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30-Second Great Inventions by David Boyle
Category: Science
Where would we be without the wheel or glass?
30-Second Great Inventions by David Boyle
Category: Science | Series: 30 Second
30-Second Great Inventions looks at fifty groundbreaking innovations - together with the individuals behind the ideas - that really have changed the world. Universal change is often the result of an individual’s lightbulb moment – an invention that triggers a ripple effect across countries, continents, ...Show more
Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life by David Boyle
Category: Art Instructionals
Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life David Boyle guides us through the next big thing in Western living - the determined rejection of the fake, the virtual, the spun and the mass-produced, in the search for authenticity. The charms of the global and virtual future we were all brought up t ...Show more
Blondel's Song : The Capture, Imprisonment and Ransom of Richard the Lionheart by David Boyle
Category: History
On his way back from the crusades, one of England's most famous and romantic medieval kings was shipwrecked and stranded near Venice. Trying to make his way home in disguise, he was arrested and imprisoned and effectively disappeared. He didn't return home for another fifteen months, and at enormous cos ...Show more
Blondel's Song : The capture, imprisonment and ransom of Richard the Lionheart by David Boyle
Category: unmapped
David Boyle tells us about the extraordinary events surrounding Richard the Lionheart's disappearance. But, above all, he tells us the story of Blondel, Richard's faithful minstrel, and his journey across central Europe - singing under castle towers - until he finds the missing king.Blondel's Song is th ...Show more
Broke: Who Bust the Middle Classes? by David Boyle
Category: Business Finance Management
If you thought being middle-class meant your own home, something set aside for the kids and a comfortable retirement - think again. For the first time ever, today's middle classes will struggle to enjoy the same privileges of security and comfort that their grandparents did. How did this situation come ...Show more
Renaissance Art by David Boyle
Category: Art and Design | Series: Crash Course (Watson-Guptill)
Each title in this compact series takes a lighthearted look at its subjects and gives readers an entertaining and informative overview.Superbly illustrated, here's the inside scoop and fast facts on the premier players of the Renaissance period: from Fra Angelico and Botticelli to Da Vinci and Michelang ...Show more
Tickbox by David Boyle
Category: Non-Fiction
The word 'tickbox' emerged recently as a cynical angle on official or corporate incompetence. They had 'ticked the box' - people said - but failed to act. It is increasingly used to describe this gap between official spin and reality. Yet, says David Boyle in this powerful expose of tickbox culture, tha ...Show more
Voyages of Discovery by David Boyle
Category: History | Series: History Files
In the three decades between 1492 and 1522, European merchants and explorers progressed from relative ignorance about the shape of the globe to knowledge of an atlas that was almost complete. They did so in search of spices, gold, silver and slaves, but with rudimentary technology, huge courage and boun ...Show more
What If Money Grew on Trees: Asking the Big Questions About Economics by David Boyle
Category: Business | Series: What If?
Asking the big questions about economics. What if...? are the two words that sow the seeds for human speculation, experimentation, invention, evolution, revolution, and change. In an uncertain age, economists are asking, What if growth stopped growing?; scientists, What if light speed were overtaken?; a ...Show more
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