Alec Issigonis The Man Who Made The Mini

Author : Jonathan Wood
Publisher : Breedon Books Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alec Issigonis written by Jonathan Wood and published by Breedon Books Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alec Issigonis, the brilliant British designer of the Morris Minor and the Mini, is one of the commanding figures in the history of automobile design and engineering. His ingenious and effective designs had a deep, lasting influence on the evolution of the motor car and on the wider history of industrial design, and he deserves to be ranked with the other giants of the field like Ferdinand Porsche in Germany and Dante Giacosa in Italy. But, until now, Issigonis's career as an engineer and designer, and his strong, single-minded character, have never been the subject of a full-length biography. Jonathan Wood's meticulously researched, penetrating study of this flawed genius of automobile design offers a rounded portrait of his life and work, and places him squarely in the context of his times. Vivid recollections of Issigonis's contemporaries, combined with a critical reassessment of his output, create a balanced view of a remarkable, controversial man. The author also offers a behind-the-scenes impression of the personal and corporate struggles within the declining British car industry, a complex process in which Issigonis played a famous role.

Author : Martyn Nutland
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477203176
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brick by Brick written by Martyn Nutland and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myth that Alec Issigonis conceived the Mini is just one whisp of the smoke screen that obscures the untold story of post-War Britains greatest industrialist. This is more than a motoring story. You will find commentary on life in the first half of the 20th century as you explore the drama of one mans determination to overcome adversity. Someone who shot from the hip as no other tycoon. This is a tale of political and military intrigue. Of spectacular business acumen. Of bitter, violent, industrial conflict. An account of savage jealousies and sexual intrigue. To record the life of Leonard Lord the author has visited a vast number of sources. In recent times some have sought to implant the roots of the British motor industrys ills and ultimate collapse in the policies of Leonard Lord. This is both disingenuous and unjust. This, for the first time, is his story.

Author : Jeroen Booij
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1845841549
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maximum Mini written by Jeroen Booij and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses solely on the cars derived from the classic Mini. Small GTs, sports cars, roadsters and fun cars: Mini-derivatives that changed the specialist motoring market completely in the early sixties, and new designs kept it busy for nearly four decades. from the well known Mini Marcos and Unipower GT that raced at Le Mans, to the very obscure but as exciting Coldwell GT or Sarcon Scarab, almost 60 cars are thoroughly researched, described and photographed in this book.

Author : Graham Robson
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1845841832
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mini Cooper/Mini Cooper S written by Graham Robson and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the birth, development, and rallying career of the BMC Mini-Cooper/Mini-Cooper in the 1960s, providing a compact and authoritative history of where, when and how it became so important to the sport.

Author : Gillian Bardsley
Publisher : Totem Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Issigonis written by Gillian Bardsley and published by Totem Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alec Issigonis is the creator of some of the most celebrated car designs of the 20th century. Gillian Bardsley tells the personal story of this complex and truly gifted man.

Author : Philip Oltermann
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571279910
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keeping Up With the Germans written by Philip Oltermann and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. Inspired by his own experience of both countries, Philip Oltermann looks at eight historical encounters between English and German people from the last two hundred years: Helmut Kohl tries to explain German cuisine to the Iron Lady, the Mini plays catch-up with the Volkswagen Beetle, and Joe Strummer has an unlikely brush with the Baader-Meinhof gang. Keeping Up with the Germans is a witty look at the lighter-side of Anglo-German relations over the last 100 years.

Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571197354
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nation's Favourite written by Simon Garfield and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 1999 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1993, BBC Radio One gained a new controller. Matthew Bannister said he was going to reinvent the station, the most popular in Europe. But things didn't go exactly to plan. The station lost millions of listeners. Its most famous DJs left, and their replacements proved to be disasters. Radio One's commercial rivals regarded the internal turmoil with glee. For a while a saviour arrived, in the shape of Chris Evans. But his behaviour caused further upheavals, and his eventual departure provoked another mass desertion by listeners. What was to be done?In the middle of this crisis, Radio One bravely (or foolishly) allowed the writer Simon Garfield to observe its workings from the inside. For a year he was allowed unprecedented access to management meetings and to DJs in their studios, to research briefings and playlist conferences. Everyone interviewed spoke in passionate detail about their struggle to make their station credible and successful once more. The result is a touching, exciting and often hilarious portrait of a much loved national institution as it battles back from the brink of calamity.

Author : SMITH
Publisher : McGraw Hill
ISBN 13 : 1526849666
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ebook: Exploring Innovation 4e written by SMITH and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebook: Exploring Innovation 4e

Author : Bob Hughes
Publisher : Bob Hughes
ISBN 13 : 0954723953
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dust Or Magic, Creative Work in the Digital Age written by Bob Hughes and published by Bob Hughes. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book for the interface workers. Dust or Magic was primarily written for the young, talented people whose creative instincts are kindled by computers and live to create 'good stuff', but who are systematically betrayed by the managerial types in suits who hire them, set them absurd tasks, and sack them when their half-baked schemes go belly-up. It is also for people who simply want to know how human creativity fares in the digital age. Originally published by Addison-Wesley (under the title 'Dust or Magic, Secrets of successful multimedia design') this book is, in part, a 'secret history' of computers: a history told from the vantage point of the people who did the work. We have insiders' accounts of a range of influential products and projects, many of which were in danger of being forgotten. The scene is illuminated by recent insights into creativity and well-being from the fields of psychology and neuroscience, as well as tried-and-tested, practical strategies for workplace survival from other industries. The author, Bob Hughes, has been a 'creative' for most of his working life: first a calligrapher, then an advertising artist and copywriter before discovering computers in the mid-1980s. He now teaches at Oxford Brookes University on the MA in Interactive Media Publishing, and researches and writes about the wider impact of electronics and computers in workplaces world-wide. He also campaigns on behalf of migrants, refugees and all precarious workers. "What you are doing is stripping away the corporate bullshit from this 'revolution' - its ours not theirs. Reclaim the pixels " - Chris McEvoy (Creator of 'Usability Must Die' www.usabilitymustdie.com). "There are many books explaining why software projects go sour; this one breaks the mold by showing how they come good." - Malcolm Cook (Senior Lecturer in Human Factors, University of Abertay) "It was incredibly engrossing. I expected to skim through it, and found myself reading it avidly, putting aside all the other work I should have been doing... It rang so true about so many things about the process of creating the virtual world we spend so much time in that I'm dying to share it with others who also create for it, or want to." - Aleen Stein (co-founder of the Voyager Company and CEO of Organa inc. www.organa.com). More information on www.idhub.com/magic

Author : David Smith
Publisher : McGraw Hill
ISBN 13 : 0077158407
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Exploring Innovation written by David Smith and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of Exploring Innovation offers an engaging new perspective on innovation. The book provides business students with a clear understanding of the nature of innovation and how it can be managed and fostered. Written in an accessible style, Exploring Innovation encourages students to challenge their pre-conceived ideas about innovation and to see it as a continuous, on-going process, by exploring some of the biggest developments in innovation. Lively discussions of key concepts are provide through numerous case studies, on a range of original products and services, bringing business theories to life. The new edition has been fully revised and updated with a more intuitive structure to now feature: A greater emphasis on what innovation involves. A new chapter on Value Capture. Expanded coverage on Services and Process Innovations. Two new chapters covering Global and Green trends in innovation. 8 new major case studies and more than 40 new mini-cases including Twitter, Angry Birds, Netflick, Google and Toyota.