`The bible for The Independent Group and many others' Nick Robinson, Today Programme Start Again is a life-raft for all those who find themselves politically adrift and a rallying cry for a better kind of politics
Speechwriter for politicians and business leaders Philip Collins looks at what sets great speeches apart, looking at historical trajectories of the form through Cicero and the Gettysburg Address, and positing the poignant as an antidote to the populist.
The sustainability of both natural and managed ecosystems is strongly influenced by soil biological processes. A major question in soil biology and ecosystem ecology is the extent to which these processes are affected by the function and structure of the soil's biotic community. The Significance and Regulation of Soil Biodiversity presents the discussions of a group of soil biologists and ecosystem ecologists in which they synthesize available...
Everyone dreads public speaking. But Phil Collins, former Chief Speech Writer to Tony Blair, knows that it doesn't have to be this way.
We all tend to worry so much about how we're presenting, and not enough about what we're presenting. The secret to memorable, polished speeches is to think more about the material you're presenting. When the content's right, the confidence will follow.
In The Art of Speeches and Presentations Phil Collins pr...
One of the best social commentators on Dickens...models of historical scholarship.'- Gertrude Himmelfarb, Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York. This classic of Dickens criticism, now in its third edition, provides a fascinating insight into Dickens's thinking and writing on crime. Extraordinary in character, as well as literary skill, he displayed a shrewd insight into the criminal character, whilst demanding tough p...
Jesus' Toolbox is about: FAITH and the leap of it BELIEF and the profit from it TABLOID JOURNALISM and the truth of it ALCOHOL and the resort to it GREED and the surfeit of it ADULTERY and the thrill of it JUSTICE and the poetry of it TELEVANGELISM and the money in it THE SOUND OF MUSIC and the mystery of it THE DREAM and the sense of it PSYCHIATRY and the elixir of it TRUTH and the consequences of it HONESTY and the beauty of it COCA-COLA and...
These essays are lectures, mostly revised or expanded, given to the Tennyson Society by leading Victorianists, including one of the doyens of Tennyson studies, Jerome H. Buckley (Harvard). In Memoriam and Maud are central texts but many other poems are discussed - lyrics, dramatic monologues, narratives, ballads - and such recurrent topics as loss, the numinous, and distance in space and time. The poems are related to their intellectual contex...