Quite an interesting book. It reads like a textbook and took me a month to get through. It's like a series of miniature history lessons. Some topics I knew a little about, such as the Spice Route and European exploration. Others were completely new information, for example, the worst famines in h...
This is really a history book showing how food in general has shaped world history. This is one of those rare books that presents facts many would have learned in school and showing connections that you did not realize were there. This book changed my view of some key events in European history. ...
I really liked this one. I highly recommend it to anyone, and especially to anyone with a highly polarized view of issues like GMOs, organic farming, and chemical fertilization. I don't expect it to sway anyone's opinion dramatically, but it's a good reminder of how none of these issues are sim...
Apologies to all here: much of what follows are notes that I took on some interesting points, so please forgive the rambling, disorganized narrative.The "Six Glasses" are: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola. This book is a history of the world through the lens of the six glasses, so...
On-line wedding are old news. They were first done via electrical telegraph. This is one of the many parallel between the internet and one of the oldest telecommunications technologies. The changes wrought by the electrical telegraph were greater than those brought about by the internet, becau...