Who Invented This?

In their collaborative early writings, the Brontës created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elab...

The first biography of the artist who ``essentially invented indie and alternative rock`` (Spin) A brilliant and influential songwriter, vocalist, ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Hair Washing Zorba comes to the aid of kids who have a hard time getting their hair washed. These lucky children get to experience t...

DescriptionFrank William Epperson is a curious boy who wants to be an inventor when he grows up. Since inventing begins with experimenting, Frank s...

Reducere. This book delves into the lives of various East Indian indentured servants bound to British sugar plantations in the Caribbean between 1838 and 191...

The "best all-around book yet on fracking" (San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: "Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporar...

The history of weapons and warfare is usually written about from the point of view of the battles fought and the tactics used. In naval warfare, in...

Reducere. "I had the privilege of working closely with Marvin and McKinsey for many years. This book makes Marvin come to life and perpetuates him as a role ...

Reducere. DescriptionA comprehensive textbook of the early Arabic Kufic script, written as a complete reference book for calligraphers, designers, and studen...

An inspiring true story of a boy genius. Plowing a potato field in 1920, a 14-year-old farm boy from Idaho saw in the parallel rows of overturned e...

Reducere. From simple to sophisticated, elegant to excessive, what we wear says who we are. This is the definitive visual guide to everything ever worn.From ...

Reducere. This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly invented the mod...

Reducere. From simple to sophisticated, elegant to excessive, what we wear says who we are. This is the definitive visual guide to everything ever worn. From...

Do you know how many things in your daily life were invented by accident? SANDWICHES came about when an English earl was too busy gambling to eat h...

Reducere. As Little Cub and her family prepare to celebrate the most special day of the year, the curious young polar bear begins to wonder Who invented Chri...

Reducere. A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians' consuming passions for food, wine and sex.Sex, shopping and fish-madnes...

Time is a weapon wielded by the rich, who have excess of it, against the rest, who must trade every breath of it against the promise of another day...

Contributor(s): Author: Takehiko HaradaThe 15 most powerful practices for guiding breakthrough productivity improvements in any company Management ...

Everyone wants to be loved--to find someone who will stick with them through all of life's ups and downs, someone who is in it for the long haul. B...

Reducere. In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democra...

Reducere. Leonard S. Marcus... has masterfully written about a fascinating woman who in her short life changed literature for the very young. I was throrough...

Reducere. Who said ordinariness is boring? This book shows ordinary things, along with their origins and inventors, in a new light. Come explore their secret...

DescriptionNearly a century before NASA, a visionary novelist wrote this adventure classic about an international space race. Jules Verne's eerily ...

Reducere. This is the official book that inspired the film The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, and which has received e...

This Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented, both in Africa and beyo...

Complete collection of Tolkien's essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years aft...

Reducere. The subject of this present volume, The Ancient Egyptian Origins of Yoga Postures, formed one subject in the larger works, African Origins of Civil...

Reducere. A classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Pr...

Reducere. Whether you love him or hate him, C.I. Scofield was a giant in American theology. His Scofield Reference Bible was (and is) a best-seller. It pract...

The League of Nations - Perspectives from the Present is an accessible and richly illustrated edited volume displaying a wide variety of cutting-ed...

Reducere. Why would respected and famous Americans risk their reputations to create a web of deceit to fabricate, promote, and defend the myth that Abner Dou...

Reducere. This book brings geometry to life with Euclid explaining the principles of Geometry to his friends. Full of fun, explanation and even jokes, thei i...

Reducere. Although he is credited with changing history through his invention of printing, Johann Gutenberg remains mysterious. In Fine Print, author Joann J...

DescriptionWho invented pizza? Why do people shake hands? Why do we wear underwear? You'll find the answers to these questions and more in this new...

Reducere. "Revelatory...fascinating" (The New York Times): The first definitive biography of Bob Hope, featuring exclusive and extensive reporting that makes...

The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral hi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hermann HesseThe title of this novel is a combination of two Sanskrit words, "siddha, " which is defined as "achieved, " an...

Reducere. What if the history of America's largest Indian nation is actually a polite modern fiction, one invented by "anthropologists and other friends"? In...

Reducere. It is perhaps one of the best known and most influential novels in all of literature: 1897's Dracula didn't merely inspire countless adaptations fo...

Reducere. Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Exami...

Reducere. All histories of Hollywood are wrong. Why? Two words: Colonel Selig. This early pioneer laid the foundation for the movie industry that we know tod...

Reducere. The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not peopl...

Reducere. Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he...

The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not peopl...

Reducere. As the world rolls out transformational 5G services, it has become increasingly clear that China may be able to disrupt--or even access--the wirele...

Reducere. "A League of Their Own for the softball set" (Lily Koppel, bestselling author of The Astronaut Wives Club), Fastpitch is hidden history at its most...

One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis.Longlisted for the Orwell PrizeA New York Ti...

This absorbing and poignant book is not merely the story of one writer's flawed heart. It is a history of cardiac medicine, a candid personal journ...

DescriptionThis is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a write...

Reducere. All over the Western world gaps between rich and poor are widening-or the headlines say. Nobody has done more to spread this view than the French e...

Glamorous fashion editor Mary Russell's personal photographs capture the effervescence of the 1960s and 1970s from within the international fashion...

Reducere. Nine-year-old Maria Singh longs to play softball in the first-ever girls' team forming in Yuba City, California. It's the spring of 1945, and World...

Reducere. Many activities have their must-do lists. For example, hillwalkers try to 'bag' all the Munros in Scotland. Colin Ramsay decided that it was time g...

Reducere. 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is the world's first surrealist book, written in 1865, at a time when the word surrealism had not yet been inven...

In the twenty-first century, photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first i...

DescriptionFrench novelist Jules Verne -- "the man who invented the future" -- captured and intensified the human impulse to explore the world's hi...

Reducere. In Refusal, her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the uncanny--invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & ...

Nikola Tesla invented radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories. In the early 1900s, he des...

DescriptionPowerful pharaohs, deadly curses, beautiful queens, legendary cities, tombs filled with gold ... you'll know it all by the time you fini...

Reducere. Do you want to start to learn the main programming languages but are but are you frustrated at the idea that programming is difficult and complex f...

Reducere. In the twenty-first century there are two ways to study logic. The more recent approach is symbolic logic. The history of teaching logic since Worl...

Reducere. Invented in Australia, the remarkable men's shed movement has spread from the back blocks of Australia to reach a total of more than 1, 400 Men's S...

Contributor(s): Author: Ryan BriggsPhotographer: Zoran MicevskiYoga For Men Learn to increase core strength, improve flexibility and have better he...

This book tells the history of one of America's most popular soft drinks, Mountain Dew. The 300 page book brings you from the drink's earliest begi...

Reducere. Facsimile of 1933 Edition. New English Translation especially for this edition. Jean de Brunhoff (1899-1937) was a French writer and illustrator an...

Reducere. A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save h...

Reducere. The Russian word that is most frequently spoken throughout the world isn't Lenin, gulag or perestroika, it's 'Kalashnikov'. The reason for this is ...

Reducere. Travel with Alice down the rabbit hole into the fantastic world of Wonderland, and help a cast of extraordinary characters solve these tantalising ...

Reducere. This is a gem of a book that will not fail to entertain, uplift and inspire. Short, snappy and sometimes humorous zen-like koans that give profound...

Explore the facts, myths, science, history, and more behind infectious diseases from around the world with this ultimate trivia collection that wil...