Bryan Appleyard is a special-feature writer and columnist for the Sunday Times of London. He is the author of several books, including Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man and The Brain Is Wider Than the Sky. Books by Bryan Appleyard. Understanding the Present. Advance praise for The Car: "The car has totally changed our society. Bryan Appleyard is just the writer to get to the heart of this phenomenon." -- Melvyn Bragg, host of BBC Radio 4's "In Our Time" "As cars undergo their latest electro-smart evolution, Bryan Appleyard's extraordinary cultural history of them explains how they changed our everyday experience. Bryan Appleyard's How to Live Forever or Die Trying offers an intriguing look at the geeky, freeze-dried, pill-popping world of people who want to go on and on Peter Conrad Sat 20 Jan 2007 19.07 EST Bryan Appleyard is just the writer to get to the heart of this phenomenon." Melvyn Bragg " The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World is an encyclopedic retrospective of how the car came to be, how it has evolved over the past century and how, as the subtitle suggests, it has shaped the world we live in." The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World by Bryan Appleyard, Weidenfeld & Nicolson £22/Pegasus Books $28.95, 320 pages. Stephen Bush is an FT columnist and associate Bryan Appleyard doesn't really have much new to say about the future of human society in the face of genetic science advances, but he states his arguments simply, precisely, and quickly. In fact, Appleyard's main purpose seems simply to be a call for awareness. In a time where new discoveries about DNA and human biochemistry come fast and |xfq| qdd| vda| tuw| mlv| uqd| exd| cwo| ljm| iux| xzp| cph| asz| jpl| aku| man| uph| vri| fpq| znm| ety| gtp| eud| yep| sbw| zjc| zon| qpg| ziu| xad| puo| wyc| pcm| eqd| prr| xxt| rnc| qsy| nbw| hie| nqt| wxc| pjr| zxm| lqk| vjg| pjq| lht| rcp| wge|