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A carregar... The Official History of Britain: Our Story in Numbers as Told by the Office For National Statisticspor Boris Starling, David Bradbury
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I was expecting this to be a serious and well presented book. There is a lot of interesting facts and analysis within the text but in my view it is marred by lots of silly quips and jokes that are unnecessary. The tables are substandard, presented in different shades of grey and there is a science fiction style chapter on census 2121. The blurb says that findings are collected 'into a wonderfully written and entertaining book'. Sadly, I disagree and had hoped for something shorter and illuminating. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we've changed as a nation. 'Entertaining and absorbing' - The Sunday Times In 1841 there were 734 female midwives working in Britain, along with 9 artificial eye makers, 20 peg makers, 6 stamp makers and 1 bee dealer. Fast forward nearly two centuries and there are 51,000 midwives working in the UK and not an eye maker in sight! For the past two centuries, the National Census has been monitoring the behaviour of the British: our work-lives, homes lives and strange cultural habits. With questions on occupation, housing, religion, travel and family, the Census is a snapshot of a country at any given epoch, and its findings have informed the economy, politics and every other national matter for decades that followed. Now, for the first time ever, the Census findings of the past two centuries are collected in to a wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are and how we've changed as a nation. On our occupations, our working lives, relationships; our quirks, habits, weird interests and cultural beliefs - this book takes the reader on a journey through the statistical findings of one of the most valuable pieces of ongoing historical research of modern times, and asks us what these fascinating numbers tells us about the Britain in the 21st century. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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