Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo

A compelling account of William Henry Sheppard, an African-American missionary who traveled to the Belgian Congo in 1890 and became known as "Black Livingstone" due to his many lectures across the country detailing his adventures, reveals how he found the power to fight the persecution of Africans in the Congo, but not in his own country. Reprint.

Biographies & Memoirs

Kennedy, Pagan

Community & Culture

Penguin??Books

A history of the lost years of the 1970s, the "Decade that Taste Forgot," captures all the turbulence, inconsistencies, hedonism, and serious social action of the much-maligned years that connected the idealistic 1960s and the greedy 1980s. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970s

History

Americas

St Martins Pr

A series of essays, accompanied by issues of "Pagan's Head" magazine, explore the author/publisher's thoughts on life, publishing, and fame

Zine: How I Spent Six Years of My Life in the Underground and Finally...Found Myself...I Think

Take a veteran of tofu burgers and stained futons, the publisher of a zine, the high patroness of thrift-store shopping, turn her into a Doris Day of aging hipsters, and the result? Pagan Kennedy. Kennedy provides anxious X'ers with a state-ofthe-art social planner. Slackers, retro types, college students, downtown poets, and uptown temps: look no further. Here are the rules of the social game for those already in the know.

Pagan Kennedy's Living: A Handbook for Maturing Hipsters

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Find out where great ideas come from. A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won't spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die. By studying inventions like these — the sippy cup, the cell phone, and an ingenious hospital bed — we can learn how people imagine their way around "impossible" problems to discover groundbreaking answers. Pagan Kennedy reports on how these enduring methods can be adapted to the twenty-first century, as millions of us deploy tools like crowdfunding, big data, and 3-D printing to find hidden opportunities. Inventology uses the stories of inventors and surprising research to reveal the steps that produce innovation. As Kennedy argues, recent advances in technology and communication have placed us at the cusp of a golden age; it's now more possible than ever before to transform ideas into actuality. Inventology is a must-read for designers, artists, makers—and anyone else who is curious about creativity. By identifying the steps of the invention process, Kennedy reveals the imaginative tools required to solve our most challenging problems.

Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World

Self-Help

Creativity

Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

"Elegant prose and excellent reporting . . . By the time I had finished reading, I had underlined many intriguing ideas."—New York Times Book Review “No doubt Inventology will be marketed to the creative business class, but there’s ample interest here even for readers who aren’t actively inventing anything.”—Boston Globe A doctor realizes that an innocent-looking tube is killing his patients, then reads a newspaper article that inspires him to create a better version that serves as an early warning system for infections. A father cleans up after his toddler and builds a “sippy” cup that won’t spill. An engineer dreams of a different world and pioneers the cell phone. By studying breakthroughs like these, we can learn how people imagine their way around “impossible” problems to discover groundbreaking answers. Pagan Kennedy reports on how enduring methods of invention can be adapted to the twenty-first century, as millions of us deploy tools like crowdfunding, big data, and 3-D printing to address our needs or realize our dreams. Drawing on fresh research and the surprising stories behind many inventions old and new to reveal the steps that most reliably produce discovery, Inventology is a myth-shattering book and a must-read for anyone who is curious about creativity and the mental leaps required to solve our most challenging problems. “’Inventology’ may be a real science; researchers are beginning to study it, and teachers are teaching it . . . A delightful account of how inventors do what they do.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Offers a new perspective into the process of invention that will inform and illuminate.”—Publishers Weekly

Mariner Books

BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering.

Inventology EXPORT

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

BANTAM PRESS

A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won't spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die. By studying inventions like these-the sippy cup, the cell phone, and an ingenious hospital bed-we can learn how people imagine their way around "impossible" problems to discover groundbreaking answers. Pagan Kennedy reports on how these enduring methods can be adapted to the twenty-first century, as millions of us deploy tools like crowdfunding, big data, and 3D printing to find hidden opportunities. Inventology uses the stories of inventors and surprising research to reveal the steps that produce innovation. As Kennedy argues, recent advances in technology and communication have placed us at the cusp of a golden age; it's now more possible than ever before to transform ideas into actuality. Inventology is a must-listen for designers, artists, makers, and anyone else who is curious about creativity. By identifying the steps of the invention process, Kennedy reveals the imaginative tools required to solve our most challenging problems.

INVENTOLOGY

A thrilling, novelistic work of journalism that uncovers the remarkable and hidden story of Marty Goddard, the woman who invented the rape kit, changed the course of how we treat sexual assault forever, and then vanished from the record. The idea came to Marty Goddard in 1971. She was working at a crisis hotline, haunted by the stories of survivors and plagued by two principle questions: Why were so many predators getting away with crimes? And, how do we stop them? In the coming years, Marty set off a massive campaign that lobbied to have sexual assault treated and investigated as the crime that it is. By creating the first rape kit, she revolutionized forensics. The kit would live on as one of the most powerful and effective tools for bringing perpetrators to justice. Marty, however, and any record of her, simply disappeared. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Secret History of the Rape Kit chronicles the story of one journalist's mission to uncover the story and woman behind an invention that transformed the lives of women the country over. As Pagan Kennedy peels back the layers behind the history of the kit and Marty's life, she falls into a deeper and deeper obsession. As she pursues this overlooked but critical story from our past, she dives into the inequities built into our patent system and our understanding of technological progress, the problematic and gendered history of forensics, and sexual forensics in particular, the misogyny that runs rampant in police departments, the legacy of Marty's invention and the failings that persist in how we prosecute rape. And, as Pagan unearths who Marty really was, and what happened to her, she reflects on her own experiences with sexual assault, and how one forgotten woman's legacy could have saved her, as it has so many.

The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story

Vintage

Looks at the life of William Henry Sheppard, an African American missionary who traveled to the Belgian Congo in 1890 and became known as the "Black Livingstone" due to his many lectures across the country detailing his adventures.

Viking Adult

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Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo

Platforms: A Microwaved Cultural Chronicle of the 1970s

Zine: How I Spent Six Years of My Life in the Underground and Finally...Found Myself...I Think

Pagan Kennedy's Living: A Handbook for Maturing Hipsters

Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World

Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World

Inventology EXPORT

INVENTOLOGY

The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story

Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo