Bøker av Matthew Green

Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this enthralling journey into the capital's rich, teeming and occasionally hazardous past.Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six extraordinary periods in London's history - the ages of Shakespeare, medieval city life, plague, coffee houses, the reign of Victoria and the Blitz.We'll turn back the clock to the time of Shakespeare and visit a savage bull and bear baiting arena on the Bankside. In medieval London, we'll circle the walls as the city lies barricaded under curfew, while spinning further forward in time we'll inhale the 'holy herb' in an early tobacco house, before peering into an open plague pit. In the 18th century, we'll navigate the streets in style with a ride on a sedan chair, and when we land in Victorian London, we'll take a tour of freak-show booths and meet the Elephant Man.You'll meet pornographers and traitors, actors and apothecaries, the mad, bad and dangerous to know, all desperate to show you the thrilling and vibrant history of the world's liveliest city.

Whether you just woke up, or simply ate food with a strong pungent smell - bad breath can happen to all of us. In some cases bad breath stays in our mouths for quite some time, and it's very hard to get rid of it. Whenever we have bad breath, we always think that a good tooth brushing can get rid of it, but most of the time, brushing just helping us to clean our teeth NOT removes bad breaths. If you're a person that has bad breath and you didn't take the necessary tests to get rid of it, it might cause problems like infections inside the mouth, and it also reflects a poor hygiene among others.Here is a preview of what you'll learn...How to find out how bad your breath really isWhat could potentially be causing your bad breathHow to have proper oral hygiene (most screw this up)Why the digestive system impacts your breath and how to improve itHerbal remedies that actually workWhether or not breath spray actually worksThe quick remedies in emergency situationsMuch, much more!Needless to say my confidence got shot and the details of the negotiation got lost in the details of my funky breath. Because of that incident I decided to find out everything I could about bad breath. In this eBook is my decade long search for everything that works....and now you have a chance to stop your bad breath dead in its tracks today.

Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff.This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands.'Shadowlands is so well researched, beautifully written and packed with interesting detail. Green is both historian and prophet, offering a warning we need to pay attention to . . . alarming and valuable.'CLAIRE TOMALIN'A beautiful book, truly original. Shadowlands is poetic history written with great literary flair, inqusitiveness, soul-searching and humanity . . . It is a marvellous achievement.'IAN MORTIMER, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England'An exquisitely written, moving and elegiac exploration . . . a book to savour and cherish.'SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB'A haunting, lyrical tour around the lost places of Britain.'CHARLOTTE HIGGINS, author of Under Another SkyBritain's landscape is scarred with haunting and romantic remains; these shadowlands that were once filled with life are now just spectral echoes. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a Suffolk cliff by sea storms; the lost city of Trellech unearthed by moles in the Welsh Marches; and the ghostly reservoir that is Capel Celyn, one of the few remaining solely Welsh-speaking villages, drowned by Liverpool City Council.Historian Matthew Green tells the extraordinary stories of how these places met their fate and probes the disappearances to explain why Britain looks the way it does today. Travelling across Britain, Green transports the reader to these places as they teeter on the brink of oblivion, vividly capturing the sounds of the sea clawing away row upon row of houses, the taste of medieval wine, or the sights of puffin hunting on the tallest cliffs in the country. We experience them in their prime, look on at their destruction and revisit their lingering remains later as they are mourned by evictees and reimagined by artists, writers and mavericks.By exploring the lost causes and dead ends of history - places lost to natural phenomena, war and plague, economic shifts and technological progress - the precariousness of our own towns and cities, of humanity, becomes clear. Shadowlands is a deeply evocative and dazzlingly original account of Britain's past. 'A haunting and miraculous work of resurrection, stinging in a perpetual present'.IAIN SINCLAIR, author of The Gold Machine'Superb. A beautifully written atlas of Ghost Britain, a summoning of places lost to memory, and a deft excavation of the void underlying myths of national identity.'WILLIAM ATKINS, author of Exiles

A foreign correspondent's chronicle of the Ugandan warlord and his Lord's Resistance Army of abducted child soldiers: ';a readable and compelling account' (Independent, UK). Somewhere in the jungles of Uganda, there hides a fugitive rebel leader: he is said to take his orders directly from the spirit world and, together with his ragged army of brutalized child soldiers, he has left a bloody trail of devastation across his country. Joseph Kony is now an internationally wanted criminal, and yet nobody really knows who he is or what he is fighting for. To get the truth behind the rumors and myths, Matthew Green ventures into the war zone, meeting the victims, the peacemakers and the regional powerbrokers as he tracks down the man himself.The Wizard of the Nileis the first book to peel back the layers of mysticism and murky politics surrounding Kony, to shine a searching light onto this forgotten conflict, and to tell the gripping human story behind an inhumane war and a humanitarian crisis. Winner of the Jerwood AwardLong-listed for the Orwell Prize

From the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend comes a wonderful new novel, written entirely in lists, about a man whose life is at a crossroads.

Following the 2014 elections, a group of organized conservatives called the House Freedom Caucus regularly issued threats against its own party's leadership. This Element posits explanations for why such threat-making might occur and what might increase its likelihood of success, then tests those explanations.

Goodreads finalist 2012 as voted by over 1 million readersMy name is BUDO.I have been alive for 5 years.5 years is a very long time for someone like me to be alive.MAX gave me my name. Max is 8 years old.He is the only human person who can see me.I know what Max knows, and some things he doesn't.I know that Max is in danger. And I know that I am the only one who can save him.

Believe! Let the fairies take you on an iconic adventure through New York City's heart and soul. Discover the secret beauty of the Statue of Liberty. Reach the mesmerizing heights of the Empire State Building. Play with the fairies of Central Park. Shop at fashionable 5th Avenue and celebrate the arrival of the New Year at Times Square. Immerse yourself in hustle and bustle of USA's most fascinating city in a whole new perspective. Experience the wonder and joy of A Secret New York.