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Inventology : how we dream up things that change the world
- Title
- Inventology : how we dream up things that change the world / Pagan Kennedy.
- Author
- Kennedy, Pagan, 1962-
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-8132 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JBD 18-75 | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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- Description
- xvii, 270 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "The writer of the New York Times Magazine's popular "Who Made That?" column explains how better ideas enter the world, revealing the fabled "aha" moment to be the result of a series of steps anyone can apply to solve the problems we encounter in everyday life, "--NoveList.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Note
- "An Eamon Dolan book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-255) and index.
- Contents
- Part I: Problem finding -- Chapter 1: Martian Jet Lag -- Chapter 2: User-Inventors -- Chapter 3: Someone Else's Shoes -- Chapter 4: The Future of Feedback -- Part II: Discovery -- Chapter 5: Super-Encounters -- Chapter 6: Data Goggles -- Chapter 7: Building An Empire Out Of Nothing -- Part III: Prophecy -- Chapter 8: The Pong Effect -- Chapter 9: The Wayne Gretzy Game -- Chapter 10: The Mind's R & D Lab -- Chapter 11: How To Time-Travel -- Part IV: Connecting -- Chapter 12: The Go-Betweens -- Chapter 13: Zones Of Permission -- Chapter 14: Holistic Invention -- Part V: Empowerment -- Chapter 15: Paper Eyes -- Chapter 16: Tinkering With Education.
- Call Number
- JBD 18-75
- ISBN
- 9780544324008
- 0544324005
- LCCN
- 2016288011
- OCLC
- 898052731
- Author
- Kennedy, Pagan, 1962- author.
- Title
- Inventology : how we dream up things that change the world / Pagan Kennedy.
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-255) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JBD 18-75JFE 16-8132