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EmergenceThe Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
Category: Science
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKA VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORIT ...Show more
Empathic Oracle Cards by WILSON, STEVE
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
When you have empathy for someone or something, you are able to control it at any given time, because you are reacting to cues from someone else's experience. An empath feels everything and everyone all the time, whether wanted or not This striking oracle will delve into all the aspects of being an empa ...Show more
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson
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
Extra Life - A Short History of Living Longer by Steven Johnson
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
Category: Self-Help
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
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
Category: Accessories
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
Category: 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 by Steven Johnson
Category: Education
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
Category: Science
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
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson, (Pr
Category: Science
Look out for Johnson s new book, Wonderland, now on sale. From the New York Times bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over cen ...Show more