Twin Tracks: The Unexpected Origins of the Modern WorldTwin Tracks is a landmark book of real world stories that investigates the nature of change and divines as never before the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary life. In each of the work's twenty five narratives, we discover how the different outcomes of an important historical event in the past often come together again in the future. Each chapter starts with an event such as the U. S. attack on Tripoli in 1804 that generates two