September 2017 - BookBlast® Official

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Autumn Reads for Independent Minds BookBlast® Recommends

September 29, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Our BookBlast® Recommends seasonal round up of Autumn Reads for Independent Minds is underpinned by a core belief that good writing and good ideas of all kinds make the world go round, giving context to […]

George Elton Mayo The Descent into Chaos 1941 BookBlast® Estates

September 21, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

My grandfather, George Elton Mayo (1880-1949), the psychologist, organizational theorist and founder of the Human Relations Movement, had innovative ideas and theories based on a lifetime of research which he often expressed in speeches that […]

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Gael Elton Mayo Letter from Madrid 1953 BookBlast® Archive

September 17, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Gael Elton Mayo (1921-92) journalist, writer, artist, and contributor to Harpers & Queen, Apollo, Interiors, Observer, first wrote a column while living in Spain in the 1950s for The Spanish-American Courier. This article came out […]

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The Dandy at Dusk Philip Mann Review

September 13, 2017 Guest Contributor Comments Off

The Dandy at Dusk by Philip Mann reviewed by C. J. Schüler for BookBlast. What makes a dandy? In the popular imagination, the dandy is a peacock, eccentrically and eye-catchingly dressed. Nothing, however, could be […]

Soho Bohemia Philip Mann Explorations

September 12, 2017 Guest Contributor Comments Off

Soho bohemia by Philip Mann, written in the spirit of: “For thirty years I hid my fame in taverns”. “Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be,” the hypochondriac Mr. Wodehouse says in Jane Austen’s […]

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Philip Mann Author Interview

September 12, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

BookBlast interview with Philip Mann, author Philip Mann, where were you born, and where did you grow up? I was born in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, but grew up in West Berlin by […]