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Enemy of All Mankind - A true story of piracy, power and history's first global manhunt by Steven Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: very good
“Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet.” Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly i ...Show more
Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age by Steven Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
What connects the "miracle on the Hudson" to the planning of the French railway system, or the mysterious outbreak of strange smells in downtown Manhattan to the invention of the Internet? With his characteristic flair for multidisciplinary storytelling, Steven Johnson shows in "Future Perfect" that wha ...Show more
How We Got To Now: The History and Power of Great Ideas by Steven Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
How did our mastery of artificial cold help give birth to at least four million babies, create the golden age of Hollywood and unlock the secrets of the universe? And what about our battle against dirt? How did that create the flat screen and the iPhone?This book is a celebration of ideas: how they happ ...Show more
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
At 6am on 28 August 1854, the city of London struggled to sleep at the end of an oppressively hot summer. But at 40 Broad Street, Soho, Sarah Lewis was awake tending to her feverish baby girl. As she threw a used bucket of water into the cesspool at the front of her lodgings, it marked the start of a ch ...Show more
Where Good Ideas Come From - The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Business and Economics | Reading Level: very good
Where do good ideas come from? And what do we need to know and do to have more of them? In "Where Good Ideas Come From", Steven Johnson, one of our most innovative popular thinkers, explores the secrets of inspiration. Steven Johnson has spent twenty years immersed in creative industries, was active at ...Show more
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Seven Patterns of Innovation by Steven Johnson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Business and Economics
Where do good ideas come from? And what do we need to know and do to have more of them? This title explores the secrets of inspiration. It identifies the seven key principles to the genesis of great ideas, from the cultivation of hunches to the importance of connectivity and how best to make use of new ...Show more
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