Event Listing - Literary Arts

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Fri Jan 16 - Sat Jan 17

Steven B. Johnson


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Location
Date and Time
San Francisco Locations
Stacey's Bookstore-Closed
581 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94105 map
cross street: between 1st & 2nd
district: Downtown/Financial District

Fri Jan 16 (12:30pm)
Corte Madera Locations
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925 map
district: Corte Madera

Sat Jan 17 (7pm)
Menlo Park Locations
Keplers Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
district: Menlo Park

Fri Jan 16 (7:30pm)

Description
Meet the author of "The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth of America."

Steven Johnson talks about The Invention of Air ($25.95). Johnson recounts the story of Joseph Priestley—scientist and theologian, protégé of Benjamin Franklin—an 18th-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the invention of ecosystem science, the founding of the Unitarian Church, and the intellectual development of the U.S.