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Enemy of All Mankind - A true story of piracy, power and history's first global manhunt by Steven Johnson
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | 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
Everything Bad Is Good For You : How popular culture is making us smarter by Steven Johnson
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
From the bestselling author of Mind Wide Open comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence. Tune in, turn on and get smarter. "The Simpsons", "Desperate Housewives", "The Apprentice", "The Sopranos", "Grand Theft Auto": We're ...Show more
Extra Life - A Short History of Living Longer by Steven Johnson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
"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
Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age by Steven Johnson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
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
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
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
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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
Mind Wide Open : Why you are what you think by Steven Johnson
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
'Forget what you thought you knew about yourself and open your mind wide: You are part reptile, part mammal, part primate. You are a dopamine fiend. You are a walking assembly of patterns and waves, clusters of neurons firing in sync with one another.' In Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson takes us on a j ...Show more
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