THE INVENTION OF AIR IBD

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From the bestselling author of Everything Bad is Good for You Steven JohnsonâÇÖs The Invention of Air tells the incredible story of scientist and radical Joseph Priestley who invented soda water discovered oxygen and incited rioting with his political views. In 1794 Joseph Priestley - amateur scientist ordained minister and radical thinker - set sail for America to escape persecution. Steven Johnson tells his incredible story: the discovery of oxygen the invention of a science the founding of a church and with the great minds of his time the development of the United States itself. But PriestleyâÇÖs revolutionary ideas put him in terrible danger. Johnson uses the progress of Priestley and his colleagues not merely to describe the wonder of discovery but to show us how we have come to understand the world how far we have travelled with the power of human enquiry - and how one manâÇÖs curiosity can help build an entire country. âÇÖA shot of the purest oxygenâÇÖááSimon Winchester âÇÖPacked with excellent stuffâÇÖááRussell Davies âÇÖEntertaining ... clear-sighted and intelligentâÇÖ ááNew Yorker âÇÖAs full of ingenuity and as delightful as its subjectâÇÖááFinancial Times âÇÖBrilliantâÇÖááThe New York Times âÇÖJohnson paints Priestley not as a man of the past but precisely the sort of figure the world needs more than everâÇÖ ááNew York Post Steven Johnson is the author of the acclaimed books Everything Bad is Good for You Mind Wide Open Where Good Ideas Come From The Ghost Map Emergence and Interface Culture. His writing appeared in the Guardian the New Yorker Nation and HarperâÇÖs as well as the op-ed pages of The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at NYUâÇÖs School Of Journalism and a Contributing Editor to Wired.