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A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the New York Times bestselling author comes a timely and illuminating history of personal transportation, and how it has transformed the world we live in.Beginning around 3,500 BC with the wheel, and moving through the eras of horsepower, trains and bicycles, Tom Standage puts the rise of the car a ...Show more
A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage
30.00 NZD
Category: Humour
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than simply quench our thirst. As Tom Standage relates with easy authority and charm, six of them - beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and cola - have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history during pivotal epochs. From hu ...Show more
Go Figure And Other Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: The Economist Explains by Tom Standage
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Want to know how a tattoo affects your job prospects, which James Bond drinks the most martinis, or how to make an invisibility cloak? We have the answers. The news cycle moves fast, and as one story is swiftly replaced by another, underlying causes and bigger (and smaller) questions often go unexplored ...Show more
Oddly Informative: Matters of fact that amaze and delight by Tom Standage
28.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
The latest edition in the Economist Explainer series, edited and introduced by Deputy Editor Tom Standage.
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