Innovations

Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....

Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. It is innovation that will shape the 21st century....

Unlocking tales of unsung heroes and unexpected scientific revolutions, this is the story of the ideas that changed the world and the way we live in it....

In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dreamlife, and a flashpoint in culture wars for more for than 200 years....

From the spread of COVID-19 to the rise of political polarisation, from implicit bias to genetically modified food, from NASA to Netflix - it's time to think differently about how change works.... 

In Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, the revolutionary, acclaimed book, radio series and podcast, best-selling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of 50 radical inventions that changed the world....

Simply Electrifying brings to life the 250-year history of electricity through the stories of the men and women who used it to transform our world....

Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology....

Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the 20th century....

A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem solving to present-day problems....

What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? Find out....

How will the latest technologies transform your business? Tech Trends in Practice will give you the knowledge of today's most important technology trends and how to take full advantage of them to grow your business....

John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent thinkers on technology and design, and in How to Speak Machine, he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today but the unimaginable machines of the future.... 

A trailblazing exploration of how we can plan better for the future: our own, our families’, and our society’s....

This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor....

Schilling shares the science behind the convergence of traits that increases the likelihood of success. And, as Schilling also reveals, there is much to learn about nurturing breakthrough innovation in our own lives....

The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly 60 years....

The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......

Based on the author’s experience in the world of inventing and promotion, Hardcore Inventing offers the kind of advice you can only learn from experience....

Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement....

Michelle Malkin tells the fascinating, little-known stories of the inventors who have contributed to American exceptionalism and technological progress....