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Invention and innovation : a brief history of hype and failure

Smil, Vaclav, author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Books

Call Number

600 SMI

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:670286

Handprints on Hubble : an astronaut's story of invention

Sullivan, Kathy, 1951- author.

Publication Date

2019

Format:

Books

Call Number

522.2919 SUL

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:518097

Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age

Beyer, Kurt.

Publication Date

2009

Format:

Books

Call Number

920.9004 HOP

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:201166

Canadians who innovate : the trailblazers and ideas that are changing the world

O'Reilly Runte, Roseann, author.

Publication Date

2024

Format:

Books

Call Number

609.2271 ORE

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SD_ILS:715711

Nuts & bolts : seven small inventions that changed the world (in a big way)

Agrawal, Roma, 1983- author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Books

Call Number

303.483 AGR

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SD_ILS:697781

Becoming bionic, and other ways science is making us super

Camlot, Heather, author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Books

Call Number

303.48 CAM

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SD_ILS:682839

The things we make : the unknown history of invention from cathedrals to soda cans

Hammack, William Scott, 1961- author.

Publication Date

2023

Format:

Books

Call Number

620 HAM

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SD_ILS:671743

The invention of tomorrow : a natural history of foresight

Suddendorf, Thomas, author.

Publication Date

2022

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Books

Call Number

158.1 SUD

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SD_ILS:662631

Innovation in real places : strategies for prosperity in an unforgiving world

Breznitz, Dan, author.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Books

Call Number

338.9 BRE

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SD_ILS:635029

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The invention of miracles : language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness

Booth, Katie (Writing instructor), author.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Books

Call Number

621.385 BOO

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SD_ILS:619339

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Mother of invention : how good ideas get ignored in an economy built for men

Marçal, Katrine, author.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Books

Call Number

609 MAR

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SD_ILS:625261

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The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race

Isaacson, Walter, author.

Publication Date

2021

Format:

Books

Call Number

576.5 ISA

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SD_ILS:594235

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