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  The Ultimate Guide to Time Travel

  Steve Nallon, Dick Fiddy

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  Where are we going? 
  The future, Doc! 
  Great Scott! 
  Not forgetting the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey past. 
  That's right, ticket holders, this book is your journey into the many worlds of the time travel tale – exploring its tropes, its rules, its devices, its science, its values, its plots, its characters and, most importantly, its enduring – and timeless – appeal.

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  Your Design Personality at Home...

  Michelle Armitage

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  Great interiors have the power to enhance our health and happiness. 
  Yet home decor decisions can be tricky. Do you find it difficult to pull a look together? Do you buy things you love then change your mind? Or spend too long procrastinating over paint colours? 
  In this comprehensive book Michelle shares her expertise in psychology and interior design. You will explore your personality taste preferences, tap into ’sweet spots’ from your past, and explore topics like colour families and sensory design; to create an interior that truly reflects who you are. 
  Reading this book will feel like a cosy chat with Michelle. It’s filled with fun quizzes and questions, gorgeous images and real-life examples. 
  It’s time to put an end to copycat interiors! With the help of Your Design Personality at Home you will unlock the secrets of your interior design style and discover how to create your perfect home.

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  Eternal Palette: Modigliani vs...

  Seungyong Chang

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Paris. Montmartre. Montparnasse. A time when the air was thick with absinthe, cigarette smoke, and genius. In the golden era of modern art, two titans collided. This is not a tale of art alone—it is a fevered chronicle of rivalry, betrayal, inspiration, jealousy, and love. Modigliani and Picasso: two names carved into art history, whose legacies were both forged and fractured by each other. This novel delves not into the myth but into the imagined fire that burned between them. Here, art is war. And genius, a double-edged brush.

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  Music and Technology - A Very...

  Mark Katz

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  This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge traditional views of music and technology. In its most common use, "music technology" tends to evoke images of twentieth and twenty-first century electronic devices: synthesizers, recording equipment, music notation software, and the like. This volume, however, treats all tools used to create, store, reproduce, and transmit music—new or old, electronic or not—as technologies worthy of investigation. 
   
   
   
  In this broad view, technology in music encompasses instruments, whether acoustic, electric or electronic; engraving and printing; sound recording and playback; broadcasting; software; and much more. Mark Katz challenges the view that technology is unnatural, something external to music. It was sometimes said in the early twentieth century that so-called mechanical music (especially player pianos and phonographs) was a menace to "real" music; alternatively, technology can be freighted with utopian hopes and desires, as happens today with music streaming platforms like Spotify. Positive or negative, these views assume that technology is something that acts upon music; by contrast, this volume characterizes technology as an integral part of all musical activity and portrays traditional instruments and electronic machines as equally technological.

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  The Philosophy Of Andy Warhol -...

  Andy Warhol

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  In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, the enigmatic, legendary Warhol makes the listener his confidant on love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success, and much more. 
   
   
   
  Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party—so that he could get in. But more often than not, the party was at his own studio, The Factory, where celebrities—from Edie Sedgwick and Allen Ginsberg to the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground—gathered in an ongoing bash. 
   
   
   
  A loosely formed autobiography, told with his trademark blend of irony and detachment, this compelling and eccentric memoir riffs and reflects on all things Warhol: New York, America, and his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, as well as the explosion of his career in the sixties, and his life among the rich and famous. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Pierce the Design Fog - Develop...

  Dianna Deeney

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  A proven framework to align teams, define clear design inputs, and accelerate product success 
    
  In product development, great ideas can get lost in translation. Teams kick off with enthusiasm, but somewhere between the first design iteration meeting and the engineering handoff, misaligned assumptions lead to costly rework, stalled timelines, and products that miss the mark. 
  In Pierce the Design Fog, quality advocate and senior engineer Dianna Deeney reveals why 85% of companies struggle to get product development right—and how to fix it. Drawing from over 25 years in manufacturing, quality engineering, and cross-functional leadership, she shares practical methods for bridging the gap between concept development and engineering-ready designs. 
  Using her ADEPT Team Framework and Concept Space Model, Deeney provides a repeatable process to unite diverse perspectives, surface hidden requirements, and define clear design inputs focused on user experience. This hands-on playbook for managers, engineers, and product leaders uses step-by-step guidance, real-world examples, and ready-to-use templates to engage every stakeholder from the start and turn ideas into high-quality, customer-focused design inputs. 
  You will learn how to:Identify and avoid the "Ta-da Flop" by validating concepts before engineering begins.Lead efficient, collaborative meetings that produce actionable design inputs.Translate end user needs into prioritized, measurable requirements.Apply quality engineering tools to reduce design loops and speed approvals.Foster stronger cross-functional team alignment and earlier buy-in. 
  If you lead engineers, market products, or manage cross-functional teams, Pierce the Design Fog will change the way you start projects—with results your customers will notice.

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