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Biography
Nigel Rodgers (born 1952) is a British writer, environmentalist and critic.
Rodgers has a degree in history and history of art from Cambridge University.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 withMel Thompson (Hodder, 2010);Existentialism Made Easy withMel 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 — Peacockor Enigma?andThe 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.