Authors:Francis Beckett,  Clare Beckett, John Holder,
Publisher: Haus Publishers Ltd.
Keywords: life, times, century, ministers, british, prime, macmillan
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-10-13
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1904950663
ISBN-13: 9781904950660

Harold Macmillan, a Conservative politician became prime minister in 1957 and served until 1963. He repaired the rift between the USA and Britain created by Suez and secured for Britain co-operation on issues of nuclear defense. Paradoxically his success with the USA jeopardized his efforts to get Britain into the European Economic Community, for it was one of the reasons why de Gaulle vetoed Britain’s application to join in 1963. After early successes at home as well as abroad (he acquired the nickname ’Supermac’), his party was returned with an increased majority in 1959. T

Author: Annabel Gillings
Publisher: Haus Publishers Ltd.
Keywords: times, amp, life, brunel
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1904950442
ISBN-13: 9781904950448

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59) was the outstanding example of an entrepreneurial Victorian engineer, seen at his most memorable in front of the chains used to launch the Great Eastern. His father, the French-born engineer Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849), invented the tunnelling shield and with it constructed the world’s first underwater tunnel, 366m long, under the Thames between Wapping and Rotherhithe; it is still in use as part of London’s underground. The younger Brunel was appointed resident engineer of the project at the age of 19. In 1833, when he was 27, he became chief enginee

Authors:Robert Taylor, Clare Beckett,
Publisher: Haus Publishers Ltd.
Keywords: life, amp, times, century, ministers, british, prime, major
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-10-13
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1904950728
ISBN-13: 9781904950721

John Major succeeded Mrs. Thatcher as prime minister in 1990 and served until 1997. Major progressed with unprecedented speed through the high offices of state during the late 1980s, becoming prime minister in 1990 only three years after entering the cabinet. He enjoyed great popularity in his early months as prime minister, as he seemed more caring than his iron predecessor, and won the general election of 1992 against all predictions. But by the end of that same year nothing seemed to go right: his determination to stay in the ERM had been thwarted and the sterling was effectively devalued;

Author: Jonathan Clements
Publisher: Haus Publishers Ltd.
Keywords: times, amp, life, zedong, mao
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1904950337
ISBN-13: 9781904950332

Mao Zedong (1893-1976) went from being a poor farmer’s son to a revolutionary leader, a general in World War II and the ruler of the world’s most populous nation. Alternately glorified and demonized, not only in the Western world, but in the China that he once ruled, his influence persists to this day. This new biography will capitalize on new information that has recently come to light about his private life (and his several wives), with the publication of memoirs by his doctor and former nurse, among others. It will also reach bookstores with time to spare before the Beijing Olympics in

Author: Julie Peakman
Publisher: Haus Publishers Ltd.
Keywords: times, amp, life, hamilton, emma
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2006-05-02
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1904341985
ISBN-13: 9781904341987

Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) epitomized the classic tale of an eighteenth century woman’s rise from poverty to fame and riches using nothing but beauty and feminine guile. In this book one of today’s most innovative historians of sex and gender presents new insights into the life of one of history’s most glamorous women. It digs deep into eighteenth-century sexuality to produce a new understanding of Emma’s life with Hamilton, their bizarre liaison with Nelson and the genuine love which passed between the three of them.

Author: Peter Boerner
Publisher: Haus Publishers Ltd.
Keywords: times, amp, life, goethe
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1904341640
ISBN-13: 9781904341642

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was an exceptionally prolific and versatile writer. As a student, he composed pastoral plays in the style of the waning Rococo. With "Götz von Berlichingen", a drama conceived in the spirit of Shakespeare, he joined the avant-garde ’Storm and Stress’ authors. When he was twenty-five, he wrote the epistolary novel Sorrows of Young Werther, eliciting fervent responses among those who rejected the traditions of the Enlightenment. In his tragedy"Faust", which evolved over a sixty-year period, he created a prototype of the Romantic hero. His lyric

Authors:Eric Midwinter, Clare Beckett,
Publisher: Haus Publishers Ltd.
Keywords: life, amp, times, century, ministers, british, prime, salisbury
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-10-13
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 190495054X
ISBN-13: 9781904950547

Lord Salisbury was a Conservative politician, prime minister from 1885-1886, 1886-1892 and 1895-1902, and the last to hold that office in the House of Lords. Foreign affairs were always Salisbury’s main interest, and he acted as his own foreign secretary during most of his administrations. The great issue of the time was the expansion of the empire, and competition with other colonial powers, particularly in Africa. His last term as prime minister saw the initially disastrous Second Boer War, which shook British confidence and heralded the end of ’Splendid Isolation’.