I'd recommend Collapse and Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond as well. Nick On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 02:12:28PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote: > A book I'm currently reading is pretty good: > > Salt : A World History > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142001619/ > > (what, you think EVERYTHING I read is about computers?) 8-) > > Bill