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The Notebook

A History Of Thinking On Paper: A New Statesman And Spectator Book Of The Year

by Roland Allen
language: english
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd, September of 2024 ‧
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We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did this simple invention come from? How did they revolutionise our lives, and why are they such powerful tools for creativity? And how can using a notebook help you change the way you think?

In this wide-ranging story, Roland Allen reveals all the answers. Ranging from the bustling markets of medieval Florence to the quiet studies of our greatest thinkers, he follows a trail of dazzling ideas, revealing how the notebook became our most dependable and versatile tool for creative thinking. He tells the notebook stories of artists like Leonardo and Frida Kahlo, scientists from Isaac Newton to Marie Curie, and writers from Chaucer to Henry James. We watch Darwin developing his theory of evolution in tiny pocketbooks, see Agatha Christie plotting a hundred murders in scrappy exercise books, and learn how Bruce Chatwin unwittingly inspired the creation of the Moleskine.

On the way we meet a host of cooks, kings, sailors, fishermen, musicians, engineers, politicians, adventurers and mathematicians, who all used their notebooks as a space for thinking and to shape the modern world.

The Notebook

A History Of Thinking On Paper: A New Statesman And Spectator Book Of The Year

by Roland Allen

Property Description
ISBN: 9781788169332
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Release Date: September of 2024
Language: English
Dimensions: 129 x 200 x 24 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 416
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Art > History of Art
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9781788169332

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