Jon Gertner: 2 books
The Ice at the End of the World
An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change
“Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book.”—Elizabeth...
The Idea Factory
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies
From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest,...