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1) Invention
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Series
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text explore such inventions as the wheel, gears, levers, clocks, telephones, and rocket engines.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences....
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Did you know that President Thomas Jefferson used a copier? Or that one of the world's fastest computers is the size of a two-story house? Get ready to learn the strange stories behind technology inventions you use every day. From the teenager who first imagined the television to a $900 smartphone named Simon, you'll find out how we got the technological wonders that help us connect, create, and keep up.
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English
Description
In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in his American Book Award-winning and bestselling Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation, Lies Across America looks at more than one hundred sites where history is told on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, museums, historic houses, forts, and ships. Loewen uses his investigation of these public versions of history, often literally...
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English
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"The flourishing of America is the story of an inventive people with a mystic faith in technology, from the early settlers who used windmills as a way of getting water on the Great Plains to the electronic whiz kids of the Internet. Innovation, practical inventiveness, is the main force behind America's preeminence. But there is more to this extraordinary history. Harold Evans traces how the innovators have time and again proved to be democratizers,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter Letters From An American, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. The essays soon turned into a newsletter and, spread by word...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Do you know what happened when a kid forgot his glass of soda with a stir stick in it outside on a freezing cold night? Popsicles were invented! And did you know ancient people loved to chew on gum, just like we do? Get ready to learn the strange stories behind inventions you use every day. From the guy who thought white-flour snacks were evil so he invented graham crackers to the evolution of ketchup, you'll be amazed how we got the food inventions...
8) Sky jumpers
Author
Series
Sky jumpers volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Hope lives in a post World War III town called White Rock where everyone must participate in Inventions Day, though Hope's inventions always fail. Her unique skill set comes in hand when a group of bandits invades the town"--
9) That's not in my American history book: a compilation of little-known events and forgotten heroes
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Language
English
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Description
Presents a collection of little-known or overlooked stories from American history, including an account of the communist invasion of Texas and the story of the men who flew before the Wright brothers.
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of historians to provide textured analysis...
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Series
Publisher
Bluewood Books
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fascinating stories behind 100 of the most important inventions in history, for kids 8 and up
This fast-paced journey through the most vital developments and inventions of all time features:
• 100 easy-to-read stories: Find out how each invention came to be!
• Illustrations: Each entry includes an illustrated image of the invention to help bring history to life!
• A timeline, trivia questions, project ideas and more: Boost your learning and...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1988
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The truth and nothing but the truth-Richard Shenkman sheds light on America's most believed legends.
The story of Columbus discovering the world was round was invented by Washington Irving.
The pilgrims never lived in log cabins.
In Concord, Massachusetts, a third of all babies born in the twenty years before the Revolution were conceived out of wedlock.
Washington may have never told a lie, but he loved to drink and dance, and he fell...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles eleven inventors between the ages of eight and fourteen, describes the steps involved in inventing a new product, and discusses contests, patents, lawyers, and clubs.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1945
Physical Desc
xiii, 143 p. 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xiv, 154 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: This book seeks to debunk eleven popular and prevalent myths about Caribbean history. Using archaeological evidence, it corrects many previous misconceptions promulgated by history books and oral tradition as they specifically relate to the pre-Colonial and European-contact periods. It informs popular audiences, as well as scholars, about the current state of archaeological/historical research in the Caribbean Basin and asserts...
20) Splendidly unreasonable inventors: the lives, loves and deaths of 30 pioneers who changed the world
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Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
viii, 214 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Coller, a pioneer in the world of private equity, argues that there are three basic personality types in the arena of invention. The Principal, Broker, and Consultant each display certain traits that dictate the potential for success, but few people have the full package. Failure results when an individual who excels in one area of competence attempts to become all things. In Splendidly Unreasonable Inventors, Coller focuses on the individual...
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