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31 Inventions that Built Our World: FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 47 BORDERS - Couverture rigide

Elledge, Jonn

 
9781035432769: 31 Inventions that Built Our World: FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 47 BORDERS
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ISBN 10 : 1035432765 ISBN 13 : 9781035432769
Editeur : Wildfire, 2026

Synopsis

A fascinating delve into the history of the city, by the #1 bestselling author of A History of the World in 47 Borders

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À propos de l'auteur

Jonn Elledge is a New Statesman and New World columnist, a regular on the podcasts Oh God, What Now? and the late, lamented Paper Cuts, and a frequent contributor to The i Paper, the Guardian and assorted other publications. He was previously an assistant editor at the New Statesman, where he created and ran its urbanism-focused CityMetric site, spending six happy years writing about cities, maps and borders and hosting the Skylines podcast. He has written three books, including the number-one bestseller A History of the World in 47 Borders, as well as over 200 editions of the Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything. He lives in London, with the best dog in the world.

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For over 10,000 years, we humans have been busy altering our environment and embracing 'progress', evolving seamlessly from hunter gatherers to the latte-sipping urban sophisticates we see ourselves as today.

But what are the ideas and inventions that enabled us to become, by the early twenty-first century, a majority urban species for the first time? How did the essential infrastructure of modern life - those innovations that we barely even notice, but without which our world would fall apart - actually come to be?

With his characteristic wit and boundless curiosity, Jonn Elledge invites us to join him on a fascinating and often surprising tour of the technologies that made modernity possible. From elevators to electric lighting, parks to pedestrian crossings, you will never look at the world around you in the same way again.

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Éditeur
Wildfire
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1035432765
ISBN 13 
9781035432769
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
368
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