Tom Standage

An offbeat history of the world traces the story of humankind from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century from the perspective of six different drinks--beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola--describing their pervasive influence during pivotal eras of world history, from humankind's adoption of agriculture to the advent of globalization. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Offers a historical review of the telegraph network, from its invention by Samuel Morse in the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring the social and political effects it has had on the world throughout its existence

The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

The Victorian Internet

An edible history of humanity

Chronicles social media from papyrus letters in ancient Rome to today, recalling how modern behavior echoes that of prior centuries and encouraging debate and discussion about how humans will communicate in the future.

Social Media - The First 2,000 Years

Writing on the Wall

Ahmet Fethi

Altı bardakta dünya tarihi

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. In An Edible History of Humanity Tom Standage serves up a hugely satisfying account of ways in which food has, indirectly, helped to shape and transform societies around the world. It is a dazzling account of gastronomic revolutions from pre-history to the present.

An Edible History of Humanity

'A Brief History of Motion' is an an eye-opening jaunt through 5,500 years of humans on the go, revealing how transportation inevitably shapes civilization. Tom Standage is the editor of the Economist and the author of six history books, including 'A History of the World in 6 Glasses' and 'An Edible History of Humanity'.

From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

A Brief History of Motion

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.

Extraordinary Things That Few People Know

Uncommon Knowledge

Arka kapak: Altı Bardakta Dünya Tarihi’nin yazarından insanlık tarihine dair doyurucu bir başvuru kaynağı.Besin, tarihte karın doyurmaktan çok daha fazlasını yapmıştır. İmparatorlukların kurulmasına yardım eden, sanayileşmeye katkı sağlayan, savaşların kaderini tayin eden ve bu sayede insanlığın gelişimine yön veren bir teknolojik araç olmuştur. Tom Standage, Çin’de M.Ö. 7500’de çiftçiliğin ortaya çıkışından, günümüzde yakıt üretimine kadar, toplumları şekillendirmede ve dönüştürmede besinin oynadığı rolü gözler önüne seriyor. Bunu yaparken arkeoloji, antropoloji ve iktisat gibi alanlardan yararlanıyor.Toplumların dönüşümünde besinin oynadığı role dair göz kamaştırıcı bir tarih.-Financial Times-Standage bu eserinde besinin hayatımızda oynadığı kritik rolün altını başarıyla çiziyor.-Washington Post-Standage bize besinde nelerin değiştiğini değil, besinin neleri değiştirdiğini gösteriyor.-New Scientist-

İnsanlığın yeme tarihi,

Some questions you never think to ask. Others, you didn't know you didn't know. And some facts are so surprising they cry out for answers. What can a president actually do? Why do cities sink into the ground? Why is Australia seemingly invulnerable to recessions? Why do people in couples do more housework than singletons? The brilliant minds of the Economist collect these questions. Individually, they might seem bite-sized and inconsequential, but taken together they can reveal a whole new world.

109 facts and figures to turn your world upside down

Seriously Curious

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.

And Other Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: The Economist Explains

Go Figure

On an autumn day in 1769, a Hungarian nobleman named Wolfgang von Kempelen attended a conjuring show at the court of Maria Theresa, empress of Austria-Hungary. So unimpressed was Kempelen by the performance that he declared he could do better himself. Maria Theresa held him to his word and gave him six months to prepare a show of his own. Kempelen did not disappoint; he returned to the court the following spring with a mechanical man, fashioned from wood, powered by clockwork, dressed in a stylish Turkish costume—and capable of playing chess. The Turk, as this contraption became known, was an instant success, and Tom Standage’s book chronicles its illustrious career in Europe and America over the next eighty five years. Associated over time with a host of historical figures, including Benjamin Franklin, Catherine the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Babbage, and Edgar Allan Poe, Kempelen’s creation unwittingly also helped to inspire the development of the power loom, the computer, and the detective story. Everywhere it went, the Turk baffled spectators and provoked frenzied speculation about whether a machine could really think. Many rival theories were published, but they served only to undermine each other. Part historical detective story, part biography, The Turk relates the saga of the machine’s remarkable and checkered career against the backdrop of the industrial revolution, as mechanical technology opened up dramatic new possibilities and the relationship between people and machines was being redefined. Today, in the midst of the computer age, it has assumed a new significance, as scientists and philosophers continue to debate the possibility of machine intelligence. To modern eyes, the Turk now seems to have been a surprisingly farsighted invention, and its saga is a colorful and important part of the history of technology.

The Life and Times of the Famous 19th Century Chess-Playing Machine

The Turk

Brief History of Motion

Simdi Sen Düsün

A new edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first. The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from the eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before or since, and its story mirrors and predicts that of the Internet in numerous ways.

The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine

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?

A History of the World in Six Glasses

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.

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