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Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine by Steven Foster and Rebecca L Johnson
Category: Health
Designed to meet the needs of both the botanist, and those with an interest in alternative health, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the abundant healing properties found within nature. Accompanying each plant is a colour photograph, and detailed information ranging from its modern uses to it ...Show more
Emergence by Steven A. Johnson
Category: Fiction
Ranging from brain science to software to cities to ant colonies, Johnson shows that "emergence" is all around us. To understand emergence is to understand something fundamental about how the world works.
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software by Steven Johnson
Category: Culture
This work argues that it is fast becoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of "emergence". Order arrives from the bottom-up, not top-down. Complexity is resolved through simplicity. Everywhere the same laws are obeyed, the same swarm logic is at work. Emergence looks at the cities we inhab ...Show more
EmergenceThe Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
Category: Science
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKA VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORIT ...Show more
Empathic Oracle Cards by WILSON, STEVE
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
When you have empathy for someone or something, you are able to control it at any given time, because you are reacting to cues from someone else's experience. An empath feels everything and everyone all the time, whether wanted or not This striking oracle will delve into all the aspects of being an empa ...Show more
Enemy of All Mankind - A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson
Category: Biography
"Thoroughly engrossing. . . .a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags." --Wall Street Journal The New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Map and How We Got to Now returns with the story of a pirate who changed the world Henry Every ...Show more
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson
Category: History
"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 in ...Show more
Enemy of All Mankind - A true story of piracy, power and history's first global manhunt by Steven Johnson
Category: History
“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
Everything Bad Is Good For You : How popular culture is making us smarter by Steven Johnson
Category: Culture
From the bestselling author of Mind Wide Open comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence. Tune in, turn on and get smarter. "The Simpsons", "Desperate Housewives", "The Apprentice", "The Sopranos", "Grand Theft Auto": We're ...Show more
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Forget everything you've ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to arg ...Show more
Everything Bad Is Good for You : How popular culture is making us smarter by Steven Johnson
Category: Culture
From the bestselling author of "Mind Wide Open" comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence.
Extra Life - A Short History of Living Longer by Steven Johnson
Category: Health and Wellbeing
"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