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83 produkter
Where Good Ideas Come From
The Seven Patterns of Innovation
Häftad, 2011
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
127 kr
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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 momentThe connected 'hive mind' is smarter …
Ghost Map
A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
147 kr
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From the bestselling author of Everything Bad is Good For You, Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map vividly recreates Victorian London to show how huge populations live together, how cities can kill - and how they can save us.Steven Johnson is one of today's most exciting writers about popular culture, …
Enemy of All Mankind
A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
Inbunden, 2020
275 kr
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Infernal Machine
A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
Häftad, 2025
188 kr
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“A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.”—ERIK LARSON A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the …
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Häftad, 2002
249 kr
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Enemy of All Mankind
Häftad, 2021
188 kr
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Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular - and wildly inaccurate - reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery's …
Everything Bad is Good for You
How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter
Häftad, 2006
144 kr
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We're constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertainment - but, as Steven Johnson shows in Everything Bad is Good for You, it's actually making us more intelligent.Steven Johnson puts forward a radical alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway movies …
Emergence
The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software
Häftad, 2002
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
155 kr
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Steven Johnson's Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software is a fascinating look at how self-organising systems are changing the world.Why do people cluster together in neighborhoods? How do internet communities spring up from nowhere? Why is a brain conscious even though …
Ghost Map
A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.
E-bok, 2008
108 kr
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In Ghost Map Steven Johnson tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes – anaesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead – who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge, scientific …
Everything Bad is Good for You
How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter
E-bok, 2006
113 kr
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Tune in, turn on and get smarter ... The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, The Apprentice, The Sopranos, Grand Theft Auto: We're constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertainment. But, as Steven Johnson shows, it's actually making us more intelligent.Here he puts forward a …
Where Good Ideas Come From
The Natural History of Innovation
E-bok, 2010
170 kr
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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 …
Future Perfect
The Case For Progress In A Networked Age
E-bok, 2012
108 kr
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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 …
Mind Wide Open
Why You Are What You Think
E-bok, 2014
108 kr
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From the author of Emergence and The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson's Mind Wide Open: Why You Are What You Think takes us on a journey to the frontiers of brain science and reveals exactly how we're hardwired to think and feel.'You are part reptile, part mammal, part primate. You are a dopamine fiend. …
How We Got to Now
Six Innovations that Made the Modern World
Ljudbok, 2016
125 kr
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of How We Got To Now by Steven Johnson, read by George Newbern. From Steven Johnson, the best-selling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, comes How We Got to Now, which tracks the surprising inspirations and unexpected consequences …
Best Technology Writing 2009
Häftad, 2009
437 kr
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“The ubiquity of the digital lifestyle has forced us to write and think about technology in a different way.”—Steven Johnson In his Introduction to this beautifully curated collection of essays, Steven Johnson heralds the arrival of a new generation of technology writing. Whether it is Nicholas …
Wonderland
How Play Made the Modern World
E-bok, 2016
196 kr
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“A house of wonders itself. . . . Wonderland inspires grins and well-what-d''ya-knows” — The New York Times Book Review From the New York Times– bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves …
New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts
Häftad, 2001
671 kr
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Musicians and artists have always shared mutual interests and exchanged theories of art and creativity. This exchange climaxed just after World War II, when a group of New York-based musicians, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and David Tudor, formed friendships with a group of …
How We Got To Now
Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Inbunden, 2018, 9-12 år
299 kr
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Innovation starts with a problem whose solution sets in motion all kinds of unexpected discoveries. That’s why you can draw a line from pendulums to punching the clock at a factory, from ice blocks to summer movie blockbusters, from clean water to computer chips.In the lively storytelling style …
How We Got to Now
Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
E-bok, 2018
226 kr
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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 Timesbestselling author Steven Johnson has. This adaptation of his adult book and popular PBS series explores …
Monitoring Environmental Contaminants
Inbunden, 2020
1483 kr
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While existing approaches to monitoring environmental contaminants tend to focus on a small suite of contaminant types and often involve monitoring at fixed points and at fixed times, Monitoring Environmental Contaminants focuses on a wide range of new technologies and approaches available for …
Monitoring Environmental Contaminants
E-bok, 2020
2475 kr
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While existing approaches to monitoring environmental contaminants tend to focus on a small suite of contaminant types and often involve monitoring at fixed points and at fixed times, Monitoring Environmental Contaminants focuses on a wide range of new technologies and approaches available for …
IT Professional's Business and Communications Guide
A Real-World Approach to CompTIA A+ Soft Skills
Häftad, 2007
168 kr
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Get the communication skills you need for career success with this unique book. Preparing you for exams and beyond, the valuable content delves into the issues that you’ll face in corporate, retail, and remote support environments. The book offers more than fifty scenarios depicting typical …
IT Professional's Business and Communications Guide
A Real-World Approach to CompTIA A+ Soft Skills
E-bok, 2007
186 kr
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Get the communication skills you need for career success with this unique book. Preparing you for exams and beyond, the valuable content delves into the issues that you’ll face in corporate, retail, and remote support environments. The book offers more than fifty scenarios depicting typical …
IT Professional's Business and Communications Guide
A Real-World Approach to CompTIA A+ Soft Skills
E-bok, 2009
186 kr
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Get the communication skills you need for career success with this unique book. Preparing you for exams and beyond, the valuable content delves into the issues that you’ll face in corporate, retail, and remote support environments. The book offers more than fifty scenarios depicting typical …
Farsighted
How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
E-bok, 2018
161 kr
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From the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From , a groundbreaking book about making once-in-a-lifetime decisions. Plenty of books offer useful advice on how to get better at making quick-thinking, intuitive choices. But what about more consequential decisions, the …
Extra Life
Häftad, 2022
184 kr
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“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 The surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, …
