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It Takes Two - A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different (Hardcover)
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It Takes Two - A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different (Hardcover)
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List price R583
Loot Price R523
Discovery Miles 5 230
You Save R60 (10%)
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‘Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman’s witty,
warm history on the power of determined couples will make you look
at your relationship and wonder, “Could we be doing more this
weekend than just going to IKEA?”’ CAITLIN MORAN Throughout
history, collaboration has fuelled greatness. From
rivals pressuring each other forwards to
friends combining their talents, it’s clear: often two heads are
better than one. In It Takes Two, Cathy Newman rewrites the history
books to expose this strange power of two – the
reason Holmes and Watson need to come as a pair,
and Apple could not have been started by Steve
Jobs alone. Bringing together an extraordinary range of
stories from around the world, Newman shows how double acts have
relied on each other, how minds have married to usher in
miraculous discoveries, and how those we think of as
lone geniuses often did not work solo. How did William and
Ellen Craft work together to pull off
a perilous cross-country escape from slavery?
How did the queer artists Marcel
Moore and Claude Cahun become icons of the
surrealist movement, then heroines of the resistance during WW2?
How do today’s most powerful couples –
from Beyoncé and Jay-Z to Bill and Melinda
Gates – negotiate coupledom and individual achievement in
the spotlight? Vibrant, feminist and unexpected, this
brilliant history shows the value of friction, obsession,
difference and trust when it comes to progress – and
retrieves the work of many who have been forgotten,
asking why certain collaborators are so often left out of
the narrative.
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