Anthony Brandt: 2 books
The Runaway Species
How human creativity remakes the world
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
**“The authors look at art and science together to examine how innovations—from Picasso’s initially offensive paintings to Steve Jobs’s startling iPhone—build on what already exists and rely on three brain operations: bending, breaking and blending. This manifesto . . . shows how both disciplines...
The Man Who Ate His Boots
The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to...