Dan Kieran: 6 books

What is it about an engine roaring into life that makes grown men go weak at the knees? This is a book about machines and the men who love them. Some of these men are quite odd. Having always been a mechanaphobe himself, living in the slow lane, Dan Kieran is on a mission to discover the allure...

In The Book of Idle Pleasures, the United Kingdom's expert Idlers Tom Hodgkinson and Dan Kieran stand up for the simple pleasures in life . . . by lying down for a nap.With its tongue firmly in its cheek, The Book of Idle Pleasures renounces our world of ever-growing consumer overload in favor...

As we jet off on holiday, passing from airport lounge to hotel in our desperation to escape our everyday lives and find some better weather, wed do well to ask ourselves what on earth were doing. Do we really travel any more, or do we just arrive?The Idle Traveller calls on us all to re-assess why we...

Seit rund zweihundert Jahren sind wir im Westen von der fixen Idee besessen, dass Spaß eine teure Sache sei. Wir arbeiten bis zur Erschöpfung, meist in ungeliebten Berufen, um Geld zu verdienen, damit wir Dinge tun oder kaufen können, die uns Spaß machen. Natürlich ist das nichts als ein enttäuschender...

What skills will matter most for work, business and life in the future? Where should you focus your energy and effort when the world is changing at an extraordinary rate? How can you future proof yourself, your organisation and your kids? In this ground-breaking book Kieran Flanagan and Dan...

Appealing to humans' basic instincts to increase influence, buy-in and results Survival of the species comes down to three basic instincts, say behavioural research strategists Dan Gregory and Kieran Flanagan—fear, self-interest and simplicity. These basic human behaviours come into play...