Tom Standage

Help LibraryThing improve these recommendations by rating them below. As members add ratings, they move recommendations up and down, on and off the list. Be sure to rate the recommendation, not just the author recommended. All things being equal, more than three stars sends it up, less than three stars sends it down.

1. Mark Kurlansky

   Author of Salt: A World History, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation

2. Simon Winchester

   Author of The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

3. Tom Standage

   Author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, The Victorian Internet, The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine

4. Henry Petroski

   Author of The Book on the Bookshelf, The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design

5. Steven Levy

   Author of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything

6. Michael Pollan

   Author of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

7. Steven Berlin Johnson

   Author of The Ghost Map, The Invention of Air

8. Lawrence Lessig

   Author of The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace

9. James Burke

   Author of Connections, The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made Carburetor Possible - and Other Journeys

10. Jack Turner

    Author of Spice: The History of a Temptation

11. Dava Sobel

    Author of Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, The Planets

12. Katie Hafner

    Author of Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

13. Charles C. Mann

    Author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

14. Edward Tenner

    Author of Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Vintage)

15. Giles Milton

    Author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History, Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan

16. Timothy Ferris

    Author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril, The Mind's Sky

17. Doron Swade

    Author of The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

18. David Kamp

    Author of The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation

19. Miles Harvey

    Author of The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime

20. John M. Barry

    Author of The Great Influenza