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The machine as seen at the end of the mechanical age
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J. K. P. Hulten |
"The Machine" is a museum catalog created in 1968 for The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It is bound by a metal cover riveted to the catalog (stamped illustration on the front cover, plain me… |
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Where good ideas come from
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Steven Johnson,Steven Johnson |
This work tracks the history of innovation in the form of the "slow hunch". The author discusses how new ideas form from the scaffolding of older ideas, a phenomenon he describes as the "adjacent pos… |
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Facts & Fallacies
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Dorling Kindersley |
"In two words: impossible!" said famed Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn.
But Facts & Fallacies proves otherwise. It sifts through the implausible, the improbable, the unlikely, and the bizarre--and … |
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Queen of inventions
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Laurie M. Carlson |
Looks at the history of sewing and how it was transformed in the 1850s when an American inventor, Isaac Singer, not only invented a practical sewing machine, but also a way for everyone to afford one. |
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Armstrong
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Torben Kuhlmann |
A long time ago a mouse learned to fly . . . and crossed the Atlantic. But what happened next?
Torben Kuhlmann's stunning new book transports readers to the moon and beyond!
On the heels of L… |
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Iggy Peck, Architect
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Andrea Beaty,David Roberts |
Meet Iggy Peck—creative, independent, and not afraid to express himself! In the spirit of David Shannon’s No, David and Rosemary Wells’s Noisy Nora, Iggy Peck will delight readers looking for irrever… |
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El Ascenso De Europa
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Daniela Forni |
Entre los siglos XV y XVII los grandes descubrimientos geográficos; la llegada de Colón a América; las innovaciones tecnológicas; las naves y los cañones de los europeos... cambiaron el orden del mun… |
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