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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Just One More Goal is not just an account of one man's lifelong obsession with football. It is the story of an evolving game, one that moved away from instinct and spontaneity towards something colder and more technical. David Pleat's memoir is the perfect answer to the question of how modern football became what it is today.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The best politics 'loo' book you will ever buy! Based on Philip Cowley's fascinating column in The House magazine, this is a book perfect for multiple sittings, discussing the politics of fights, cockroaches, riots, potholes, beards, and much more besides.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Usual Channels pulls back the curtain on one of Westminster's most notorious elements and explores whether whips still have the upper hand.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Russia invaded in 2022, Ukrainians became soldiers overnight. Journalist Tom Mutch stayed in Kyiv, documenting their sacrifices, major battles, hidden stories and the war's profound human and strategic impact.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Meadhbh Park examines how the incel worldview has been formed by popular culture and also how it shapes society's perception of incels.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We commonly consider the Viking Age to be a westernEuropean phenomenon. This is not surprising, given the Viking impact oncommunities either side of the North Sea and the English Channel and across theBritish Isles. However, it also had a crucial eastern aspect that was a keycause of the Viking raids in the first place.Changes takingplace in the distant Islamic Caliphate disrupted the flow of silver toScandinavia. For years, Islamic merchants and their middlemen had carriedsilver to northern Europe. There, they traded it for slaves, furs and amber.Facing this change, raiding in the West offered the Vikings an alternative wayto get their hands on precious metals and slaves.At the sametime, the forest products of the eastern Baltic and the supply of slaves fromthere drew Swedish adventurers eastward. For several reasons, the Vikingphenomenon increasingly had an eastern front. Utilizing the river systems, these Vikings soon became active on the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea and in theByzantine Empire.In this brilliantly timely book, historianMartyn Whittock explains how it was a Viking-Slav dynasty that created thefirst Russian state and how a rivalry between Viking leaders set up the statesthat would later become Russia and Ukraine, with consequences we are stillliving with today.Since the sixteenth century, rulers inRussia have referenced these origins to enhance their power and secure controlover the Ukrainian lands, most recently demonstrated by Vladimir Putin as hisjustification for the seizure of Crimea and then the Russian invasion ofUkraine.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Anindispensable contribution to the study of party leadership, British LabourLeaders is the essential guide to understanding British political historyand governance.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A comprehensively updated new edition of the essential guide to the qualities and vulnerabilities of political leaders.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A parliamentary by-election happens when a seat in the Houseof Commons becomes vacant between general elections, whether because thesitting MP dies, resigns, goes bankrupt, is convicted of a crime or is subjectto a recall petition. By-elections can often appear to break the mould ofBritish politics, signify the seemingly terminal decline of a particularpolitical party or indicate the end of a premiership. Some take on iconicstatus or attract celebrity candidates and are remembered several decades afterthey take place. Others quickly disappear into the depths of our memories. Asthese pages will testify, however, there's rarely a dull contest. In this latest anthology, Iain Dale picks the mostconsequential by-elections of the modern era and presents a series of thoroughlyresearched and absorbing essays by some of our finest political writers,including Sir Vernon Bogdanor, Sir John Curtice, Simon Heffer, Julia Langdon,Lord Lexden, Andrew Marr, Tim Shipman and many others. This remarkable book uncovers unique stories of politicaltragedy, triumph, success and failure, set against the backdrop of some of the mostdramatic moments in British parliamentary history.…