Most Popular Books by Peter Clarke

A timely and concise accounting of John Maynard Keynes''s life and work by a renowned historian and Keynes scholar.

A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower-published on the 60th anniversary of Britain''s withdrawal from Palestine

In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work that occupied Churchill for a quarter century, his four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples.As an author, Churchill faced woes familiar to many others; chronically short of funds, late on deadlines, scrambling to sell new projects or cajoling his publishers for more advance money. He signed a contract for the English-Speaking project in 1932, a time when his political career seemed over. The magnum opus was to be delivered in 1939, but in that year, history overtook history-writing. When the Nazis swept across Europe, Churchill was summoned from political exile to become Prime Minister. The English-Speaking Peoples would have to wait.The book would indeed be written and become a bestseller, after Churchill left public life. But even before he took office, the massive project was shaping his worldview, his speeches and his leadership. In these pages, Peter Clarke follows Churchill''s monumental quest to chronicle the English-Speaking Peoples - a quest that helped to define the enduring ''special relationship'' between Britain and America. In the process, Clarke gives us not just an untold chapter in literary history, but a fresh perspective on this iconic figure: a life of Churchill the author.

Functional safety is the task of developing and implementing automatic safety systems used to manage risks in many industries where hazardous processes and machinery are used. Functional Safety from Scratch: A Practical Guide to Process Industry Applications provides a practical guide to functional safety, as applied in the chemical process industry, including the oil and gas, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and energy sectors. Written by a seasoned professional with many years of functional safety experience, this book explains the purpose of the relevant international standard IEC 61511 and how to achieve compliance efficiently. It provides in-depth coverage of the entire lifecycle of a functional safety system, assuming no prior knowledge of functional safety and only a basic understanding of process safety concepts. SIL assessment, the functional safety management plan, the safety requirements specification, verification, validation and functional safety assessment are covered in particular detail. Functional Safety from Scratch: A Practical Guide to Process Industry Applications is a highly practical source for process and instrumentation engineers, engineering managers and consultants, whether new to the field or already experienced. - Focuses on the ''how to'' aspects of functional safety - Provides detailed explanation and guidance on how to develop the safety requirements specification - Includes extensive coverage of safety lifecycle verification, SIS validation, and functional safety assessment - Provides numerous practical exercises to confirm understanding and promote further thought - Includes tips for those preparing for functional safety examinations - Oriented towards an international audience, especially those for whom English is not their first language

How to Run a Profitable (Hospitality) Hotel, Resort, Restaurant, Food, and Beverage Business is a management guide focusing on improving product and service offerings, while setting desired monetary goals. The intent is to corner your market by providing a superior, consistent level of performance to exceed guest expectations. Through your commitment to profit, you will recognize that guest satisfaction is the critical ingredient. In order to create a quality product and provide excellent service, a concerted focus on attention to detail is required. Assimilate these valued objectives; they will enable you to recognize a clear pathway to positive operational and financial results. “You deserve to make a profit!”

Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic changes that transformed Britain. He looks at how jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education and welfare, shaped society and explores such areas as architecture, sport and popular culture. Embracing a century of national experience, Hope and Glory superbly conveys the diverse aspects of three generations who lived through unparalleled change.

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2017 ''War, comrades,'' declared Trotsky, ''is a great locomotive of history.'' He was thought to be acknowledging the opportunity the First World War had offered the Bolsheviks to seize power in Russia in 1917. Twentieth-century warfare, based on new technologies and mass armies, certainly saw the locomotive power of war geared up to an unprecedented level. Peter Clarke explores the crucial ways in which war can be seen as a prime mover of history in the twentieth century through the eyes of five major figures. In Britain two wartime prime ministers – first David Lloyd George, later Winston Churchill – found their careers made and unmade by the unprecedented challenges they faced. In the United States, two presidents elected in peacetime – Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt – likewise found that war drastically changed their agenda. And it was through the experience of war that the economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes were shaped and came to exert wide influence. When the United States entered the First World War in 1917, President Wilson famously declared: ''The world must be made safe for democracy.'' This liberal prospectus was to be tested in the subsequent peace treaty, one that was to be bitterly remembered by Germans for its ''war guilt clause''. But both in the making of the war and the making of the peace the issue of guilt did not suddenly materialise out of thin air. As Clarke''s narrative shows, it was an integral component of the Anglo-American liberal tradition. The Locomotive of War is a forensic and punctilious examination of both the interplay between key figures in the context of the unprecedented all-out wars of 1914–18 and 1939–45 and the broader dynamics of history in this extraordinary period. Deeply revealing and insightful, it is history of the highest calibre.

This book is about the relationship between liberalism and socialism in Britain in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

John Maynard Keynes died in 1946 but his ideas and his example remain relevant today. In this distinctive new account, Peter Clarke shows how Keynes''s own career was not simply that of an academic economist, nor that of a modern policy advisor. Though rightly credited for reshaping economic theory, Keynes''s influence was more broadly based and is assessed here in a rounded historical, political and cultural context. Peter Clarke re-examines the full trajectory of Keynes''s public career from his role in Paris over the Versailles Treaty to Bretton Woods. He reveals how Keynes''s insights as an economic theorist were rooted in his wider intellectual and cultural milieu including Bloomsbury and his friendship with Virginia Woolf as well as his involvement in government business. Keynes in Action uncovers a much more pragmatic Keynes whose concept of ''truth'' needs to be interpreted in tension with an acknowledgement of ''expediency'' in implementing public policy.

Much progress has been made to understand the intricacies of the brain''s workings. Some have claimed, and many assumed, that these findings have challenged faith in God to the point of destruction. Are we not mere neural machines? Are religious experiences not just ''in the mind'', the products of abnormal ''brain events''? Is faith not just a side effect of evolution? Not so, according to neuroscientist Peter Clarke, after a lifetime''s study of the brain. In this comprehensive book, the current state of neuroscientific evidence is weighed up alongside ideas of what it means to be human, the idea of the soul, near-death experiences, and questions of free will and responsibility. He engages with the leading thinkers in these areas, including Francis Crick, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Daniel Wegner.

This volume provides 10-20-minute class activities for either the beginning or plenary stages of the daily maths lesson. Each file contains 30 activities, which focus on and practice a particular framework objective.

Children love loop card games. Use them with the whole class to sharpen mental and oral number skills. The cards add pace to the lesson as they require rapid recall of number facts and figuring out. Each loop consists of 33 cards. Loop Cards Sets A and B cover the primary and early secondary age ranges. Set A (Years 5 and 6) is suitable for ages 9 to 11 and includes number sequences, fractions, addition and subraction, multiplication and division.

This title contains material for teaching mathematics in line with the National Curriculum Key Stage 1.

The name of John Maynard Keynes is still the focus of political and economic controversy, and in the course of it, "what Keynes really meant" has suffered much distortion. This book represents a quest for the historical Keynes. It follows the story of an argument which arose out of the performance of the British economy in the period of depression between the wars and provides an account of Keynes''s thinking in the years that led up to the General Theory, making it comprehensible to specialists and non-specialists alike.