Books written by Tom Standage

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  L'histoire du monde en six verres

  Tom Standage. 1. L'Épopée de Gilgamesh, trad. P.J. Tournay et A. Schaffer, éd. Le Cerf, coll. Littér anciennes du Proche-Orient (1994). LE VIN EN GRÈCE ET À ROME Le plaisir du.

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  Sechs Getränke, die die Welt bewegten

  Sechs Getränke, die die Welt bewegten

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  Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years

  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 ...

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  Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years

  From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, the story of social media from ancient Rome to the Arab Spring and beyond.

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  Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures that Turn Our World Upside Down

  Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures that Turn Our World Upside Down brings together the very best explainers and charts, written and created by top journalists to help us understand such brain-bending conundrums as why Swedes overpay ...

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

  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 ...

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  Go Figure: Things you didn’t know you didn’t know: The Economist Explains

  Which James Bond drinks the most martinis? What do Satanists really believe? How do hurricanes get their names? Why are bees disappearing? Is chocolate healthy? ...Go Figure has the answers....

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  Unconventional Wisdom: Adventures in the Surprisingly True

  In this latest collection of The Economist Explains, they have gathered the weirdest and most counter-intuitive answers they've found in their endless quest to explain our bizarre world.

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  Unconventional Wisdom

  In this latest collection of The Economist Explains, they have gathered the weirdest and most counter-intuitive answers they've found in their endless quest to explain our bizarre world.

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  An Edible History of Humanity

  Drawing from many fields including genetics, archaeology, anthropology, ethno-botany and economics, the story of these food-driven transformations is a fully satisfying account of the whole of human history.

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  A History of the World in 6 Glasses

  A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola.

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  A History of the World in 6 Glasses

  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 ...

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  Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years

  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.

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  Seriously Curious

  Some questions you never think to ask.

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  An Edible History of Humanity

  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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  The Future of Technology

  This collection of surveys and articles from The Economist examines how far technology has come and where it is heading.

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  A History of the World in Six Glasses

  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.

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  Uncommon Knowledge: Extraordinary Things That Few People Know

  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!

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  The Neptune File: Planet Detectives and the Discovery of Worlds Unseen

  The Neptune File tells the story of the gifted mathematician John Couch Adams and the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846. Combining scientific triumph with international controversy, this is...

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  Sechs Getränke, die die Welt bewegten

  Sechs Getränke, die die Welt bewegten