Tom Standage
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A Brief History of Motion
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 - and the future of urban transport - into a broader historical context.
Our society has been shaped by the car in innumerable ways, many of which are so familiar that we no longer notice them. Why does red mean stop and green mean go? Why do some countries drive on the left, and some on the right? How did cars, introduced only a little over a century ago, change the way the world was administered, laid out and policed, along with experiences like eating and shopping? And what might travel in a post-car world look like?
As social transformations from ride-sharing to the global pandemic force us to critically re-examine our relationship with personal transportation, A Brief History of Motion is an essential contribution to our understanding of how the modern world came to be.
Writing on the Wall
Today 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 forewarned of power shifts in Cicero's Rome, while the torrent of tracts circulating in sixteenth-century Germany triggered the Reformation. 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 link us to the past.
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Hat pohár világtörténelem
Az emberiség története során megszámlálhatatlan italféleséggel találkozott, melyek közül nem egy jóval többet jelentett szomjoltó nedűnél. Hat közülük - amint azt Tom Standage értő és olvasmányos leírásából megtudhatjuk - különösen nagy szerepet játszott a történem fordulópontjainál a földművelő életmód kialakulásától az első városok megszületésén át a globalizáció korszakáig.
A Hat pohár világtörténelem meglepően eredeti, ugyanakkor tényekkel jól alátámasztott világtörténeti áttekintést ad, mely hat italféleség - a sör, a bor, az égetett szesz, a kávé, a tea és a kóla - lencséjén át mutatja be az emberiség útját a kőkorszaktól a huszonegyedik századig.
Standage szemében ezek az italok valójában technológiákat képviselnek, a kultúra fejlődésének szimbolikus jelentőségű katalizátorait adják, melyek szerepe nagyszerűen rámutat a különféle civilizációk bonyolult összjátékának természetére. Végigolvasva e kötetet egész máshogy tekintünk majd poharunk becses tartalmára.
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A Brief History of Motion
'The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is rare that I encounter a non-fiction author whose prose is so elegant that it is worth reading for itself. Standage is a writer of this class' Wall Street Journal
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 - and the future of urban transport - into a broader historical context.
Our society has been shaped by the car in innumerable ways, many of which are so familiar that we no longer notice them. Why does red mean stop and green mean go? Why do some countries drive on the left, and some on the right? How did cars, introduced only a little over a century ago, change the way the world was administered, laid out and policed, along with experiences like eating and shopping? And what might travel in a post-car world look like?
As social transformations from ride-sharing to the global pandemic force us to critically re-examine our relationship with personal transportation, A Brief History of Motion is an essential contribution to our understanding of how the modern world came to be.
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17,58 €
18,50 €
