Description: 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
Brief description: Jonn Elledge's books include A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders, Elledge's Nontrivial Trivia, and Unproven, Unlikely, and Firmly Believed. At the New Statesman, he created and ran its urbanism-focused CityMetric site, spending six happy years writing about cities, maps, and borders. He lives in London.