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Product Description: A nation's culture and structure influence the type and degree of innovation achievable within its society. Routes exist for any nation, regardless of its structural or cultural elements, to achieve innovative success and economic development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780899309330 | Praeger Pub Text, October 30, 1994, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: A nation's culture and structure influence the type and degree of innovation achievable within its society.
Explores the iconic themes of the century such as: flight, space travel, television, mechanised war, medicine, video games, electronic music, skyscrapers and electronic espionage. This book also reveals the story behind why some inventions like the Zeppelin, the hovercraft or the Theremin struggled to make their mark.
Hardcover:
9780340950906 | Hodder & Stoughton, September 6, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Explores the iconic themes of the century such as: flight, space travel, television, mechanised war, medicine, video games, electronic music, skyscrapers and electronic espionage.
Product Description: The 20th century was a time of extraordinary change as new technologies and inventions emerged at a bewildering rate. From the amazingly complex to the brilliantly simple, this entertaining and insightful guide investigates the greatest marvels of the last 100 years, including space travel, television, mechanized war, medicine, video games, skyscrapers, electronic espionage, and much more...read more
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9780340950913 | Hodder & Stoughton, April 28, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The 20th century was a time of extraordinary change as new technologies and inventions emerged at a bewildering rate.
Product Description: The 20th century was a time of extraordinary change as new technologies and inventions emerged at a bewildering rate. From the amazingly complex to the brilliantly simple, this entertaining and insightful guide investigates mankind's greatest creations and successes, including space travel, television, mechanized war, medicine, video games, skyscrapers, electronic espionage, and much more...read more
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9780340950920 | Hodder & Stoughton, November 1, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The 20th century was a time of extraordinary change as new technologies and inventions emerged at a bewildering rate.
Hardcover:
9781741104899 | New Holland Pub Pty Ltd, October 10, 2009, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Easy to read with hundreds of photos, David Ellyard takes you on a journey through the last 500 years of inventions.
Product Description: This book is but the draft of a draft, as Melville said of Moby Dick. There is no prose here to match Melville's, but the scope is worthy of the great white whale. No one could possibly write a comprehensive, authoritative book on ethics, invention and discovery...read more
Hardcover:
9780792381204 | Kluwer Academic Pub, March 1, 1998, cover price $249.00 | About this edition: This book is but the draft of a draft, as Melville said of Moby Dick.
Paperback:
9781461375890 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, October 4, 2012), cover price $239.00 | About this edition: This book is but the draft of a draft, as Melville said of Moby Dick.
Hardcover:
9781594205651 | Penguin Pr, January 30, 2014, cover price $27.95
Paperback:
9780143126331 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, January 27, 2015), cover price $17.00
Hardcover:
9780465058624 | Basic Books, June 2, 2015, cover price $28.99
Paperback:
9780395342473, titled "Teaching With a Purpose" | Houghton Mifflin School, January 1, 1984, cover price $2.36 | also contains Teaching With a Purpose
Hardcover:
9781594632969 | Riverhead Books, September 30, 2014, cover price $30.00
Paperback:
9781594633935 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, September 22, 2015), cover price $18.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781611763386 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, September 30, 2014), cover price $30.00
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