Robert Blake Bücher

A documented biography of the 19th century statesman which recreates the political history of the Victorian age

The New Managerial Grid is a comprehensive revision in the light of the author's twenty-five years experience. It provides strategic new insights in boss or subordinate behaviour and its effects upon organization productivity and individual effectiveness. In addition to examining managerial theories, describing various facades, deceptive strategies, and proven diagnostic system, the book also contains several complete new features. One includes the correlation of extreme managerial styles with mental and physical health.

There was no more appropriate person to write this book. Robert Blake was the doyen of Tory historians being most famous for his unsurpassed biography of Disraeli (to be reissued in Faber Finds). His history of the Conservative Party was first published in 1970. It then went as far as Churchill. A subsequent edition took it up to Thatcher and the final edition, the one being reissued by Faber Finds, to Major. For the span it covers, it remains the definitive one-volume history.'His consummate insight into the whole of the political scene, and his power to communicate the enjoyment of it, makes this exciting reading for anyone remotely interested in British political and social history, or even in the English character.' Sunday Times'This book is full of insights and enriched throughout by sparkling commentary' Evening Standard'An up-to-date history of the Party was wanted. Mr Blake supplies it with lucidity, scholarship and serene worldliness' Guardian

The book explores the origins and development of European occupation in Southern Rhodesia, detailing the historical context and changes leading to its identity as Rhodesia after Northern Rhodesia's independence in 1963. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the region's colonial history and its implications, making it a significant resource for understanding the socio-political landscape of modern Zimbabwe.

This supplement to the classic reference work, The Dictionary of National Biography records the lives of 748 men and women who died between 1971 and 1980. Though most are British subjects, there are entries on figures like Alfred Hitchcock who subsequently became an American, and on men whowere never citizens but who spent formative years in Britain--people like Jomo Kenyatta, Robert Menzies and Archbishop Makarios. From politicians, lawyers, educators, royalty, and philosophers to artists, musicians, writers, entertainers and athletes, the entrants span the entire range ofoccupations and interests. In fact, the contributors to the volume are often as eminent as their subjects: the supplement features Harold Macmillan writing on Lord Egremont, Malcolm Muggeridge on E.B. Knox, and Philip Larkin on Barbara Pym. The supplement also includes a cumulative index to theDNB 1901-80.

Examines the controversial career of Winston Churchill. Each contributor is considered an expert on some aspect of his life, and the resulting interplay of sometimes unflattering ideas about his policies and motives gives insight into how he came to be considered "the saviour of his nation".