The Book of Origins: Discover the Amazing Origins of the Clothes We Wear, the Food We Eat, the PeopleWe Know, the Languages We Speak, and the Things We Use

This is a very good idea, and it provides a lot of interesting information. For instance on Coffee which was first drunk in the Ethopian highlands, and had its first 'house' in Turkey, and then had its first English appearance in 'Lloyd's 'in London which was to become the center of the world's insurance industry. Information of this kind is fine. And there is something here I am sure for everyone interested in accumulating information about the origins of various products, institutions. But the book takes on very big subjects such as the origins of the major religions and does them very scant justice. It is superficial in its writing about major topics.
In its excessive simplicity on complex subjects it is also often simply wrong about the things.
This is a good idea but it could have been done in a far more interesting, informative and sound way.