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Pages: 312
Authors: John H. Lienhard
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half
Inventing Modern America
Language: en
Pages: 221
Authors: David E. Brown
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Mit Press

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Profiles thirty-five inventors whose various innovations changed life in modern America.
Inventing Modern Adolescence
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Sarah E. Chinn
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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In Inventing Modern Adolescence Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the tw
They Made America
Language: en
Pages: 922
Authors: David Lefer
Categories: History
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An illustrated history of American innovators -- some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating -- by the author of the bestselling The American Century.
The First Freedoms and America's Culture of Innovation
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Narain D. Batra
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This is a book about the dynamics of the aspirational society. It explores the boundaries of permissible thought--deviations and transgressions that create cons