Tom Standage

Tom Standage jest redaktorem działu techniki w "The Economist". W Historii świata w sześciu szklankach Standage proponuje nowe i oryginalne spojrzenie na dzieje ludzkiej cywilizacji (a raczej ludzkich cywilizacji, gdyż wraz ze Standage'em wędrujemy przez cztery tysiąclecia i cztery kontynenty). Dzieje świata oglądamy przez pryzmat tego, jaki napój...

Social Media - The First 2,000 YearsToday we are endlessly connected: constantly tweeting, texting or e-mailing. This may seem unprecedented, yet it is not. Throughout history, information has been spread through social networks, with far-reaching social and political effects. Writing on the Wall reveals how an elaborate network of letter exchanges...

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 and transform societies around the...

From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human history.Throughout human history. certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical...

A new paperback 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...