Trevor Homer: 2 books
Born in the USA
The Book of American Origins
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Celebrate the spirit of invention with this compendium of American creations—from bubble wrap to kidney transplants—and the people who thought them up.
From Monopoly to putting men on the Moon, from air conditioning to the Internet, America has been at the forefront of the main advances of...
The Book of Origins
Discover the Amazing Origins of the Clothes We Wear, the Food We Eat, the People We Know, the Languages We Speak, and the Things We Use
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Everything—from the mundane (the pencil) to the catastrophic (the atom bomb)—has an origin, but often it’s not what we expect. A few things you may not have known:
• Gandhi was married at age thirteen!
• Chinese fortune cookies are an American invention and were not eaten in China...