About this title: For Burke, knowledge is a vast interconnected web where each new discovery or development will in some way affect everything else. To prove his point he takes the reader on 20 journeys through history, including a zigzag path which starts with medieval spicy food and ends with smart bombs.
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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
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780316116107ISBN:0316116106
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
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780316116107ISBN:0316116106
Description: Very Good+ No Jacket Issued. The condition of this soft cover trade paperback is Very Good+, first edition. This looks like a fun Science / History read! The cover is very clean & very bright with little wear. The edges are good, and the spine is smooth. These pages are also unmarked, bright & clean, and the pages are tight. No names or writing. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1997.
ISBN-13:9780316116107ISBN:0316116106
Description: Large octavo, softcover, fine in grey pictorial wraps. It is hard to describe the way Burke thinks. He makes one surprising connection after another. A blurb on the cover says Burke is "one of the most intriguing minds in the western world, " which may not seem terribly exaggerated after you read the book. 310 pages. read more
Binding: Glossy Softcover
Publisher: Back Bay Books, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780316116107ISBN:0316116106
Description: Very Good. 0316116106 310pp including bibliography and index Previous owner's inscription near upper outside corner of front facing page, otherwise book is AS NEW. read more
Edition: 6th printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; Back Bay Books, Boston
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780316116107ISBN:0316116106
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. x, 310 pp., [16] pp. of plates, illus., maps, biblio., index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "The Pinball Effect takes the reader on many different journeys through the web of knowledge. Knowledge it turns out, has many unforeseen and surprising effects. The book, for instance, owes its existence to German jeweler Johannes Gutenberg's getting the date wrong one day in the fifteenth century. The lamp you may now be using to read by started life four hundred years ago, ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown
Date Published: 2nd printing, 1996
Description: Very Good+/Very Good+ hard cover. 8vo, boards, 310pp, illus. edgewear dust jacket. looks like some regluing possibly done at gutter title page. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780316116107ISBN:0316116106
Description: Good. Slight shelf wear crease in bottom edge of front cover minor cover wear Goodwillnyonline carries a wide range of quality new and used items at competitive prices. Goodwillnyonline is operated by Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern New Jersey. A major provider of services for people with disabilities and other barriers to employment. read more
"this was really interesting- like reading wikipedia in book form. it starts with the invention of the perm, and then goes back and forth with inventions that led to that and inventions that came after. it was a lot of information to take in, but i learned a lot of cool stuff that i had never really thought about before."
"Even though this book can be very dry and I can only take it in stages, I find it extremely interesting. The author shows how discoveries of the past and present are linked to each other."
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