Jeremy Milnes's Books

Breaking News

An Autobiography

By: Jeremy Thompson

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Until his retirement at the end of 2016, Jeremy Thompson was one of the longest-serving journalists and news anchors in the UK. During a forty-year career in television news, Thompson gained a reputation as the consummate broadcaster, latterly as the anchor of Sky News' early evening programme, though as frequently broadcasting on location from the heart of the story. Thompson worked for all the major news broadcasters in the UK: the BBC, ITV and finally Sky, where he started as a foreign correspondent in 1993. He covered many of the most important news events of our time and reported from all over the world, picking up countless awards for his work. The first TV journalist to broadcast live as British peacekeeping forces arrived in Kosovo, he also covered the first Gulf War and, in 2003, anchored Sky News' coverage of the second Gulf War from Iraq. There he presented every night for a month on the front line and was the first anchor to present from inside Baghdad. He was also in South Africa to cover the death of Nelson Mandela and the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius. This extraordinary book tells the life story of one of the nation's most popular broadcasters.

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1785903195

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Time's Echo

Music, Memory, and the Second World War

By: Jeremy Eichler

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Time's Echo

Music, Memory, and the Second World War

By: Jeremy Eichler

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR • WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS • Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction • A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past • SUNDAY TIMES OF LONDON HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1785, when the great German poet Friedrich Schiller penned his immortal “Ode to Joy,” he crystallized the deepest hopes and dreams of the European Enlightenment for a new era of peace and freedom, a time when millions would be embraced as equals. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony then gave wing to Schiller’s words, but barely a century later these same words were claimed by Nazi propagandists and twisted by a barbarism so complete that it ruptured, as one philosopher put it, “the deep layer of solidarity among all who wear a human face.” When it comes to how societies remember these increasingly distant dreams and catastrophes, we often think of history books, archives, documentaries, or memorials carved from stone. But in Time’s Echo, the award-winning critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler makes a passionate and revelatory case for the power of music as culture’s memory, an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past. With a critic’s ear, a scholar’s erudition, and a novelist’s eye for detail, Eichler shows how four towering composers—Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Britten—lived through the era of the Second World War and the Holocaust and later transformed their experiences into deeply moving, transcendent works of music, scores that echo lost time. Summoning the supporting testimony of writers, poets, philosophers, musicians, and everyday citizens, Eichler reveals how the essence of an entire epoch has been inscribed in these sounds and stories. Along the way, he visits key locations central to the music’s creation, from the ruins of Coventry Cathedral to the site of the Babi Yar ravine in Kyiv. As the living memory of the Second World War fades, Time’s Echo proposes new ways of listening to history, and learning to hear between its notes the resonances of what another era has written, heard, dreamed, hoped, and mourned. A lyrical narrative full of insight and compassion, this book deepens how we think about the legacies of war, the presence of the past, and the renewed promise of art for our lives today.

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Random House

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052556344X

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Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America

By: Jeremy Jennings

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Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America

By: Jeremy Jennings

A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told through his wide-ranging travels—most of them, aside from his journey to America, barely known. It might be the most famous journey in the history of political thought: in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville sailed from France to the United States, spent nine months touring and observing the political culture of the fledgling republic, and produced the classic Democracy in America. But the United States was just one of the many places documented by the inveterate traveler. Jeremy Jennings follows Tocqueville’s voyages—by sailing ship, stagecoach, horseback, train, and foot—across Europe, North Africa, and of course North America. Along the way, Jennings reveals underappreciated aspects of Tocqueville’s character and sheds new light on the depth and range of his political and cultural commentary. Despite recurrent ill health and ever-growing political responsibilities, Tocqueville never stopped moving or learning. He wanted to understand what made political communities tick, what elite and popular mores they rested on, and how they were adjusting to rapid social and economic change—the rise of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, to be sure, but also the expansion of empire and the emergence of socialism. He lauded the orderly, Catholic-dominated society of Quebec; presciently diagnosed the boisterous but dangerously chauvinistic politics of Germany; considered England the freest and most unequal place on Earth; deplored the poverty he saw in Ireland; and championed French colonial settlement in Algeria. Drawing on correspondence, published writings, speeches, and the recollections of contemporaries, Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America is a panoramic combination of biography, history, and political theory that fully reflects the complex, restless mind at its center.

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Harvard University Press

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0674293118

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Orphans

A History

By: Jeremy Seabrook

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Orphans

A History

By: Jeremy Seabrook

Orphans have often been beneficiaries of charity and compassion--but society has also punished, abused and ill-treated them. Attitudes behind this maltreatment are rooted in ideas that those without parents are disruptive, malevolent, and in need of discipline. Drawing on historic documents, interviews and memoirs, Jeremy Seabrook charts history's changing and often loose definitions of "orphans," and explores their many "makers"--from natural or man-made catastrophes to the State, charity, and other social forces that have separated children, especially the poor, from their close kin. But this history is not only one of suffering: Orphans also reveals the uncounted millions taken in and loved by relatives, neighbors or strangers. Freed from constraints and driven by insecurity, many orphans--including Nelson Mandela, Marilyn Monroe and Steve Jobs--have led remarkable lives.

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Oxford University Press

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1787381153

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Dickens' Novels as Poetry

Allegory and Literature of the City

By: Jeremy Tambling

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Dickens' Novels as Poetry

Allegory and Literature of the City

By: Jeremy Tambling

Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens’ novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens’ novels as a unique form of poetry. Dickens’ writing disallows the statement of single unambiguous truths and shows unconscious processes burrowing within language, disrupting received ideas and modes of living. Arguing that Dickens, within nineteenth-century modernity, sees language as always double, Tambling draws on a wide range of Victorian texts and current critical theory to explore Dickens’ interest in literature and popular song, and what happens in jokes, in caricature, in word-play and punning, and in naming. Working from Dickens’ earliest writings to the latest, deftly combining theory with close analysis of texts, the book examines Dickens’ key novels, such as Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. It considers Dickens as constructing an urban poetry, alert to language coming from sources beyond the individual, and relating that to the dream-life of characters, who both can and cannot awake to fuller, different consciousness. Drawing on Walter Benjamin, Lacan, and Derrida, Tambling shows how Dickens writes a new and comic poetry of the city, and that the language constitutes an unconscious and secret autobiography. This volume takes Dickens scholarship in exciting new directions and will be of interest to all readers of nineteenth-century literary and cultural studies, and more widely, to all readers of literature.

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Routledge

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1317612884

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Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature

By: Jeremy Davies

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Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature

By: Jeremy Davies

Shortlisted for the University English Early Career Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize 2015 When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations – and in the case of figures like Coleridge and P. B. Shelley, by their own experiences of chronic pain – many writers found themselves drawn to the imaginative scrutiny of bodies in extremis. Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature reveals the significance of physical hurt for the poetry, philosophy, and medicine of the Romantic period. This study looks back to eighteenth-century medical controversies that made pain central to discussions about the nature of life, and forward to the birth of surgical anaesthesia in 1846. It examines why Jeremy Bentham wrote in defence of torture, and how pain sparked the imagination of thinkers from Adam Smith to the Marquis de Sade. Jeremy Davies brings to bear on Romantic studies the fascinating recent work in the medical humanities that offers a fresh understanding of bodily hurt, and shows how pain could prompt new ways of thinking about politics, ethics, and identity.

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1135016739

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John Clare Society Journal 34 (2015)

By: Nick Groom,Bridget Keegan,R. K. R. Thornton,Roger Sales,Helen Pownall,Lance Newman,Markus Poetzsch,Jeremy Mynott

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John Clare Society Journal 34 (2015)

By: Nick Groom,Bridget Keegan,R. K. R. Thornton,Roger Sales,Helen Pownall,Lance Newman,Markus Poetzsch,Jeremy Mynott

The official Journal of the John Clare Society, published annually to reflect the interest in, and approaches to, the life and work of the poet John Clare.

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0956411363

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Would Like to Meet

By: Tracey Cox,Jay Hunt,Jeremy Milnes

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Would Like to Meet

By: Tracey Cox,Jay Hunt,Jeremy Milnes

Would Like to Meet...is your very own do-it-yourself dating makeover. Tracey Cox, best-selling author of Hot Sex and Hot Relationships, begins with a candid look at body language and flirting. In her characteristically no-holds-barred style, she encourages the reader to face a few home truths and accept the fact that attracting a partner at first encounter has a lot to do with "packaging"--looking, acting, and sounding good. Jay Hunt is on hand with fashion and style advice, guiding you through not just what to wear, but how to wear it, while Jeremy Milnes--communication, confidence, and assertiveness advisor--dishes up plenty of ideas on how to raise your self-esteem and turn those awkward silences into a thing of the past. Aimed at men and women of all ages, packed with hints, tips, lists, and questionnaires, as well as plenty of "homework," transforming your love life has never been so much fun.

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BBC Books

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0563488433

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The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida

The Last Sentence of the Law

By: Jeremy Tambling

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The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida

The Last Sentence of the Law

By: Jeremy Tambling

In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters and in his novels. At the end of the twentieth century, Jacques Derrida ran two years of seminars on the subject, which were published posthumously. What the novelist and the philosopher of deconstruction discussed independently, this book brings into comparison. Tambling examines crime and punishment in Dickens's novels Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and Bleak House and explores those who influenced Dickens's work, including Hogarth, Fielding, Godwin and Edgar Allen Poe. This book also looks at those who influenced Derrida – Freud, Nietzsche, Foucault and Blanchot – and considers Derrida's study on terrorism and the USA as the only major democracy adhering to the death penalty. A comprehensive study of punishment in Dickens, and furthering Derrida's insights by commenting on Shakespeare and blood, revenge, the French Revolution, and the enduring power of violence and its fascination, this book is a major contribution to literary criticism on Dickens and Derrida. Those interested in literature, criminology, law, gender, and psychoanalysis will find it an essential intervention in a topic still rousing intense argument.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350354589

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The High Church Revival in the Church of England

Arguments and Identities

By: Jeremy Morris

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The High Church Revival in the Church of England

Arguments and Identities

By: Jeremy Morris

In The High Church Revival in the Church of England, new insights are opened up into one of the most significant movements of devotional and liturgical revival in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Attending closely to the social history of the movement, as well as to its continental connections and its theological complexity, this research re-evaluates its historiographical legacy in the light of recent research and controversy. Traditional interpretations of High Churchmanship have presented it either as a heroic rediscovery of the real essence of Anglicanism, or as an eccentric distortion of it. This volume asserts instead its theological creativity and its popular roots as a permanent enrichment of the Anglican tradition, whilst also analysing and describing the nature and limits of its growth.

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BRILL

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9004326804

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9789004326804

A Beginner's Guide to Opera

By: Jeremy Nicholas

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A Beginner's Guide to Opera

By: Jeremy Nicholas

Let this book reveal this new world to you. Covers: which operas to try first, and which to tackle later; the stories of over 75 best-loved operas; all the famous highlights, and where to find them; recommended recordings and performers; the lives of the great opera composers, and a brief history of opera; and an A-Z of opera terms.--From publisher description.

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Gramercy

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0517103249

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Great Opera Stories

The Perfect Introduction to the Magical World of Opera

By: Jeremy Harwood

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Great Opera Stories

The Perfect Introduction to the Magical World of Opera

By: Jeremy Harwood

Illustrations and text provide and act-by-act and scene-by-scene breakdown of 30 world-wide famous operas.

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1555219039

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George III

America's Last King

By: Jeremy Black

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George III

America's Last King

By: Jeremy Black

The sixty-year reign of George III (1760–1820) witnessed and participated in some of the most critical events of modern world history: the ending of the Seven Years’ War with France, the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars, the campaign against Napoleon Bonaparte and battle of Waterloo in 1815, and Union with Ireland in 1801. Despite the pathos of the last years of the mad, blind, and neglected monarch, it is a life full of importance and interest. Jeremy Black’s biography deals comprehensively with the politics, the wars, and the domestic issues, and harnesses the richest range of unpublished sources in Britain, Germany, and the United States. But, using George III’s own prolific correspondence, it also interrogates the man himself, his strong religious faith, and his powerful sense of moral duty to his family and to his nation. Black considers the king’s scientific, cultural, and intellectual interests as no other biographer has done, and explores how he was viewed by his contemporaries. Identifying George as the last British ruler of the Thirteen Colonies, Black reveals his strong personal engagement in the struggle for America and argues that George himself, his intentions and policies, were key to the conflict.

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Yale University Press

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0300142382

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Would Like to Meet

By: Tracey Cox,Jay Hunt,Jeremy Milnes

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By: Tracey Cox,Jay Hunt,Jeremy Milnes

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Breaking News

Breaking News

Time's Echo

Time's Echo

Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America

Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America

Orphans

Orphans

Dickens' Novels as Poetry

Dickens' Novels as Poetry

Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature

Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature

John Clare Society Journal 34 (2015)

John Clare Society Journal 34 (2015)

Would Like to Meet

Would Like to Meet

The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida

The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida

The High Church Revival in the Church of England

The High Church Revival in the Church of England

A Beginner's Guide to Opera

A Beginner's Guide to Opera

Great Opera Stories

Great Opera Stories

George III

George III

Would Like to Meet

Would Like to Meet

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