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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson
$24.99 AUD
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
Everything Bad Is Good For You : How popular culture is making us smarter by Steven Johnson
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the bestselling author of Mind Wide Open comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence. Tune in, turn on and get smarter. "The Simpsons", "Desperate Housewives", "The Apprentice", "The Sopranos", "Grand Theft Auto": We're ...Show more
Everything Bad Is Good for You : How popular culture is making us smarter by Steven Johnson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the bestselling author of "Mind Wide Open" comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence.
Farsighted by Steven Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help
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
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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
Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age by Steven Johnson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the international bestselling author Steven Johnson, Future Perfect is the story of how progress is still possible and our future really is bright. What links a heroic pilot, eighteenth-century coffee houses, the French railway system and the invention of the Internet? Steven Johnson, with his reno ...Show more
How We Got To Now: The History and Power of Great Ideas by Steven Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Reading Level: 4 Science
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
Mind Wide Open : Why you are what you think by Steven Johnson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science
'Forget what you thought you knew about yourself and open your mind wide: You are part reptile, part mammal, part primate. You are a dopamine fiend. You are a walking assembly of patterns and waves, clusters of neurons firing in sync with one another.' In Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson takes us on a j ...Show more
The Best Technology Writing, 2009 by Ed. Steven Johnson
$36.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: The\Best Technology Writing Ser.
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 Carr worrying that Google is making us stupid, Dana Goodyear chronicling the rise of the cellphone novel, Andrew Sullivan explaining ...Show more