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Johnson, Steven

Summary: "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 volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2014

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 JOH

Johnson, Steven

Summary: "From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at he world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes along-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Steven Johnson...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 JOH

Spalding, Katie

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius - but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." So begins Katie...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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Cohen, Benyamin

Summary: "Albert Einstein's face is still one of the most recognizable in the world and he's widely considered to be the first modern-day celebrity. While many of his discoveries continue to define our daily lives, it's not just his genius that continues to shape our world. Today, more people know Einstein as an icon rather than a theorist-decades after his death, he's a celebrity with a massive online...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B EINSTEIN COH

Senor, Dan

Summary: "From the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle comes the highly anticipated follow up, The Genius of Israel, which outlines the defining factors behind Israel's successful track record of innovation and explaining how other nations can learn from its development"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 SEN

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Summary: These science, technology, engineering, art, and math challenges will inspire the way kids think about everything from outer space to animals! - This SuperPack contains 2X as many apps as the standard Launchpad - Build and create objects and inventions - Explore modeling and animation - Practice math and problem-solving skills

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in JPT Launchpad, Call number: J LAUNCHPAD SOU

Hammack, William Scott

Summary: "In this book, Bill Hammack, better known as The Engineer Guy, takes us on a whirlwind tour of how humans built the world we know today. From the grand stone arches of medieval cathedrals to the mundane modern soda can, Hammack explains the golden rule of thumb that underlies every new building technique, every technological advancement, and every creative solution that leads us one step closer...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620 HAM

Summary: We often think that people from a thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages. But from the 7th century onward in Muslim civilization there were amazing advances and inventions that still influence our everyday lives. People living in the Muslim world saw what the Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Greek, and Romans had discovered and spent the next one thousand years adding new developments and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 297.2 ONE

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