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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 & Diet
"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
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: Popular 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
Where Good Ideas Come From - The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
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Category: Business Economics 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
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Seven Patterns of Innovation by Steven Johnson
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Category: Business Economics Finance Management
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
Wow! Dinosaurs by Kingfisher; Steven Johnson Jr. (Illustrator); Jacqueline McCann
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wow! Ser.
Shout "WOW!" when your read about some surprising facts in this lively and fascinating picture book all about dinosaurs. Did you know that the word dinosaur means "terrible lizard", the heaviest dinosaur weighed as much as 17 African elephants and that Stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut? Lear ...Show more
Wow! Vehicles by Kingfisher; Steven Johnson (Illustrator); Jacqueline McCann
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wow! Ser.
Shout WOW! when your read about some surprising facts in this lively and fascinating picture book all about vehicles. Did you know that the first train reached a top speed of only 5 miles per hour, that helicopters are also called whirlybirds, and that some submarines can stay underwater for months at ...Show more
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