Mark Peel attended Harrow School and Edinburgh University before teaching History and Politics at Fettes School in Scotland for more than twenty-five years. Besides contributing to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography he is the author of eight books on cricket, politics and independent schools, one of which, England Expects: A Life of Ken Barrington, won the 1993 Cricket Society Literary Award.
9 Ebooks tarafından Mark Peel
Mark Peel: Shirley Williams
For fifty years Shirley Williams has been one of Britain’s best-known and best-loved politicians, admired for her warmth, sincerity, integrity and compassion. Hailing from an impeccable intellectual …
EPUB
İngilizce
€19.00
Twomey Christina Twomey & Peel Mark Peel: History of Australia
This vivid, multi-dimensional history considers the key cultural, social, political and economic events of Australia’s history. Deftly weaving these issues into the wider global context, Mark Peel an …
EPUB
İngilizce
DRM
€30.17
Mark Peel: Ambassadors of Goodwill
Since Victorian times, the MCC had embraced the amateur ideal that cricket was more than a game. It was the very essence of camaraderie and good sportsmanship. Yet for all their evangelising, the gam …
EPUB
İngilizce
DRM
€12.93
Mark Peel: Playing the Game?
Of all games, cricket has long prided itself on its ethical traditions, but to modern sceptics the idea of cricket encapsulating a higher morality is actually something of a myth. Playing the Game? l …
EPUB
İngilizce
DRM
€12.88
Mark Peel: Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse
Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London …
EPUB
İngilizce
DRM
€87.12
Mark Peel: Cricketing Caesar
Mike Brearley was one of England’s greatest cricket captains. He thrice won the Ashes, including the unforgettable series of 1981, when his leadership helped England to snatch victory from defeat. Ye …
EPUB
İngilizce
DRM
€12.87
Mark Peel: Hollow Crown
Award-winning cricket writer Mark Peel charts the development of the England captaincy – from the autocratic captains of the post-war years to the dual captaincy of the present, where power is shared …
EPUB
İngilizce
DRM
€12.85
