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With their extensive experience in radio production and academica, authors Guy Starkey and Andrew Crisell take readers on a tour through the past, present and future of radio broadcasting, from the infancy of the BBC in the 1920s up to the prospect of rolling news delivered to mobile telephones. Grounding each chapter in a survey of scholarly writing on the radio, they...

This memoir shows a surprisingly positive and uplifting story about a London taxi driver's dramatic few years and how he changed his life-style to take control of his life.

No one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were daring and tumultuous, and made instant legends of six very different women. In this remarkable study, David Starkey argues that the king was not a depraved philanderer but someone seeking happiness -- and a son. Knowingly or not, he elevateda group of women to extraordinary heights and changed the way a nation was governed.

Six Wives is a masterful work of history that intimately examines the rituals of diplomacy, marriage, pregnancy, and religion that were part of daily life for...

This book was designed to present another place and activity for children and their families to begin reading. Outside is where education comes alive. Spacial intelligence can be validated here in this poem as we locate symbols that unlock a new world of reading. A connection can be made between nature and language when our inmagination and play is united. Each picture will show the aphabet formed by trees. It is creative and surprising to find each letter. Children will start to apply this concept and find letters all over their world.

Political pundits never tire of reminding us of the great cultural divide between conservative -red- states and liberal -blue- ones. But common sense tells us that not all people in these states can be politically like-minded. David Starkey, a former red-state resident, wondered what politically progressive creative writers were feeling in the wake of George W. Bush's reelection. How, Starkey asked contributors, does one live blue in a red state.

This book supplies many answers. Writers as different as Jonis Agee and Stephen Corey, Robin Hemley and Lee Martin (a 2006 Pulitzer...