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Enemy of All Mankind - A true story of piracy, power and history's first global manhunt by Steven Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
“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 i ...Show more
Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age by Steven Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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: Fiction
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
$29.99 AUD
Category: Environment & 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
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