Description |
223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Alcohol -- The chariot -- Philosophy -- Religion as personal faith -- The flying buttress -- Single-point perspective -- The movable type printing press -- The divine right of kings -- Magnetic philosophy -- The great masculine renunciation -- Scientific racism -- The Kodak camera -- Freudianism -- Plastics -- The dance craze -- The teenager -- Rock 'n' roll -- 3-D movies -- TV dinners -- The pill -- Synthetic food -- Easy listening -- The midlife crisis -- Easy listening -- Irony -- TV console games -- Metrication -- The boom box -- The walkman -- Prozac -- The end of history? -- NC-17 -- Smart drinks -- Molecular gastronomy -- 9/11 and the end of irony -- The Segway -- Apple iPhone -- The microbiome. |
Summary |
From the New World to the new iPhone, a novelty-hungry public has repeatedly shown its willingness to be seduced by the latest disruptive technology, mind-blowing discovery, or paradigm-shifting insight. But for every Walkman or Platonic dialogue, there's a Segway scooter gathering dust in some forgotten corner of our collective memory. The Next Big Thing sifts through 3,000 years of culture to highlight history's most hyped hits as well as its most inglorious misses. |
Audience |
Ages 15 & up. |
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Grades 10 & up. |
Study Program |
AR MG RL 10 PTS 13 174402EN |
Awards |
A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG) |
Subject |
Civilization, Western -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Idea (Philosophy) -- Juvenile literature.
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Intellectual life -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Technological innovations -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Civilization, Western -- History.
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Idea (Philosophy).
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Intellectual life -- History.
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Technological innovations -- History.
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Civilization, Western -- History.
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Idea (Philosophy).
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Intellectual life -- History.
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Technological innovations -- History.
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Added Author |
Beyer, Ramsey, illustrator.
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Added Title |
The next big thing: a history of the boom or bust moments that shaped the modern world |
ISBN |
9781936976676 (paperback) |
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