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Book Whitehall

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Hennessy
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780712667555
  • Pages : 869 pages

Download or read book Whitehall written by Peter Hennessy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the British civil service from the Norman Conquest to the present day. It also provides an analysis of present-day ministries. This edition has a new 10,000 word final chapter.

Book Whitehall Effect

Download or read book Whitehall Effect written by John Seddon and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2014-05-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Seddon explains how successive governments have failed to deliver what our public services need and exposes the devastation that three decades of political fads, fashions and bad theory have caused. With specific examples and new evidence, he chronicles how the Whitehall ideas machine has failed on a monumental scale - and the impact that this has had on public sector workers and those of us who use public sector services.

Book Whitehall  A Novel  Part 1

Download or read book Whitehall A Novel Part 1 written by Liz Duffy Adams and published by Serial Box. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She who would be queen must win the love of a king—and a country. Whitehall is a royal tale full of true history and sensual intrigue, from Serial Box Publishing. Set in the 17th century court of King Charles II and his queen, Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza. Her journey to find her place as the foreign wife in a court riddled with political and religious intrigue -- not to mention the many mistresses of Charles the “Merry Monarch” -- is a tale of perseverance only a true queen could endure. Love mingles with betrayal before a sensual renaissance of art, culture, and sex in this lush historical serial. Whitehall is written by Liz Duffy Adams, Delia Sherman, Barbara Samuel, Mary Robinette Kowal, Madeleine Robins, and Sarah Smith. Originally presented serially in 13 episodes, this omnibus collects installments 1 through 7 of Whitehall Season One into one edition.

Book Whitehall Palace

Download or read book Whitehall Palace written by Simon Thurley and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The complete history of Whitehall Palace, the official seat of the English monarchy for almost 160 years

Book The Chosen

    Book Details:
  • Author : S. M. Stirling
  • Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 1618241605
  • Pages : 511 pages

Download or read book The Chosen written by S. M. Stirling and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hottest team in military SF is hack in action¾ with Book I of a red-hot sequel to The General series! Planted by interstellar probes on hundreds of human-occupied worlds, the downloaded personalities of Raj Whitehall and the ancient battle computer known as Center work together for planetary unity. Their goal is to prepare those worlds for membership in the Second Federation of Man. But on one planet they do the opposite: on Visager they work to prevent unity. For on Visager a nation-state of vicious militarists is about to start the final war to unite their world-once that is accomplished and their technology has matured they will turn outward, bringing their fatal racist infection to the stars. John Hosten is the son of a high general of the Chosen. Jeffrey Fair is the son of an admiral of the only nation on Visager that might be capable of halting the onslaught. Through a strange twist of fate they have become as brothers united in their hatred of all that the Chosen hope to do. Only they ¾with the aid of the disembodied voices of their mentors from the stars-stand between eternal tyranny for their world and eternal war for the galaxy. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Book How to Survive Family Holidays

Download or read book How to Survive Family Holidays written by Jack Whitehall and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Screamingly funny...a splendidly effervescent and enjoyable book' Daily Mail One part Lonely Planet, one part tell-all family memoir, this is the definitive and hilarious guide on how to survive family holidays. No one has more experience of travelling together than the Whitehalls. They've given us a window into their escapades in the hit Netflix show, Travels With My Father, and in this brilliantly funny book they've pooled their advice for fellow travellers. In doing so they are sharing some of their best anecdotes, their most extreme experiences and their most valuable advice. It's part memoir of family life, part travel guide and full on, laugh-out-loud funny.

Book Conqueror

    Book Details:
  • Author : S. M. Stirling
  • Publisher : Baen Books
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 074343594X
  • Pages : 561 pages

Download or read book Conqueror written by S. M. Stirling and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Conqueror" comprises the second half of The General series, which was originally published as five separate novels: "The Forge, The Hammer, The Anvil, The Steel" and "The Sword." This is their first unified publication.

Book Peace  War and Whitehall

Download or read book Peace War and Whitehall written by Charles Guthrie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Charles Guthrie has been one of Britain's foremost soldiers as well as a terrific personality throughout his remarkable life. It is great that he is now telling his own story.' - Sir Max Hastings Field Marshal the Lord Guthrie commanded at every level in the British Army from platoon to army group, and was Britain's senior military commander at a time of great change. He oversaw the modernization of the armed forces following the Cold War years and led Britain's military involvement in operations in the Balkans and Sierra Leone. Charles Guthrie was commissioned into the British Army in 1959 at a time when Britain's influence was shrinking throughout the world, and Peace, War and Whitehall describes his operational experience with both the Welsh Guards and 22 SAS in Aden, Malaya, East Africa, Cyprus and Northern Ireland. As a senior officer he commanded the Welsh Guards during an operational tour of the Bandit Country of South Armagh at the height of the Troubles, before leading an armoured brigade in Germany in the midst of the Cold War, and eventually being appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine and Northern Army Group as the Cold War ended and the former Yugoslavia began to disintegrate into savage internecine warfare. Peace, War and Whitehall details Lord Guthrie's extraordinary career from a young platoon commander through to Chief of the Defence Staff.

Book Lacy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diana Palmer
  • Publisher : HQN Books
  • Release : 2011-04-26
  • ISBN : 1459201604
  • Pages : 413 pages

Download or read book Lacy written by Diana Palmer and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cole Whitehall had asked Lacy Jarrett to wait for him. But after the war, he returned to the rambling Whitehall cattle ranch a changed man, the promise of lasting love replaced by a cold, hard distance. And Lacy yearned to reignite the unquenched passion they'd once shared. Unwittingly compromised into marriage, Cole refused to let Lacy get too close—but still, she longed to learn the secrets the handsome Texan harbored in his heart. Tormented, she wouldn't let him shoulder the burden alone, and soon the pursuit of an endless love burned bright enough to set their world ablaze….

Book Clockwork Magpies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emma Whitehall
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-02-10
  • ISBN : 9781915179975
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Clockwork Magpies written by Emma Whitehall and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By day, Ida is a quiet, standoffish maid in the employ of spoiled Lucinda Belmonte. By night, she is the infamous sneak thief known as the Rat Prince, terrorising the wealthy inhabitants of Loxport; especially Lucinda's lecherous suitor, Lord Devon Casterbury. Soon the boundaries between her dual lives begin to blur, as her mask begins to drop around a delightful waitress and a charming jeweller who both insist on befriending Ida. All the while she is thrust into a conflict surrounding new and dangerous materials that could upend the order of the city, land her behind bars or worse: in Lord Casterbury's employ. A thrilling romp through the Steampunk city of Loxport, Clockwork Magpies is a story of found family, crimes plotted over tea and scones, and the sinister power of glowing gemstones.

Book Whitehall Palace

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  • Author : Simon Thurley
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300076398
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Whitehall Palace written by Simon Thurley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles information about a myriad of topics, ranging from the arts and life sciences to computers and the zodiac. 8 yrs+

Book Backing into the Spotlight

Download or read book Backing into the Spotlight written by Michael Whitehall and published by Constable. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly non-PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still deeply suspicious of modernity' Daily Mail Standing in front of a full-length mirror in my dressing room at ITV studios, waiting to go on to the set of Backchat, I had a brief conversation with my reflection. 'Michael, what the f*** do you think you're doing?' Theatrical agent Michael Whitehall spent a career pushing others into the spotlight. He had been involved behind the scenes with the careers of many prominent actors, including Colin Firth, Richard Griffiths, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Courtenay, Ian Ogilvy, Judi Dench, Edward Fox, Michael Fassbender, Angela Thorne and Nigel Havers. But then, much to his surprise, his son Jack becomes a successful comedian and actor and decides that his new comedy partner should be his father. Whitehall Snr. finds himself reluctantly appearing on stage and then television, cast as the archetypal grumpy old man and thrust, in his early seventies, into a whole new career in front of the camera. Minor fame comes at a sedate pace: one of the highlights being a record £300,000 win for charity with Jack on Channel 4's The Million Pound Drop. In this enchanting memoir Whitehall looks back on his life, from growing up in suburban London in the 1940s and '50s with his saintly father and social climbing-mother, who coined the phrase 'à la carte' to describe people who were posher than she was and whose company she craved, to falling into a career as a successful theatrical agent and producer. As he says, 'Actors can be egotistical, greedy and vain, but they're not half as bad as agents and producers.' Charming, gossipy and above all very funny, Backing Into The Spotlight is no ordinary show business memoir.

Book The Story of White Hall Centre

Download or read book The Story of White Hall Centre written by Pete McDonald and published by Pete McDonald. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hope Reborn

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Drake
  • Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • Release : 2013-03-15
  • ISBN : 1625790856
  • Pages : 601 pages

Download or read book Hope Reborn written by David Drake and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains Raj Whitehall series opening novels The Forge and The Hammer together in one volume. Raj Whitehall was a young noble of the Civil Government, the last remnant of galactic civilization on the planet Bellevue, when he came across an ancient but still functioning Fleet Battle Computer named Center. With Center's vast fund of knowledge and strategic calculating abilities, Raj could defeat the barbarians threatening to engulf the Civil Government, and start Bellevue on the road back to the stars. But the Governor, to whom Raj has sworn absolute loyalty, nourishes a paranoid envy and mistrust that grows with every victory. Can even a battle computer of the Galactic Age be enough to counter the fury of Raj's enemies . . . and the treachery of his "friends"? A young hero overcomes implacable foes to lead a planet fallen into a dark age back to the high point of its lost technological civilization. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (DRM Rights Management).

Book Whitehall Baby

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Barnard
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-02-08
  • ISBN : 9781916273467
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Whitehall Baby written by Laura Barnard and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night changes everything... She's an aspiring fashionista with her eyes on her career. He's a government official who's married to his country. From the moment Charlotte Bellswain and Arthur Ellison meet, their chemistry is off the charts. Everything about them is wrong, but neither of them can resist one stolen night together. Even if the consequences are life changing. He warns her he'll let her down. More than once. And that the eyes of the country are on them both. That doesn't stop her hoping that he might just change his ways and grow a heart. Can a creative soul and an analytical mind put aside their differences and navigate this pregnancy together? They need to make their minds up as time is running out...

Book A Girl Called Foote

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. Walnofer
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-05-13
  • ISBN : 9781511759403
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book A Girl Called Foote written by A. Walnofer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Jonathan Clyde causes mischief for everyone at Whitehall, the stately home of his privileged ancestors. As he matures, however, he comes to despise the vanity and conceit surrounding him. Misfortune requires Lydia Smythe, an exceptionally clever farmer's daughter, to seek employment at Whitehall. As a parlor maid, she feels stifled and harried by those over her. Still, she refuses to relinquish her independent mind and spirit. From the moment Jonathan catches Lydia reading the books she is supposed to be dusting, he is intrigued by this unusual servant. Thus begins a clandestine relationship that is simultaneously amusing, confusing and enlightening. Just as it is evolving into something neither of them expected, an unforeseen truth comes to light, and the two wonder if their unconventional bond will be forever lost. Set in England in the mid-eighteen hundreds, A Girl Called Foote is the coming-of-age story of two similarly impressive people leading very different lives.

Book Demolishing Whitehall

Download or read book Demolishing Whitehall written by Adam Sharr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old. It is the story of a grand plan to demolish most of Whitehall, London’s historic government district, and replace it with a ziggurat-section megastructure built in concrete. In 1965 the architect Leslie Martin submitted a proposal to Charles Pannell, Minister of Public Building and Works in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, for the wholesale reconstruction of London’s ’Government Centre’. Still reeling from war damage, its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century palaces stood as the patched-up headquarters of an imperial bureaucracy which had once dominated the globe. Martin’s plan - by no means modest in conception, scope or scale - proposed their replacement with a complex that would span the roads into Parliament Square, reframing the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. The project was not executed in the manner envisaged by Martin and his associates, although a surprising number of its proposals were implemented. But the un-built architecture is examined here for its insights into a distinctive moment in British history, when a purposeful technological future seemed not just possible but imminent, apparently sweeping away an anachronistic Edwardian establishment to be replaced with a new meritocracy forged in the ’white heat of technology’. The Whitehall plan had implications well beyond its specific site. It was imagined by its architects as a scientific investigation into ideal building forms for the future, an important development in their project to unify science and art. For the political actors, it represented a tussle between government departments, between those who believed that Britain needed to discard much of its Victorian and Edwardian decoration in the name of ’professionalization’ and those who sought to preserve its ornate finery. Demolishing Whitehall investigates these tensions between ideas of technology and history, science and art, socialism and el