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  • 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

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sleeping Beauties

    Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up

    by David Byrne ...
    From incomparable creative force David Byrne, a brilliant and inspiring reckoning with how breakthroughs across the arts and sciences get forgotten, and how they get rediscoveredIt’s nice to believe in a meritocracy of ideas—genius is always recognized, innovation always seized upon and rewarded. In fact, so many of the people we now acknowledge as the world’s great creators initially got little ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • 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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $13.99 USD

  • Secret Life of Humans

    by David Byrne ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    In 1949, scientist and mathematician Dr Jacob Bronowski installs a hidden, locked room in his house.Fifty years later, his grandson discovers the secrets contained in the room, unearthing echoes from across six million years of human history.David Byrne's play Secret Life of Humans was first seen during a sell-out, award-winning run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017. It had its London ... Read more

    $18.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Here Lies Love

    The Story of a Pop-up Building

    While this book is about a specific play, we see several potential readerships, including: • Fans of David Byrne’s work. • People interested in the Philippines under the Marcos regime. • People excited about a major play with an all-Asian cast. • People drawn to the depth of photographer Fernando Sancho’s work. The book includes a foreword by David Byrne and interviews with the cast and play ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kacey's Quest

    by David Byrne ...
    When the Chapmans had their first and only child they had to make a decision; would the infant be brought up as a boy or a girl? They made the wrong choice, naming the baby Kieth. At the age of sixteen, after the child’s homophobic father had left the family home, and the mother had committed suicide suffering severe depression, Kieth became forever Known as Kacey Chapman.Her beloved grandfather ... Read more

    $5.45 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Incident Room

    by Olivia Hirst, David Byrne ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    It's 1975. The Millgarth Incident Room in Leeds is the epicentre of the biggest manhunt in British history, for one of the most notorious serial killers: the Yorkshire Ripper.With public and political pressure mounting, hundreds of officers must work around the clock and resort to increasingly audacious attempts to end one man's campaign of terror.Olivia Hirst and David Byrne's 'beautifully ... Read more

    $20.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $15.19 USD

  • Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID

    A Complex Realist Approach

    by David Byrne ...
    Series series Complexity in Social Science
    Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID uses a complex realist approach to examine the crisis of three interconnected problems: economic inequality, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.Widely acknowledged as the key driver of political discontent and social instability, economic inequality across high and middle-income countries is profoundly interconnected with climate change. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • AutoCAD 2014 For Dummies

    by Bill Fane, David Byrnes ...
    Find your way around AutoCAD 2014 with this full-color, For Dummies guide!Put away that pencil and paper and start putting the power of AutoCAD 2014 to work in your CAD projects and designs. From setting up your drawing environment to using text, dimensions, hatching, and more, this guide walks you through AutoCAD basics and provides you with a solid understanding of the latest CAD tools and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • 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

    $54.99 USD