Electric Guitars Design and Invention: The Groundbreaking Innovations That Shaped the Modern Instrument (Bacon Tony)(Paperback)

Electric Guitars Design and Invention: The Groundbreaking Innovations That Shaped the Modern Instrument (Bacon Tony)(Paperback)

ELECTRIC GUITARS DESIGN AND INVENTION: THE GROUNDBREAKING INNOVATIONS THAT SHAPED THE

Rickenbacker Electric 12-String: The Story of the Guitars the Music and the Great Players (Bacon Tony)(Paperback)

Flying V, Explorer, Firebird: An Odd-Shaped History of Gibson's Weird Electric Guitars (Bacon Tony)(Paperback)

Lavishly illustrated with color photos

The Bass Book: A Complete Illustrated History of Bass Guitars (Bacon Tony)(Paperback)

THE BASS BOOK: A COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BASS GUITARS UPDATED

The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge (Mudimbe V. Y.)(Paperback)

' . . . groundbreaking . . . clear, straightforward, and economical. . . . seminal . . . ' --American Anthropologist'This is a challenging book . . . a remarkable contribution to African intellectual history.' --International Journal of African Historical Studies'Mudimbe's description of the

Technics and Human Development: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. I (Mumford Lewis)(Paperback)

Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language, and social organization. It is a stimulating volume, informed both with an enormous range of

Balloon to the Moon (Arbuthnott Gill)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating countdown of the technologies, innovations and stories that led humans from the hot air balloon to walking on the

100 Ideas That Changed Design (Fiell Peter)(Paperback)

This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped industrial and product design. Written by two experts on modern design, it provides both a concise history of the subject, and offers a fascinating resource to dip into for the general reader. From the origins or modern

The Future of Strategy (Gray Colin S.)(Paperback)

Strategy is not a modern invention. It is an essential and enduring feature of human history that is here to stay. In this original essay, Colin S. Gray, world-renowned scholar of strategic thought, discusses the meaning of strategy and its importance for politicians and the military as a means of

Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny (Kilmeade Brian)(Paperback)

Darwin's Fossils - Discoveries that shaped the theory of evolution (Lister Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating account of Darwin's groundbreaking work on fossils, richly illustrated with special photography and accurate

Be More Chill (Broadway Tie-In) (Vizzini Ned)(Paperback)

The groundbreaking novel that inspired the Tony-nominated Broadway musical! Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the

The Women's Suffrage Movement (Roesch Wagner Sally)(Paperback)

An intersectional anthology of works by the known and unknown women that shaped and established the suffrage movement, in time for the 2020 centennial of women's right to vote, with a foreword by Gloria Steinem Comprised of historical texts spanning two centuries, The Women's Suffrage Movement is a

Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions 1965-2016 (Piper Adrian)(Pevná vazba)

Adrian Piper has consistently produced groundbreaking work that has profoundly shaped the form and content of conceptual art since the 1960s. Strongly inflected by her longstanding involvement with philosophy and yoga, her pioneering investigations into the political, social, psychological and

The Journey to the Mayflower - God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom (Tomkins Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Gripping story of the events that led up to the sailing of the

Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World (Alt Matt)(Paperback)

The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured--and transformed--the world's imagination. 'A masterful book driven by deep research, new insights, and powerful storytelling.'--W. David Marx, author of Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style

The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World (Silber William L.)(Paperback)

Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy (Harford Tim)(Paperback / softback)

FIFTY THINGS THAT SHAPES THE MODERN ECONOMY paints the epic picture of economic change in an intimate way, by telling the stories of tools and ideas that had far-reaching and unexpected consequences. Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the

The Morning of the Magicians: Secret Societies, Conspiracies, and Vanished Civilizations (Pauwels Louis)(Paperback)

The groundbreaking and classic study that first popularized occultism, alchemy, and paranormal phenomena in the 1960s - Provides profound insights into our perceptions of reality, telepathy, mutants, and parallel universes - Reveals the occult influences on the Nazis and introduces the alchemist

The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza (Gantos Jack)(Paperback)

The fifth and final book in the groundbreaking Joey Pigza series brings the beloved chronicle of this wired, wacky, and wonderful boy to a crescendo of chaos and craziness, as everything goes topsy-turvy for Joey just as he starts to get his feet on the ground. With his dad MIA in the wake of

English Electric Lightning: Genesis and Projects (Wilson Tony)(Paperback)

Progress on the English Electric Canberra was the main topic of a report written by W E W 'Teddy' Petter on June 17, 1948, but a final paragraph headed 'High Speed Fighter' said, 'Requirements for a high speed fighter are being sent to us...There would probably be two or three prototypes attached

I Feel Love (Hanshaw Julian)(Paperback)

Five groundbreaking stories that explore the dark and twisted underbelly of love Love makes the world go round. It can also turn your heart as black as coal. In the much anticipated follow up to their Eisner-nominated I Feel Machine, Julian Hanshaw and Krent Able curate a series of dystopian,

Language Gender 2e (Coates Jennifer)(Paperback)

The new edition of Language and Gender: A Reader responds to the wealth of research that has shaped the field since its initial publication in 1998. Retaining many of the foundational entries that have made the volume so popular, the second edition has been fully revised, and now includes 23 new

Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation (Sheldrake Rupert)(Paperback)

New updated and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book that ignited a firestorm in the scientific world with its radical approach to evolution - Explains how past forms and behaviors of organisms determine those of similar organisms in the present through morphic resonance - Reveals the