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Rethink the surprising history of new ideas

"A brilliant and groundbreaking argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch--from The Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic,"--Baker & Taylor.

Main Author: Poole, Steven, 1972- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2016.
Edition: First Scriber hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Technological innovations > History.
Creative thinking.
Discoveries in science.
Idea (Philosophy) > History.
Summary: "A brilliant and groundbreaking argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch--from The Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic,"--Baker & Taylor.
Item Description: "Originally published in Great Britain in 2016".
Physical Description: vii, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-333) and index.
ISBN: 9781501145605
1501145606
Author Notes: Steven Poole is the award-winning author of Rethink , Unspeak , T rigger Happy, You Aren't What You Eat, and Who Touched Base In My Thought Shower? . He writes a column on language for The Guardian , and his work on ideas and culture also appears in The Wall Street Journal, The New Statesman, The Atlantic, The Baffler, The Point, The Times Literary Supplement, Edge , and many other publications. He was educated at Cambridge, lived for many years in Paris, and is now based in East London.

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