Brief Histories Of Everyday Objects

Brief Histories Of Everyday ObjectsIn the tradition of A Cartoon History of the Universe and, most recent, Randall Munroe's What If? comes Brief Histories of Everyday Objects an intrepid, graphic tour through the unusual stories behind the creation of some of the overlooked items that surround us in our daily lives. Chapters introduce readers to a cast of inventors whose ideas led to the ballpoint pen riots, cowboy wars, and really bad Victorian practical jokes. Structured around the

an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist

Karen Russell T

one of the original editors of Rolling Stone and arguably the most simpatico writer ever to converse with Mr Dylan

you can't outrun destiny

Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer sheds new light on the war by examining fifty objects from the New-York Historical Society's acclaimed collection

Beginning where resilience ends

fully intending to tackle midlife and motherhood alone

' Maurice Wren

the Mandarin and his all-new Avatars begin an all-out assault on Hong Kong

And how will it change the way he lives

Now they're grudgingly forced to work together in order to find the truth - without killing each other

Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world