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Pugh, Peter

Cambridge Business Publishing

Discovering Dorset

Wincanton Litho

The 50 Britons who have had most impact on today's world

The 50 Most Influential Britons of the Past 100 Years

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Icon Books

When Emily Pollard receives an invoice from HMRC for two million pounds, she asks her nephew, Michael and his friend, Jonathan, to work with a team of private detectives and find out what is going on at the mansion she lets to a company. Meanwhile, wise-cracking Jonathan, a university lecturer emerging from an acrimonious divorce, meets Lisa in a pub and she offers to pluck him from obscurity by adding him to the 'casual cast' of her PR video company, also introducing him to Mike's old girlfriend, Jenny. What with Lisa, barely-visible Cathy, the investigation and the sinister Inspector Cotting, Michael being attacked and left for dead and Jonathan accused of murder, it isn't long before both of the friends find themselves with more excitement than they'd bargained for. The machinations of Jon's ex-wife, Sara, only adds to the mix in this comical adventure.

Cambridge Blues

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Austin Macauley Publishing

The Magic of a Name: The Rolls-Royce Story The First Forty Years

The Magic of a Name, The Rolls-Royce Story, Part One: The First Forty Years

Professionals & Academics

Icon,Totem Books

John Maynard Keynes was the most brilliant and infuential economist of the 20th century. His revolutionary treatise written during the Great Depression of the 1930s, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", overturned the conventional free market vision of the time and proposed that a healthy economy and full employment depended on the total spending of consumers, business investors "and" governments. Frightened by mass unemployment, governments throughout the capitalist world pursued Keynesian policies until the late 1970s, when a new economic theory, Monetarism, became fashionable. However, Monetarism was not as successful as its advocates had precdicted, and a Keynesian approach returned to favour. Keynes "remains" the most influential economist of the 20th century. "Introducing Keynesian Economics" lucidly explains the Keynesian revolution and paints a vivid picture of Keynes the man - a brilliant scholar, a colourful member of the Apostles and the Bloomsbury Group, and an open homosexual who later married a ballerina. This book is the ideal introduction to Keynes, for both students and general readers.

Introducing Keynesian Economics

Business & Money

Economics

The Magic of a Name tells the story of the first 40 years of Britain's most prestigious manufacturer - Rolls-Royce. Beginning with the historic meeting in 1904 of Henry Royce and the Honourable C.S. Rolls, and the birth in 1906 of the legendary Silver Ghost, Peter Pugh tells a story of genius, skill, hard work and dedication which gave the world cars and aero engines unrivalled in their excellence. In 1915, 100 years ago, the pair produced their first aero engine, the Eagle which along with the Hawk, Falcon and Condor proved themselves in battle in the First World War. In the Second the totemic Merlin was installed in the Spitfire and built in a race against time in 1940 to help win the Battle of Britain. With unrivalled access to the company's archives, Peter Pugh's history is a unique portrait of both an iconic name and of British industry at its best.

The Magic of a Name: The Rolls-Royce Story, Part Two: The Power Behind the Jets

Shows how Rolls-Royce took the courageous decision to invest in a family of engines. Their resolve was severely tested in the recession of the early 1990's, but the rewards came through from the mid-1990s onwards, winning large orders all over the world.

The Magic of a Name: The Rolls-Royce Story, Pt. 3: Family of Engines

Science & Math

Icon Books Ltd.

The Battle of Britain has become a symbol of British victory and German defeat. However, the War did not end in September 1940. The battle for survival continued day and night and one of the crucial weapons instrumental in securing that survival was Britain's Royal Air Force. Critical to the aircraft of the RAF was the Merlin engine developed by Rolls-Royce under the inspired leadership of Ernest, later Lord, Hives. This is the story of that man's immense contribution, told by acclaimed historian Peter Pugh together with Sir Ian Lloyd, who wrote The Merlin at War in the late 1940s.

Hives and the Merlin

Lloyd, Ian, Sir

Barnes Wallis is best known for his invention of the Bouncing Bombs which destroyed the Mohne, Eder, Sorpe and Ennepe dams in the Ruhr in May 1943. The mission, carried out by 617 Squadron led by Guy Gibson VC, was a complete success even if some have argued since that the influence on the war was more psychological than physical. It remains one of the most exciting events of the Second World War, with its bold vision, Wallis's persistence in pushing it through against considerable opposition, and its courageous and skilful execution. The attack on the dams was not Barnes Wallis's only achievement in his long career as an engineer and scientist. His first notable contribution was on the R80 airship during the First World War, followed by further work on the airships R100 and R101 during the 1920s. He made valuable design contributions on the Wellesley and, more importantly, on the Wellington bomber which served the RAF throughout the Second World War."

Barnes Wallis: Dambuster

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