Published to tie in with the BBC TV series, James May's idiosyncratic look at the great inventions of our time. He explores the iconic themes of the 20th century, including flight, space travel, television, mechanised war, medicine, video games, skyscrapers, electronic music, and more.
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| Shrinking the World | |
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| The Great Departure | |
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| The People's Popular Liberation Movement | |
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| The Thinking Inside the Box | |
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| A Nice Big Box of Digital Delights | |
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| Towards Infinity's Frontier | |
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| The Greatest Race in History | |
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| Over the Moon | |
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| We Know You're Out There. Don't We? | |
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| The Impossible City | |
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| Room at the Top | |
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| One Nation, One Voltage, One Plug | |
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| Regaining Control of the Car | |
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| The Invention of the Teenager | |
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| Making Waves | |
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| The Hundred Year Format War | |
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| Instruments of the Devil | |
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| Doing the Twist | |
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| The New Fabrics of Society | |
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| War and the World | |
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| The Fight for the High Ground | |
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| Full Metal Jacket | |
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| I Shall Say This Only Once | |
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| Bodily Functions | |
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| The Right Trousers | |
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| Confronting the Inner Self | |
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| A Section for the Anoraks | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Picture Acknowledgements | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |
