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Highlights
- Did you drink a glass of water today?
- 10 Years
- 9.1" x 7.7" Hardcover
- 160 Pages
- Juvenile Nonfiction, Technology
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About the Book
This adaptation of Johnson's "New York Times"-bestselling adult book and popular PBS series explores the fascinating and interconnected stories of innovations--like clean drinking water and electricity--that changed the way people live.Book Synopsis
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 fascinating and interconnected stories of innovations--like clean drinking water and electricity--that changed the way people live. 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 that has made him a popular, bestselling author, Steven Johnson looks at how accidental genius, brilliant mistakes, and unintended consequences shape the way we live in the modern world. Johnson's "long zoom" approach connects history, geography, politics, and scientific advances with the deep curiousity of inventors or quirky interests of tinkerers to show how innovation truly comes about. His fascinating account is organized into six topics: glass, cold, sound, clean, time, light. Johnson's fresh exploration of these simple, single-syllable word concepts creates an endlessly absorbing story that moves from lightning strikes in the prehistoric desert to the herculean effort to literally raise up the city of Chicago to laser labs straight out of a sci-fi movie. In other words, it's the story of how we got to now!About the Author
Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of eleven books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, Wonderland, and The Ghost Map. He's the host and co-creator of the Emmy-winning PBS/BBC series How We Got To Now, and the host of the podcast American Innovations. He lives in Brooklyn and Marin County, California with his wife and three sons.Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 7.7 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.55 Pounds
Suggested Age: 10 Years
Sub-Genre: Technology
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
Number of Pages: 160
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Theme: Inventions
Format: Hardcover
Author: Steven Johnson
Language: English
Street Date: October 16, 2018
TCIN: 93681732
UPC: 9780425287781
Item Number (DPCI): 247-16-6945
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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