All Books

How We Got to Now is the creative thinking, technology, innovation and positive thinking book which tells, how innovations help us to live a luxurious life. Steven Johnson is the author of this fantastic book. He is the bestselling author in the New York Times and the author of eleven other books. He talks about innovation in his previous books and tells people how innovation has changed the world. Innovation is meant to solve the issue of people. Steven states that six discoveries which changed the world such as glass, time, light, clean, sound and cold. These are the items which transform the world completely. Glass is used in thousands of digital products in different forms like chips, fabric, optical, cameras, lens and much more. Today, people wear glasses who have weak eye-side. The discovery of light makes a huge impact on the lives and people are just loving it. Now, the darkness vanished from the earth and it does not matter either its day or night.

Everything Bad is Good for You is the cognitive neuroscience, neuropsychology, media studies and cultural anthropology book that take hands on the social norms. Steven Johnson is the author of this remarkable book. The technology is changing with the passage of time but its speed increased in the last two decades. There are numbers of innovations that happened in the last two decades and mobile phone technology is one of them. Today kids have PSP, Play Stations, Tablets, Mobile Phones and plenty of other indoor sources of entertainment. Before this digital era, kids used to of playing games outside the homes but now they have rarely seen on the streets. They spend their free time watching cartoons rather than playing outside the home. The parents are worried and think that it may affect their brains performance.

Where Good Ideas Come From is the self-help, innovation thinking and cognitive psychology guide that teaches how to transform our lives with positive thinking. Steven Johnson is the author of this remarkable book. Everyone wanted to know that from where the good ideas come from? What are the things which push human towards best? How to perform brilliantly in every situation? How innovation can change the whole world? Why successful people always win? How can we change our lives, career, society, and culture through ideas? This book shows how important are good ideas in our life to change our world. Steven Johnson shares seven superb principles to generate life-changing ideas. Our conscious and subconscious mind plays a very important role in the creation of positive ideas so positive attitude leads people towards a positive life. Ninety percent of the ideas are wrong when we think under pressure situation. Pressure situation damage the performance either you are a manager, CEO, sportsman or whatever.

Farsighted is the problem solving, decision making, cognitive psychology, self-help and business decision making book which shares the different tools and strategies to master your decision-making abilities. Steven Johnson is the guy behind this superb book. He is the bestselling author in the New York Times and the writer of eleven remarkable books. The hardest choices in our life are the most consequential choices. Big and life-changing decisions matter more than our daily life decisions and they are also difficult to make. We have to make the correct decisions when it comes to deciding where to live, what to believe, whom to marry, whom to trust, how to end relation and how to begin a company. These are the most important decisions of our life and everyone has his own priorities. This book will show you how to master decision-making abilities and make your life easier. Whenever you are making an important decision in your life than always use both sides of your brain. Visualize yourself in the picture and see yourself winning. Be ready to accept the change that happens after decision making.

The Ghost Map is the history, communication diseases and microbiology book which tells the history of London and how people suffer from the rare disease. Steven Johnson is the author of this notable book. London is the most developed and expensive city in the world and it took decades for this city to make its worth. While growing up in any state of the world, every kid has a dream to visit London and live there. There are outstanding facilities, infrastructure and most importantly the educated people. The government of England never let kept a special eye on its capital and perform changes according to the needs of the people. London hosts the matches of different sports such as Hockey, Football, Cricket, Baseball and Basketball including plenty of indoor games. Steven describes the terrifying history of London when the city suffered from cholera. In summer, 1854 London was emerging as the most modern cities of the world. It provides all the modern facilities to the people and industries were growing quickly.

In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts, Johnson presents surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning. How does a lively neighborhood evolve out of a disconnected group of shopkeepers, bartenders, and real estate developers? How does a media event take on a life of its own? How will new software programs create an intelligent World Wide Web?In the coming years, the power of self-organization -- coupled with the connective technology of the Internet -- will usher in a revolution every bit as significant as the introduction of electricity. Provocative and engaging, Emergence puts you on the front lines of this exciting upheaval in science and thought.

Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good for You, New York Times bestselling author and one of the most inspiring visionaries of contemporary culture, Steven Johnson, maps the ways a connected world will be both different and better.Steven Johnson proposes that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything from local government to classrooms to health care. It’s a compelling new political worldview that breaks with traditional categories of liberal or conservative thinking. Johnson explores this innovative vision through a series of fascinating narratives: from the “Miracle on the Hudson” to the planning of the French railway system; from the battle against malnutrition in Vietnam to a mysterious outbreak of strange smells in downtown Manhattan; from underground music video artists to the invention of the Internet itself. At a time when the conventional wisdom holds that the political system is hopelessly gridlocked with old ideas, Future Perfect makes the timely and uplifting case that progress is still possible

In this nationally bestselling, compulsively readable account of what makes brain science a vital component of people's quest to know themselves, acclaimed science writer Steven Johnson subjects his own brain to a battery of tests to find out what's really going on inside. He asks:How do we "read" other people?What is the neurochemistry behind love and sex?What does it mean that the brain is teeming with powerful chemicals closely related to recreational drugs?Why does music move us to tears?Where do breakthrough ideas come from?Johnson answers these and many more questions arising from the events of our everyday lives. You do not have to be a neuroscientist to wonder, for example, why do you smile? And why do you sometimes smile inappropriately, even if you don't want to? How do others read your inappropriate smile? How does such interplay occur neurochemically, and what, if anything, can you do about it?Fascinating and rewarding, Mind Wide Open speaks to brain buffs, self-obsessed neurotics, barstool psychologists, mystified parents, grumpy spouses, exasperated managers, and anyone who enjoys speculating and gossiping about the motivations and behaviors of other human beings. Steven Johnson shows us the transformative power of understanding brain science and offers new modes of introspection and tools for better parenting, better relationships, and better living.

Where Good Ideas Come From is the self-help, innovation thinking and cognitive psychology guide that teaches how to transform our lives with positive thinking. Steven Johnson is the author of this remarkable book. Everyone wanted to know that from where the good ideas come from? What are the things which push human towards best? How to perform brilliantly in every situation? How innovation can change the whole world? Why successful people always win? How can we change our lives, career, society, and culture through ideas? This book shows how important are good ideas in our life to change our world. Steven Johnson shares seven superb principles to generate life-changing ideas. Our conscious and subconscious mind plays a very important role in the creation of positive ideas so positive attitude leads people towards a positive life. Ninety percent of the ideas are wrong when we think under pressure situation. Pressure situation damage the performance either you are a manager, CEO, sportsman or whatever.