Steven Johnson

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1.		The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World from Riverhead Trade Price: $9.66 Customer Review: Once I started it, I couldn't put it down. This book immediately grabs you and dumps you into the wretchedness and filth that is London in 1854. Before this book, I couldn't have told you what cholera was or how it is prevented/cured, but now I can. My only complaint is that the photo/graphic of the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		The Invention of Air from Riverhead Hardcover Price: $16.34 Customer Review: I enjoyed this book even while I quickly came to distrust it. Although it wasn't one of my areas of specialization, I did some work on the history of science while in grad school and I even had a job transcribing the lectures of a prominent philosopher of the history of science. To supplement this I... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Everything Bad is Good for You from Riverhead Trade Price: $10.20 Customer Review: The book Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making us Smarter by Steven Johnson, is a critical and detailed analysis of society and how it, he argues, is positively effected by popular culture. The overall objective of the book is to prove that despite the fact... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software from Scribner Price: $10.88 Customer Review: I read this about a year ago and purchased a copy for my girl friend. Very interesting and insightful perspective on life and organization.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, Volume II: Since 1500 from Wadsworth Publishing Price: $82.33 Customer Review: The book was a little dry, but in preparing me for my AP exam, I feel it did a decent job. My teacher substituted chapters from other books as well, so the information lacking from the earth and its people was compinsated. Although dry, the book opened my awareness to many components involved in... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		The Night Stalkers: Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations from Tantor Media Price: $57.75 Customer Review: Night Stalkers grips you and hangs on. Durant's Faith in his God and his fellow soldiers is inspiring. The only "survivor book" that tops it is Marcus Lutrell's "Lone Survivor".	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life from Scribner Price: $10.44 Customer Review: This book is a good attempt to connect psychology with neuroscience by explaining everyday life in terms of brain structures, neurotransmitters and psychological tendencies. I would give this book about 4 and a half stars: I would not say it was awesome, but in general I would say this book indeed... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, Volume I: To 1550 from Wadsworth Publishing Price: $105.51	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		Work Design: Occupational Ergonomics from Holcomb Hathaway Publishing Price: $87.00 Customer Review: I don't have my book yet!!! UPS sent back to you the book and now I don't have it Please, I need to know what is going to happen with my book or my payment. If you will not send the book again to me I need a refund of my money	Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		Benoit: Wrestling with the Horror That Destroyed a Family and Crippled a Sport from Ecw Press Price: $11.21 Customer Review: This book isnt what i expected it to be. i thought it was going to be his biography amongst the description of what caused him to commit the crimes he did. The book was good it kept my attention. all together i would have to give this book a 6 out of 10.	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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