Ben Wirz's Books

The Last Word

Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue

By: Ben Macintyre

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The Last Word

Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue

By: Ben Macintyre

A sprinkling of delightful nuggets about the uses and abuses of the English Language' Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year '[There are] myriad delights in Ben Macintyre's musings on language' The Times, Books of the Year _____________________ Do you know your geek-speak from your geek-chic? Ever wanted to put Humpty Dumpty together again? Can you distinguish Spanglish from Chinglish? We adapt words from other languages, from slang, from developments in science, literature and art. Learn the advantages of having your own signature word; why the lifts in the House of Commons have posh accents; and discover the discreet art of the loophemism. Witty and utterly delightful, The Last Word will tease, tickle and tantalise those who enjoy all things lexical.

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377

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A&C Black

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1408816849

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9781408816844

Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany

By: Ben Anderson

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Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany

By: Ben Anderson

This book is the first transnational history of rambling and mountaineering. Focussing on the critical turn-of-the-century era, it offers new insights into alpine development, attitudes to danger, cultures of time, internationalism and domesticity in the outdoors. It charts an emerging group of mass tourist activities, and argues that these thousands of walkers and climbers can only be understood within the context of the urban cultures from which most of them came. In doing so, it offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of alpinists and countryside enthusiasts to the modern world. Instead of an escape from or rejection of modernity, it finds that upland trampers and climbers contested what it meant to be modern, used those modern identities to make political claims on rural space and rural people, and sought to define what a more modern future society should be like.

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308

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Springer Nature

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1137540001

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9781137540003

Inward Conquest

The Political Origins of Modern Public Services

By: Ben W. Ansell,Johannes Lindvall

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Inward Conquest

The Political Origins of Modern Public Services

By: Ben W. Ansell,Johannes Lindvall

Examining schools, libraries, prisons, asylums, and vaccines, this study is the first comprehensive look at the origins of public services.

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328

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1108195520

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9781108195522

God Is An Octopus

Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature

By: Ben Goldsmith

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God Is An Octopus

Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature

By: Ben Goldsmith

Intensely readable, poetic, truthful, wise and wonderful.' STEPHEN FRY 'An extraordinary book.' SUNDAY TIMES Struggling to comprehend the shocking death of his teenage daughter, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by immersing himself in plans to rewild his farm. In July 2019, Ben Goldsmith lost his fifteen-year-old daughter, Iris, in an accident on their family farm in Somerset. Iris's death left her family reeling. Grasping for answers, Ben threw himself into searching for some ongoing trace of his beloved child, exploring ideas that until then had seemed too abstract to mean much to him. Missing his daughter terribly and struggling to imagine how he would face the rest of his life in the shadow of this loss, Ben found solace in nature, the object of a lifelong fascination. As Ben set about rewilding his farm, nature became a vital source of meaning and hope. This book is the story of a year of soul-searching that followed a terrible loss. In an instant, Ben's world had turned dark. Yet, unbelievably to him, the seasons kept on turning, and as he immersed himself in the dramatic restoration of nature in the place where it happened, he found healing. In God is an Octopus, Ben tells a powerful, immersive and inspiring story of finding comfort and strength in nature after suffering loss and despair.

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257

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1399408348

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9781399408349

Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History

The Catholic Church in Every Place

By: Peter-Ben Smit

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Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History

The Catholic Church in Every Place

By: Peter-Ben Smit

This study researches the development of the self-understanding of the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Iglesia Filipina Independiente during the 20th century, with special attention for their ecclesiologies of the local and national church.

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563

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BRILL

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9004206477

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9789004206472

Book's by Ben Wirz

The Last Word

The Last Word

Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany

Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany

Inward Conquest

Inward Conquest

God Is An Octopus

God Is An Octopus

Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History

Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History

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