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Johnson, Steven

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

150 pp. | Viking | October, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-425-28778-1 $19.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-425-28780-4
(3) 4-6 Adapted by Sheila Keenan. This entertaining middle-grade adaptation of the PBS miniseries and adult book of the same title looks at how innovations around glass, refrigeration, sound, sanitation, time-keeping, and light enabled contemporary lifestyles. This conceptual organization of history, combined with the book's thesis of broader nexuses of invention, may shift young readers' worldview. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Dorrie Karlin

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