. In recent decades historians have become increasingly aware of the value of prosopography as an auxiliary science standing at the crossroads between anthropology, genealogy, demography and social history. It is now developing as an independent research discipline of real benefit to medievalists. The geographically and chronologically wide-ranging subjects of the essays in this collection, by scholars from the British Isles and the Continent, are united bya common theme, namely the significance of genealogy and kinship ties in determining political events in the middle ages. The papers, including a review of the history of prosopography and some of its major successes as a method by Karl Ferdinand Werner, range from general considerations of prosopographical and genealogical methodology (including discussion of Anglo-Norman royal charters) to specific analyses of individual political and kinship groups (including the genealogy of the counts of Anjou and a rehabilitation of the prosopographical material in Wace's Roman de Rou). The main geographic focus is England and France from the tenth to the twelfth centuries, but other areas as diverse as Celtic Ireland and the Latin Principality of Antioch also come under prosopographical scrutiny. Contributors: DAVID E. THORNTON, ANNE WILLIAMS, C.P. LEWIS, DAVID BATES, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, EMMA COWNIE, JUDITH GREEN, JOHN S. MOORE, K.S.B. KEATS-ROHAN, CHRISTIAN SETTIPANI, HUBERT GUILLOTEL, KATHLEEN THOMPSON, VERONIQUE GAZEAU, MICHEL BUR, ALAN V. MURRAY, DANIEL POWER.

The Book of the Blue House - Being the Prelude to the Longbook of Locrys (Paperback): Chris Lewis Gibson The Book of the Blue House - Being the Prelude to the Longbook of Locrys (Paperback)
Chris Lewis Gibson
R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wicked (Paperback): Chris Lewis Gibson The Wicked (Paperback)
Chris Lewis Gibson
R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Warm Dark Stone - A Work of Devotion (Paperback): Chris Lewis Gibson Warm Dark Stone - A Work of Devotion (Paperback)
Chris Lewis Gibson
R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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