Microhistory Books
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Author:
Simon Singh
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and re…
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Author:
Marc Levinson
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shippin…
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