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A shot of the purest oxygen (Simon Winchester)
It fizzes (John Gapper FT)
Entertaining ... clear-sighted and intelligent (The New Yorker)
[Johnson is] an infectiously exciting writer ... The Invention of Air is delightful to read (Salon)
Packed with excellent stuff (Russell Davies)
Johnson paints Priestley not as a man of the past but precisely the sort of figure the world needs more than ever (New York Post)
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It fizzes (John Gapper FT)
Entertaining ... clear-sighted and intelligent (The New Yorker)
[Johnson is] an infectiously exciting writer ... The Invention of Air is delightful to read (Salon)
Packed with excellent stuff (Russell Davies)
Johnson paints Priestley not as a man of the past but precisely the sort of figure the world needs more than ever (New York Post)
Steven Johnson is the author of the national bestsellers Everything Bad Is Good for You and Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, as well as Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software and Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate.
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- PublisherRiverhead Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1594488525
- ISBN 13 9781594488528
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