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  • Sleeping Beauties

    Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up

    by David Byrne ...
    **An Instant New York Times Bestseller"Byrne guides us on a captivating quest to understand how we come to remember forgotten ideas, inventions and technologies . . . Sleeping Beauties belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who cares about creativity or culture." —Adam Grant, The New York Times Book ReviewFrom incomparable creative force David Byrne, a brilliant and inspiring reckoning with how ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • How Music Works

    by David Byrne ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.“How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual” ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bicycle Diaries

    by David Byrne ...
    **“...an engaging book: part diary, part manifesto.”—The GuardianA round-the-world bicycle tour with Talking Heads co-founder David Byrne, one of the most original artists of our day.**Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession-strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging memoir, artist/musician and co-founder of Talking Heads ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Talking Heads: New Feeling

    by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, Talking Heads ...
    The first authorized book by all four members of the band Talking Heads is an upbeat, offbeat, over-the-top celebration of the beloved band, published fifty years after the release of their first album, Talking Heads ’77In a dynamic interplay of images and text, Talking Heads: New Feeling captures the rare blend of qualities that characterized the band: an edgy intelligence, a joyous sense of play ... Read more

    $65.59 CAD

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  • Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences

    The State of the Art

    by David Byrne, Gillian Callaghan ...
    This expanded and updated edition of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity informs approaches to various contemporary issues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, widening social inequality, and impending social and ecological catastrophe wrought by global warming.The book ... Read more

    Was $79.99 CAD Now $71.44 CAD

  • American Utopia

    by David Byrne, Maira Kalman ...
    From former Talking Heads frontman and multimedia visionary David Byrne and revered bestselling author, illustrator, and artist Maira Kalman--an inspiring celebration in words and art of the connections between us all.Don't miss the Spike Lee film of the Broadway hit American Utopia--on HBO.A Beat Most Anticipated Graphic Novel of Fall 2020A joyful collaboration between old friends David Byrne and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who's the Hangman

    by David A Byrne ...
    Series Book 1 - the Dupree, Muz series
    SynopsisA successful thirty-six year old entrepreneur in the world of Crypto Currencies gets some devastating news meaning his time on this earth is now limited. He blames his condition on an accident perpetrated by bullies during his tormented school days in the outskirts of Chicago. Unbeknownst to his classmates in years gone by Peter Wheaton is out for revenge before time runs out.Detective ... Read more

    $7.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Sleeping Beauties

    Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up

    by David Byrne ...
    Narrated by David Byrne ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 42 min

    We love to believe in a meritocracy of ideas - that genius is always recognised, innovation always seized upon and rewarded. Yet so many of the people we now recognise as the world's great creators initially got littletraction for their work. It faded out, and it was only later, often much later, that it somehow came roaring back to life and made a lasting impact.Discoveries as diverse as dark ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Letters to my Sister

    by David A Byrne ...
    ‘Letters to my Sister’ is the second book in the series involving FBI Agent Salonge Dupree and Chicago Detective Anthony Mazur. Following the success of ‘Who’s the Hangman’ they now have to use their individual skills in an undercover sting mission in London, posing as the corrupt husband and wife business owners of a fragrance company. It is an international collaboration to thwart the planned ... Read more

    $5.52 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Crises

    Complexity Based Research and Practice for Social Transformation

    by David Byrne, Gill Callaghan, Emma Uprichard ...
    In today’s world, there are interwoven crises affecting us at every level. This book explores the impact of these crises on applied social research. It shows how using a complexity framework in research is key to tackling global challenges effectively.By featuring illustrative examples from the UK, China, Brazil, South Africa and the US, the authors demonstrate how an action research programme ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Arboretum

    by David Byrne ...
    For over thirty years, besides making music, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as the archaeology of music as we know it, architectural photography and the uses of PowerPoint. Now he presents his most personal work to date, a collection of drawings exploring the form of the tree diagram.Arboretum is an eclectic blend of science, automatic writing, self-analysis and ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • Class After Industry

    A Complex Realist Approach

    by David Byrne ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The transition to twenty-first century post-industrial capitalism from the ‘welfare’ industrial capitalism of the twentieth century, has affected the ways in which class is lived in terms of relational inequality and the factors that structure identity. Class After Industry takes a complex realist approach to the dynamics of individual lives, places, the social structure and analyses their ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD