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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson
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Category: History
"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 in ...Show more
Enemy of All Mankind - A true story of piracy, power and history's first global manhunt by Steven Johnson
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Category: History | 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
Extra Life - A Short History of Living Longer by Steven Johnson
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Category: Health
"Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives." --President Barack Obama (on Twitter) "An important book." --Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book Review Now also a PBS documentary series: the surprising story of how humans gained what amount ...Show more
Farsighted by Steven Johnson
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Category: Mind Body Spirit
Plenty of books offer useful advice on how to get better at making quick-thinking, intuitive choices. But what about more consequential decisions, the ones that affect our lives for years, or centuries, to come? Our most powerful stories revolve around these kinds of decisions: where to live, whom to ma ...Show more
Farsighted - How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most by Steven Johnson
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Category: Mind Body Spirit
The hardest choices are also the most consequential. So why do we know so little about how to get them right? Big, life-altering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make every day, and they're also the most difficult: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to start a com ...Show more
Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age by Steven Johnson
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Category: History
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
Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age by Steven Johnson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the international bestselling author Steven Johnson, Future Perfect is the story of how progress is still possible and our future really is bright. What links a heroic pilot, eighteenth-century coffee houses, the French railway system and the invention of the Internet? Steven Johnson, with his reno ...Show more
How We Got To Now: The History and Power of Great Ideas by Steven Johnson
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Category: Science & Natural History
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
How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
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Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: 4 Science
Did you drink a glass of water today? Did you turn on a light? Did you think about how miraculous either one of those things is when you did it? Of course not-but you should, and New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson has. This adaptation of his adult book and popular PBS series explores the f ...Show more
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
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Category: History
From Steven Johnson, the best-selling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, comes How We Got to Now, the companion book to his six-part BBC One television series exploring the power and the legacy of great ideas. How did photography bring about social reform? What connects refrigeration to Hollywood? An ...Show more
The Ghost Map: A Street, An Epidemic, and the Two Men who Battled to Save Victorian London by Steven Johnson
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Category: History
Steven Johnson is one of today's most exciting writers about popular culture, urban living and new technology. In The Ghost Map he tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàanaesthetist Do ...Show more
Where Good Ideas Come From - The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
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Category: Business Finance Management
From the author of Emergence and The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come From: The Seven Patterns of Innovation identifies key principles that are the driving force of creativity. Learn how: A slow hunch can be much more valuable than a Eureka moment The connected 'hive mind' is smarter ...Show more