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Which inventions changed the world? / by Romero, Libby.;
Discover the inventions that changed our world! Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about inventions that change how we live - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Which Inventions Changed the World? is a beautifully designed reader all about inventions that changed people's lives - from helping us to navigate or communicate to keeping us healthy and safe. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about inventions from the wheel to VR, from the printing press to vaccines and X-rays.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Technological innovations; Inventions; Inventions;
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Firestarters : how innovators, instigators and initiators can inspire you to ignite your own life / by Davis, Raoul,1979-author.; Eder, Paul,1980-author.; Palokoff, Kathy,1953-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Creative ability in business.; Entrepreneurship.; Success in business.; Technological innovations.;
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Burn book : a tech love story / by Swisher, Kara,author.;
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing-but-fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. 'Burn Book' includes soaring tales of innovation and brilliant entrepreneurs, as well as Silicon Valley's much more complex history of striving, success, and failure. The book details how the commercial internet came into being and how, for all it has given the world, it now sits at the centre of global power, creating a clear and present danger to humanity.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Internet industry; Technology;
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Fifty inventions that shaped the modern economy / by Harford, Tim,1973-;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Inventions; Technological innovations; Economic history.;
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Dissolution : A Novel. by Binge, Nicholas.;
In this staggering technothriller from Nicholas Binge, a woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself and must choose between saving the love of her life or the world. From the author of 'Ascension'. Goodreads Marketing Campaign.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Science fiction.; FICTION / Action & Adventure; FICTION / Science Fiction / Time Travel; FICTION / Thrillers / Technological;
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Jinxed / by McCulloch, Amy.;
Lacey Chu has big dreams of working for the company behind the 'baku' - a customizable smart pet that functions as a phone but makes the perfect companion for its user. The only problem is, she's just been rejected from Profectus Academy - the elite academy for cutting-edge tech. Then Lacey meets Jinx ... Jinx is an incredibly advanced cat baku who opens up a world that Lacey never new existed, including entry into the hallowed halls of Profectus. But what is Jinx, really? His abilities far surpass anything written into his coded. He seems to be more than just a robotic pet. He seems ... real.Ages 8 and up.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Robotic pets; Technological innovations; Robots;
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Civilized to death : the price of progress / by Ryan, Christopher,1962-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The New York Times best selling co-author of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which 'progress' has perverted the way we live: how people eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die.
Subjects: Progress.; Civilization, Modern.; Popular culture;
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Merchants of truth : the business of news and the fight for facts / by Abramson, Jill,1954-author.;
Subjects: Journalism; Online journalism; Journalism;
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The Murder Machine. by Graham, Heather.;
In 'The Murder Machine', Heather Graham delves into the world of AI and cybercrimes as a team of FBI agents are tasked with investigating a dead body in a locked smart home.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural; FICTION / Thrillers / Crime; FICTION / Thrillers / Technological;
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Picks and Shovels. by Doctorow, Cory.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE BEZZLE, ISBN 9781250865878. Cory Doctorow returns to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer. Doctorow was born in Toronto, ON.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Science fiction.; FICTION / Science Fiction / Crime & Mystery; FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction; FICTION / Thrillers / Technological;
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