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Against the Odds: An Autobiography Hardcover – 17 April 2003

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James Dyson is an engineer and the founder of Dyson. He invented the Dual Cyclone, England's biggest selling vacuum cleaner. He is also a board member of the Design Council. He lives in Wiltshire, England.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Texere Publishing; Revised edition (17 April 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1587991705
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1587991707
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.88 x 3.18 x 22.23 cm
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4.0 out of 5 stars Poorly published product but worth 5 stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2021
I am still pleased to give this 5-stars, but have given 4 as Sir Dyson does give some invaluable lessons in his book particularly with setting up licensing deals and legal issues, but more importantly i respect, his dream-to-fruition process which was met with so many hurdles, but here we are, his product has now topped the charts.

I say it was poorly published as when you look in my photos, there is a massive jump from page 238 to page 271, which then ends the book (271-288) what happened there? i looked everywhere for the missing pages, and guess what? at the end of the book after the index, pages 271 -288 appear again, what a pig's breakfast! Who on earth published this? oh, Thomson...

I'm gonna hang onto this one, as if meet Sir Dyson, this will make for a good laugh, which seems to be his humour throughout the book...
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