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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software by Steven Johnson
26.95 NZD
28.00 (3% off)
Category: Popular Science
This work argues that it is fast becoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of "emergence". Order arrives from the bottom-up, not top-down. Complexity is resolved through simplicity. Everywhere the same laws are obeyed, the same swarm logic is at work. Emergence looks at the cities we inhab ...Show more
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson
30.00 NZD
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
27.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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
Farsighted by Steven Johnson
38.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
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
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
45.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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
Wonderland : How We Got to Now, the World at Play by Steven Johnson
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
"Everyone knows the old saying "necessity is the mother of invention," but if you do a paternity test on many of the modern world's most important ideas or institutions, you will find, invariably, that leisure and play were involved in the conception as well." Most history books don't concern themselves ...Show more
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