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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
An exploration of environments that lead to breakthrough innovation, in science, technology, business, and the arts. I conceived it as the closing book in a trilogy on innovative thinking, after Ghost Map and Invention. But in a way, it completes an investigation that runs through all the books. Sold more copies in hardcover than anything else I've written.
The Invention of Air
The story of the British radical chemist Joseph Priestley, who ended up having a Zelig-like role in the American Revolution. My version of a founding fathers book, and a reminder that most of the Enlightenment was driven by open source ideals.
The Ghost Map
The latest: the story of a terrifying outbreak of cholera in 1854 London 1854 that ended up changing the world. An idea book wrapped around a page-turner. I like to think of it as a sequel to Emergence if Emergence had been a disease thriller. You can see a trailer for the book here.
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
The title says it all. This one sparked a slightly insane international conversation about the state of pop culture -- and particularly games. There were more than a few dissenters, but the response was more positive than I had expected. And it got me on The Daily Show, which made it all worthwhile.
Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
My first best-seller, and the only book I've written in which I appear as a recurring character, subjecting myself to a battery of humiliating brain scans. The last chapter on Freud and the neuroscientific model of the mind is one of my personal favorites.
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
The story of bottom-up intelligence, from slime mold to Slashdot. Probably the most critically well-received all my books, and the one that has influenced the most eclectic mix of fields: political campaigns, web business models, urban planning, the war on terror.
Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate
My first. The book I wrote instead of finishing my dissertation. Still in print almost a decade later, and still relevant, I think. But I haven't read it in a while, so who knows what's in there!
Amazon say it's in stock and shipping too. Purchased and added to the queue, thank you.
Posted by: Zeh | December 26, 2008 at 03:47 PM
Any chance you'll be speaking re the bk or others topics in the S.F. Bay area?
Posted by: Kare Anderson | December 26, 2008 at 04:23 PM
Congrats - look forward to reading. Picking up tomorrow @ Oblong Books in Millerton NY.
http://www.oblongbooks.com/NASApp/store/Product?s=showproduct&isbn=9780143143703
Posted by: John Maloney | December 27, 2008 at 08:02 AM
Don't know if this is good news or bad news: sold out at Borders in The Woodlands, TX. Congrats. Through about 100 pages. Very nice
Posted by: DrV | December 28, 2008 at 08:46 PM
Your comments at the Book Nook in Atlantic Beach, Florida were interesting. I especially enjoyed hearing your response on your research for the book Invention of air and the aid your received in obtaining access to primary source material on the Jefferson Adams correspondence and others. I have noted there is so much information in Florida's early history that is difficult to obtain and much that is not yet translated into English of the first Spanish settlement of Florida. A span of three hundred years of settlement history that in our own state and country. We have much historical perspective on the the English language settlement that is easily available, but much less on three hundred years of interaction between native populations and the Spanish. I'm enjoying your most rescent book. Thanks again. Lee
Posted by: Lee McDonald | December 29, 2008 at 04:16 AM
Why no kindle version? I'd like to read the book but prefer to leave the paper behind when I travel....
Posted by: James | December 29, 2008 at 04:12 PM
Grabbed it last night at a Borders in Las Vegas. A welcome antidote to, well, Las Vegas.
Posted by: normd | December 30, 2008 at 04:14 PM
I'm very interested in hearing more about the book. I used to only read nonfiction,learn something books. I am now "dissolusioned" (not Divorced, sounds better) 3 great girls with a job I love, Nurse for 15 years! Sounds like alot, but I don't have time to chill and read much. I would love to know if you do book signings or conferences in Ohio(or close). Thanks for inspiring me again! Vick
Posted by: Vicki Valentine | December 30, 2008 at 06:03 PM
This sounds like another fascinating book; I am eager to read it. I would like to offer an interview to "Lab Out Loud" - a podcast through the
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) - to promote your work to the science education community. Check out our site at www.laboutloud.com, and contact me at brian@laboutloud.com if you are interested.
Posted by: Brian Bartel | December 31, 2008 at 04:18 PM
I second the Kindle request. Please, as soon as possible.
Posted by: Charlie Uniman | January 01, 2009 at 02:55 PM
I have just begun reading it. Excellent and fascinating although spotted a typo, 1750 became 1850 which threw me for a moment! It is a masterly work taking in a range of themes and showing how everything connects. It also helps that I recently watched the HBO John Adams series and spent a week in Maryland during the Presidential election. While there I began reading Ghost Map, another excellent book. I know that part of Soho very well but had no idea about the cholera outbreak.
Posted by: Simon Goldie | January 01, 2009 at 03:15 PM
Enjoyed the talk at Poetry and Prose (DC) -- and then, the next day, the book. Not my favorite of yours but I appreciate all you're trying to do with it: no small task. Let us know if you or your editors would want a short list of typos that slipped through (old editorial habit, can't be turned off). Safe travels and much success out west.
Posted by: Frank | January 10, 2009 at 05:50 PM
Hey Steve. How about posting something useful? I got a link to the site from my friend, thus I became very exciting hoping for another good source of knowledge. Instead, so far, I've read lots of bragging about yourself (your life, the new house, another comment on your book etc.). I mean, I understand this is an awesome tool for self-promotion, but I really would appreciate if you could shift a focus to what seems to be your specialty and what you claim to cover in your books. At this point, I'm not encourage to pay anything what you've written. Frankly, how about posting some of it here? Free of charge. Evolve.
Posted by: fumall | January 20, 2009 at 09:07 PM
Hi Steven:
I couldn't find your email address as it relates to your interest in neuroscience, so I hope this post isn't too far afield.
Although it's from an unexpected source, based on what you've written about, I think you and your readers will enjoy checking out a new theory in Systems Neuroscience called Impulse trails … or Impulsing in the Nervous System. There's a short video about it called "Beginning Impulsing" at www.youtube.com/impulsing and the central site is www.impulsing.org.
My best to you as you keep the ball rolling,
Denise
Posted by: Denise Ingebo | January 31, 2009 at 04:11 PM
Amazon say it's in stock and shipping too. Purchased and added to the queue, thank you.
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