How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

Steven Johnson

243 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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From Steven Johnson, the bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, comes How We Got to Now, the companion book to his five-part BBC TV series.How did the advent of refrigeration help create the golden age of Hollywood? How did the inventio...

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