Leo Hollis Concepts

Inheritance

by Leo Hollis · 334pp · 103,106 words

men who stamped their names on the streets of London and, in their midst, one woman for whom a rich inheritance became an impossible cage. Leo Hollis knows the expanding city like the back of his hand, and brings a forensic eye and a deep empathy to the mystery at the heart

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and storytelling makes the seventeenth century seem so familiar.’ Dan Snow, author of Death or Victory: The Battle for Quebec and the Birth of Empire ‘Leo Hollis combines meticulous research with his trademark style once again in this perceptive and humane book on one of modern London’s most significant origin stories

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.’ Lucy Inglis, author of Georgian London: Into the Streets ‘Identifying an authentic seventeenth-century mystery, Leo Hollis uses the form of the classic detective story to deliver a fast-moving and forensic account of the birth and development of the London property

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detail, but also its explanations of the emergence of the new thinking that so profoundly shaped the spirit of the age.’ Independent on The Phoenix ‘Leo Hollis’s book is as impressive a construction as St Paul’s itself… Hollis makes us see St Paul’s as if for the first time

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, a remarkable achievement.’ Jonathan Glancey, author of The Story of Architecture, on The Phoenix ‘This is a superlative book. Leo Hollis has that rare gift of making the incomprehensible, such as the nature of light and the complexity of national finance, comprehensible to the most lay

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II of England, King York, Robert 191 A Oneworld Book First published by Oneworld Publications in 2021 This ebook published 2021 Copyright © Leo Hollis 2021 The moral right of Leo Hollis to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act

Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis

by Leo Hollis · 31 Mar 2013 · 385pp · 118,314 words

useful counterpoint to those who would argue that the big bad city is to be escaped at all costs’ Observer Cities Are Good For You Leo Hollis To Louis and Theadora Contents Preface 1 What is a City? 2 Inside the Beehive 3 Building Between Buildings 4 A Creative Place 5 Rebooting

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city will one day belong to you and you must see it as an adventure, not a place of danger. A Note on the Author Leo Hollis was born in London in 1972. He went to school at Stonyhurst College and read History at UEA. He works in publishing and is the

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London: A History in Twelve Buildings First published in Great Britain 2013 This electronic edition published in 2013 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Copyright © by Leo Hollis 2013 Leo Hollis has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work Images are from the author’s personal collection except where credited otherwise

Inequality and the 1%

by Danny Dorling · 6 Oct 2014 · 317pp · 71,776 words

in our midst, the Sunday Times had reported that it had been bankers using cocaine who had got us into this terrible mess.32 Verso/Leo Hollis The City of London: expanding its horizon When they were later interviewed about the 2008 crash, UK bankers said they had become ‘over-confident’ and

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when the top 1 per cent in the UK took more than they ever had before, or ever would thereafter (see Figure 3.6). Verso/Leo Hollis Kensington: one of the richest neighbourhoods in London There are still a few who behave with crass indifference to the feelings of others, an attitude

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Lawson and Charles Saatchi multiplied many times. What makes them so powerful is that they can rule despite constant inebriation, divorces, narcissism and neuroses. Verso/Leo Hollis A club on Pall Mall: home to the elite for two centuries Of course, members of the House of Lords with shared ‘business interests’ act

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to the HNWI; • 27 per cent believe ‘availability of luxury housing’ is a necessary attribute for a city to be ‘considered globally important’.32 Verso/Leo Hollis Beachside paradise in Florida: second homes for the superrich Of those six goals, four explicitly concern homes, or at least property. But to secure such

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minutes. In the homes of multi-millionaire properties, an area the size of the average doormat is now estimated to be worth £3,500. Verso/Leo Hollis The polarising property market of London Few who have not bought their own homes have any significant wealth, except what they might be saving for

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it is hard to see what the bottom half of society has to lose now they have so few assets and so much debt. Verso/Leo Hollis One Nation under CCTV: the end of trust according to Banksy Fear among the superrich elite is palpable. They buy cars that weigh several tonnes

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from trying to write it all at once. Bronwen Dorling and David Dorling helped iron out some errors, and made very useful suggestions, as did Leo Hollis, my editor at Verso, who restructured the text, moved what I had put at the end to the start – to save you the suspense – and

The Clockwork Universe: Saac Newto, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern WorldI

by Edward Dolnick · 8 Feb 2011 · 439pp · 104,154 words

chapter to the riddle of “Who Was Robert Boyle?” 4 Boyle maintained three: Lisa Jardine, On a Grander Scale, p. 194. 4 “low of stature”: Leo Hollis, London Rising, p. 48. 4 a “miracle of youth”: Jardine, On a Grander Scale, p. 236, quoting John Evelyn. 5 “the most fearful”: John Maynard

Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming

by Mckenzie Funk · 22 Jan 2014 · 337pp · 101,281 words

available for cheap, one of his responses to it was to become a developer—“the leading speculative builder of his generation,” according to the historian Leo Hollis. Barbon’s 1685 pamphlet, An Apology for the Builder, was written to protest Britain’s new building tax and protect his business. It celebrated what

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California’s wildfires and their context, I read The Control of Nature by John McPhee (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989), The Phoenix by Leo Hollis (London: Phoenix, 2009), and A Discourse of Trade by Nicholas Barbon (London, 1690). California and the American West’s never-ending struggles against drought are

The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being

by William Davies · 11 May 2015 · 317pp · 87,566 words

editors who assisted me in my work over this period. I began working on this book in late 2012, after fine-tuning the proposal with Leo Hollis, my editor at Verso. My colleagues at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, were always stimulating, and offered various ways of thinking critically

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was lucky to have someone so enthusiastic and diligent to support me. There are numerous bits of the book which he influenced for the better. Leo Hollis had a clear vision of this book throughout, including during those periods when I did not. Working with an editor like Leo was a remarkable

The Enemy Within

by Seumas Milne · 1 Dec 1994 · 497pp · 161,742 words

third edition, published in 2004, thanks to Tariq Ali, John Pilger, Jane Hindle, Tim Clark, Andrea Woodman and Gavin Everall. For this edition, thanks to Leo Hollis, Rowan Wilson, Mark Martin, Angelica Sgouros, Jennifer Tighe and Sarah Shin. They have all been very tolerant – though not half as much as Cristina, Anna

Dreams of Leaving and Remaining

by James Meek · 5 Mar 2019 · 232pp · 76,830 words

Jackson, Tom Jones, Jean McNicol, Paul Myerscough, Joanne O’Leary, Nick Richardson, Daniel Soar and Alice Spawls. I’d also like to thank Natasha Fairweather, Leo Hollis, Matthew Marland, Mark Martin, Maya Osborne and Sarah Shin; Sophy, for her patience and encouragement; and Kay, for making his home with us. I would

The City

by Tony Norfield · 352pp · 98,561 words

much more constructive, detailed and critical editorial advice than I had expected, I would like to thank my Verso editors in London, Rosie Warren and Leo Hollis. London September 2015 1. Britain, Finance and the World Economy This business of [being] a second-tier power – we are probably, depending on what figures

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle · 18 Jun 2018 · 301pp · 85,263 words

Kyriaki Goni for their work and our conversations. Thanks to Luca Barbeni, Honor Harger, and Katrina Sluis for their faith in my work. Thanks to Leo Hollis for asking, and everyone at Verso for seeing it through. Thanks to Gina Fass and everyone at Romantso in Athens, where most of this work