Simon Garfield Forfatter
Visning: Type : Alle | Sprog : Alle | Format : Alle
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Just My Type: The original and best book about fonts (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Describes how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world; why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco; the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers; and more.
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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A witty and entertaining journey through time from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map
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Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The strange and wonderful story of how one colour changed the world, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE (Bog, Paperback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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MINI: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1959, the first Mini was produced on an assembly line at Cowley, near Oxford. Designed for austerity and efficiency, the car came to represent individuality and classlessness. Today, the car is still produced at Cowley - it is now owned by BMW and called the MINI.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A delightful and peculiar exploration of the human instinct to make things small, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map
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Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The result is a moving, intriguing, funny, at times heartbreaking book - unashamedly populist in the spirit of Forgotten Voices or indeed Margaret Forster's Diary of an Ordinary Woman. 'I love these diaries.
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To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The paperback outing of this engaging and enlightening history of letter-writing and our relationship with the mail, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, this title examines how maps both relate and realign our history.... Læs mere
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
We Are At War: The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Of all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries of those who lived through it.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
The Wrestling (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Simon Garfield brings them to life in one last glorious bout of jealousy, myth, revenge, passion and deep devotion. When British wrestling was dropped from the ITV schedules in the mid-80s it left the giants of the ring - Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki - bereft.
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Dog's Best Friend: A Brief History of an Unbreakable Bond (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A wise, witty, alternative history of humanity exploring how our relationship with dogs has changed over the centuries - by the author of the bestselling JUST MY TYPE
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
