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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

    $14.99 USD

    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 USD

  • 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

  • Audiobook

    How Music Works

    by David Byrne ...
    Narrated by David Byrne, Andrew Garman ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 10 min

    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

    $22.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 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

  • 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

  • Kerry: Game of my Life

    by David Byrne ...
    30 of Kerry's greatest footballers choose the one game in their legendary careers that defined them and their careers. Including Mick O'Dwyer, Ger Power, Mickey Ned O'Sullivan, Seán Walsh, Eoin Liston, Mikey Sheehy, Jimmy Deenihan, Tommy Doyle, Jack O'Shea, Darragh Ó Sé, Tomas Ó Sé, Seamus Moynihan, Eoin Brosnan, Marc Ó Sé, Darran O'Sullivan and Kieran Donaghy.A remarkable history of The Kingdom's ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

    $53.99 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

  • Interpreting Quantitative Data

    by David Byrne ...
    How do quantitative methods help us to acquire knowledge of the real world? What are the `do′s′ and `don′ts′ of effective quantitative research?This refreshing and accessible book provides students with a novel and useful resource for doing quantitative research. It offers students a guide on how to: interpret the complex reality of the social world; achieve effective measurement; understand the ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Applying social science

    The role of social research in politics, policy and practice

    by David Byrne ...
    In complex contemporary societies social science has become increasingly interwoven into the whole fabric of governance. At the same time there is an increasing recognition that attempts to understand the social world which seek to mimic the linear approaches of the conventional 'hard sciences' are mostly useless given the complex systems character of society in all its aspects. This book draws on ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences

    An Introduction

    by David Byrne ...
    Chaos and complexity are the new buzz words in both science and contemporary society. The ideas they represent have enormous implications for the way we understand and engage with the world. Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences introduces students to the central ideas which surround the chaos/complexity theories. It discusses key concepts before using them as a way of investigating the nature ... Read more

    $73.99 USD