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How we got to now : six innovations that made the modern world
Title:
How we got to now : six innovations that made the modern world
Alternate title:
Six innovations that made the modern world
Summary:
"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!' -- Amazon.com.
Audience:
Ages 10+

Grades 4 to 6.
General Note:
"The New York Times bestseller adapted for young readers" -- front cover.
Edition:
[Young Readers edition].
Contents:
Glass -- Cold -- Sound -- Clean -- Time -- Light.
Physical Description:
152 page : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Author(s):
Publisher:
VIKING, Published by Penguin Group,
Publication Date:
2018
ISBN:
9780425287781

9780425287798
Publication Information:
New York : VIKING, Published by Penguin Group, [2018]

©2018
Award Note:
A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)
Call Number:
J 303.48 JOHNSON
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