Geography VELS Level 5 (Oxford Big Ideas Geography)

Easton, Mark

OUP Australia and New Zealand

Award-winning journalist and editor Mark Easton takes us on a tour around modern Britain with a look at 26 subjects—one for each letter of the alphabet—and how we relate to them. From Alcohol, Beat Bobbies, Cheese, and Dogs through Immigration, Justice, Knives, and Murder to the Queen, Umbrellas, Vegetables and the Zzzz of a well-deserved rest, the book's meticulously researched but accessible essays map the back-story of contemporary Britain. With each lettered chapter, the reader is invited to look at the United Kingdom in a new way: standing back to see our small islands in a global or historical context, and then diving down to scrutinize vital details that may be overlooked. Taken together, the essays reveal a Britain that cannot be seen through the prism of daily news or current affairs. A park, a wedding, a beggar, and a carrot all take on new significance once you have read Britain Etc. As the UK welcomes millions of visitors to its shores for the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, this is a book that offers insight into the psyche of Britain; a nation's obsessions, prejudices, values, and idiosyncrasies. What sort of place is it, what are the natives like, and how did we get to where we are?

Britain Etc: The Way We Live and How We Got Here

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Simon Schuster(uk)

* The only booThek that shows how to build cross-platform .NET applications: provides hands-on experience with the revolutionary Mono and Portable.NET projects on Linux and Mac OS X. 
* Describes how to build cross-platform GUIs that run on any .NET implementation. 
* Promotes best practices through the use of design patterns and automated testing and building tools, such as NUnit and NAnt.

Cross-Platform .NET Development: Using Mono, Portable.NET, and Microsoft .NET

Computers & Technology

King, Jason

Programming

Apress

Starry Night: Unlined owl notebook

Arts & Photography

Independently published

Mark Easton's Britain Etc.looks at the UK through its relationship to 26 subjects - one for each letter of the alphabet. From Alcohol, Beat Bobbies, Cheese and Dogs through Immigration, Justice, Knives and Murder to the Queen, Umbrellas, Vegetables and the Zzzz of a well-deserved rest, the book's meticulously researched but accessible essays map the back-story of contemporary Britain. With each lettered chapter, the reader is invited to look at the United Kingdom in a new way: standing back to see our small islands in a global or historical context, and then diving down to scrutinise vital details that may be overlooked. Taken together, the essays reveal a Britain that cannot be seen through the prism of daily news or current affairs. A park, a wedding, a beggar and a carrot all take on new significance once you have read Britain Etc.Having been in the centre of world's consciousness as the UK welcomed millions of visitors to its shores for the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, this is a book that offers insight into the psyche of Britain; a nation's obsessions, prejudices, values and idiosyncrasies. What sort of place is it, what are the natives like, and how did we get to where we are?

Britain Etc.

History

Europe

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Easton, Mark. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Easton, Mark