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Tom Standage

3.72 of 5 Votes: 5
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Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years (2013)
language
English
3.91 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: Fascinating narrative about how far back “social media” goes. Folks, Twitter and blogging are not at all new! Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Middle-agers, 17th century pamphleteers, ham radio operators, coffeehouse habitués, and so many more all did pretty much the same thing: obsess...
An Edible History of Humanity (2009)
language
English
3.58 of 5 Votes: 2
review 1: Cursory look at the entire history of humanity through the lens of food in no more than 250 some pages! Which means huge influences and tragedies are overlooked while cherry-picking low hanging fruit. I found the book lacks focus and could use some editing. (Ironic, since he was ...
Una storia commestibile dell'umanità (2009)
language
English
3.58 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: The narrator had some ludicrous fake accents that were worthy of a seventies sitcom. The author's bent seemed positively colonial at times. There were interesting parts, for sure, but much of it made me sputter, "Wait! What about the slavery that caused this to be a profitable cr...
An Edible History of Humanity. Tom Standage (2009)
language
English
3.58 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: Tom Standage's "An Edible History of Humanity" is a survey of food in human history. It ranges from human pre-history, when we were hunter-gatherers through the Twentieth Century, and across the entire globe. Although an under 300 page book cannot cover every topic in complete de...
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