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A History of Power in 7 Lessons

Norm Coady

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Powertrip Press
23 April 2025

Memoirs; General & world history; Humour collections & anthologies

Are you nostalgic for simpler times? Do you miss your favorite history teacher, the one that gave you perspective and kept you laughing? Come back to class. Buy Props and let Norm Coady take you on a trip from Caesar to Kennedy, from Wittenberg to St. Petersburg. Learn how seashells led to the first global conflict. Discover how a piece of chalk laid the groundwork for totalitarianism. Follow an umbrella's strange journey from sunny Munich to rainy Dallas. Norm Coady takes well known historical events, turns them upside down, and shakes out new revelations. Equal parts illuminating and hilarious, Props is for, ""people who take history so seriously, they read it for fun.""

By: Norm Coady
Imprint: Powertrip Press
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 236g
ISBN: 9798990384743
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 23 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

As a boots-on-the-ground classroom teacher, Norm Coady does his best to shape young minds by teaching stuff he barely understands. He is dedicated to his Royal Enfield, the Boston Red Sox and, most of all, his family.

Reviews for Props: A History of Power in 7 Lessons

""Norm Coady writes history for people who take history so seriously, they read it for fun. I know a thing or two about readers like this because I'm one of them. We take delight in this fellow's wisecracking irreverence and the storyteller-personae he's developed-a bad-boy high school history teacher who won't color inside the lines... For all his irreverence, this guy actually knows his history. He tosses flashes of insight and often astonishing nuggets of information into his accounts with the casual aplomb."" Tamim Ansary, author of The Invention of Yesterday ""Fun as well as informative, this is a book that is arresting and thoughtful. Read it."" Jeremy BLACK, author of THE GEOGRAPHIES OF WAR