Gavin: 705 books
Citizenville
How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
“Citizenville offers both an impassioned plea for more tech-enabled government and a tour d'horizon of the ways some governments have begun using technology to good effect… a fast-paced and engaging read” --San Francisco Chronicle
A rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital...
Who Discovered America?
The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?
The iconoclastic historian’s...
by Gavin Webber
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
So what do you do when the power goes out? Do you fumble around in the dark looking for candles or a torch to light the way? Is it an inconvenience or a major disaster when you lose the mains?
Well, look no further.
This eBook is a how to guide, with comprehensive instructions that will...
by Gavin Huang
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
#The first book specifically looking into the nature of civilization and the mechanism that governs civilisation
#A book to investigate civilisation with a novel approach, Newtonian mechanics.
#A book to investigate social structure, activity and development by systematically comparing them with the...
Ultrasimple Boat Building
18 Plywood Boats Anyone Can Build
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2007
The first complete how-to guide for building the latest generation of quick and easy boats
In Ultrasimple Boatbuilding, renowned designer Gavin Atkin shows you how to create elegant, seaworthy plywood boats with a minimum of time, experience, and expense. Using clearly written and illustrated...
Empire Antarctica
Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
“It is difficult to read this engaging memoir without a smile on one’s face . . . moments of sheer joy . . . [a] mesmerizing and memorable book.” —The Economist
Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Scotsman, the Financial Times, and the Sunday Herald.
Gavin Francis fulfilled a...
by Gavin E Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
In 2241 the dominant superpower on Earth, the USAN, successfully concludes the fourth world war. The nation breathes a sigh of relief and looks forward to the resumption of elections.
Across the solar system the leading industrialist in the USAN’s small colony on Mars is thinking about independence....
Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn
In 1536 a woman dies, and the story begins...
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
In 1536, Henry and Anne are at the mercy of influences outside their control, explosively incompatible, and caught in a marriage that ends in betrayal so shocking that Anne requires lifetimes to recover.
Henry, seemingly in defense of Anne (but more likely acting out of "stubborn perverseness,"...
Fantastic Trains
An Anthology of Phantasmagorical Engines and Rail Riders
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2019
Book your ticket now for a trip to the future, the past, and the timeslips in between.
Through the eloquent prose and imaginings of eighteen tellers of tales, we are pleased to present to you a collection of stories-on-a-train that will transport you to tantalizing worlds that you simply cannot...
Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton's Little John?
Music's Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, and . . . Ham Sandwiches?
If you are a music fan, you may be aware of some of music’s most enduring mysteries. Where did Pearl Jam get their name? Are the White Stripes related by blood or by marriage? Did Mama Cass really die from choking on a ham sandwich? Gavin...
The Swordfish and the Star
Life on Cornwall's most treacherous stretch of coast
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
He catches the stories of a whole community, but especially those still working this...
by Gavin Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Wind through the criminal history of the cities along northeast Wisconsin’s Fox River with the author of Milwaukee Mafia as your guide.
The safe and sedate Fox Cities have seen their share of horrible crimes. Coldblooded murder, kidnapping, prostitution, organized crime and other misdeeds shocked...
Eureka
How Invention Happens
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Tracing the long pre-history of five twentieth-century inventions which have transformed our lives, Gavin Weightman reveals a fantastic cast of scientists and inspired amateurs whose ingenuity has given us the airplane, television, bar code, personal computer, and mobile phone. Not one of these inventions...
by Gavin Daly, Ian Kehoe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Citizen Quinn tells the staggering story of the rise and fall of Ireland's richest man: Sean Quinn.
A few years ago, Sean Quinn was ranked among the two hundred richest people in the world, with a personal fortune of some $6 billion. Today he is bust, and his businesses have been taken from...