About this title: The real inventor of the steam engine. The creator of the bra. The man who invented modern banking. The creator of the computer operating system. These and scores of others are the characters that populate Harold Evans's rollicking, brilliant history of the men and women who made America great. Vast and beautifully designed with hundreds of duotones and photos throughout (many never before published), the book is itself a creation as grand as those it describes. Evans reveals the surprising truths behind many of the creations that made our modern world, as well as the lessons we can learn by ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780316277662ISBN:0316277665
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 496 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13:9780316277662ISBN:0316277665
Description: Good. Purchasing this DVD supports the North Central Regional Library. Thriftbooks and NCRL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Library ID found on DVD and case. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780316013857ISBN:0316013854
Description: Very Good. Light wear to the extremities, contents tight and clean Nice, tight, clean copy. All items ship from Gig Harbor, Wa within 24 hrs! read more
Description: Very Good. 0316013854 Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light curve to the spine / light reading creases to the covers. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780316277662ISBN:0316277665
Description: Good in Good jacket. Oversize-2-X Ex-library. Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780316277662ISBN:0316277665
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Inscription on inside of fly page. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 496 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Publishers Overstock. A Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the covers and the extremities. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 25 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780316277662ISBN:0316277665
Description: New in New jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. Brand new, uncirculated item. Dustjacket now protected in mylar. True Gift Quality! Oversized, heavy book. Will not ship expedited or international. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2004-10-12
ISBN-13:9780316277662ISBN:0316277665
Description: Fair. WITHDRAWN EX LIBRARY COPY with usual markings, stickers, stampings-mylar covering over dust jacket-text and pages VERY GOOD-no writing/no rips-tight binding- read more
Edition: First Printing Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780316277662ISBN:0316277665
Description: Photos. Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Tiny ding on spine of mylar cvr. on jacket. read more
Binding: book Softcover
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780316013857ISBN:0316013854
Description: Brand New. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 694 pages. 9.00 x 6.30 x 1.20 in. 24.8 oz. A history of the United States's major inventors and innovators includes coverage of such figures as Henry and Edsel Ford, cosmetics entrepreneur C. J. Walker, and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, in a tie-in to a PBS four-part series that shares lesser-known background information and features lavish duotone and full-color photography. Harold Evans's unique, popular ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780316277662ISBN:0316277665
Description: Good in Good jacket. Light spotting to the front board. Dust jacket has curls to the top and bottom edges. Clean text. Will require extra shipping charges due to size. read more
Edition: 1st Ed.
Binding: Black/gilt
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co., NY
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780316277662ISBN:0316277665
Description: 500+ photos, drawings. Hardcover. Price clip. Else minor dj wear. Fine in VG+. Mylar. Epic story of the men and women who made America over two hundred years. Dramatic narratives, well illustrated. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780316277662ISBN:0316277665
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0-316-27766-5. Hardcover, with dust jacket, in Fine / Fine condition, no stamps or writing, Some of the innovators in the book: Robert Fulton, Sam Colt, Garrett Morgan, Madam Walker, Edwin Armstrong, Herbert Boyer, Joan Ganz Cooney, Gary Kildall, small shelf bumps at the spine ends, bright clean gloosy pages look like new, jacket has a little shelf wear, no tears, nice looking book, read more
"I'll be honest, I didn't read all of this book, but it's set up in a case-study type format, so you don't really need to. It was really interesting to read about how certain businesses and institutions, like Sesame Street, came into being. Some really interesting perspectives on ingenuity in general. Recommended to me by a neighbor who is a business professor. A really interesting read. I guess to be honest, it should be on my read and to-read lists!"
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