The World as We Built It: The 35 Inventions that Define Modern Life

From the #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders, a collection of 35 brief, highly entertaining and seriously illuminating histories of the inventions that built our modern world

For over 10,000 years, humans have been busy altering our environment, evolving from communities of hunter-gatherers to the independent, metropolitan sophisticates that we see ourselves as today. By the early 21st century, humans had become a majority urban species for the first time. Wha...