John Edmonds: 11 books
Man-Made
Why So Few Women Are in Positions of Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Why are so few women in positions of power? Why are government, business, the institutions and so much of British life dominated by men? Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds find the answers by interviewing over a hundred successful women and discovering what it takes for a woman to get to the top. The statistics...
Beyond the Horizon
Into the Light, Returned from ‘Death’
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Author John Edmonds was given something very few were given: insight on the day he died. For the twenty-five minutes when his physical body was without a heartbeat, his spiritual self soared to a great and profound epiphany. On this impossible journey, he was given a glimpse into a greater truth as...
The Stalled Revolution
Is Equality for Women an Impossible Dream?
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
100 years ago women in the UK won the vote and 50 years ago the Women’s Liberation Movement began a sustained campaign for equal rights. Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds draw upon historical perspectives and contemporary interviews to convey what it felt like to be in the heart of the campaigns—the...
by John Edmonds
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This manual is the result of many years research and practical investigation of commercial dyeing of the 18th century and earlier. It is based largely on the work of William Partridge, a master dyer in New York in 1800. The original recipes are given together with modern instructions for use by todays...
Bobby Fischer Goes to War
How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men—the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer—met in the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland,...
by Sappho, John Maxwell Edmonds
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Plato hailed her as "the Tenth Muse," and 2,500 years later her voice remains dazzling as well as direct and honest. Sappho, a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos, wrote verse that sings to both sexes of desire, rapture, and sorrow. Praised for their simplicity and sincerity, her...
by George Francis Dow, John Henry Edmonds
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
"Why did men go a-pirating, or 'on the account' as the pirates called it? The sailors said it was few ships and many men, hard work and small pay, long voyages, bad food and cruel commanders." — IntroductionWhatever their reasons, large numbers of pirates plied the waters off the coast of New England...
Rousseau's Dog
Two Great Thinkers At War in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language—was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency. And...
Political Communication
The Manship School Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter,...
The Art of Interaction
What HCI Can Learn from Interactive Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
What can Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) learn from art? How can the HCI research agenda be advanced by looking at art research? How can we improve creativity support and the amplification of that important human capability? This book aims to answer these questions. Interactive art has become a common...
An Upland Biography
Landscape and Prehistory on Gardom's Edge, Derbyshire
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Gardom's Edge is an area of gritstone upland situated on the Eastern Moors of the Derbyshire Peak District. Like other parts of the Eastern Moors, Gardom's Edge has long been renowned for the wealth of prehistoric field systems, cairns and other structures which can still be traced across the surface. ...