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Author(s): Tom Standage Date: 2021 Format: EPUB Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 1635573610 Pages: 1 OCR: Quality: ISBN13: Uploader: maveriks Upload Date: 8/18/2021 6:22:49 AM     To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, an eye-opening road trip through 5,500 years of humans on the go, revealing how transportation inevitably shapes civilization. Tom Standage's fleet-footed and surprising global histories have delighted readers and cemented his reputation as one of our leading interpreters of technologies past and present. Now, he returns with a provocative account of a sometimes-overlooked form of technology-personal transportation-and explores how it has shaped societies and cultures over millennia. Beginning around 3,500 BCE with the wheel–a device that didn't catch on until a couple thousand years after its invention–Standage zips through the eras of horsepower, trains, and bicycles, revealing how each successive mode of transit embedded itself in the world we live in, from the geography of our cities to our experience of time to our notions of gender. Then, delving into the history of the automobile's development, Standage explores the social resistance to cars and the upheaval that their widespread adoption required. Cars changed how the world was administered, laid out, and policed, how it looked, sounded, and smelled–and not always in the ways we might have preferred. Today–after the explosive growth of ride-sharing and years of breathless predictions about autonomous vehicles–the social transformations spurred by coronavirus and overshadowed by climate change create a unique opportunity to critically reexamine our relationship to the car. With A Brief History of Motion, Standage overturns myths, considers roads not taken, and invites us to look at our past with fresh eyes so we can create the future we want to see. Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin Del 3024677 Book https://nitro.download/view/5E54FCB391DF...   0.00 maveriks X Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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