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British industry isn't dead. Yet. ICI was Britain's biggest
manufacturer and exporter, while GEC was its biggest employer and
Morris Motors made over half of its cars; Courtaulds dominated
global cloth production and produced the first man-made fibres; BSA
was the world's biggest producer of motorbikes; De Havilland
produced groundbreaking aeroplanes and some of the world's first
jet engines. And yet, these companies have all collapsed, taking
with them nearly 200 years of industrial pre-eminence. British
industry is dead, killed off by 'Made in China' stickers and US
market dominance. Or is it? Will Britain Make It? explores the
rise, fall and future of British industry and all the complexities
surrounding it. Who's to blame for its slow decline? What about
Brexit? Can it be resurrected? If you've ever asked any of these
questions, then this is the book for you.
Published in 1997, this text focuses on the conundrum between the
academics ability to distinguish between failing and non-failing
businesses with models of over 85.5per cent accuracy, and the
reasons why credit agencies and the like do not act on such
information. The author asks, are the models defective?
Published in 1997, this text focuses on the conundrum between the
academics ability to distinguish between failing and non-failing
businesses with models of over 85.5per cent accuracy, and the
reasons why credit agencies and the like do not act on such
information. The author asks, are the models defective?
Parish churches have been at the heart of communities for more than
a thousand years. But now, fewer than two in one hundred people
regularly attend services in an Anglican church, and many have
never been inside one. Since the idea of 'church' is its people,
the buildings are becoming husks - staples of our landscapes, but
without meaning or purpose. Some churches are finding vigorous
community roles with which to carry on, but the institutional
decline is widely seen as terminal. Yet for Richard Morris,
post-war parsonages were the happy backdrop of his childhood. In
Evensong he searches for what it was that drew his father and
hundreds like him towards ordination as they came home from war in
1945. Along the way we meet all kinds of people - archbishops,
chaplains, campaigners, bell-ringers, bureaucrats, archaeologists,
gravediggers, architects, scroungers - and follow some of them to
dark places. Part personal odyssey, part lyrical history, Evensong
asks what churches stand for and what they can tell us; it explores
why Anglicanism has often been fractious, and why it has become so
diffuse. Spanning over two thousand years, it draws on new
discoveries, reflects on the current state of the Church in England
and ends amid the messy legacies of colonialism and empire.
'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the
most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES
HOLLAND Barnes Wallis became a household name after the hit 1955
film The Dam Busters, in which Michael Redgrave portrayed him as a
shy genius at odds with bureaucracy. This simplified a complicated
man. Wallis is remembered for contributions to aviation that
spanned most of the 20th century, from airships at its start to
reusable spacecraft near the end. In the years between he pioneered
new kinds of aircraft structure, bombs to alter the way in which
wars are fought, and aeroplanes that could change shape in flight.
Later work extended to radio telescopy, prosthetic limbs, and plans
for a fleet of high-speed cargo submarines to travel the world's
oceans in silence. For all his fame, little is known about the man
himself - the confirmed bachelor who in his mid-30s fell hopelessly
in love with his teenage cousin-in-law, the enthusiast for outdoor
life who in his eighties still liked to walk up a mountain, or the
rationalist who dallied with Catholic spiritualty. Dam Buster draws
on family records to reveal someone thick with contradictions: a
Victorian who in his imagination ranged far into the 21st century;
a romantic for whom nostalgic pastoral and advanced technology went
together; an unassuming man who kept a close eye on his legacy.
Wallis was last in a line of engineers who combined hands-on
experience with searching vision. Richard Morris sets out to locate
him in Britain's grand narrative.
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Sheep 101 (Hardcover)
Richard Morris; Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
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R403
Discovery Miles 4 030
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A slapstick, rollicking mashup of nursery rhyme characters and the time-honored bedtime ritual of counting sheep.
One night, a boy counts sheep as he tries to fall asleep.
99. 100. 101....
Crash!
Sheep 101 is stuck in the fence. Will he ever get out and get the little boy to sleep? Meet Sheep 101 and his colorful cast of characters, like Humpty Dumpty, Blind Mouse, Little Piggy, and more!
From Richard T. Morris, author of This Is a Moose, and beloved illustrator LeUyen comes a hilarious story with vibrant illustrations full of late-night hijinks that will spark every child's imagination.
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