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James Burke

Twin Tracks

The Unexpected Origins of the Modern World

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Twin Tracks is a landmark book of real-world stories that investigates the nature of change and divines as never before the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary life. In each of the work's twenty-five narratives, we discover how the different outcomes of an important historical event in the past often come together again in the future. Each chapter starts with an event -- such as the U.S. attack on Tripoli in 1804 -- that generates two divergent series of consequences. After tracking each pathway as it ranges far and wide through time and space, Burke shows how the paths finally and unexpectedly converge in… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7432-5810-4
  • EAN: 9780743258104
  • Produktnummer: 1679660
  • Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
  • Masse: H21.4 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.8 cm 449 g
  • Gewicht: 449

Über den Autor


James Burke is the bestselling author of CONNECTIONS, THE DAY THE UNIVERSE CHANGED and THE PINBALL EFFECT, all published by Little Brown.

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