Nigel Rodgers (born 1952) is a British writer, environmentalist and critic. Rodgers has a degree in history and history of art from

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. He is the founder of Pipedown, the Campaign for Freedom from Piped Music, and is a member of the Educational Writers' Group of the Society of Authors.

Work

He has written 15 books including ''Incredible Optical Illusions'' (Simon & Schuster 1998); ''The Traveller's Atlas'' with John Man and Chris Schüler (1999); ''Hitler'' and ''Churchill'' (Hodder 2001); '' Philosophers Behaving Badly'' with Mel Thompson; ''Roman Architecture'' (2006); ''Roman Empire'' (2008); ''Understand Existentialism'' with Mel Thompson (Hodder, 2010); ''Existentialism Made Easy'' with Mel Thompson (Hodder, 2011); ''The Greek World'' (2010); ''The Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece'' (2012); ''Why Noise Matters'' with Arline Bronzaft, Francis McManus, John Stewart and Val Weedon (Routledge 2011); ''The Dandy — Peacock or Enigma?'' Rodgers, N. (2012). The Dandy: Peacock or enigma?. London: Bene Factum. and ''The Umbrella Unfurled'' (2013). His latest books are ''Manet: his Life and Work'' (2015) ''The Bruegels'' (2016) and ''The Colosseum'', a guide book-cum-history about Rome's most famous monument, from its inauguration in AD80 to its recent triumphant restoration, published in May 2018. His books have been translated into fourteen languages.

References

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