Beautiful book illustrating history, art and science since the Renaissance in 100 designs & 1000 facts. The ultimate coffee table book - a visual intellectual feast

Need a keynote speaker for your conference? Alison's lecture tells intiguing stories of history, art and science since the Renaissance using over a thousand facts woven into a hundred graphic designs. See some examples below or listen to the radio interview about the project - Ken Cowley with Alison Hackett on Dublin City FM 103.2 (16 mins)

16th C (e.g. Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa, 1st Rhino seen in Europe since Roman times)

17th C (e.g. Hamlet performed on Red Dragon; Newton's laws of motion & gravity explained)

18th C (e.g. 1st clinical trial on a ship - how to treat scurvy; Tuscany is the first European state to abolish the death penalty)

19th C (e.g. Elgin marbles taken from Parthenon; Famine in Ireland, Gold digging in California)

20th C (e.g. Dada art movement; Superman on RADAR)

Whistlestop tour - 100 designs - few sentences for every five years.

WHAT ARE CUSTOMERS SAYING?

You really inspired me and my birthday tomorrow and the first thing that I wanted to get was the book the way I found out about the book is because you came to my school and you talked about the book you have a really creative mind Alice aged 10

A beautiful, breathtaking account of human endeavour Sunday Independent

This book, as both a magnificent folly and a beautiful work of art attempts to pull together some of these now, disparate, threads of human endeavour and show us, literally, how many interesting links there are between seemingly diverse topics. Irish Tech News

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