Items Matching Tag 'Politics'

Machiavelli (Book Details)
This book is one of the 'Introducing - A graphic guide' series and previously published under the title 'Machiavelli for Beginners.' What it says on the cover: Is Machiavelli's The Prince: A how-to manual for dictators? A cynical philosophy of 'the end justifies the means'? Or a brilliant and subtle analysis of successful government? Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft was published...

The Happiness Equation (Book Details)
What it says on the cover Why is marraige worth £200,000 a year? Why will having children make you unhappy? Why does happiness from winning the lottery take two years to arrive? Why does time heal the pain of divorce or the death of a loved one - but not unemployment? Everybody wants to be happy. But how much happiness - precisely - will each life choice bring? Should I get married? Am I...

Letters to my Gandchildren (Book Details)
What it says on the cover: Tony Benn's twin messages - of hope, and of anger against injustice - have always appealed to the young and idealistic, even to those who don't share his political beliefs. As Peter Hennessy has written, 'what is special about him is his constant curiosity about why things are as they are, why they have to be that way and what he can do about them. In these letters...

The Penguin Book of Limericks (Book Details)
What it says on the cover: A connoisseur's collection of limericks, old favourites and new gems, complied by E.O.Parrott

Mind the Gap (Book Details)
Ken Giles writes: Closing the gap - how to mend a ‘broken society’? Have you wondered where David Cameron, leader of the UK Conservative Party, might be coming from with his ‘Big Society’ idea - one of his main thrusts in the current UK parliamentary election campaign? Well, the chances are he’s read ‘Mind the Gap’, authored by his titled relative, Ferdinand Mount, who also authored Margaret...

X Marks the Box (Book Details)
What it says on the cover Your children's schools, crime in your neighbourhood, housing, your local hospital, the wind farm outside your town, or the rising cost of public transport - these are all political issues. But with party politics a turn-off, how can you make a difference? Why should we vote? What do politicians do and why does it matter? Are you a Diehard voter, a Bloody-Noderr or a...

The end of the party (Book Details)
What it says on the cover: In the words of one reviewer, Andrew Rawnsley take sthe reader 'into the room or the heicopter or on to the leather seats of the ministerial car'. His bestselling and award-winning Servants of the People was accalaimed across all media as the most entertaining account of the making of New Labour and its first term in office. As another reviwer put it,'Rawnsley's...

Britain Since 1918 (Book Details)
What the publishers say: A new political history of modern Britain - entertaining, instructive and thought-provoking. The history of democratic politics in Britain since the coming of universal male suffrage in 1918 is a dramatic one, crowded with events and colourful figures. As well as the great events of war and economic crises, and the quieter drama of constitutional change, this era has...

Annus Horribilis (Book Details)
On the Cover: It’s been a year of political nightmares, financial disaster and, yes, duck houses. Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse, they did. Ann Treneman, the sketchwriter for The Times newspaper, hilariously captured our nation’s descent into political madness day by day. Here, she uses her sketches to tell the story of the year that was mad, bad and dangerous for all. You couldn’...

In The Loop (Blu-ray Details)
In The Loop finds writer/director Armando Iannucci expanding the idea behind his critically acclaimed satire The Thick of It for the big screen, with a new set of characters. It features a cast including Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Steve Coogan, Anna Chlumsky and Chris Addison. The story follows the US President and UK Prime Minister as they conspire to start a war and promote it as a 'g...

In The Loop (DVD Details)
IN THE LOOP finds writer/director Armando Iannucci expanding his critically acclaimed satire THE THICK OF IT for the big screen and features a cast including Peter Capaldi (TORCHWOOD), James Gandolfini (THE SOPRANOS), Tom Hollander (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN), Peter Capaldi (THE THICK OF IT), Steve Coogan (I'M ALAN PARTRIDGE) and former child star Anna Chlumsky (MY GIRL). The foul-mouthed comedy...

Street Fight (DVD Details)
Director Marshall Curry takes a look at the 2002 Mayoral race in Newark, New Jersey, in this documentary. With the incumbent, Sharpe James, resorting to dirty tricks to prevent his challenger, Cory Booker, from getting voted in, the police assaulting Curry, and threats being made to anyone who votes against James, Street Fight makes for compulsive and eye-opening viewing.