Between 2008 and 2012 the UK plans to turn off its conventional analogue terrestrial television and switch fully to digital TV. This is part of a trend across all the technologically advanced nations of the world. The city of Berlin led the way in 2003. The Netherlands became the first country...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Styles and Conventions -- Introduction -- Part I Coffee: From Curiosity to Commodity -- 1. An Acquired Taste -- 2. Coffee and Early Modern Drug Culture -- 3. From Mocha to Java -- Part II Inventing the Coffeehouse -- 4. Penny Universities? -- 5....