TY  - BOOK
AU  - Homer, Trevor.
TI  - The book of origins: discover the amazing origins of the clothes we wear, the food we eat, thepeople we know, the languages we speak, and the things we use 
SN  - 9780452288324
AV  - AG 106 .H752 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Plume
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Handbook, vade-mecums, etc
KW  - Miscellanea
N1  -  A Plume book; Originally published: London: Portrait, 2006
N2  - Discusses how and when things began, where they came from, and why they started. Celebrates the works of explorers, scientists, and inventors, pioneers who wanted to go further than anyone had gone before them - people who wanted to know how the world works and ended up discovering or inventing something that had no one ever seen before
ER  -