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A rare inside account of innovation at the sharp end of global technology. Tracking a Cambridge startup's real-life journey to bring a breakthrough electronic component to the world's smartphones, Tony Golding reveals how innovation really happens. From early promise and hard-won credibility to securing a coveted place inside handsets produced by China's national tech champion, Down to the Wire provides an inside look at high-stakes entrepreneurship. But, just as success comes into view, rising geopolitical tensions between the United States and China intrude with devastating effect, demonstrating how international politics can derail even the most innovative company.   Readers are guided clearly and without jargon through the technology and business dynamics behind the device we all carry every day. Part business narrative, part technology explainer and part cautionary tale, Down to the Wire is essential reading for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, innovation and the hidden forces shaping our digital world.

William Cobbett, best known today as the author of Rural Rides, was a towering figure in nineteenth-century British history. A radical reformer and journalist, his Political Register and other writings gave a thunderous voice to a disenfranchised in the early 1800s. Yet, during his transformative and "middle years" in Hampshire. Cobbett's public crusade for reform was mirrored by a more private, bold quest for social prestige and financial autonomy.Focusing on his time at Botley, historian David Chun provides a reconstruction of Cobbett's life as a landed gentleman. Through rigorous archival research and the first-ever cartographic identification of his estate's boundaries. Chun exposes the dubious financial foundations of Cobbett's landowning ambitions, showing how notwithstanding his objection to the escalating National Debt and the paper-money system he himself borrowed extensively to buy land, making use of the cheap credit that the paper-money system provided. The narrative shows how a tightening grip of debt and government prosecution – he spent two years in Newgate prison midway through this period – took Cobbett from apparent affluence to insolvency and finally bankruptcy.This is an in-depth study of a man whose struggle with money and land ownership provides a vital, human dimension to his political legacy.

Where did Clio Simms go? Paris 1935. Clio Simms is a shy, unconventional girl with a passion for art. After an opportunity to work in Paris, she meets Ellen Scott, a stylish, trailblazing photographer. Through Ellen, Clio is drawn into the bohemian, free-thinking world of writers, jazz musicians and avant-garde artist Andre Cadoux. Less than three years later, Clio disappears without a trace. New York 1971. When a mysterious photograph of Cadoux's work is discovered at an auction, arts journalist Adeline Evans is tasked with uncovering its origins. But the deeper she digs, the more she suspects the story isn't about the art at all. It's about the woman behind the portrait. Great art may outlive everything, but some secrets refuse to stay buried. And Clio Simms is one of them.