A History Of The World In Six Glasses
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Author | : Tom Standage |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802718590 |
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New York Times Bestseller * Soon to be a TV series starring Dan Aykroyd “There aren't many books this entertaining that also provide a cogent crash course in ancient, classical and modern history.” -Los Angeles Times Beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola: In Tom Standage's deft, innovative account of world history, these six beverages turn out to be much more than just ways to quench thirst. They also represent six eras that span the course of civilization-from the adoption of agriculture, to the birth of cities, to the advent of globalization. A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century through each epoch's signature refreshment. As Standage persuasively argues, each drink is in fact a kind of technology, advancing culture and catalyzing the intricate interplay of different societies. After reading this enlightening book, you may never look at your favorite drink in quite the same way again.
Author | : Tom Standage |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2010-05-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0802719910 |
Download An Edible History of Humanity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A lighthearted chronicle of how foods have transformed human culture throughout the ages traces the barley- and wheat-driven early civilizations of the near East through the corn and potato industries in America.
Author | : Tom Standage |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1408842076 |
Download Writing on the Wall Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Today we are endlessly connected: constantly tweeting, texting or e-mailing. This may seem unprecedented, yet it is not. Throughout history, information has been spread through social networks, with far-reaching social and political effects. Writing on the Wall reveals how an elaborate network of letter exchanges forewarned of power shifts in Cicero's Rome, while the torrent of tracts circulating in sixteenth-century Germany triggered the Reformation. Standage traces the story of the rise, fall and rebirth of social media over the past 2,000 years offering an illuminating perspective on the history of media, and revealing that social networks do not merely connect us today – they also link us to the past.
Author | : Diego Olstein |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2014-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137318147 |
Download Thinking History Globally Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The book brings together many recent trends in writing history under a common framework: thinking history globally. By thinking history globally, the book explains, applies, and exemplifies the four basic strategies of analysis, the big C's: comparing, connecting, conceptualizing, and contextualizing, using twelve different branches of history.
Author | : P. Manning |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2003-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1403973857 |
Download Navigating World History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
World history has expanded dramatically in recent years, primarily as a teaching field, and increasingly as a research field. Growing numbers of teachers and Ph.Ds in history are required to teach the subject. They must be current on topics from human evolution to industrial development in Song-dynasty China to today's disease patterns - and then link these disparate topics into a coherent course. Numerous textbooks in print and in preparation summarize the field of world history at an introductory level. But good teaching also requires advanced training for teachers, and access to a stream of new research from scholars trained as world historians. In this book, Patrick Manning provides the first comprehensive overview of the academic field of world history. He reviews patterns of research and debate, and proposes guidelines for study by teachers and by researchers in world history.
Author | : Tom Standage |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-11-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1782835989 |
Download Uncommon Knowledge Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of satellite from orbit? If everything is so terrible, why is the global suicide rate falling? The keen minds of the Economist love to look beyond everyday appearances to find out what really makes things tick. In this latest collection of The Economist Explains, they have gathered together the juiciest fruits of their never-ending quest for answers. For an uncommonly interesting read, take a peek at some Uncommon Knowledge - and pass it on! The world only gets more amazing when discoveries are shared.
Author | : Tom Standage |
Publisher | : Penguin Group USA |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780140299199 |
Download The Mechanical Turk Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This title tells the true story of the Turk, the infamous 18th-century automation. The story links an unlikely cast of historical characters, from Napoleon, Beethoven and Poe to the pioneers of the computer age, and provides an accessible way of examining the complex relationship between magic, man, mind and machine, from the Enlightenment to the computer age.
Author | : Tom Standage |
Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2010-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307375110 |
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Whatever your favourite tipple, when you pour yourself a drink, you have the past in a glass. You can likely find them all in your own kitchen — beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, cola. Line them up on the counter, and there you have it: thousands of years of human history in six drinks. Tom Standage opens a window onto the past in this tour of six beverages that remain essentials today. En route he makes fascinating forays into the byways of western culture: Why were ancient Egyptians buried with beer? Why was wine considered a “classier” drink than beer by the Romans? How did rum grog help the British navy defeat Napoleon? What is the relationship between coffee and revolution? And how did Coca-Cola become the number one poster-product for globalization decades before the term was even coined?
Author | : Tom Standage |
Publisher | : Berkley Trade |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : |
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Part historical detective story, part biography, "The Turk" relates the saga of an unusual 18th-century robot--fashioned from wood to look like a man who was dressed like a Turk and played chess. 25 illustrations.
Author | : Harvey Levenstein |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2012-03-08 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 0226473740 |
Download Fear of Food Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
These include Nobel Prize-winner Eli Metchnikoff, who advised that yogurt would enable people to live to be 140, and Elmer McCollum, the "discoverer" of vitamins, who tailored his warnings about vitamin deficiencies to suit the food producers who funded him. Levenstein also highlights how large food companies have taken advantage of these concerns by marketing their products to combat the fear of the moment. Such examples include the co-opting of the "natural foods" movement, which grew out of the belief that inhabitants of a remote Himalayan Shangri-la enjoyed remarkable health by avoiding the very kinds of processed food these corporations produced, and the physiologist Ancel Keys, originator of the Mediterranean Diet, who provided the basis for a powerful coalition of scientists, doctors, food producers, and others to convince Americans that high-fat foods were deadly.