The Day the Universe Changed : Pivotal Moments in Time that Radically Altered the Course of Human History

from mivox

Excellent companion to to oh-so-long-ago PBS series.

from mwirkk

One of my favorites series ever! (Right up there with "The Mechanical Universe".) This is the one that made me a James Burke fan, and set me to a whole new way of thinking about history. I recommend both reading the book *and* watching the TV series (hard to find - J.B. does not own the rights, s...

from Gord.Barker

If you are not necessarily a fan of history or technology or sociology and you find reading any or all of those types of books hard then read this book. James Burke has an amazing writing and presenting style (from the associated BBC series of the same name) that finds a seemingly innocuous inven...

from julsitos2

Like his Connections series, his thoughts on history being a series of interconnecting ideas are highly respected and easily grasped.

from bfgar

When James Burke's new series started on PBS, I had been back in school for a while. My first semester back, I took a course called the "History of Science to 1600," purely on speculation. I had always loved both science and history, and I had become an avowed medievalist during my long absence f...