First published in the United States in 2009 by Walker Publishing Company, Inc.
First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.
This e-book published in Great Britain in 2012 by Atlantic Books.
Copyright © Tom Standage, 2009
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Art credits: here is based in part on a photograph by John Doebley (teosinte.wisc. edu); maps and here were created by the author; here courtesy of the British Library; and here courtesy of the Mary Evans Picture Library; here courtesy of Boeing; here courtesy of AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, Maria Stein Collection; here courtesy of Archiv der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin-Dahlem; here and here courtesy of Bettman/Corbis.
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