“ian simkins”

Expertly arguing that features of experiential potential in neighbourhood and community open space networks can be read from spatial characteristics, this key book investigates how a design methodology can be successfully applied to map, analyze and improve the design of neighbourhood and other comm... More

Companies used to rely on human experts and their years of experience to guide them. Now, cutting-edge organizations are mining the data and crunching numbers instead, to come up with more accurate, less biased predictions. As Freakonomics detailed, statistical analysis can reveal the secret levers ... More

On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon... More

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 'I cannot remember the last time I read anovel so beautifully written or utterly compelling form the very firstpage' Bill Bryson, Sunday Times One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized lifeis shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose re... More

Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renasissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries. Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypneroto... More

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE'I cannot remember the last time I read a novel so beautifully written or utterly compelling form the very first page' Bill Bryson, Sunday Times One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose ... More

The new novel by one of Britain's finest writers Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man- a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a ... More