31 Inventions that Built Our World
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 47 BORDERS
$70.97
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2026
Summary
For over 10,000 years, we humans have been busy altering our environment and embracing ‘progress’, evolving seamlessly from hunter gatherers to the modern urban sophisticates we see ourselves as today.
But what are the ideas and inventions that enabled humanity to become, by the early 21st century, a majority urban species for the first time? How did the essential infrastructure of modern life - the innovations that we barely even notice, but without which our world would fall apart -…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035432769 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035432765 |
| Author: | Jonn Elledge |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Wildfire |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 240mm |
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Charming and outstandingly nerdish * ROBERT WEBB *
Jonn Elledge
Jonn Elledge is a columnist for the New Statesman and the New World. He is a regular on the podcasts Oh God, What Now? and the late, lamented Paper Cuts, and a frequent contributor to The i Paper, the Guardian and other publications.
Previously, he was an assistant editor at the New Statesman, where he created and ran the urbanism-focused CityMetric site. For six years, he wrote about cities, maps, and borders, and hosted the Skylines podcast.
He has written three books, including the number-one bestseller A History of the World in 47 Borders. He has also authored over 200 editions of the Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything.
Jonn Elledge lives in London with the best dog in the world.
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