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Hard Streets - Jacqueline Riding - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Hard Streets - Jacqueline Riding - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Charlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets of Edwardian London to worldwide fame. But his work and outlook were always shaped by the world he came from, a place of cheap entertainments and the threat of the workhouse, radical politics and desperate poverty. Framed through the life of this iconic success story, acclaimed historian Jacqueline Riding reveals working-class London at the turn of the twentieth century. Breathing life into forgotten stories of mothers and sons, labourers and actors, vagrants and sex workers, of suffering, survival and success against the odds, this compelling social history paints a striking portrait of a vanished city.

DKK 241.00
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To the Sea by Train - Andrew Martin - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

To the Sea by Train - Andrew Martin - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Andrew Martin is a railway wizard'' Telegraph ''Leaves you with renewed confidence that trains can still be the most civilised way to travel'' Financial Times Throughout the twentieth century, the seaside service posters of Britain''s railways promised fresh air and frivolity to millions of urban dwellers with the phrase: ''To the sea by train''. A staple of modern British life, the seaside getaway was intertwined with the train, in whose compartments holidaymakers were shunted from smog-choked cities to sandy coves.With his signature wit and anecdotal style, Andrew Martin captures an era defined by its railways: from the development of Brighton and Scarborough into pleasure resorts, and the introduction of bank holidays and two-day weekends, to the advent of cheap flights and the British coast''s subsequent decline. Humorous and evocative, To the Sea by Train takes a charming tour through Britain''s most beloved pastime.

DKK 164.00
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The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts - Soraya Palmer - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts - Soraya Palmer - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Libreria Book of the Year 2023''A beautiful ode to the power of storytelling, this novel is steeped in the folklore of the Caribbean and weaves a powerful narrative of identity, trauma, resilience and hope'' Eleanor Shearer, author of River Sing Me HomeZora and Sasha Porter don''t know much of their Jamaican father Nigel''s and Trinidadian mother Beatrice''s pasts. What they do know: the mythic stories of Nigel''s flight to America on the string of a purple balloon, the violent histories in Beatrice''s book of Anansi Stories, that Nigel had a brother, once, and that Beatrice has a tangle of silvery scars on her back.With their parents'' marriage falling apart, the pair navigate their own relationships and secrets - Zora has impure thoughts about a jock, and Sasha drinks cheap beer with a girl who binds her chest.A celebration of the power of stories, this startling debut presents a tale of slippery contradictions and an examination of the limits of resilience.

DKK 120.00
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Brainwashed - Daniel Pick - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Brainwashed - Daniel Pick - Bog - Profile Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A frankly brilliant book'' - GUARDIAN''An absorbing exploration ... Pick does not stumble'' - TORTOISE''An extraordinarily engrossing and wide-ranging analysis of a word and a concept. I fell under its spell immediately'' - SIMON GARFIELDIn 1953, a group of prisoners of war who had fought against the communist invasion of South Korea were released. They chose - apparently freely - to move to Mao''s China. Among those refusing repatriation were twenty-one American GIs. Their decision sparked alarm in the West: why didn''t they want to come home? What was going on?Soon, people were saying that the POWs'' had been ''brainwashed''. Was this something new or a phenomenon that has been around for centuries? The belief that it is possible to marshal scientific knowledge to govern someone''s mind gained enormous attention. In an era of Cold War paranoia and experimentation on ''altered states'', the idea of brainwashing flourished, appearing in everything from critiques of CIA research on LSD to warnings of corporate groupthink, from visions of automaton assassins to conspiracy theories about ''global elites''. Today, brainwashing is almost taken for granted - built into our psychological and political language, rooted in the way we think about minds and societies. How did we get to this point - and why? Psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick delves into the mysterious world of brainwashing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from The Manchurian Candidate to ISIS, TV advertising to online algorithms. Mixing fascinating case studies with historical and psychological insights, Brainwashed is a stimulating journey into the mysteries of thought control.

DKK 141.00
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