For a slightly different kind of read but an enjoyable one. Read Henry Petroski's, The Evolution of Useful Things (Vintage ISBN 0-679-74039-2). It is a light enjoyable read that approaches history from an engineer's perspective and looks at the development of a few common household items (the fork, paper clip, zippers, pop cans, ...you get the idea). A classic book for exploring innovation on a more familiar scale. Incidently, the fork evolves from a knife, so we have some knife content.
nice ones...===Thanks. Pen! I assume you mean the book recommendations?
"The Thirty-Six Strategies of Ancient China"
--And the Cat's recommendation was well worth the jaunt. The author forgot the 37th Strategy: Copying HTML text to MSWord. Bwahaahaaa!!
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