When it was launched in 1959, the Mini stunned the world with its ingenious compact design. In this book, Mini expert and fan Peter Barker gives the full account of the classic Mini through the decades, from the 1950s to the millennium. Drawing on interviews with the original designers and engineers, he provides the inside story of how the Mini was developed. From the 1960s when the Mini became a cultural icon, boosted by its starring role in the film The Italian Job, through the sensible ...

20 RIOT COPS TO NICK 2 CHICKENSClimate activists reveal the true inside stories of direct action and protest.Bravery, ingenuity and humour combine as the campaigners struggle to get their message of existential threat heard amid the noise of the modern world.Featuring:Anthony facing the prospect of 15 years in a Russian prisonJanet confronted by an angry MP, finds herself the centre of a media storm.Dirty power stations on tr...

Product Design for Students covers the basic concepts and processes intrinsic to professional industrial product design: from the initial design concept through design for manufacture, sustainable production, distribution, marketing and recycling of the product at the end of its life. User research, concept generation techniques, design process methodologies, the use of design thinking, user-centred design and co-design, design for sustainable production, materials and manufacturing proces...

From its launch on 20 September 1961 the Mini Cooper caused a sensation. The world’s first sports saloon, the diminutive Cooper combined the glamour and racing heritage of 1959 and 1960 Formula 1 champions the Cooper Car Company with the outstanding handling and downright practicability of the Austin Mini Seven and Morris Mini Minor. Alec Issigonis’s little people’s car had been launched by the manufacturer, the British Motor Corporation (BMC), two years earlier. A winner almost from the w...

For good reasons, she did bad things.As the system collapses under the weight of capitalist greed, Imogen Thomas, hacker, part time anarchist and occasional fire-starter, knew she was on the wrong side of the law, but whose side was the law on?With the unwitting assistance of a not so innocent priest, a sceptical accomplice and a small band of environmental cyber-geeks, Imogen is on a mission to redistribute the vast fortunes of the super rich until the wealthiest man on th...

Do you desire to have an idea of what dark persuasion means? Do you want to know who a dark persuader is ?Through the content of this book, you will understand that persuading someone simply means convincing someone to do or accept as true, using a variety of methods to give advice or discuss. The dissimilarity between belief and dark conviction is intention. A persuader could try to convince someone to do something without thinking about certain tactics or motives...

A comprehensive anthology of dramatisations and readings of Tagore's finest works, plus bonus documentariesBengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. A novelist, poet, playwright, composer, artist and philosopher, he wrote both the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems; exchanged ideas with Yeats, Einstein and Gandhi, and was hugely influential in promoting Indian culture to the West. This collection inc...