David - Libros y biografía

Silicon Valley tries to disrupt the world — and the world says "no." Facebook: the biggest social network in history. A stupendous, world-shaping success. But governments were giving Facebook trouble...

"A sober riposte to all the upbeat forecasts about cryptocurrency" — New York Review of Books"A very convincing takedown of the whole phenomenon" — BBC News An experimental new Internet-based form of...

An NYPD detective is recruited as a rail marshall by a brother cop on the police force of Paris, France, and gets caught up in the hijack of the century.Trainjack is raw-edged excitement ... David Alexander...

David Alexander sets strong and resourceful characters into settings that are simultaneously familiar and bizarre. His stories are everyone's, at least everyone that is paying attention to the continual...

New York City falls into chaos when an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon is set off in orbit, triggering the most massive power failure and blackout in history.The blackout, whose epicenter is New York...

From the bestselling, award-winning David Almond comes a book of hope and joy: under a boundless starry sky, the unforgettable Sylvia Carr finds out what it means to be brave. For readers of Michael Morpurgo...

Join Wally White on his first adventure into the world of Alien intervention and Government deception as he and his old war buddies work to remove the President of the United States for treason while...

The final book in "The Book of Fire Trilogy", a series of middle grade fantasy novels for ages 9 and up.The cold is coming.The shadows will win.Humanity will die.Cressida and her allies must stand against...

The second explosive book in The God Slayers Quartet, a young adult series set in a dystopian future Earth ruled over by warring gods, cat people and a tyrannical religious cult. The Order of Power's...

Book 2 of "The Book of Fire Trilogy", a series of middle grade fantasy novels for ages 9 and up.Magic and shadow clash.Enemies become friends.Friends become enemies.Cressida has been bonded to the Book...

This book will show you how to make the wire-frame for a free-hanging macramé lamp. This is the first book in a series of three books on how to make macramé lamps. The other two books show separate patterns...

How to make a macramé lamp with cut work pattern. This is book two in a series of three books on how to make macramé lamps. Each book is standalone. The first book is how to make a wire frame for a free-hanging...

How to make a macramé lamp with "shell"  pattern. This is book three in a series of three books on how to make macramé lamps. Each book is standalone. The first book is how to make a wire frame for a...

This book of poetry was written by David George Hill between 1975 and 1989, hence the title: 20th Century Revisited. The poems are a very personal account of his life in that time period.

Black and white photography from the San Francisco Bay Area from 1968 to 1975.

This remarkable book is a compilation of over 45 years (since 1968) of secrets and techniques I have developed for covering antique (and new) bottles with fine macrame/sailor's knots. Sailors used to...

This is not a "how to" book, but if you already know the basics of macrame, this digital book will inspire you to new heights. There are 56 pages, mostly high resolution photos of many items such as:...

Back from the dead on a dead world… Left for dead in the Lunar underground, Brandt Wills wakes up to find out his problems are only beginning. Before being dumped, a shadowy organization called "Singularity"...

Sometimes we avoid going home because the strained relationships we have neglected seem too distant, too neglected to be reconciled. Jim had taken the first step, but still resisted. Then, a chance encounter...

An extremist religious faction, asserting that humans are the only intelligent species created by God, unsuccessfully attempt to sabotage humanity's first interstellar voyage seeking intelligent life....

Si può definire democratico un sistema politico che tutela i più ricchi e abbandona il 99% della popolazione? Gli strumenti di questa democrazia, la democrazia liberale, non sono in grado di affrontare...

"L’imperativo della nostra economia è la crescita – continua, inarrestabile, vertiginosa. È il metro con cui giudichiamo il valore delle nostre società e il prodotto interno lordo è il suo indicatore...

David Graeber, l’antropologo alle origini del movimento di Seattle e del movimento Occupy (suo lo slogan «Siamo il 99%»), rivoluziona la teoria sociale ed economica in un libro destinato a rimanere nel...

«Yorkshire 1977. Le lacrime non si fermano e so che non si fermeranno mai fino a quando non sarò riuscito a prenderlo. Prima che lui prenda lei.» Nell’anno del giubileo della regina un maniaco imperversa...

Per quanto dall’Europa ci appaia disumana e inefficace, espressione di una cultura puritana e punitiva, negli Stati Uniti la pena di morte non è un barbaro retaggio del passato. In questo studio approfondito...

Questa eccezionale biografia, scritta dopo l'assassinio di Rabin da prestigiosi giornalisti israeliani di lingua inglese che hanno seguito da vicino e per molti anni la sua duplice carriera di soldato...

«Ascolta. Sente. Inspira. Fiuta. Osserva. Vede… Ferrovie. Strade. Montagne di scorie. Miniere abbandonate… Chiude gli occhi. Ricorda. Apre gli occhi. Vede… Manganelli. Scudi. Cavalli. Cani. Polvere. Sangue…...

Michael Rost giunge a Vienna con l’audacia dei suoi diciotto anni, senza un soldo ma ben determinato a conquistare la capitale dell’impero e a godere delle opportunità che essa offre al tramonto del suo...

Con uno sguardo cristallino paragonato dalla critica a quello di John Cheever e Raymond Carver, ma accompagnato da un personalissimo tocco dark, David Means racconta storie quotidiane di amore e abbandono,...

Yorkshire, Inghilterra, 1974-1983. Il Nord del paese è un’allucinazione di miniere abbandonate, fabbriche abbandonate, fabbriche automatizzate, fabbriche come cattedrali, ciminiere più alte di campanili,...