31 Inventions that Built Our World
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 47 BORDERS
$33.29
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2026
Summary
For over 10,000 years, the human race has 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 apa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035432776 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035432773 |
| Author: | Jonn Elledge |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Wildfire |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Jonn Elledge
Jonn Elledge is a columnist for the New Statesman and New World. He is a regular on the podcasts Oh God, What Now? and the late, lamented Paper Cuts. He is also a frequent contributor to The i Paper, the Guardian, and assorted other publications.
Previously, he was an assistant editor at the New Statesman, where he created and ran its urbanism-focused CityMetric site. He spent six happy years writing about cities, maps, and borders, and hosting the Skylines podcast.
He has written three books and over 200 editions of the Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything. He lives in London with the best dog in the world.
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