Download or read book Stiff Upper Lip written by Alex Renton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brave and necessary book' GUARDIAN 'Shocking, gripping and sobering' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH No other society sends its young boys and girls away to school to prepare them for a role in the ruling class. Beating, bullying, fagging, cold baths, vile food and paedophile teachers are just some of the features of this elite education, and, while some children loved boarding school, others now admit to suffering life-altering psychological damage. Stiff Upper Lip exposes the hypocrisy, cronyism and conspiracy that are key to understanding the scandals over abuse and neglect in institutions all over the world. Award-winning investigative journalist Alex Renton went to three traditional boarding schools. Drawing on those experiences, and the vivid testimony of hundreds of former pupils, he has put together a compelling history, important to anyone wondering what shaped the people who run Britain in the twenty-first century.

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Download or read book Weeping Britannia written by Thomas Dixon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the 'national character', the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief and militaristic period of our past, from about 1870 to 1945. In earlier times we were a nation of proficient, sometimes virtuosic moral weepers. To illustrate this perhaps surprising fact, Thomas Dixon charts six centuries of weeping Britons, and theories about them, from the medieval mystic Margery Kempe in the early fifteenth century, to Paul Gascoigne's famous tears in the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup. In between, the book includes the tears of some of the most influential figures in British history, from Oliver Cromwell to Margaret Thatcher (not forgetting George III, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, and Winston Churchill along the way). But the history of weeping in Britain is not simply one of famous tear-stained individuals. These tearful micro-histories all contribute to a bigger picture of changing emotional ideas and styles over the centuries, touching on many other fascinating areas of our history. For instance, the book also investigates the histories of painting, literature, theatre, music and the cinema to discover how and why people have been moved to tears by the arts, from the sentimental paintings and novels of the eighteenth century and the romantic music of the nineteenth, to Hollywood weepies, expressionist art, and pop music in the twentieth century. Weeping Britannia is simultaneously a museum of tears and a philosophical handbook, using history to shed new light on the changing nature of Britishness over time, as well as the ever-shifting ways in which we express and understand our emotional lives. The story that emerges is one in which a previously rich religious and cultural history of producing and interpreting tears was almost completely erased by the rise of a stoical and repressed British empire in the late nineteenth century. Those forgotten philosophies of tears and feeling can now be rediscovered. In the process, readers might perhaps come to view their own tears in a different light, as something more than mere emotional incontinence.

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Download or read book Body Language For Dummies written by Elizabeth Kuhnke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide to mastering the art of effective body language Body Language For Dummies is your ideal guide to understanding other people, and helping them understand you. Body language is a critical component of good communication, and often conveys a bigger message than the words you say. This book teaches you how to interpret what people really mean by observing their posture, gestures, eye movements, and more, and holds up a mirror to give you a clear idea of how you're being interpreted yourself. This updated third edition includes new coverage of virtual meetings, multicultural outsourcing environments, devices, and boardroom behaviours for women, as well as insight into Harvard professor Amy Cuddy's research into how body language affects testosterone and cortisol, as published in the Harvard Business Review.. Body language is a fascinating topic that reveals how the human mind works. Image and presentation are crucial to successful communication, both in business and in your personal life. This book is your guide to decoding body language, and adjusting your own habits to improve your interactions with others. Become a better communicator without saying a word Make a better first (and second, and third...) impression Learn what other people's signals really mean Transform your personal and professional relationships Realising what kind of impression you give is a valuable thing, and learning how to make a more positive impact is an incredibly useful skill. Whether you want to improve your prospects in job seeking, dating, or climbing the corporate ladder, Body Language For Dummies helps you translate the unspoken and get your message across.

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Download or read book Unabridged Dictionary of the Sensations as If written by James William Ward and published by B. Jain Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Remember Me written by Laura Browning and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plane went down. . .and took their love with it. All Brandon Barlow-Barrett wants is a week away from his family's newspaper empire, time on the slopes to relax and refocus. What he gets is Lucy Cameron, the most extraordinary woman he's ever met. Lucy Cameron doesn't take vacations. Not until now. Her very first vacation is full of highs--falling in love with Brandon Barrett--and lows--realizing she has to tell him she earns her living as a stripper. But there's no time to reveal her secret. On the way back from a day trip to a neighboring Colorado town, their plane's engine sputters and stops. All they have left is the dangerous peaks of the mountains, a nearby lake for a crash-landing, and Brandon's last-minute declaration of love. CONTENT WARNING: This is not an easy road to Happily Ever After. Some readers may be disturbed by the detailed description of the plane crash. Also, explicit language. 71,000 Words

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Download or read book Body Language Exposed written by Daryo Nagari and published by Daryo Nagari. This book was released on with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body language exposed Nonverbal communication accounts for 93% of all human interaction. Understand what is really being ‘said’ to you. Every minute of the day. Understand the subtle ways in which salesmen, politicians and other con-men use their body language to take advantage of you. Improve your own body signals and improve your personal and professional relationships. Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, in fact all those wonderful stars of the silent movies had no other means of communication but their body language and facial expression. Except of course for the occasional text bubble. Yet they could convey any message they needed to. They could tell an entire story without speaking. They used these expressions in overt exaggerated form in order that the audience were in no doubt as to the message being sent. The responsibility was on them to do a good job In everyday life, conversation and communication, the language of the body is much more subtle. Therefore the responsibility is upon the reader to decipher correctly what is being left unsaid. Long before the silent movies non verbal communication was an important survival tool message from affection to aggression and everything in between were conveyed using this method alone. We would have been experts at reading the tiniest signal from other humans. Once we started talking the skill became less and less used and dulled, until today it is only usually recognised at an unconscious level. This book aims to help you re-sharpen those skills, to bring body language back into the conscious realm. Working through every aspect of the human frame from the top of your head all the way down to the very tips of your toes. Never miss a signal again. Does she like me? Am I being lied to? Am I being conned? Does someone dislike me? Is there any point in trying? Have I already lost the high ground? You will instinctively know the answers to all these questions and many more. In body language exposed.

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