{
"id": 296089,
"slug": "how-we-got-to-now-johnson-steven",
"nstc": null,
"title": "How we got to now",
"subtitle": "Six Innovations that Made the Modern World",
"collection_title": null,
"collection_part_number": null,
"annotation": "Companion to the five-part BBC2 series which aired in February 2015, in which the bestselling author of }Where Good Ideas Come From{ and }The Invention Of Air{ explores the power and legacy of great ideas and important inventions. Now in paperback",
"description": "How did photography bring about social reform? What connects refrigeration to Hollywood? And how did our battle against dirt help create smartphones? This book explores the essential innovations that changed the world and how we live in it.",
"additional_content": null,
"bestseller_60": null,
"imprint": null,
"language_code": "eng",
"original_language_code": null,
"page_count": null,
"duration_seconds": null,
"publication_date_first": "2015-09-16",
"publication_date_latest": "2015-09-16",
"cover_url": null,
"editions": [
{
"isbn": "9781846148552",
"product_form": "BC"
}
],
"ratings_count": 0,
"read_count": 0,
"review_count": 0,
"favorite_count": 0,
"reading_status_read_count": 0,
"reading_status_reading_count": 0,
"reading_status_want_to_read_count": 0,
"rating_average": null,
"ratings_distribution": {
"1": 0,
"2": 0,
"3": 0,
"4": 0,
"5": 0
},
"hebban_rank": null,
"created_at": "2025-09-19T13:11:53+00:00",
"updated_at": "2025-11-13T16:52:17+00:00",
"publisher": {
"id": 2570,
"slug": "central-book-house-pen",
"name": "Central Book House / PEN",
"gau": false,
"created_at": "2025-09-19T13:11:12+00:00",
"updated_at": "2025-09-19T15:12:39+00:00"
},
"contributors": [
{
"id": 174773,
"slug": "steven-johnson-2",
"key_names": "Johnson",
"names_before_key": "Steven",
"prefix_to_key": null,
"contributor_role": "A01",
"readable_contributor_role": "Author"
}
],
"genres": [],
"subjects": [
{
"scheme_identifier": "32",
"scheme_version": null,
"main_subject": false,
"subject_code": "740",
"created_at": "2025-09-19T13:11:53+00:00",
"updated_at": "2025-09-19T13:11:53+00:00"
}
],
"tags": [],
"campaigns": []
}