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Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
Pagan Kennedy
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Description for Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
Hardcover. A businessman struggles with his luggage at an airport and pioneers the wheeled suitcase. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and dreams up the mobile phone. Why were these particular people able to identify a problem, and how did they discover the solutions that everyone else missed? This book shows you how to become more creative. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JM; TBY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 30. Weight in Grams: 520.
Find out where great ideas come from. A businessman struggles with his luggage at an airport and pioneers the wheeled suitcase. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and dreams up the mobile phone. A printer is frustrated by his unpredictable inks and creates the Pantone colour system. Why were these particular people able to identify a problem, and how did they discover the solutions that ... Read more
Find out where great ideas come from. A businessman struggles with his luggage at an airport and pioneers the wheeled suitcase. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and dreams up the mobile phone. A printer is frustrated by his unpredictable inks and creates the Pantone colour system. Why were these particular people able to identify a problem, and how did they discover the solutions that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bantam Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780593077238
SKU
V9780593077238
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-17
About Pagan Kennedy
Pagan Kennedy is a writer, journalist and former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, where she studied microbiology and neuro-engineering. She also held a Lemelson Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institute and is the author of several works of fiction and non-fiction. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe Magazine, The New York Times Book Review ... Read more
Reviews for Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
Elegant prose and excellent reporting.
The New York Times
Pagan Kennedy helps explore the relationship between serendipity and an inventive mind.
Slate
There's ample interest here even for readers who aren't actively inventing anything. Each of us, Kennedy writes, has experienced unique events that could turn out to be the ... Read more
The New York Times
Pagan Kennedy helps explore the relationship between serendipity and an inventive mind.
Slate
There's ample interest here even for readers who aren't actively inventing anything. Each of us, Kennedy writes, has experienced unique events that could turn out to be the ... Read more