Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher: Sybex
Keywords: approach, comptia, soft, skills, world, real, business, communications, guide, professional
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0470126353
ISBN-13: 9780470126356

Get the communication skills you need for career success with this unique book. Preparing you for exams and beyond, the valuable content delves into the issues that you’ll face in corporate, retail, and remote support environments. The book offers more than fifty scenarios depicting typical workplace situations, possible responses-and appropriate solutions to guide you. With this approach, you’ll gain valuable insight into becoming a team player and learn strategies to communicate more effectively with coworkers and customers.

Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Keywords: everything
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-05-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1594481946
ISBN-13: 9781594481949

Forget everything you’ve read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, intelligent, and convincing endorsement of today’s mass entertainment, national bestselling author Steven Johnson argues that the pop culture we soak in every day-from The Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsons-has been growing more and more sophisticated and, far from rotting our brains, is actually posing new cognitive challenges that are making our minds measurably sharper. You will never regard the glow of the video game or television screen the same wa

Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: writing, technology
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-10-06
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0300154100
ISBN-13: 9780300154108

“The ubiquity of the digital lifestyle has forced us to write and think about technology in a different way.”—Steven Johnson    In his Introduction to this beautifully curated collection of essays, Steven Johnson heralds the arrival of a new generation of technology writing.  Whether it is Nicholas Carr worrying that Google is making us stupid, Dana Goodyear chronicling the rise of the cellphone novel, Andrew Sullivan explaining the rewards of blogging, Dalton Conley lamenting the sprawling nature of work in the information age, or Clay Shirky marveling at the “cognitive surplus” un

Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Keywords: revolution, birth, america, faith, science, air, story, invention
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1594484015
ISBN-13: 9781594484018

From the author of The Ghost Map and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new national bestseller: the "exhilarating"( Los Angeles Times) story of "a founding father long forgotten."(Newsweek)National bestselling author Steven Johnson tells the fascinating story of Joseph Priestley-scientist and theologian, protégé of Benjamin Franklin, friend of Thomas Jefferson-an eighteenth-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the invention of ecosystem science, the discovery of oxygen, the founding of the Unitarian Church, and the intellectual development of the United States. As he did so ma

Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Keywords: air, invention
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-12-26
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1594488525
ISBN-13: 9781594488528

Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts—in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion—the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America’s Founding Fathers. The Invention of Air is a book of world-changing ideas wrapped around a compelling narrative, a story of genius and violence and friendship in the midst of sweeping historical change that provokes us to recast our understanding of the Founding Fathers. It is the story of Joseph Priestley—scientist and theologian, protégé of Benjamin Franklin, friend of Thomas Jefferson—a

Author: Steven Lee Johnson
Publisher: Central European University Press
Keywords: debates, winning
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1932716513
ISBN-13: 9781932716511

Author: Steven Johnson
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: everyday, life, neuroscience, brain, wide, open, mind
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-05-03
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743241665
ISBN-13: 9780743241663

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