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Enemy of All Mankind - A true story of piracy, power and history's first global manhunt by Steven Johnson
38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
“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 i ...Show more
Extra Life - A Short History of Living Longer by Steven Johnson
37.00 NZD
Category: Health
"Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives." --President Barack Obama (on Twitter) "An important book." --Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book Review Now also a PBS documentary series: the surprising story of how humans gained what amount ...Show more
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
45.00 NZD
Category: History
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
The Ghost Map: A Street, An Epidemic, and the Two Men who Battled to Save Victorian London by Steven Johnson
28.00 NZD
Category: History
Steven Johnson is one of today's most exciting writers about popular culture, urban living and new technology. In The Ghost Map he tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàanaesthetist Do ...Show more
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