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9780743282260 | Simon & Schuster, July 3, 2007, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Identifies lesser-known coincidences linking each of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence and modern-day America, tracing how historical events and people gave rise to today's technologies.
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Traces the advantages and dangers of mankind's inventions and argues that the time has come to rethink their use
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9780614037500 | 1st americ edition (Putnam Pub Group, September 1, 1995), cover price $25.01 | About this edition: Traces the advantages and dangers of mankind's inventions and argues that the time has come to rethink their use
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The host of the popular science series on public television, 'Connections,' and a psychologist trace the advantages and dangers of human inventions and argue that the time has come to turn away from specialized, technological knowledge. 35,000 first printing.
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9780399140884 | Putnam Pub Group, September 1, 1995, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Traces the advantages and dangers of mankind's inventions and argues that the time has come to rethink their use
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9781559273527 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Traces the blessings and curses of mankind's inventions, arguing that the time has come to rethink their use.
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9780874778564 | J P Tarcher, March 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Traces the advantages and dangers of mankind's inventions
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9780912963228 | Eldridge Pub Co, December 1, 1994, cover price $19.95
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9780743200080 | Simon & Schuster, December 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author examines the world of technology in a series of essays that originally appeared in his popular 'Scientific American' column, examining everything from hypnotism to electromagnetic fields.
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9781439127957 | Simon & Schuster, November 24, 2009, cover price $11.99
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9780743249768 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, September 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The best-selling author of The Knowledge Web examines the world of technology in a series of essays that originally appeared in his popular Scientific American column, examining everything from hypnotism to electromagnetic fields.
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9780743299558 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, July 3, 2007), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Explores the accidents of time, place, and circumstance that culminated in the century's technological achievements: the computer, the telephone, the production line, the airplane, the atomic bomb, the guided rocket, plastics, and television.
9780316116725 | Rev sub edition (Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1995), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explores the accidents of time, place, and circumstance that culminated in the century's technological achievements: the computer, the telephone, the production line, the airplane, the atomic bomb, the guided rocket, plastics, and television
9780316116855 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1980, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explores the accidents of time, place, and circumstance that culminated in the century's technological achievements: the computer, the telephone, the production line, the airplane, the atomic bomb, the guided rocket, plastics, and television
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9781559270663 | St Martins Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Connections is a brilliant examination of the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological achievements of today.
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9780316116954 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1986, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: The companion to a BBC television series probing the origins of Western attitudes and institutions focuses on eight periods in history when a change in knowledge dramatically altered human understanding of ourselves and the world around
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9780316117043 | Rei sub edition (Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1995), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Revision of Burke's highly successful original of 1985.
9789990057935 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1995, cover price $0.02
9780316117067 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1987, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The companion to a BBC television series probing the origins of Western attitudes and institutions focuses on eight periods in history when a change in knowledge dramatically altered human understanding of ourselves and the world around
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9781593979799 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, November 14, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The companion to a BBC television series probing the origins of Western attitudes and institutions focuses on eight periods in history when a change in knowledge dramatically altered human understanding of ourselves and the world around.
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9781559270816 | St Martins Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When people knew the earth was flat and it was the center of the universe, all life revolved around that truth.
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9780613922487, titled "Day The Universe Changed" | Bt Bound, September 1, 1995, cover price $36.65 | About this edition: Revision of Burke's highly successful original of 1985.
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9780872440494 | Texian Pr, November 1, 1979, cover price $11.95
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9781104100421 | Kessinger Pub Co, February 28, 2009, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text, possible missing pages, missing text and other issues beyond our control.
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9781104090203 | Kessinger Pub Co, February 28, 2009, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text, possible missing pages, missing text and other issues beyond our control.
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Product Description: Inventing Modern America profiles thirty-five inventors who exemplify the rich technological creativity of the United States over the past century. The range of their contributions is broad. They have helped transform our homes, our healthcare, our work, our environment, and the way we travel and communicate...read more
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9780262025089 | Mit Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Profiles thirty-five inventors whose various innovations changed life in modern America.
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9780262523493 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Profiles thirty-five inventors whose various innovations changed life in modern America.
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9781439558768 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 4, 2008), cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Inventing Modern America profiles thirty-five inventors who exemplify the rich technological creativity of the United States over the past century.
9780613911290 | Bt Bound, April 1, 2003, cover price $35.50 | About this edition: Profiles thirty-five inventors whose various innovations changed life in modern America.
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9780684859347 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Discusses the interplay of ideas that have made a giant connecting web of the world's knowledge
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9780684859354 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In The Knowledge Web, James Burke, the bestselling author and host of television's Connections series, takes us on a fascinating tour through the interlocking threads of knowledge running through Western history.
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9781559270823 | St Martins Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Sx individual meditations on three separate tapes, plus a special bonus meditation music tape.
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9780316116022 | Little Brown & Co, August 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Explores how simple changes in one century can have far-reaching implications in another
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9780316116107 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, August 1, 1997), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Explores how simple changes in one century can have far-reaching implications in another
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9781559273954 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Explores how simple changes in one century can have far-reaching implications in another.
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9780743226196 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Considers the nature of change, the qualities of the divine, and the origins of contemporary civilization, citing how divergent paths stemming from specific historical events subsequently converged in the modern world.
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9780743258104 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, January 26, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of narratives considers the nature of change, the qualities of the divine, and the origins of contemporary civilization, citing how divergent paths stemming from specific historical events subsequently converged in the modern world.
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9780806513348 | Citadel Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $10.95
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