Kate Fox

Watching the English

The Hidden Rules of English Behavior

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The international hit returns with even more wit and insight into the hidden rules that make England English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MOBIUS
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 192mm x 126mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9781857886160
• ISBN-10: 185788616X
• Artikelnr.: 39577428

Autorenporträt

Kate Fox, a social anthropologist, is Co-Director of the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford and a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Research. She is also a bestselling author of popular social science. Kate's other books include The Racing Tribe: Watching the Horsewatchers and Drinking and Public Disorder (co-author with Dr Peter Marsh). Kate is regularly invited to speak at the major literary festivals, as well as guest lectures and seminars at universities, institutes, embassies, and trade and professional conferences in the UK and overseas. She gave the Christmas Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, and won a debate against Boris Johnson for Intelligence Squared, among other high-profile engagements. She is frequently quoted in the press and interviewed on radio and television. Kate has also been a regular columnist for Psychologies magazine. Kate is married to the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, CBE.

Rezensionen

An absolutely brilliant examination of English culture and how foreigners take as complete mystery the things we take for granted. Jennifer Saunders The Times