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before it, China is coming across a host of problems that could well stop it in its tracks, with disastrous consequences for the worldwide economy. Hutton pulls no punches as he outlines in detail how the US, Britain and the whole of Europe must ensure that such a derailment does not happen. He points out that already Britain is being affected, as house prices fluctuate and the cost of goods in the shops rises. China is bedevilled by corruption, environmental degradation, a weak enterprise system and growing social protest. The contradictions of an authoritarian state are, at their roots, weakening and if China is to complete a successful transition to capitalism then, Hutton asserts, she has no option but to take on board the mechanisms that will render both big business and the government accountable to the general public. These would include allowing a free press and a representative government. Otherwise, global peace and prosperity will be disastrously threatened. An ominous warning. 431 pages. £20 NOW £6.50


69503 THEM AND US: Changing Britain - Why


We Need a Fair Society by Will Hutton


Challenging both the Right and the Left, the ex-editor-in- chief of the Observer does it again with a shrewd appraisal of the concept of ‘fairness’ advocated by the present coalition government. What does it actually mean? Can it be achieved and is the government approaching the issue in the right way? Questions about whether, in the light of the recession and the prospect of years of austerity, capitalism is really workable, are now being raised by the public. People seem to be losing their belief in the old model while having no new model to replace it. But the astute Hutton is undismayed and, after many months of research into behavioural psychology, general purpose technologies and financial network theory, deftly sets out to provide one. He argues that reconstructing a fractured financial system cannot be done without totally revising the wider values on which it is based. Unfairness, he postulates, is economically inefficient. It stifles plurality, innovation and progress. He warns that the new capitalism, at the same time as pursuing profit, must incorporate a conscience. We must earn our ongoing prosperity while receiving the due desert for our efforts, otherwise disastrous mistakes will continue to be repeated. His hopes are that this compelling book ‘might make a difference’. Read it, and make up your own mind. 434 pages.


£20 NOW £6 69509 WEALTH AND


POVERTY OF NATIONS by David Landes


Subtitled ‘Why Some Are So Rich and Some Are So Poor?’ this hugely instructive and entertaining book brings economic history and the history of technology to life. Landes enjoys his political incorrectness. With vigour and good humour this eminent Harvard professor asserts his right to go where others have been warned off. The happy result


is a lively read, a cry from the heart by one of the best heads in the economic history business. Here you will find wise reflections, fresh perspectives, enlightened comparisons and huge leaps of imaginative flair. ‘An inimitable combination of great erudition and pithy wisdom. It is not too much to say that he answers the six-billion-dollar question posed more than two centuries ago by Adam Smith: What is it that makes some nations wealthier than others?’ - Niall Ferguson. The book takes Smith’s Wealth of Nations ‘as its text’ and unashamedly bangs the drum for the liberal ideals of freedom, hard work and open markets. A blast of fresh air. 650pp in chunky paperback. £15.99 NOW £6


67069 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONARIES by Gavin Weightman


Subtitled ‘The Making of the Modern World, 1776-1914’. The span of this book is gigantic, taking the story from the ironworks of rural England at the end of the 18th century right up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. This unusual volume interweaves accounts of the achievements of such giants as Trevithick, Stephenson, Wedgwood, Daimler and Edison with lesser-known characters who carried industrialism from one nation to another. The latter includes the Scots engineers and Swedish Nobel brothers who founded engineering and oil industries in Russia. 422 pages in paperback, illus. $16.95 NOW £2.50


67202 GREAT BRITISH SPEECHES: A Stirring Anthology of Speeches from Every Period of


the British Empire by Simon Heffer This richly eclectic selection from the medieval era to the present comprises rallying-calls at times of national danger, expressions of moral outrage at the evils of war and slavery, passionate defences of principle and eloquent showpieces in the art of parliamentary debate. On display here are the oratorical skills of many of the greatest names and most influential figures in British history: Elizabeth I, Willberforce, Churchill, Gladstone, Disraeli, Thatcher and Blair, to name but a few! 437 stirring paperback pages, £8.99 NOW £2


67268 DICTIONARY OF POLITICAL BULLSHIT by Nick Webb


The recent MP’s expenses scandal was manna from heaven for Nick Webb. This perfect antidote to political doublespeak takes an irreverent and wry look at what lies behind the spin, clichés, code, euphemism and good old-fashioned lies which are used in everyday politics by everybody from your local councillor to our beloved Prime Minister. And never fear that the British industrial base consists of a nail factory near Sheffield - we now have a “knowledge economy”, and all the miners, engineers and toolmakers have retrained as merchant bankers and PR executives. Very funny and also highly enlightening. 205pp. £12.99 NOW £3.50


67781 CONSPIRATOR: Lenin in Exile by Helen Rappaport


The meticulously researched story of Lenin’s 17 years of exile from Russia, working toward the event which transformed the face of Europe: the Russian Revolution of 1917. Constantly under observation by the secret police, Lenin and his closest allies depended upon the protection of a shadowy and not always reliable network of like-minded friends. Obsessive, penniless and driven,


they took huge risks in smuggling back into Russia the samizdat literature which spread the revolutionary message. Lenin was always on the move between the great cities of Europe, such as London, Paris, Geneva, Brussels and Munich, and the rural backwaters of Poland and Finland. Here too are wonderful pieces of detail, such as his holiday to Capri with Maxim Gorky. 373pp with many b/w photos. £20 NOW £5


67988 LAST THOUSAND DAYS OF THE


BRITISH EMPIRE by Peter Clarke This book is the first to explore the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. It shows how Roosevelt and his successors were determined that Britain must be sustained both during the war and after, but that the British Empire must not. Puts the reader vividly in the presence of the figures around whom the tension between Allied aims pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman and other, lesser-known individuals. 560 pages with b/w archive photos, list of diarists.


$35 NOW £5 68332 LAST DANCE: 1936,


The Year Our Lives Changed by Denys Blakeway


Through the diaries of shopkeepers, socialites, bishops and volunteers fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and the memoirs of the unemployed, housewives and hostesses, as well as contemporary accounts of politicians, journalists and poets, the book is a compelling picture of a turning point in Britain’s story. At home social and


constitutional crisis threatened and in Europe, the dictators were on the march. Britain would never be the same again. Contents include Orwell’s Sordid Imagination, A Meeting with Herr Hitler, The Berlin Olympics and the Jarrow March. 440pp in paperback with 16 pages of b/w photos. £9.99 NOW £3.50


68014 RISE AND FALL OF COMMUNISM by Archie Brown


By the late 1970s there were 16 countries under Communist rule, each with different histories, and the five remaining Communist states today are China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. The author starts with the historic development of Communism from its foundation by Marx and Engels, Part 2 covers Communism from the outbreak of WWII to the death of Stalin, a period in which Communism was established in Eastern Europe and China, and Part 3 surveys the diversification which followed. The fourth section covers “Pluralising Pressures” at the end of the 20th century, including Soviet failure to keep pace with the technological revolution, the election of a Polish pope and the policies of President Ronald Reagan. The fifth part asks how significant any of these factors were in the downfall of Communism. He also addresses contemporary Chinese democratisation. 720pp, photos. £25 NOW £6


68584 RIVER OF LOST FOOTSTEPS by Thant Myint-U


Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. It is also the site of the longest-running conflict in the world. Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma’s past informs its present, and how the world might transform the country’s future. Here is a heartfelt description of Burma’s afflictions and their causes. 386pp in paperback, photos.


£9.99 NOW £4 68908 THE FORGOTTEN MAN: A New History


of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes Challenging conventional history, the author offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression that devastated America in the early part of the 20th century. She shows how both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s, and heaped massive burdens on the country that more than offset the benefits of New Deal programmes. From 1929 to 1940 federal intervention helped to cause the Depression by forgetting the men and women who sought to help themselves. The struggles of those now forgotten people are followed in engrossing detail. They range from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to the New Deal, to Bill W who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, and Father Divine, a black cult leader. 464 paperback pages, archive photos. £16.99 NOW £6


68977 MAKING OF MODERN BRITAIN: From


Queen Victoria to V. E. Day by Andrew Marr As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain were to experiment with extreme ideas as they sought the best way to live. Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile fads like eugenics, vegetarianism and even nudism came, gripped the nation, then went, and the popularity of the music hall soared. The media as we understand it today was born, as too was the Welfare State. Far from being all trenches, flappers and Spitfires, this story of strange cults, economic madness, revolutionaries, great inventors, sexual experiments and raucous stage heroines bears eerie comparison to the organic food, drugs, nightclubs, package holidays, bent bankers and sleazy politicians of today. All delivered with Marr’s trademark dry wit, eye for the quirky and impeccable research. 452pp, photos, paperback. £8.99 NOW £4.50


68999 BRITAIN SINCE 1918: The Strange


Career of British Democracy by David Marquand


A compelling study of modern British political history, from the coming of suffrage in the early 20th century onwards, through the primeministerships of luminaries such as Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Sir Antony Eden, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Since WWI, Britain and its democracy have dealt with much turmoil - economic, military and empirical. The author vividly describes the hectic pace of political events, but also examines the deeper currents of long-term change, and identifies the major events that have affected the state. He charts the development of Britain’s democratic institutions, examines the tension between democracy and capitalism, and the interplay between political, cultural and social change that have helped to make Britain what it is today. 480 paperback pages with colour and b/w photos. £14.99 NOW £6


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69473 BEGIN GUITAR by Douglas Noble The purpose of this book is to enable a reader with no prior knowledge of the guitar and no prior musical knowledge to learn the basics of how to play the guitar. All of the musical examples have been written to be played by the total beginner and the timing has been kept straightforward. There are


some actual songs in the book. The important thing is to practice a little, 10-15 minutes every day. Covers the simple stages from choosing the right guitar to use, using the correct fingering, practising the basic open chords as well as barré chords, developing a good technique and understanding guitar notation and basic music theory. With clear chord diagram illustrations and easy-to-follow musical examples to help you play folk, country, pop, blues, classical, jazz and rock. Packed with timeless information, 180pp in large softback with diagrams. £8.99 NOW £4.50


69486 GUITARIST’S GUIDE


TO THE CAPO: Book and CD by Rikky Rooksby


The capo’s full name is Capo Tasto, an Italian term meaning ‘head’ and ‘tie’. Two of the earliest designs featured a screw that would fix the capo to the back of the neck of the guitar, and Flamenco guitarists still use a capo based on a wooden design called the cejilla. The term


first appeared in the Grove Dictionary of Music in 1879. Since the new modern invention in 1931, the elasticated capo has been the cheapest and most widely available. This ultimate user’s guide gives a buyer’s guide to the most popular capos, a step-by-step guide for using each one, the benefits and drawbacks of playing with one. There are specially advanced techniques featuring the partial capo and how to use it, combining capos and altered tunings and using multiple capos. Includes a CD featuring 64 audio tracks, demonstrating the incredible sounds you can create. Clamp your way to guitar heaven! 64 page very large softback. £12.99 NOW £5


68048 IMPROVISING: My Life In Music: Book and CD by Larry Coryell


Guitar legend Larry Coryell’s story is one of inspiration as much as improvisation. From jamming with rock gods Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to working with jazz idols Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Charlie Mingus, he has held a unique place in the history of music. The book takes an unflinching look at his wild world, from his days scuffling on the jazz scene in New York City to his role as a pioneer of jazz fusion. He holds nothing back in


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If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it in conversation. - Oscar Wilde


69051 PISTOLS AT DAWN: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt &


Fox to Blair & Brown by John Campbell


Over the past 200 years the size of the British electorate and the means of getting a political message over to it has changed beyond


recognition. The House of Commons has been usurped as the forum for


national debate by first public meetings, then the press, then TV and radio and today the Internet but, you will be unsurprised to hear, human nature is as unchanging as ever. The lure of power still attracts men and women keen to bandy words and cross swords, scheming and manoeuvring for advancement, clothing personal ambition in a cloak of high principle and public service. Political champions rise and fall, embodying the movements and ideas of the time and shaping the political argument of their day in their own image. It is this aspect of politics which this incisive, witty and compelling book has at its core as it examines eight pairs of rivals over the last two centuries and how their antagonism, which often evolved into outright loathing, determined the course of British politics. The duellists and their battles considered here are Fox and Pitt, Castlereagh and Canning, Gladstone and Disraeli, Asquith and Lloyd George, Bevan and Gaitskell, Macmillan and Butler, Heath and Thatcher, and finally bringing things up to date with the still simmering Blair and Brown. For each, critically acclaimed political biographer John Campbell combines a vivid narrative with an authoritative assessment of its historical and political legacy. Photos and contemporary cartoons, including a beauty of Blair and Brown sitting “united” next to each other with their body language screaming exactly the opposite. 453pp. £25 NOW £6.50


69033 COUNTRY FORMERLY KNOWN AS


GREAT BRITAIN: Writings 1989-2009 by Ian Jack


Ian Jack began his journalistic career in the 1960s and went on to co-found and edit the Independent on Sunday and edit Granta magazine from 1995-2007. The pieces each set out to deal with aspects contemporary Britain, for example national disasters, football matches, film and TV, obesity, thuggish behaviour and terrorism, but then Jack is drawn back in time, examining with specific examples how similar episodes and topics would have been addressed in the past. Thus his family’s excitement at first watching Titanic leads to an investigation into the legend of Wallace Henry Hartley, the famous band leader on that doomed liner and a trip to the Lancashire mill town where he is buried. The Indian Subcontinent proves fertile ground for vestiges of vanished Britain, in particular its railways, and a look at the life and career of Kathleen Ferrier, the popular singer who died in 1953, leads to a fascinating correspondence from the ’40s and ’50s between “Kaff” and her fans and friends. Full of the style, knowledge, intimacy and eye for a story. 327pp, illus. £18.99 NOW £6.50


telling his tale, from the drug hell he finally overcame to the giants he performed with. The exclusive CD has audio lessons created especially for this book. 210 paperback pages illustrated in colour and b/w, with appendix: selected Guitar Player columns 1977-1989, and discography PLUS FREE CD. £14.99 NOW £7


58709 STAN GETZ: Nothing


Else But Me by Dave Gelly Getz certainly absorbed Lester Young’s approach to the tenor saxophone and without doubt popularised the bossa nova as a jazz genre with ‘The Girl from Ipanema’. Commercially successful, despite a turbulent and


often destructive private life, he first found fame in Woody Herman’s ‘Four Brothers’ saxophone section in the 1940s. He then embraced breakneck bop in the 1950s and enjoyed unprecedented global fame in the 1960s with Jazz Samba. His musical precision and lightness of touch was of course as legendary as the breathlessly mellifluous tone. 176 pages in large softback, many photos. £14.95 NOW £3


67215 LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS: The Rise of


Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick It is hard to reclaim Elvis, who has become a 20th century myth, from the weight of history and slander surrounding him. Now at last, in the first of two volumes covering Presley’s rise to prominence up to his departure for Germany in 1958, here is the book which will undoubtedly become the benchmark by which other Elvis biographies are judged. The book portrays in vivid, dramatic terms, the life and career or an outstanding artistic and cultural phenomenon, drawing together a plethora of documentary and interview material to create a superbly coherent and plausible narrative. 578 paperback pages with discographical details and illus.


£13.99 NOW £3.75 67926 CHAMBERS ARTS


LIBRARY: Jazz by Franck Bergerot Organised by the following: Work Songs and Spirituals (1819-1865), Gospel, Blues and Ragtime (1866- 1916), Hot Jazz: The Old Style (1917-1929), Swing: The First Classic Jazz (1930-1939), Be-Bop: The First Avant-Garde (1940-1948), Cool: White Jazz Takes the Initiative, Hard Bop, Black Jazz Fights Back (1954-1959), Free Jazz:


The Taste of Freedom (1960-1968), Explosion and Fusion (1968-1979), and End of the Century (1980-2000). Jelly Roll Morton to Albert Ayler, Duke Ellington to Weather Report, the jazz inheritance continues to give meaning to a range of musical forms under the label ‘jazz’. With vivid illustrations, wide-ranging coverage and detailed listening guides, the book profiles significant jazz musicians and gives concise explanations of important musical concepts. 150 photos, 276 pages in softback. £14.99 NOW £5


68029 THE BEATLES: The Classic: Newly


Revised Edition by Hunter Davies 40 years after they first took America by storm, the Beatles remain the most famous musical group in the history of the globe. Hunter Davies spent 18 months with the Fab Four in the late 60s when they were at the peak of their musical genius and the pinnacle of their popularity, and he remained friends with each of them as they went their separate ways. This newly revised edition addresses the changes in their lives - Paul’s re- marriage, George’s death, Ringo’s tours and their new books and records. Here, we are allowed the see the young musicians for the first time as interesting, fallible creatures, each quite different from the others, each with his own history, hang-ups and hopes. 420 pages, illus. £11.99 NOW £5.50


68552 BRITTEN by John Bridcut Benjamin Britten was one of the greatest opera composers of the 20th century and produced a feast of songs and orchestral and chamber music, as well as a wide range of music for children and amateurs. He was also a first-rate conductor and pianist. Here John Bridcut discusses his music and explores his musical influences, his complex personality, his emotional and professional relationships and the daily life of this towering figure in British music. Gives an account of his life year by year, his music work by work, the pieces Britten never wrote, the Britten Top Ten, Britten on CD, DVD and online and the Round Britten Quiz. Paperback, 430pp. £8.99 NOW £3


68790 OFF THE RECORD SONGWRITERS ON SONGWRITING: Book and 2 CDs 25 of the World’s Most Celebrated Songs by Graham Nash


Throughout time, certain songs and lyrics have come to act as key emotional landmarks in our minds, and continue to resonate throughout our lives. Here is a collection of 25 of the most-loved songs written by some of the most talented and successful songwriters of all time. Each writer shares his or her thoughts and memories about the creation of these classic songs, their careers in the music business and the art of songwriting. Grace Slick writes about ‘White Rabbit’ and Billy Steinberg on ‘True Colors’. In addition, displayed in that particular songwriter’s chapter, is an original handwritten manuscript of the lyrics to his or her featured song. Among the songs included are Puff, the Magic Dragon, Strangers in the Night, You are My Sunshine and Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree. 201 very large pages with archive photos. 2 FREE CDs containing interviews.


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