From Ur to Us: Everything You Need to Know About History - Couverture souple

Williams, Hugh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0955418852 ISBN 13 : 9780955418853

Editeur : St Edwards Press Ltd, 2013

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Hugh Williams is 66 and has had an eventful life, enjoying a wide range of experiences. Educated at Eton he qualified as a chartered accountant in London but decided to set up his own practice in the unusual setting of a small farm on Dartmoor, where he also kept a small herd of Red Devon cattle and some Arab cross ponies. He lived and worked there for nearly thirty years before moving the practice to Plympton where it has since won three national awards, principally for customer service. His writing career began with a book on Company Law, which was published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and was in print for nearly twenty years. There have since been many other publications to his name, all of which try to simplify the worlds of taxation, business administration and management. In addition to running a business from this remote setting he and his wife, Alice, decided to teach their eldest children at home, which they did to GCSE level Hugh even sitting a paper himself, the better to understand what his children would be facing; they also taught their other children to secondary school level. His job in the home school was to teach his children history, the notes of which now form the backbone of this book. While Hugh Williams is the main author of this work he is indebted to Daniel Joyce, MA, Cantab., for his invaluable help in both correcting the original script and presenting the text in a more readable way.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A reference book that tells you everything you need to know about history. Historians and academics have long bemoaned the lack of historical knowledge among the UK population. This book has been written to tackle this problem, for both the student as well as the home, where remembrance of what was learned at school some years ago may have become somewhat sketchy. Hugh Williams has designed it with the user's needs as the prime focus and, unencumbered by the shackles of political correctness, it has already been called the most user-friendly history book. The first unique feature is that the vast index is at the front. After that the book is split into four sections, offering references both chronologically and geographically, enabling the reader to glean key facts, figures and dates on everything from the time of Abraham (Ur) to the present day you and me (us).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St Edwards Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0955418852
• ISBN 13: 9780955418853
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 378
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible