Explains British and American slang and idiomatic expressions, and includes brief anecdotes about verbal misunderstandings between Britishers and Americans

What's the difference?: A British/American dictionary

Reference

Moss, NOrman

Words, Language & Grammar

Harper&Row

What's the difference?: An American-British, British-American dictionary

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Hutchinson

Men Who Play God: The Story of the Hydrogen Bomb

History

Penguin??Books

Profiles scientist who fled the Nazi regime in 1933 and, after being recruited to the Allies' atomic research effort, supplied the Soviet Union with top-level nuclear research intelligences

Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

St Martins Pr

We are at a watershed of history. The human race is now so numerous and its technological power so great that we are having an unprecedented impact on the biosphere, the entire planet. The need to control this impact is giving rise to a new kind of politics - the politics of the planet. The most urgent problem we face is that of climate change. This book gives a vigorous and candid account of how governments tentatively felt their way to the first international agreements on climate change and the ozone layer, how these work, and the long-term implications for global governance. It points to the roles that businesses and ordinary citizens can play, and the changes we can expect in our daily lives. This is an area in which politics, technology and economics meet. In this sweeping and energetic book, the author goes on to look at the major planetary issues that confront us now or that are close over the horizon, and the ethical issues of our relationship to our environment that they raise. Amid the dangers, he finds ground for hope. Anyone with an interest in the human condition as we spin further into the new century will find this an enlightening and rewarding book. Originally published in 2000

Managing the Planet

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

Grafton Books

The whirl of events during the spring and summer of 1940 is boggling to contemplate: the astonishing collapse of France, the evacuation of Dunkirk, secret moves for peace, the Battle of Britain, air raids on London, the battle over isolationism in America. While Britain steeled itself for a German invasion, America argued over how to respond to the gathering storm in Europe. In December 1941, Germany and Japan would declare war on the United States, forcing the nation to join the Allied cause. But it was the extraordinary decisions made between May and September of 1940 that signaled America's willingness to emerge from its entrenched isolationism. Those nineteen weeks were, Moss shows, the crucible in which America's interventionist role in the world was forged and which ensured the decline and eventual disappearance of the British Empire. Roosevelt's battle for the hearts and minds of Americans was to have far-reaching consequences that still color the way we live today. Nineteen Weeks recounts the epic tale of these two nations, each confronting the great crush of history. Moss examines this period from the viewpoints of the leaders and policymakers, but also through the intimate experiences of ordinary citizens. A moving, prescient examination of two countries struggling with war, Nineteen Weeks opens important questions about the decline of the British Empire and the rise of America's dominant role in global politics.

19 Weeks: America, Britain, and the Fateful Summer of 1940

Military

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Nineteen Weeks is Norman Moss's riveting account of FDR, Churchill, and the extraordinary decisions made in 1940 that set the stage for America's interventionist role in world affairs. The weeks between May and September 1940 saw Hitler's stunning conquest of France, Britain's desperate struggle against the threat of invasion and conquest, and a passionate debate in the United States over the proper response to these events. Roosevelt's appeals to his countrymen to offer support to Europe were met with opposition from factions that wanted to maintain America's distance. When the tide of popular opinion turned from isolationism, the order of world power was altered forever. As Moss shows, the "special relationship" between Britain and America began in that brief, crucial period, setting the tenor of future American foreign policy. His lucid history offers a fascinating window on current world events.

Nineteen Weeks: America, Britain, and the Fateful Summer of 1940

Mariner Books

1st edition Duckworth 2008 hardcover fine condition book in fine price clipped dw. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Picking Up the Reins

Europe

Duckworth

British/American Language Dictionary

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Passport Books

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