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Metropolis : a history of the city, humankind's greatest invention / by Wilson, Ben,1980-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From a brilliant young historian, a colourful journey through 7,000 years and twenty-six world cities that shows how urban living has been the spur and incubator to humankind's greatest innovations. In the two hundred millennia of our existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. Ben Wilson, author of bestselling and award-winning books on British history, now tells the grand, glorious story of how city living has allowed human culture to flourish. Beginning in 5,000 BC with Uruk, the world's first city, immortalized in The Epic of Gilgamesh, he shows us that cities were never a necessity, but that once they existed, their density created such a blossoming of human endeavour--producing new professions, art forms, worship and trade--that they kickstarted civilization itself. Guiding readers through famous cities over 7,000 years, Wilson reveals the innovations driven by each: civics in the agora of Athens, global trade in 9th century Baghdad, finance in the coffeehouses of London, domestic comforts in the heart of Amsterdam, peacocking in Belle Epoque Paris. In the modern age, he studies the impact of verticality in New York City, the sprawl of LA and the eco-reimagining of 21st-century Shanghai. Lively, erudite, page-turning and irresistible, Metropolis is a grand tour of human endeavour"--
Subjects: Cities and towns;
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Amazon unbound : Jeff Bezos and the invention of a global empire / by Stone, Brad,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.'Amazon Unbound' is an unvarnished picture of Amazons unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time. From the author of 'The Everything Store' (9780316219266).
Subjects: Biographies.; Bezos, Jeffrey.; Amazon.com (Firm); Electronic commerce; Internet bookstores.; Businessmen; Booksellers and bookselling;
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Pillsbury baking hacks : fun and inventive recipes with refrigerated dough / by Pillsbury Company,editor.;
Subjects: Cookbooks.; Baking.; Cooking (Bread); Dough.; Cooking, American.;
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Electronics from the ground up : learn by hacking, designing, and inventing by Quan, Ronald.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
Subjects: Electronics.;
© c2015., McGraw-Hill Education,
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Tinkerlab : a hands-on guide for little inventors / by Doorley, Rachelle.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.LSC
Subjects: Inventions.; Creative activities and seat work.; Playrooms.;
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How to become an accidental genius / by MacLeod, Elizabeth.; Wishinsky, Frieda.; Playford, Jennifer.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.Introduces young readers to both famous and lesser-known inventors who have changed the world.LSC
Subjects: Inventors; Inventors; Inventions; Inventions; Serendipity in science;
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What's the big idea? : inventions that changed life on earth forever / by Becker, Helaine,1961-; Attoe, Steve.;
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Subjects: Inventions; Inventions; Technological innovations; Technology; Technology and civilization;
© c2009., Owlkids Books,
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Canadian inventors / by Trottier, Maxine.; McRae, Jock.;
Subjects: Inventors; Inventions;
© c2004., Scholastic,
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Robots can't dance! and other fun facts / by Eliot, Hannah.; Spurgeon, Aaron.; Abril, Mauricio.;
Ages 4-8.LSC
Subjects: Technology; Inventions;
© 2017., Little Simon,
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What killed Jane Creba : rap, race, and the invention of a gang war / by Arvast, Anita.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.A look at the shooting death of fifteen-year-old Jane Creba on Boxing Day 2005 in downtown Toronto and its aftermath, including the sensationalism and prejudice that clouded the story from the outset and the questions that should be asked to find out the whole truth about it.LSC
Subjects: Creba, Jane, 1990-2005; Victims of violent crimes; Violent crimes; Gangs;
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