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The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
At 6am on 28 August 1854, the city of London struggled to sleep at the end of an oppressively hot summer. But at 40 Broad Street, Soho, Sarah Lewis was awake tending to her feverish baby girl. As she threw a used bucket of water into the cesspool at the front of her lodgings, it marked the start of a ch ...Show more
The Ghost Map: A Street, An Epidemic, and the Two Men who Battled to Save Victorian London by Steven Johnson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Steven Johnson is one of today's most exciting writers about popular culture, urban living and new technology. In The Ghost Map he tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàanaesthetist Do ...Show more
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 at ...Show more
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Seven Patterns of Innovation by Steven Johnson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Where do good ideas come from? And what do we need to know and do to have more of them? This title explores the secrets of inspiration. It identifies the seven key principles to the genesis of great ideas, from the cultivation of hunches to the importance of connectivity and how best to make use of new ...Show more
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'The book is a house of wonders' The New York Times 'Steven Johnson is the Darwin of technology' Walter Issacson, author of Steve Jobs What connects Paleolithic bone flutes to the invention of computer software? Or the Murex sea snail to the death of the great American city? How does the bag of crisps y ...Show more