Search Results: Authors starting with J from Emily Green Books

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2010 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New.

Picador, 2008 Hardcover. As New/Fine.

Jonathan Cape, 1981 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.

Picador, 2009 About the book: "Clive James on TV" is now in book form. For many people, Clive James will always be a TV presenter first and foremost, and a writer second - this despite the fact that his adventures with the written work took place before, during and after his time on the small screen. Nevertheless, for those who remember clips of Japanese endurance gameshows and Egyptian soap operas, Clive reinventing the news or interviewing Hefner and Hepburn, Polanski and Pavarotti, Clive's 'Postcards' from Kenya, Shanghai and Dallas, or Clive James Racing Driver, Clive's rightful place does seem to be right there - on the box, in our homes, and almost one of the family. However you think of him, though, and whatever you remember him for, "The Blaze of Obscurity" is perhaps Clive's most brilliant book yet. Part "Clive James on TV", it tells the inside story of his years in television, shows Clive on top form both then and now, and proves - once and… Read More

Picador, 2007 About the book: In the forty years it took me to write this book, I only gradually realized that the finished work, if it were going to be true to the pattern of my experience, would have no pattern. The book I wanted to write had its origins in the books I was reading. Several times, in my early days, I had to sell my best books to buy food, so I never underlined anything. When conditions improved I became less fastidious. Not long after I began marking passages for future consideration, I also began keeping notes in the margin beside the markings, and then longer notes on the endpapers. As the time for assembling my reflections approached, I resolved that a premature synthesis was the thing to be avoided. So this is a book about how not to reach one. If I have done my job properly, themes will emerge from the apparent randomness and make this work intelligible. But it will undoubtedly be a turbulent read, and if this book were not difficult, it would not be true. A lifetime in the… Read More

Barrie & Jenkins, 1988 Hardcover. Fine.

Harper Perennial, 2009 In Going Dutch, renowned writer Lisa Jardine tells the remarkable history of the relationship between England and Holland, two of Europe s most important colonial powers at the dawn of the modern age. Jardine, the author of The Awful End of Prince William the Silent, demonstrates that England's rise did not come at the expense of the Dutch as is commonly thought, but was actually a handing on of the baton of cultural and intellectual supremacy to a nation expanding in international power and influence.. Soft cover. Very Good.

Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1982 Introduces art materials and techniques, gives advice on drawing animals, people, plants, and architecture, and includes tips on color, composition, and perspective. Soft cover. Fine.

ACADEMY EDITIONS, 1988 5th or later Edition. Soft cover. As New/Near Fine.

St Martin's Press, 1992 Dividing the general application of the term "post-modern" into three sections - urbane, canonic and carnivalesque buildings - the author takes a critical look at the proliferation of new designs in London. The new National Gallery extension, the Sainsbury Wing is featured with an interview with architect Robert Venturi, winner of the 1991 Pritzker Architecture Prize, and David Vaughan. Also included in this issue is the recent work of James Stirling, Jeremy Dixon, Terry Farrell, CZWG, John Melvin, Nigel Coates, Sheppard Robson, Tchaik Chassay, Ian Pollard and Chapman Taylor amongst many others. All the work serves to show the diversity of the Post-Modern movement existing today.. Soft cover. As New.

Pan Books, 2002 From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to the Nobel Prize, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the World has ever seen. Roy Jenkins faithfully presents these events, while also managing to convey the contradictions and quirks in Churchill's character. In depth analysis and brilliant historical research make this a magnificent one-volume biography of an extraordinary life. In some ways a companion piece to his excellent biography of Gladstone, "Churchill" is packed with insights that only a fellow politician could convey. "There is no doubt that he has surpassed himself. This is the biography of the year." - Robert McCrum, "Observer". "This is a first class, well-sustained work of history and a masterpiece of biography " - Andrew Roberts, "Sunday Telegraph". "Lord Jenkins of Hillhead is an outstanding biographer.it has the narrative power, sweep and sparkle of the author in his… Read More

Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1985 About the book: "Pandaemonium was the biggest single inspiration for the Olympics Opening Ceremony . . . the book is the equivalent of Pepys giving a guided tour of the birth of electricity and the mechanical ageit's brilliant, exciting, and essential."Danny Boyle Humphrey Jennings was a film maker and one of the co-founders of the Mass Observation Project.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Penguin, 2011 About the book: 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith. Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of our sense of shared purpose. But we have forgotten how to think about the life we live together: its goals and purposes. We are now not only post-ideological; we have become post-ethical. We have lost touch with the old questions that have defined politics since the Greeks: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society? A better world? The social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America - the guarantee of security, stability and fairness - is no longer assured; in fact, it's no longer part of collective conversation. In this exceptional short book, Tony Judt reveals how we have arrived at our… Read More