Top 10 Inventions of All Time

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  • TIME 100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images Of All Time

    • ASIN: B01J6J1XT2
    • Manufacturer: Time

    Since its inception, TIME magazine has been synonymous not just with outstanding journalism, but also with outstanding photography. Now, to mark the 175th anniversary of photography and the birth of photojournalism, the Editors of TIME magazine are publishing this companion book to the groundbreaking digital celebration of photography tha... [Read More]

  • The Way Things Work Now

    • ASIN: 0544824385
    • ISBN: 0544824385
    • Brand: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
    • Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

    A New York Times Bestseller Explainer-in-Chief David Macaulay updates the worldwide bestseller The New Way Things Work to capture the latest developments in the technology that most impacts our lives. Famously packed with information on the inner workings of everything from windmills to Wi-Fi, this extraordinary and humorous book both guides reade... [Read More]

  • Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

    • ASIN: 0767929713
    • ISBN: 0767929713
    • Brand: Candice Millard
    • Manufacturer: Anchor Books

    A Booklist Notable Book of 2012The extraordinary New York Times bestselling account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from bestselling author of The River of Doubt, Candice Millard.   James Abram Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected p... [Read More]

  • History Year by Year: The History of the World, from the Stone Age to the Digital Age

    • ASIN: 1465414185
    • ISBN: 1465414185
    • Brand: DK Publishing Dorling Kindersley
    • Manufacturer: DK Children

    Featuring more than 1,500 images that bring the story of the past to life through a detailed timeline, this visual world history book helps children navigate the influences, patterns, and connections between historical events, beginning with prehistory and running up to the Arab Spring.Budding historians will learn about the history of humans acros... [Read More]

  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

    • ASIN: 074325807X
    • ISBN: 9780743258074
    • Brand: Walter Isaacson
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative tha... [Read More]

  • Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

    • ASIN: B00CGI3DWQ
    • Brand: Crown Business
    • Manufacturer: Currency

    IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us.Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are th... [Read More]

  • When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions (Plus)

    • ASIN: 0061144894
    • ISBN: 9780061144899
    • Brand: HarperOne
    • Manufacturer: HarperOne

    From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees, an inspiring autobiographical account of personal pain, spiritual awakening, and divine grace. Blending her own experience with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longin... [Read More]

  • What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

    • ASIN: 0316076201
    • ISBN: 0316076201
    • Brand: Malcolm Gladwell
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed ... [Read More]

  • Paper Girls Volume 4

    • ASIN: 1534305106
    • ISBN: 1534305106
    • Brand: Image Comics
    • Manufacturer: Image Comics

    The mind-bending, time-warping adventure from BRIAN K. VAUGHAN and CLIFF CHIANG continues, as intrepid newspaper deliverer Tiffany is launched from the prehistoric past into the year 2000! In this harrowing version of our past, Y2K was even more of a cataclysm than experts feared, and the only person who can save the future is a 12-year-old girl fr... [Read More]

  • About My Mother: True Stores of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother: A Memoir

    • ASIN: B07H4XVHFB
    • Manufacturer: Forefront Books

    A Message from Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs Guy: Just to be clear, About My Mother is a book about my grandmother, written by my mother. That’s not to say it’s not about my mother—it is. In fact, About My Mother is as much about my mother as it is about my grandmother. In that sense, it’s really a book about “mothers.”…It is not, ... [Read More]

  • Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

    • ASIN: 0735216142
    • ISBN: 0735216142
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 by BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND AMAZONA lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy.   Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And wha... [Read More]

  • Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

    • ASIN: 0312611692
    • ISBN: 0312611692
    • Brand: Picador USA
    • Manufacturer: Picador

    A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twent... [Read More]

  • The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In History

    • UPC: 052550022506
    • ASIN: 0806513500
    • ISBN: 9780806513508
    • Brand: Citadel Press
    • Manufacturer: Citadel

    In 1978, when Michael Hart’s controversial book The 100 was first published, critics objected that Hart had the nerve not only to select who he thought were the most influential people in history, but also to rank them according to their importance. Needless to say, the critics were wrong, and to date more than 60,000 copies of the book have bee... [Read More]

  • 100 Greatest Science Inventions of All Time

    • ASIN: 1591582644
    • ISBN: 9781591582649
    • Brand: Brand: Libraries Unlimited
    • Manufacturer: Libraries Unlimited

    This ready reference presents fascinating facts about 100 amazing inventions, a panoramic overview of the history of science, and a collection of engaging reads.Inventions are the stuff of dreams, quickly gaining widespread use, becoming central to culture, and ultimately changing our lives. They teach us a great deal about creativity and scientifi... [Read More]

  • Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña

    • ASIN: 0312680694
    • ISBN: 0312680694
    • Brand: Picador USA
    • Manufacturer: Picador

    Tenth Anniversary EditionThe story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound and a style that are one of the most lasting legacies of the 1960sWhen Bob Dylan, age twenty-five, wrecked his motorcycle on the side of a road near W... [Read More]

  • Total Inventor's Manual: Transform Your Idea into a Top-Selling Product (Popular Science)

    • ASIN: 168188433X
    • ISBN: 168188433X
    • Brand: Weldon Owen
    • Manufacturer: Weldon Owen

    Contrary to popular wisdom, you don’t have to be an ace electrician, a coding prodigy, or a mechanical master to come up with a game-changing invention! You just need curiosity, a strong desire to fix a problem that you see in the world, and the determination to see your ideas become reality—and this book, which will teach you everything you ne... [Read More]

  • The Air Fryer Cookbook: Deep-Fried Flavor Made Easy, Without All the Fat!

    • ASIN: 1250096146
    • ISBN: 1250096146
    • Brand: St Martin s Castle Point
    • Manufacturer: Castle Point Books

    Air fryers are hot new kitchen appliances that use forced hot air to "fry" foods without oil. This is a huge boon to home cooks who love the flavor and texture of deep-fried foods, but hate the fat, calories, mess, and danger that accompany frying foods in a vat of hot oil.

  • Make: Fire: The Art and Science of Working with Propane

    • ASIN: 1680450875
    • ISBN: 1680450875
    • Brand: Make Books
    • Manufacturer: Maker Media, Inc

    Learn how to safely build projects that burn, poof, "boosh," and flare! This complete reference and hands-on guide to working with propane explains how to create a variety of flame effects projects that can be built with common tools and materials.Starting from the basics, this book explains everything you need to know to safely work with propane. ... [Read More]

  • It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels

    • ASIN: 1608195759
    • ISBN: 1608195759
    • Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    • Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA

    Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. He rides to get to work, to bathe in air and sunshine, to travel, to go shopping, and to stay sane. He's no Sunday pedal pusher. So when the time came for a new bike, he decided to pull out all the stops and build his dream machine. It's All About the Bike follows Penn's journey, but th... [Read More]

  • The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technical Revolution

    • ASIN: 0684835290
    • ISBN: 0684835290
    • Brand: Brand: Touchstone
    • Manufacturer: Touchstone

    The technology that was created to win World War Ii (radar) has revolutionized the modern world. This is the story of the inventors and their inventions. Photos. Line drawings.

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