A Ball of String

"History makes it look as though everyone knew what they were doing all along. In fact, it wasn`t like that at all. Stuff happened by accident or had the opposite result from what was intended. That`s what `How to Change the World with a Ball of String` is about - times when history wasn`t very sensible."

Author Tim Cooke, on his book `How to Change the World...` (Scholastic, 2011)