Against the Odds
Subtitle: An Autobiography
Publisher: Orion Publishing; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: June 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780752809816
Subjects: Biography: general; Entrepreneurship; Technology: General Issues; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Scientists - General; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; Biography
First sentence: Rural idyll. Death of my father.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Book 1 : Inventing myself.; title: Swallows and amazons, sand dunes and bassoons; title: Learning to dream; title: Book 2 : First bites.; title: The fastest piece of plywood in the world; title: Improving on the wheel; title: Betrayal over a ball; title: Book 3 : Beware the cyclone.; title: It really was no miracle, what happened was just this; title: Inside the cyclone; title: In the land of the blind; title: Double vision; title: Have you got a license for that?; title: Short chapter, big deal; title: We ruv G-Force! : Japan to the rescue; title: Alien invasion?; title: Freedom!; title: Book 4 : Doing a Dyson.; title: The Dyson Dual Cyclone; title: A little more Luddism; title: This week's highest new entry; title: Say goodbye to the bag; title: Genetic engineering; title: Coals to Japan?; title: Book 5 : The way ahead.; title: A new philosophy of business; title: The future : cleaning up the planet, and a way forward for Britain