• Rule, Nostalgia (eBook, ePUB)

  * CHOSEN AS A BOOK TO WATCH IN 2022 BY THE NEW STATESMAN AND IRISH TIMES *'Rule, Nostalgia is an eye-opening history of Britain's enduring fixation with its own past' - Jeremy Paxman'Well-argued, timely and hugely entertaining' - Jonathan Coe, bestselling author of Middle England'Our national story is so much stranger than we think: this book brilliantly insists that we look at it afresh' - James Hawes, bestselling author of The Shortest History of England____________________________________________________Britain is an island ruled by nostalgia, but nostalgia today isn't what it used to be... Longing to go back to the 'good old days' is nothing new. For hundreds of years, the British have mourned the loss of older national identities and called for a revival 'simple', 'better' ways of life - from Margaret Thatcher's call for a return to 'Victorian values' in the 1980s, to William Blake's protest against the 'dark satanic mills' of the Industrial Revolution that were fast transforming England's green and pleasant land, to sixteenth-century observers looking back wistfully to a 'Merry England' before the upheavals of the Reformation. By the time we reach the 1500s, we find a country nostalgic for a vision of home that looks very different to our own. But were the 'good old days' ever quite how we remember them? Beginning in the present, cultural historian Hannah Rose Woods takes us back on an eye-opening tour through five hundred years of Britain's perennial fixation with its own past to reveal that history is more complex than we care to remember. Asking why nostalgia has been such an enduring and seductive emotion across hundreds of years of change, Woods separates the history from the fantasy, debunks pervasive myths about the past, and illuminates the remarkable influence that nostalgia's perpetual backwards glance has had on British history, politics and society. Rule, Nostalgia is a timely and enlightening interrogation of national character, emotion, identity and myth making that elucidates how this nostalgic isle's history was written, re-written and (rightly or wrongly) remembered.

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• Rule, Nostalgia

  * CHOSEN AS A BOOK TO WATCH IN 2022 BY THE NEW STATESMAN AND IRISH TIMES * 'Rule, Nostalgia is an eye-opening history of Britain's enduring fixation with its own past' - Jeremy Paxman 'Well-argued, timely and hugely entertaining' - Jonathan Coe, bestselling author of Middle England 'Our national story is so much stranger than we think: this book brilliantly insists that we look at it afresh' - James Hawes, bestselling author of The Shortest History of England ____________________________________________________ Britain is an island ruled by nostalgia, but nostalgia today isn't what it used to be... Longing to go back to the 'good old days' is nothing new. For hundreds of years, the British have mourned the loss of older national identities and called for a revival 'simple', 'better' ways of life - from Margaret Thatcher's call for a return to 'Victorian values' in the 1980s, to William Blake's protest against the 'dark satanic mills' of the Industrial Revolution that were fast transforming England's green and pleasant land, to sixteenth-century observers looking back wistfully to a 'Merry England' before the upheavals of the Reformation. By the time we reach the 1500s, we find a country nostalgic for a vision of home that looks very different to our own. But were the 'good old days' ever quite how we remember them? Beginning in the present, cultural historian Hannah Rose Woods takes us back on an eye-opening tour through five hundred years of Britain's perennial fixation with its own past to reveal that history is more complex than we care to remember. Asking why nostalgia has been such an enduring and seductive emotion across hundreds of years of change, Woods separates the history from the fantasy, debunks pervasive myths about the past, and illuminates the remarkable influence that nostalgia's perpetual backwards glance has had on British history, politics and society. Rule, Nostalgia is a timely and enlightening interrogation of national character, emotion, identity and myth making that elucidates how this nostalgic isle's history was written, re-written and (rightly or wrongly) remembered.

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  It's a Springtime Thing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 57min

  This is a true story, and it was the character that I have named "Ken" who told me this story. I've known him now for about 30 some years, and he really was a lifetime drunk with his career in drinking starting in his senior year in high school. The shame of it all was that he had been given a full basketball scholarship to attend one of the bigger, medium-sized colleges in Michigan. He showed up to the first summer basketball camp absolutely plastered, and they cut him and his scholarship on the spot.Ken has since become a former alcoholic in the best sense that anyone can be a former alcoholic. He nearly did die in the episode that I am telling here, and after he was rescued, he spent about 15 days in an extended care unit after spending about 10 days in an ICU.The guy is actually pretty intelligent, and he wistfully talks about how he had a chance to go back in time and do his life over. I told him that probably there wasn't a human alive who didn't wish for the same thing, no matter the heights or depths they had hit in their lifetimes. There are no "do-overs" in life. You get but one shot, and you hope you choose wisely the first time around. As Henry David Thoreau said so eloquently, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”It was about a year after this event that we talked about his story. As he was telling me this story, I had a digital voice recorder and was taking notes as fast and furiously as I could. It was strange to watch the change that came over him as he began to relive that night. There were a couple times I tried to stop him to clarify a detail, but he never heard me. I had to write my question in the margins and when he was done, I did manage to get him to go back and help me fill in the story properly. I was amazed at the clarity with which he spoke and the vivid details he remembered. I've tried to use all of his details as I work on this story.When this del ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Berkowitz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/206440/bk_acx0_206440_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Daydreaming and Fantasy (Psychology Revivals) (eBook, PDF)

  Daydreaming, our ability to give 'to airy nothing a local habitation and a name', remains one of the least understood aspects of human behaviour. As children we explore beyond the boundaries of our experience by projecting ourselves into the mysterious worlds outside our reach. As adolescents and adults we transcend frustration by dreams of achievement or escape, and use daydreaming as a way out of intolerable situations and to help survive boredom, drudgery or routine. In old age we turn back to happier memories as a relief from loneliness or frailty, or wistfully daydream about what we would do if we had our time over again. Why is it that we have the ability to alternate between fantasy and reality? Is it possible to have ambition or the ability to experiment, create or invent without the catalyst of fantasy? Are sexual fantasies an inherent part of human behaviour? Are they universal, healthy, destructive? Is daydreaming itself destructive? Or is it a force which facilitates change and which can even be harnessed to positive advantage? In this provocative book, originally published in 1975, the product of the previous twenty-five years of research, the author debates the nature and function of daydreaming in the light of his own experiments. As well as investigating what is a normal 'fantasy-life' and outlining patterns and types of daydreaming, he describes the role of daydreaming in schizophrenia and paranoia, examines the fantasies and hallucinations induced by drugs and also the nature of altered states of consciousness in Zen and Transcendental Meditation. Among the many topics covered, he explains how it is possible to help children enlarge their capacity for fantasy, how adults can make positive use of daydreaming and how people on the verge of disturbed behaviour are often unconscious of their own fantasies. Advances in scientific methods and new experimental techniques had made it possible at this time to monitor both conscious daydreaming and sub-conscious fantasies in a way not possible before. Professor Singer is one of the few scientists who have conducted substantial research in this area and it is his belief that the study of daydreaming and fantasy is of great importance if we are to understand the workings of the human mind.

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  Aspire For Love Wistfully

  Aspire For Love Wistfully: ab 2.49 €

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  Footprints

  Tunes you can whistle and lyrics that will lodge themselves in your memory, Peter Webster's new album is full of well-constructed songs. From the blissful latin-pop of 'Felicity', through the bitter-sweet alt-country of 'To Have and Hold', to contemplative singer-songwriter material such as 'There's Something (You Can Do)' and 'Sweet Songs', Webster's voice and guitar weave a distinctive path through this wonderful album. "My main guitar is a vintage acoustic, a Martin HD28. I play an electric guitar and a nylon-string guitar on the album too. But the Martin is on nearly every track, and that, combined with my voice, give the album it's characteristic sound. I deliberately didn't stick slavishly to one genre. There are songs on the album that you could describe as folk, or folk-rock, or alt-country, or latin-pop or rock. There's even one song with a dance flavour. But despite that, the album as a whole has a sound all of it's own." One of the things that strikes you about 'Footprints' is it's enormous emotional range. 'Felicity', for example, is a light-hearted latin romp with a pop sensibility. 'There's Something (You Can Do) is a song about dealing with adversity by valuing your relationships. 'Sweet Songs', perhaps the most contemplative track on the album, is about confronting death. And then there is the wistfully funny 'Without You' and the poetic 'Too Quiet'. Not to mention the darkness of 'Poison', which is about an obsessive relationship. So how were the songs written? "I tend to come up with ideas when I'm relaxed," says Webster. "So many of the ideas for the songs come along when I'm strumming a guitar with not too much else to do. Often I get part of the tune and perhaps a key phrase of the lyrics. But some were written very quickly, to the extent that I felt my only conscious contribution was to hold the pen. Others evolved gradually over months, and went through many re-writes before reaching their final shape. But however quickly or slowly a song takes to develop, at some point you have to stand back from it with a critical ear and assess it. In my view, a good song combines three qualities: an effective structure, a memorable tune and eloquent lyrics. Getting two without the third doesn't really work. If your song's got the tune and the structure, for example, but the lyrics aren't up to scratch, then the challenge is to add the missing ingredient."

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