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  • Your Life, Uploaded

    The Digital Way to Better Memory, Health, and Productivity

    "A marvelous job of exploring first hand the implications of storing our entire lives digitally."-Guy L. Tribble, Apple, Inc.Tech luminary, Gordon Bell, and Jim Gemmell unveil a guide to the next digital revolution. Our daily life started becoming digital a decade ago. Now much of what we do is digitally recorded and accessible. This trend won't stop. And the benefits are astonishing.Based on ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Francis Nicholson (1753 - 1844)

    by Gordon Bell ...
    Hailed by his contemporaries as the 'Father of Water Colour painting in this country', Francis Nicholson's career spanned nine decades. He witnessed the founding of the Royal Academy, the opening of the first public 'Picture Gallery', the founding of the National Gallery, and the Inaugural Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours of which he was a founder member.He was born in ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Whitby, Pickering & Scarborough Railway

    by Gordon Bell ...
    The Whitby to Pickering railway opened in 1836 with George Stephenson as its engineer. At first, carriages were horse drawn before being replaced by `travelling engines' when the line was extended to Scarborough and York. Gordon Bell brings together documents published at the time with drawings for the railway commissioned from Stephenson's assistant surveyor, George Haydock Dodgson. Hugh Dodgson, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Pre-race Tensions

    by Gordon Bell ...
    A high-octane adventure set in the fast-paced world of Formula 1. It's only a few days until the British Grand Prix, the closing race of the Formula One season and Ray Swan, Britain's Top Driver, is missing! Pre-race tensions have rarely been greater! ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Francis Nicholson

    Lithographs and Engravings of Georgian Britain

    by Gordon Bell ...
    Hailed by his contemporaries as the “Father of watercolour painting in this country”, Francis Nicholson’s career spanned nine decades. He witnessed the founding of the Royal Academy, the opening of the first public ‘Picture Gallery’, the founding of the National Gallery, and the Inaugural Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Watercolours of which he was a founder member. He was born in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • H B Carter and Sons

    by Gordon Bell ...
    This fully illustrated book traces the careers of Henry Barlow Carter (1804 - 1868) and his sons Henry Vandyke Carter (1831 - 1897) and Joseph Newington Carter (1835 - 1871). The hope of all the contributors to this book is that it will provide fresh light and original material from which readers can make their own assessments of the work and influence of these notable artists. Gordon Bell began ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Northern Seascapes and Landscapes

    Early Victorian Watercolours, Prints and Drawings

    The north of England has repeatedly inspired painters to protray its scenery and ways of life. This was especially true at the turn of the nineteenth century when an upsurge of interest in its people, places and events was fuelled by affordable pictures and prints. These were the years before the widespread use of photography, when images were handmade by artists and engravers for a rapidly ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Victorian Ships

    John Ward was a self-taught artist,the son of a Master Mariner, who began his career apprenticed to a house and ship painter in Hull. Having completed his term by 1819, aged 21, he exhibited his first painting at the Royal Academy twleve years later. By the early 1840's, he had begun to explore printmaking to produce ship portraits of local vessels and to gather material for a Manual of Marine ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Educating European Citizens

    Citizenship Values and the European Dimension

    Edited by Gordon H. Bell ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Politics of the European Union
    Educating European Citizens (1995) explores problems and issues in citizenship education in the context of the move towards European cultural, economic and political union. An international group of educators address questions such as: the contribution of schools to the maintenance of peace and security; education beyond nationalism; and the relationship between the theory and practice of ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Total Recall

    How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything

    Narrated by John Haag ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 49 min

    Authors Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell tap their experiences with the MyLifeBits project at Microsoft Research for this extraordinary book. What if you could remember everything? With today's technology, that notion becomes more realistic each day. Bell and Gemmell explain what it could all mean. "Readers will be wondering about the consequences . long after they put down this fascinating text ." ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recreating First Contact

    Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture

    Recreating First Contact explores themes related to the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the early twentieth century and that were legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology. During this period, new transport and recording technologies, particularly the airplane and automobile and small, portable, still and motion-picture cameras, were utilized by a ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690

    Edited by James Daybell, Andrew Gordon ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-fifteenth century through to the Restoration. The essays collected here represent an important body of new work by a group of international scholars who together look to reorient the study of women’s letters in the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD