Origin of Everyday Things - Hardcover

Acton, Johnny; Adams, Tania; Packer, Matt

 
9781402743023: Origin of Everyday Things
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1402743025 ISBN 13: 9781402743023
Verlag: Sterling Pub Co Inc, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Guide for history buffs, science students, lovers of popular culture, and natural-born detectives. With background on the origins of more than 300 modern phenomena, objects, sayings, stories, and superstitions that most people take for granted. Complete with humorous illustrations and easy-to-navigate chapters, the eye-opening explanations and amazing anecdotes reveal the truth behind the birth and brilliance of the brown paper bag; the 4,000-year history of toothpaste and its torrid past; and the reasons for the staying power of popular puzzles from Rubik®s Cube to sudoku. Find out why we have nature to thank for velcro, valium, and the Guggenheim; why we get the blues and not the reds; and why Heinz has the Romans to thank for its saucy success. Describes the origin of more than 400 garments, machines, foods, sports, places, phenomena, and other everyday things that most people take for granted. Arranged alphabetically.

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Verlag
Sterling Pub Co Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1402743025
ISBN 13 
9781402743023
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
318
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