Standage, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2000
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Summary: Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is an account of how food has helped to shape societies around the world, from the emergence of farming in China by 7,500 BCE to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: Chronicles social media over two millennia, from papyrus letters that Cicero used to exchange news across the Empire to today, reminding us how modern behavior echoes that of prior centuries and encouraging debate and discussion about how we'll communicate in the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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Summary: Standage chronicles the increasingly sophisticated ways people shared information with each other, spontaneously and organically, down the centuries. With the rise of newspapers in the nineteenth century, then radio and television, 'mass media' consolidated control of information in the hands of a few moguls. However, the Internet has brought information sharing full circle, and the spreading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2013
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Summary: A look at the history of human transportation, from the invention of the wheel through the era of horsepower, trains, and bicycles, revealing how transportation inevitably shapes civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2005