Melvyn Bragg
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world. It is a magnificent adventure, full of jealousy, intrigue, and war-against a hoard of invaders, all armed with their own conquering languages, which bit by bit, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Right from the start, when the train carrying British soldier Sam Richardson home to Wigton after his service in the Burma campaign breaks down two miles from town and he and his army comrades have to walk home, it is clear we are in the hands of a compassionate, clear-sighted writer. Bragg's work has been compared to that of Hardy and D.H. Lawrence, not without some justice. His smalltown people are closely and warmly observed, but without a shred...
3) A son of war
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A Son of War presents Melvyn Bragg's second installment in what the Sunday Telegraph calls "one of the finest literary sagas of postwar Britain." Continuing the story of the Richardson family begun in the award-winning The Soldier's Return, this powerful novel depicts how the terrible upheavals of World War II reverberated in the peace that followed. After returning from the campaign in Burma, Sam Richardson was determined to leave his small hometown...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Following The Soldier's Return, heralded as "a novel written in fine steel sentences and granite paragraphs" by the Washington Post, and the equally brilliant A Son of War, Melvyn Bragg brings "one of the finest sagas of postwar Britain" (London Sunday Telegraph) to a stunning conclusion. Set in the 1950s, this absorbing novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives. Alive with a wide cast of characters, Crossing...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Some of the greatest minds of science are profiled in a series of engaging portraits. On Giants' Shoulders Explore the greatest minds in the history of science with some of the top scientific thinkers of today. Archimedes Galileo Galilei Sir Isaac Newton Antoine Lavoisier Michael Faraday Charles Darwin Jules Henri Poincar Sigmund Freud Marie Curie Albert Einstein Francis Crick James Watson The story of science is the greatest adventure of the human...
11) The apostles
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
These twelve men, together with Mary Magdalene were crucial to the establishment of one of the world's great religions. Fascinating historical and biblical evidence to uncover the real lives and identities of Jesus' first disciples, confiming that they were more than just symbolic players in an unfolding religious drama.
14) All that jazz
Series
Language
English
Description
"Based on director Bob Fosse's own extravagant life, this vibrant and spectacular film follows Fosse's alter ego. Joe Gideon in his relentless pursuit of sex, drugs and self-destruction. His womanizing both supports and debilitates him as he juggles his mistress, ex-wife and beloved daughter. Hovering over all of his excess is an angel. The proceedings are set amid rapturous dream sequences, lavish production numbers and fabulous sets."--Container....
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
To mark David Hockney's 50th birthday in the autumn of 1988 London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joins Hockney for an exclusive, private showing of the exhibition in which they discuss works from all stages of Hockney's remarkable career.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Jesus Christ Superstar, the bold interpretation of the hit rock opera and Broadway smash from Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, tells the story of Christ's final weeks told entirely in a series of dazzling songs, images and music." --
18) The music lovers
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"About two ill-matched lovers in this divine bio-pic of the great musician Peter Tchaikovsky, a lavish film filled with brilliant Tchaikovsky music selections." --
