This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of "basic stories" in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling.But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how ...

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling.But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how ...

Now published with a new preface explaining why The Great Deception is of the utmost importance today as it was when it was first published and to coincide with Great Britain's EU referendum in 2016, this book suggests that the United States of Europe and its edict of 'ever closer union' have been based on a colossal confidence trick.This book tells for the first time the inside story of the most audacious political project of modern times: the plan to unite Europe under a...

In Groupthink, his final book, the late, eminent journalist and bestselling author Christopher Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the world today.With reference to the ideas of a Yale professor who first identified the theory, and to the writings of George Orwell from whose 'newspeak' the word was adapted, Booker sheds new light on the remarkable – and worrying – effects of 'groupthink', and its influence...

Booker focuses his attention on the mother of all environmental scares: global warming.This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global warming, and how today this has persuaded politicians to land us with what promises to be the biggest bill in history.Christopher Booker interweaves the science ...

Bloomsbury presents The Great Deception by Christopher Booker and Richard North, read by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart.Since its publication in 2003, The Great Deception has taken on the role of the Eurosceptics' bible, with the third edition helping to fuel the debate during the 2016 EU Referendum.This fourth edition celebrates the moment when the UK broke away from the European Union, having been extensively re-edited to incorporate newly available archive material, and updated t...

Newly revised and updated in the light of COVID-19.For most of the latter part of the last century, and the early part of this, Britain has been assailed by a succession of 'scares', from salmonella and eggs to BSE, from the Millennium Bug to bird flu, from DDT to passive smoking, from asbestos to global warming.These scares have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world, so much so that as we entered the third decade of t...

Quel est le lien entre la CECA et l'occupation de la Rhénanie en 1923 ? Comment l'Allemagne obtint-elle la renucléarisation secrète dès les années 1950 ? Quelles étaient les vrais objectifs de De Gaulle lorsqu’il usa de son veto à l’entrée du Royaume-Uni dans la Communauté ? Quelles furent les raisons de la chute de Kohl ? Comment fait-on craquer les chefs d'Etat lors des Conférences Intergouvernementales ? Comment et pourquoi les Américains brisèrent-ils le Commonwealth ? Pourquoi Chirac ...

Can't get enough Redneck Hijinks and Trailer Park Divas?Then you're in for a treat. Volume three of our popular anthology series is sure to scratch that questionable itch.With stories by Michael Knost, William Joseph Roberts, Philip K. Booker, Christopher Woods, D. Raymond Smith, David Badurina, H.P. Holo, James Palmer, Jason Cordova, Lee Ellis, M Leigh, Michael Morton, Michael Craig, and Guest Editorial by Faith HunterPull off your boots, ...

Quel formateur, quel enseignant n’a pas rêvé pouvoir créer en toute simplicité des contenus pédagogiques interactifs ? De concevoir à la volée des exercices autocorrectifs à base de textes, d’images, de sons et de vidéos ? De présenter des notions de manière dynamique, en impliquant l’apprenant, pour stimuler sa mémoire et sa concentration ? C’est justement ce que permet le H5P et bien plus encore ! Né d’une initiative commune de plusieurs comtés norvégiens pour favoriser la création de re...

e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...

This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christm...